Agenda

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8:30 AM

Registration and Networking

9:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Ted Hu, Senior Manager of Licensing at MIT Technology Review

Iliana Magra, Journalist, Kathimerini

09:45 AM

Danilo McGarry, Chief AI & Transformation Office, Ective

Moderator: Iliana Magra, Journalist, Kathimerini

10:15 AM

Gal Checkik, Sr. Director of AI research, NVIDIA and Professor at Bar-Ilan University

Moderator: Yiannis Palaiologos, Correspondent-at-large, Kathimerini

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

11:30 AM

Maja Pantic, Special AI Advisor, Neom Education Professor at Imperial College London

Moderator: Apostolos Magiriadis, Journalist, Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

12:00 PM

Ismini Papakirilou, CEO, Hellenic Development Bank

Ioannis Emiris, President, Athena Research Center and Professor of Informatics

Moderator: Symela Touchtidou, Journalist, EuroNews

12:45 PM

Moderator: Matina Charkoftaki, Journalist, Kathimerini

1:15 PM

Lunch Break

2:15 PM

George Kollidas, Partner at PwC | Technology Leader

George Marinos, Assistant General Manager Innovation & Digital Partnerships, NBG

Harry Margaritis, Group Chief Operating Officer, Piraeus Bank (TBC)

Moderator: Evgenia Tzortzi, Banking editor, Money Review & Kathimerini Newspaper

2:45 PM

Vassilis Koutsoumpas, Digital Policy & AI Adviser to the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic | Presidency of the Government

George Verdi, Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

Moderator: Symela Touchtidou, Journalist, EuroNews

3:30 PM

Ted Hu, Senior Manager of Licensing at MIT Technology Review

4:00 PM

Coffee Break

4:15 PM

Artemis Seaford, Head of AI Safety, ElevenLabs

Moderator: Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Partner, Head of Technology, Blue Dome Capital

4:45 PM

Andrianos Botsios, Developer of the first Greek AI Robot "Niki", Founder, Dynamic Innovation and High School Student

Moderator: Thanasis Katsikidis, Freelance Columnist, Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece

5:30 PM

Alex Tsilfidis, Engineering Manager/Greek Site Lead, Meta - Technology Entrepreneur

George Varvarelis, Global Sense and Act Engineering Director & Head of CNH Greece, former founder of Augmenta

Moderator: Despina Konti, Journalist, Kathimerini

8:30 AM

Registration and Networking

9:30 AM

Julia Carpenter, CEO Apheros and MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators under 35"

Moderator: Milagros Pérez Diez, Content Director of Events at MIT TechReview for EmTech Digital LATAM, Opinno Global

10:00 AM

Junaid Bajwa, Senior Partner and Head of UK, Flagship Pioneering Science Partner, Pioneering Intelligence

Moderator: Charlotte Jee, News editor, MIT Technology Review

10:45 AM

Jessica Montgomery, Executive Director AI@Cam, University of Cambridge

Moderator: Yiannis Palaiologos, Correspondent-at-large, Kathimerini

11:15 AM

Coffee Break

11:45 AM

Dimitris Papastergiou, Minister at Ministry of Digital Governance of Greece

Moderator: Margarita Pournara, Journalist, Kathimerini

12:15 PM

1:00 PM

Andreas Athanassopoulos, Chief Executive Officer Olympia Group

Alexandros Manos, Chief Executive Officer, Netcompany-Intrasoft S.A.

Dimitris Primpas, General Manager, IBM Greece & Cyprus

Moderator: Thelma Chatziathanasiou, Journalist, Kathimerini

1:30 PM

Lunch Break

2:30 PM

Moderator: Thelma Chatziathanasiou, Journalist, Kathimerini

3:00 PM

Luc Julia, Chief Scientific Officer, Renault Group France and Co-Creator of SIRI

Moderator: Charlotte Jee, News editor, MIT Technology Review

3:45 PM

Antonis Armoundas, Principal Investigator, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Moderator: Vassilis Papakonstantinou, Partner, Head of Technology, Blue Dome Capital

4:15 PM

Coffee Break

4:30 PM

Peter Hill, CTO, Synthesia.io

Moderator: Charlotte Jee, News editor, MIT Technology Review

5:15 PM

Petros Koumoutsakos, Herbert S. Winokur Jr., Professor of Computing in Engineering and Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

Moderator: Thanasis Katsikidis, Freelance Columnist, Kathimerini Newspaper, Greece

5:45 PM

Closing Remarks