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February 6, 2016
Athens, Attiki
Greece

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Pallas Theater
Voukourestiou 5
Athens, Attiki, 105 64
Greece
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Speakers

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Aegean Team

Aegean Team - Dr. Vassilios Tsipas, BoD Member

Music Box

Music Box is a dancing group that consistes of ten of the best greek poppers

String Demons

‘’String Demons’’ started their World adventure from Athens, as a worthy rival to the top international bands of their genre. Through their classical instruments, two siblings from Greece, Constantinos and Lydia Boudounis, set the stage on fire in all their shows and offer a unique musical experience capturing the audience’s attention and gaining huge fans wherever they perform.

Πangea World Music Center

The Πangea world music center was founded in just last January. Within a few months, Πangea had made a dynamic entrance into the art world, exceeding its founders’ initial goals and expectations regarding successful event planning and hosting. More specifically, the Πangea world music center is a hub that drives diversity through combining civilizational and cultural elements as they arise from music, dancing, theater, cinema, painting and every kind of artistic expression regardless of its ethnic origin. Its mission is to become a center for social interaction and cultural engagement for all of its members and especially the youth, to host artistic events beyond the bounds of isolation and exclusion, and to be accessible and affordable to everyone.

Alexandra Antonopoulou

Designer - Senior Lecturer in Design

Aliki Theofilopoulos

Director, Story Artist, Animator

Alki Zei

Alki Zei is a Greek novelist and children's writer. She took up writing very young. Her books have been translated into numerous languages.

Carl Miller

Carl Miller co-founded, and is the Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. He is the author of over a dozen major reports on the effect of the digital world on society and politics, and how it can be studied. This includes the influence of the Internet on radicalisation, policing and counter-terrorism, hate crime and social media, digital situational awareness, digital democracy, and changing identities and beliefs in the digital world.

Claire Burge

Claire Burge is the CEO of This is Productivity. Part adventure seeker, part nerd, part psychologist, part technologist.

Dimitris Mystakidis

Greek folk guitar player

Dimitris Xygalatas

Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas is an experimental anthropologist who specializes in the study of ritual behaviour. His research focuses on the application of scientific methods and technologies in ethnographic field research

Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Author, Historian and Professor in Oxford University

George Pittas

Food Bloger – Writer – Hotel Owner

George Prevelakis

George Prevelakis is Professor and Director of the Master’s Degree of Geopolitics at the Sorbonne (Paris 1). He specializes in European, Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean Geopolitics, in the Geopolitics of Diasporas and in Physical Planning. He co-directs the academic journal Anatoli (Paris, CNRS Editions) and publishes bi-weekly op-eds in the Athens newspaper Kathimerini. Born in Athens, he studied Architecture in Greece and Geography and Planning in France. After his departure from Greece in 1984, he has occupied teaching and research positions at the Sorbonne (Paris 4 and Paris 1), at the Sciences Po-Paris, at the INALCO, at the Johns Hopkins University, at Boston University and the London School of Economics (Hellenic Observatory). During the academic years 2003-2005 he served as the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School and during the period 2013-2015 as the Greek Ambassador at the OECD.

Guy Philippe Goldstein

Guy-Philippe Goldstein is a management consultant. At night, he writes gripping political thrillers treating of cyberwar. He's a graduate of France’s prestigious Hautes Études Commerciales, and has an MBA from Northwestern University. Babel Minute Zero is his first novel.

Judit Neurink

Journalist, author, specialist on the Middle East

Manolis Dermitzakis

Emmanouil (Manolis) Dermitzakis is currently a Professor of Genetics in the Department of Genetic Medicine and Development of the University of Geneva Medical School.

Mark Haidar

Mark Haidar has been heavily involved in the emerging technology scene, starting his first company at the age of 17. A serial entrepreneur who combines advanced technological skills with astute business knowledge, Haidar created over 42 notable products and led many other technology-based businesses through major growth from inception. Mark is trilingual and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He has been featured on numerous national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, Dallas Business Journal and more.

Soti Triantafyllou

Greek Historian & Author

Tasos Fratzolas

Tasos Frantzolas grew up in Athens and began producing music at the age of 13. After attending SAE London for Audio Engineering, he enjoyed a brief stint in the UK’s music and post-production industries. In 2006, he returned to Greece to found Soundsnap.com, a sound effects and loop library that has since grown to encompass over one million users and become the most popular sound effects destination worldwide.

Vaggelis Avgoulas

Vaggelis Avgoulas was born in 1988. He works as a Lawyer and a scientific associate of the Minister of Interior, he is a Regular Representative in Greece of the International Organization VIEWS for young visually impaired, Deputy General Secretary of the Panhellenic Association of the Blind, and Secretary of the Youth Committee of the above Association.

Organizing team

Dimitris
Kalavros-Gousiou

Athens, Greece
Organizer