Theme: Εξέλιξις/ Exelixis

Ο χρόνος δεν περιμένει, δε σταματά. Από το Big Bang μέχρι και την ψηφιακή επανάσταση πραγματοποιήθηκε μια εξελικτική διαδικασία. Ολόκληρη η πρόοδός μας βασίζεται σε μια αδιάκοπη κίνηση. Όταν προχωράς, αλλάζεις. Ο κύκλος της ημέρας και της νύχτας, το παιδί που γίνεται ενήλικας, η γένεση και ο θάνατος. Εν μέσω όλων αυτών των αναπόφευκτων αλλαγών, οι άνθρωποι άλλοτε κινούνται προς τα εμπρός κι άλλοτε προς τα πίσω. Η ζωή βρίσκεται σε μια συνεχή ροή. Ξεπερνώντας εμπόδια, θέτοντας νέους στόχους, αντιμετωπίζοντας φόβους και προκλήσεις ή απλά ακολουθώντας τη ροή των γεγονότων εξελισσόμαστε. Η Εξέλιξη είναι μια διαδικασία δημιουργίας και ανάπτυξης, είναι ένα βήμα προς το καλύτερο και εμείς έτσι επιλέγουμε να τη βλέπουμε. Σας καλούμε να γίνετε κομμάτι της #exelixis μας!
From the 'Big Bang', which theoretically marks the beginning of time, to the modern digital revolution time waits for no man, it does not stop, it does not linger. Our evolution is based on perpetual forces. Change is inevitable when you move. The circle of day and night, the circle of life, the child who grows and becomes an adult, the aging man, life and death. During these unavoidable changes people move forward and backward and this is exelixis. We mature overcoming obstacles, setting new goals, confronting fears and challenges or simply by following the course of events. Exelixis is a process of creation and growth, it is a step forward and this is how we choose to perceive it. You are invited to walk along this path of #exelixis.

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Greece

Antonis Vlachos

Antonis Vlachos is a musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer from Greece. His musical journey starts in1998, which until now he has participated in bands with music influences from Pop, Rock, Funk, Blues, Soul up to Metal. He is also the lead singer of the Modern Rock band 3Fold Pain, in which the 6 years of existence, has toured in Greece and Italy, has released an EP, a 7inch vinyl album and a full length one. In 2013 3Fold Pain signed a recording contract with the American company “Turkey Vulture Records” for the release of their debut album which is worldwide available through the: Turkey Vulture Records / Bungalo Records / Universal Music Group Distribution (USA). The last five years Antonis presents a Loop project, which creates musical compositions using many different musical instruments including: guitar, bass, ukulele, keyboards, violin, harmonica, percussion, cajon and beat-boxing. His resume lists several successful appearances in hangouts and music venues throughout Greece and Cyprus. He has also made appearances in Pubs in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Dublin, Berlin. Within 2017 he is expected to present his debut album, ranging in genre: RnB, Neo Soul, Pop. His theatrical debut was the participation in the Rock Opera “Oi kampanes tou Edelweiss” by Nikos Karvelas, directed by John Kakleas and starring Anna Vissi.

Dimitris Keridis

Dimitris Keridis is a Professor of International Politics at Panteion University of Athens. He is a senior fellow at the Konstantinos G. Karamanlis Foundation and the deputy director of the Institute of International Relations in Athens. Since 2002 he has been directing the annual Olympia Summer Academy in Politics and International Studies in Greece (www.olympiasummeracademy.org) and since 2009 the Navarino Network, a public policy think-tank based in Thessaloniki (www.navarinonetwork.org). He is also a regular TV political commentator. He has served as a senior consultant at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the Constantine Karamanlis Associate Professor in Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, as the director of the Kokkalis Foundation in Athens and of the Kokkalis Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and as a researcher at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, USA. His latest book in English is entitled: The Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece, London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., to be reprinted and updated in 2017. His recent books in Greek include a monograph on “Nationalism, Ethnic Conflicts and International Relations: Theory and Practice in the Balkans” and “Constantine G. Karamanlis and the Foreign Press” as well as the editing of the collective volume entitled “Thessaloniki: A city in transition, 1912-2012”.

Emmanuel Yannakoudakis

Professor of Computer Science, Consultant / Adviser of the European Union since 1982, Associate Editor / Referee for several international journals, External examiner for Ph.D. candidates throughout Europe and Africa. The subjects taught include Computer Science, Databases, Programming Languages, Expert Systems, and Psychometric Information Systems. Studied Computer Science and obtained his Ph.D in Computer Science in 1979 from the University of Bradford, England, where he taught at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Schools (1975-1989). He is Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.), Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP), Member of the Greek Computer Society (MGCS). He has directed several major research projects and has designed several information systems and databases in the areas of Library automation, Vocational counseling, Psychometric tests, Information retrieval, etc. He was one of the first programmers to implement psychometric testing back in 1974. Has designed special information systems for three Presidents of the Hellenic Republic. He has published 55 papers at International Journals, 74 papers at Conference Proceedings, and 19 Books some of which are with International publishers.

Evangelos Eleftheriou

Dr. Evangelos Eleftheriou received a B.S degree (Diploma) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1979, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He joined the IBM Research – Zurich laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, as a Research Staff Member in 1986. Since 1998, he has held various management positions and currently heads the Cloud and Computing Infrastructure department of IBM Research – Zurich. His research interests focus on memory and storage technologies and neuromorphic computing, He has authored or coauthored about 200 publications, and holds over 160 patents (granted and pending applications). Moreover, he has also served as editor and guest editor for various scientific journals and special issues. In 2002, he became a Fellow of the IEEE. He was co-recipient of the 2003 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award. He was also co-recipient of the 2005 Technology Award of the Eduard Rhein Foundation. In 2005, he was appointed an IBM Fellow and inducted into the IBM Academy of Technology. In 2009, he was co-recipient of the IEEE CSS Control Systems Technology Award and of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award. In 2016, he received a honoris causa professorship from the University of Patras.

Iakovos Apergis

Iakovos Apergis was born in Canada on 14 February 1973 and moved with his parents to Greece on 1974. From his very early age liked dealing with food, whether eating or cooking, that’s why he decided finishing school to study cooking at the tourism department. At his first steps he worked with Georgios Tselementes at the preparation of cold food at the restaurants ΝΕΟΝ. He has cooked in different restaurants and known food chains and super markets. He lost his mother at a very early age after a chronic disease. While she was at hospital she complained her son about the tasteless food she had to eat. Years after his mother’s death Iakovos was by chance appointed at the hospital his mother was nursed! He decided to bring the change at food! In cooperation with his colleagues he tries to cook delicious and from another perspective foods based on the dietary guidelines he receives. He believes in volunteering and that’s why he offers his services cooking at the house of the organization “Children’s Smile” at Peristeri. He is interested in the human part and that’s why he tries to create healthy standards at children at the school Omiros where he teaches as a professor. The last years he is a member of Greeks Chef Academy. His purpose is through his appearances on tv to spread his vision for good food at all hospitals! He lives in Nikaia with his wife, two children and their dog.

Irene Nikolopoulou

Irene Nikolopoulou is a journalist, one of the longest – standing presenters of news and programmes on Greek television. She made a name from the exclusive interviews she held with international personalities and was the main host of the two official programmes of the Organizing Committee for the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. At the age of 6 she began to learn French & English . Showing a particular flair for foreign languages and arts, she was involved with singing and the theatre throughout her time at High School and into her first years at University. She studied Law, Public Law and Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and went to study abroad aiming at becoming an interpreter but ended up as a TV journalist . She started in ΕRT2 and then continued on in private channels for 15 years MEGA, STAR, ALPHA before returning to ET1 & ERT WORLD. She was the founding President for the European Network of Greek Women Journalists and the Association of Greek French- speaking Journalists. Irene decided to run her own holistic communications company for about 10 years before falling in love with blogging and creating www.eirinika.gr, www.madeingreece.news and www.enikolopoulou.gr In 1990 she was honored with the United Nations journalistic Award Honorary member for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1989) «AVRA THEODOROPOULOU»Award from the Association forWomen’s Rights (1999) «KonstantinosKalligas» Award from the Association for European Journalists (2000) Most popular newscaster (2001) Charity organization ‘Hamogelo tou Paidiou (Smile of the Child)’ (2008) and was named Greece’s Ambassador of Excellence for EuropeanDestinations (EDEN) (2009).

Katerina Pastra

Katerina Pastra is the Director of the Cognitive Systems Research Institute, a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA Research Center and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Plymouth, U.K. She has coordinated a number of European and national research and development projects, and has gained a distinguishing Latsis Foundation award for research on “Image-Language Dialectics”. Her research is focused on the computational integration of language, perception and action based on experimental findings from neuroscience. Among others, she has developed the first ‘Minimalist Grammar of Action’, the PRAXICON semantic memory model, the PLT affordances network and the COSMOROE image-language semantic interplay framework. Katerina holds a BA in Linguistics (University of Athens, Greece), an MSc in Machine Translation (UMIST, UK) and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (University of Sheffield, U.K.) in which she explored the integration of vision and language within artificial agents engaged in everyday interaction. She has worked on information extraction and automatic text-based image/video indexing and retrieval in a number of projects. She has lectured on Human-Computer/Human-Robot Interaction and the use of cognitive and psychological methods in software engineering (University of Sheffield) and has organised international workshops on image-language association with sponsorships from GOOGLE, the EU-Cognition Network and other international foundations. She is the author of a number of publications on the above topics, one of which has won a distinction by the British Computer Society. She is a Senior IEEE Member, the vice-chair of the European Network on Vision and Language Integration, and co-editor of the Language and Cognition Research Topic in Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Stavros Messinis

Stavros is the founder of The Cube Workspace, Athens’ largest co-working community, which hosts some of Greece’s best experts in technology. The Cube is also home to most of Athens’ technology events, hackathons, innovation sessions and training events. Through coding and business bootcamps, Stavros and The Cube are creating the next generation of top tier coders and businessmakers. Prior to this Stavros had cofounded Greece’s first coworking community, coLab Athens. Stavros is also a member of the Startup Weekend – Global Facilitation Team. Stavros has been involved with Startup Weekend since 2009, having facilitated over 20 events around the world in countries such as Germany, Cyprus, Greece, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Moldova. Stavros’ first business was founded at a Startup Weekend. Stavros also represents The European Pirate Summit, one of Europe’s best known niche business events where tech industry professionals meet. Stavros has lead this event as Lead Facilitator since 2013.

Stylianos Lagarakis

Stylianos N. Lagarakis was born in Athens. He received his Medical Degree in General Medicine from the Ovidius University in Constanta. He has studied psychiatry, psychodrama and group analysis. He participated in the deinstitutionalisation of Leros Asylum and has been a leader of therapeutic supporting groups in hospitals, prisons, therapeutic communities and the Hellenic Navy. He has lead workshops and seminars in Greece, in many European countries and also Turkey, Israel, Brazil and West Africa. He has been the main therapist in a repatriation project, supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Health, of a Bangladeshi psychiatric patient. He has sociodramatic experience using the values of sociatry of Moreno in an Athenian theatre, open to the public, focusing on social themes. He is the author of several psychotherapeutic articles and of a book to be released entitled “Sexuality and Psychodrama”. He is the founder of the Centre of Athenian Psychodramatic Encounters (C.A.P.E.) and of the Hellenic Summer Psychodrama Academy. As a therapist he has received several distinctions. He is currently working as a therapist, an educator and a practitioner of psychodrama in Athens.

Thodoris Papaloukas

Theodoros “Teo” Papaloukas is a retired Greek professional basketball player. He was a four-time All-EuroLeague selection, a member of the EuroLeague 2001–10 All-Decade Team and was named one of the 50 greatest EuroLeague contributors in 2008. A revolutionary figure in basketball, as illustrated by his unique ability to come off the bench and alter the course of an encounter, and his uncanny feel for the game, he symbolized the rise of European basketball in the new millennium. Papaloukas started his career in 1995 and his performances with the latter earned him a transfer to EuroLeague powerhouse Olympiacos, where in 2002, he won his first title, the Greek Cup. A year later, he moved to Moscow for CSKA, the club that he would help to regain its past glory. In 2006, Teo led CSKA to their first EuroLeague title in thirty-five years, and thus earning an All-EuroLeague First Team selection and the EuroLeague Final Four MVP award in the process. In 2008, he won his second EuroLeague title with CSKA, in what would be his last year in Moscow. In the summer of 2008, Papaloukas returned to Olympiacos, and with them he reached another two EuroLeague Final Fours, thereby giving him a then record of eight consecutive EuroLeague Final Four appearances. On December 12, 2013, he was honored with a “EuroLeague Basketball Legend” Award. Papaloukas helped lead the Greek national team to a EuroBasket title, in 2005, as well as to a FIBA World Cup silver medal in 2006. Nowadays, Teo is among the people with the most influence in Basketball and Sports Business in general, putting all of his energy to CSR programs with Euroleague Basketball and to his personal projects.

Vassiliki Danelli Mylona

Vassiliki Danelli Mylona has been the President of BoD of the Hellenic Road Safety Institute (RSI) “Panos Mylonas”, since its establishment in 2005, for the prevention of road traffic incidents. The Institute was created after the tragic unfair loss of her 22-year-old son Panos and since then she has committed herself to work for safer roads in Greece and the world, utilizing her skills and experience from her career in the telecom industry. As a President, she dedicated her efforts to the strengthening of Road Safety Culture and Education, a field widely overlooked in Greece. In just a few years, she managed to develop a powerful Road Safety Organization with International presence and achievements, being now in UN Consultative Status (ECOSOC). She has also coordinated numerous highly acclaimed European Road Safety projects in Greece and Europe, e.g. the Project AVENUE (Referral Centers for Road Safety) now considered to be a best practice across Europe. She has also introduced the initiative “Scouting for Global Road Safety”, embraced and put under the auspices of UNECE. Mrs. Mylona has been honored with the “European Citizen’s Award” from the European Parliament in 2011 and has also received honorary prizes from several Road Safety related Organizations, Academic Institutions and Public Authorities. She was honored by the Swedish Government for her contribution and commitment to act for road safety. RSI is a member of numerous Associations regarding road safety both in Greece and abroad, as well as the national Contact Point of the European Road Safety Charter.

Zoe & Niki Moskofoglou

Τhey experiment with marble and create refined artefacts- this is how the sisters’ duo, Niki & Zoe Moskofoglou express their love for this diverse material. Niki is an architect MArch with an academic training in design, experience in architectural detailing and an instinct of how space can surpass mere function. Zoe is a Civil Engineer IEng MICE, with a background in high-end construction, specialized with an MSc in Sustainable Heritage and Landscapes. Niki & Zoe have been brought up in an environment where marble was correlated with the family’s work background. It dominates their childhood memories, with quarry visits considered a favourite pastime. Combining their academic and professional skills, and with a deep understanding of marble, NM moved towards a more personal expression of form with object, while ZM applied her interest in landscape heritage. In 2009, the duo NZM founded the marble atelier on·entropy in 2009 in Athens & London. In 2011, they participated in 100% Design Show as Emerging Designers. Their work was leaving a mark, while they carried on with international exhibitions (London Design Festival, Salone del Mobile- Milan). Their pinnacle was their participation in first London Design Biennale, designing and curating the Greek exhibit, with Wallpaper*& Νew York Times accrediting the Greek pavilion as 1 of the top 5 entries. From quarries to the sculptors, NZM overlook every stage of the production. They are actively involved with the scientific aspect of materials and their place of origin, seeing marble as a bridge between landscape & culture. NZM believe that through our sense we can perceive the impact of materials, surpassing what is visible to the eye.