Theme: Morphes

Embrace the forms

Aristoteleion Theatre
Ethnikis Amynis 2
Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54621
Greece

Aggelina Christodouli

Creator/ Enterpreuner

Aggelina Christodouli, is a creator and entrepreneur. She was born and lives in Thessaloniki. She studied Economics at Democritus University. In 2020 she created the first company in Europe that turns children's drawings into dolls and gives shape to any project of young and old people. For Aggelina, anything you want to create you have to imagine it first, but children use drawing to create stories and whole worlds.

Christie Kostara

Career & Human Resources Counselor

She was born in Thessaloniki and from an early age she had an innate curiosity to understand the the world and the people around her. She studied Business Administration at ACT and her master’s degree at ALBA brought her closer to her childhood love, studying Strategic Human Resource Management. Along the way she became certified as a Consultant Career Guidance Counselor as she observed that the right career choice significantly affects both our success and quality of life. She worked for 20 and in 2015 she founded her own company Find Your Bliss Consulting. Throughout her career she has been involved with a lot of love and dedication with “people & work” piece as she believes that the profession is not just a way of livelihood but also a daily way of expression, health, creativity, inspiration, evolution, joy & abundance and that is how he lives it and approaches it.

Efstratios Chatziioannidis

Architect-Civil Engineer

Efstratios Chatziioannidis was born in Thessaloniki in 1986. He completed high school at Anatolia American College and began his studies at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He graduated with a double degree in Architectural Engineering and Civil Engineering (ingegneria edile e architettura - VI facoltà di Ingegneria) and specialised in bioclimatic architecture and techniques for reusing construction materials. He worked for several years as a junior architect and later as a project manager in architectural firms in Milan. Chatziioannidis Architecture & Interior has been active in the field of interior design since 2014. With the opening of its new office in Athens in 2022, the firm expanded its range of services, the company expanded its services to encompass all scales of architectural design. Its primary goal remains the creation of a cohesive and unified design identity, tailored to the needs and requirements of each project.

Emma Doxiadi

Filmmaker / Environmentalist

Emma Doxiadi is a Greek-Australian writer, director, producer, and environmentalist whose work reflects a strong commitment to purposeful storytelling. She has collaborated with acclaimed names such as Faliro House Productions and director Terrence Malick, and her films have screened at Cannes, Berlinale, SXSW, and Tribeca. She studied at NYU Tisch Grad Film and is an alumna of the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab, where she honed her craft in storytelling and visual expression. Emma founded filmsos, Greece’s first sustainability initiative for the audiovisual sector. In 2022, she expanded her focus with Everybodies, a multimedia company centered on climate-driven narratives. She also leads sustainability efforts for film festivals such as the Evia Film Project and Thessaloniki Film Festival, as well as climate-focused film campaigns like More Flames, executive produced by Adam McKay. Sustainable filmmaking has taught her lessons in simplicity, adaptability, and purpose.

Emmanouela Katzouraki

Olympic Shooter / Pharmacy Student

Emmanouela Katzouraki from Chania, Crete, decided to try the sport of skeet shooting in 2015. Since then, she has competed in numerous World and European Championships and Cups. Among her most significant achievements are the bronze medal at the 2023 World Championship in Baku at the age of 22, and the silver medal at the 2024 European Championship in Lonato, culminating in a 5th place finish at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. A Pharmacy student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, she has successfully balanced her studies with sports over the past years and currently ranks No. 5 in the Women’s Skeet World Rankings.

Kalliopi Pasia

Publisher (TRI.ENA politismou) / Lawyer

Kalliopi Pasia was born in Athens and grew up in Thessaloniki. She is a graduate student in Political Communication and Communication & Culture at the School of Journalism and Mass Media Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), has completed postgraduate studies in Creative Writing at the University of Western Macedonia, and holds a Law degree from A.U.Th. She manages the publishing house "TRI.ENA of Culture," organizes artistic projects, and coordinates creative writing workshops. She practiced law for 18 years, served as Scientific Coordinator for Educational Actions in Second Chance Schools, contributed to the reintegration of former prisoners through the ApiccoCommunity social enterprise, and is active in Mamagea, an environmental organization focused on education and awareness. Her writing has been awarded in literary competitions, featured in journals and collections, and she has published three personal books.

Nick Broumas

Chief Creative Strategist

Nick is a pure 360 Communicator with over 17 years of experience in the advertising industry. Throughout his career, he has led numerous award-winning projects across diverse ad agencies (Digital, ATL, and BTL). His remarkable track record includes working for leading brand accounts like HP, P&G, Diageo, and Volkswagen. Over the course of six years as an Account Director at Ogilvy, Nikos played an instrumental role in handling segments of one of Greece's largest advertising accounts, Cosmote, and shaping the brand's repositioning and dynamic shift as the 360 Account Director for What's Up by Cosmote.

Prodromos Monastiridis

Head of the Marketing and Fundraising Department, Thessaloniki Music Hall and President, Thessaloniki Convention Bureau

Dr. Monastiridis research fields include marketing, media, cultural marketing, non-profit organizations, innovation, and event management. His most recent research addresses how marketing innovation and culture can be combined and social responsibility issues from the marketing perspective.

Spiros Kouzelis

Greek Sign Language Interpreter

Spyros Kouzelis was born in 1983 in Agrinio and studied Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He did his postgraduate degree at the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Thessaloniki in European and international relations Youth Policies, Education, Culture and Entrepreneurship. In 2009 he moved to New York and was trained in American Sign Language. He worked at the Social Policy Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008-2013). He founded the School of Greek Sign Language Smiyl (Sign Me In Your Life) in 2013. Since 2005 he has been working as a Greek Sign Language interpreter. Spyros believes that the "form" of communication is an experience that is born every time here and now.

Tolis Papadimitriou

Actor / Screenwriter

Tolis Papadimitriou was born on April 3, 1990. He has roots in Karditsa and Arta but grew up in Chalkida. From a young age, he was involved in writing, and immediately after high school, he studied acting at the Iakovos Kampanellis Drama School. In his first year, he wrote, directed, and starred in his first theatrical play. Many other plays, television series and entertainment shows followed, where he worked as an actor and screenwriter. He is well-known to the public for his role as “Ilias Kanatis” in the TV series “Min Arxizeis Ti Mourmoura” and the theatrical comedy “Mavri Sambouka.”

Vasiliki Tsertseli

Biologist /Content Creator

With an academic background in Biology and Toxicology, Vasiliki began her journey at creating content on Social Media and YouTube, engaging an audience 180k followers on Instagram, 150k on TikTok, and 85k subscribers on YouTube. Having acquired professional experience in various industries, today he dedicates the most of my time in creating useful videos and content, with main axes health, wellness, fitness and nutrition. At the same time, it provides consulting on marketing issues in companies with which it cooperates. Recently, she has also started her career in entrepreneurship, preparing two innovative projects that aim to make people’s everyday lives easier who follow her and help them on their path to health and wellness.