TF 2024 | Program
Program at Glance
11th Technology Forum
25th April | Thursday
Ioannis Vellidis’ Congress Centre
09:00 -09:30
REGISTRATIONS
09:30 – 09:45
OPENING
Nikolaos Tzollas
Vice-Governor, Region of Central Macedonia
Anastasios Tzikas
President HELEXPO S.A
TECHNOLOGY FORUM MAIN SPEECHES
Moderator: Konstantinos Tramantzas
9:45 – 10:15
Selma Prodanovic
Founder of 1MillionStartups and Invest, Austria
Leveraging Public Investments: The Strategic Edge of Angel Investing in Tech
10:15 – 10:45
Sevdalina Voynova
Director of Programmes at Sofia Development Association
10:45 – 11:15
Dr. Dimitris Tsitsamis MSc, PhD
Head of Innovation Department
ThPA S.A. – Port of Thessaloniki
11:15 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:40
OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGES
Moderator: Periklis Chatzimisios
11:30 – 11:40
Toli Lerios
Serial Entrepreneur
Challenges Framework
11:40 – 12:40
CONFLUENCE CHALLENGES
11:40 – 12:00
Alumil Representative
“Confluence Challenges”
12:00 – 12:10
Pavlos Sermpezis
Exanta co-founder
12:10 – 12:20
Anastasios Dimou
Postdoctoral Researcher, Visual Computing Lab CERTH/ITI
12:20 – 12:30
Olympia Kotrotsiou
Researcher, Laboratory of Polymer Reaction Engineering, CERTH
12:30 – 12:40
12:40 – 13:40
13:40 – 15:35
INNOVATION FOR SOCIETY AWARDS (IFS 2024)
NEW CHALLENGES
Moderator: Simeon Veloudis
13:40 – 14:00
Stavros Mantzanakis
O.S.L.O., Region of Central Macedonia (TBC)
14:00 – 14:10
Dimitris Loulas
Head of Project Management Office in AKRITAS S.A.
of product samples to the new digital age
14:10 – 14:20
Giannis Tsoulfaidis
Corporate Production & Safety Director, ALUMIL S.A.
in Extruded Aluminium Profiles
14:20 – 14:30
Iraklis Alatsidis
General Manager, BIOS AGROSYSTEMS S.A.
Tools for Seedcotton Mass
14:30 – 14:40
Magdalini Diamantidou
Marketing & Project Coordinator of DIOPAS S.A.
of Aquaculture Nets to replace antifouling
14:40 – 14:50
Dr. Alex Papadimitriou
Managing Director, Infoteam HELLAS MIKE
Junior Programmers into High-Performing Developers
14:50 – 15:05
15:05 – 15:35
15:35 – 17:00
INNOVATION FOR SOCIETY AWARDS (IFS 2024)
NEW CHALLENGES
15:35 – 15:45
Efthymis Valais
Assistant Technical Director, Isomat S.A.
at reducing the company’s carbon footprint
15:45 – 15:55
Georgios Mavridis
Operations Director,
K&N Efthymiadis S.A.
15:55 – 16:05
Elena Maravelia
Investment Project Manager, Olympia Electronics S.A.
Automatization and productivity enhancement
with a focus on automated assembly components
16:05 – 16:15
Semira Maria Evangelou
Senior Software Engineer,
Siemens S.A.
Mobile Tenant App: Enhancing Tenant Experience and Energy Efficiency
16:15 – 16:25
Dr. Dimitris Tsitsamis MSc, PhD
Head of Innovation Department Thpa S.A. – Port of Thessaloniki
System in Container Terminals and Warehouses
16:25 – 16:40
16:40 – 17:00
17:00 – 18:30
OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGES: ROUND TABLE
Round Table 1
17:00 – 17:45
Toli Lerios
- Simos Diamantidis
President, Greek Exporters Association - Dimitrios Tzovaras
President, CERTH - Nikos Efthymiadis
President, Thess INTEC (TBC) - Kyriakos Yakinthos
Vice-Rector of Research & Innovation, AUTH - Theofilos Mylonas
President, SEPVE - Alumil representative
Round Table 2
17:45 – 18:30
Moderator:
Stavros Mantzanakis
The strategic perspective of Open Innovation: defining national, regional, and local policies
- Dimitrios Papastergiou
Minister, Digital Governance of Greece - Stelios Aggeloudis
Mayor, Thessaloniki Municipality - Nikolaos Tzollas
Vice-Governor, Region of Central Macedonia - Anastasios Tzikas
President, HELEXPO S.A. - Panagiotis Ketikidis
President, Alexander Innovation Zone
18:30 – 19:00
Unveiling Innovation Funding: A Catalyst for Breakthroughs
18:30 – 18:50
Dr Vangelis Kosmidis
Loggerhead: First Climate-Focused Venture Capital
in the Greek Ecosystem for Deep Tech Startups
Locally and Globally
Antigoni Lymperopoulou
Chief Executive Officer, HDBI S.A.
Panayiotis Hassapis
Investment Committee Member, Loggerhead Ventures VC
18:50 – 19:00
Grigoris Chatzikostas
General Partner, Loggerhead Ventures VC
Flow and Selection Criteria
19:00
Official Launch – Cocktail & Light Snack
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