5th Technology Forum
TF 2018
16 May 2018
Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center – Thessaloniki, GREECE
2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Diomidis Spinellis
Head of the Department of Management Science and Technology
Henry Hatton
Sales Director, EBury Hellas
Ioannis Kaplanis
Director General, OBI
European Commission
Katerina Notopoulou
Head of Thessaloniki Prime Minister's Office
Pfizer
2018 Presentations
Keynote Speaker
Diomidis Spinellis
Head of the Department of Management Science and Technology Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
09:10-09:40
Keynote Speaker
“World-Changing Technology Developments: Outlook and Challenges”
Ilias Chantzos is the Global Privacy Officer and the Head of Government Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Broadcom.
Chantzos leads the global privacy program of Broadcom across the company’s multiple business units and regions. He also represents Broadcom before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations in EMEA advising on public policy issues.
Before joining Broadcom Chantzos spent almost 16 years in various government affairs and legal roles in Symantec. During his last post with the Symantec he was in charge of the Government Affairs for the EMEA and the Asia Pacific Japan regions and the Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Privacy. Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the Aristotle University, a Master degree in Computers and Communication Law from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master in Business Administration from Solvay Business School. He has also completed executive education at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at the JFK School of Government in Harvard.
Chantzos is member of the Athens Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of TechAmerica Europe. He also served for four terms as Chairman of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance (BSA). He is appointed member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and at Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Board. He also represented Symantec at the NATO Industry Cooperation Platform.
Chantzos is a member of the Young Global Leaders 2014 class of the World Economic Forum. He speaks English, Greek, Dutch and German.
The Era of Fake News: Misinformation and Disinformation on the Internet
Jochen Spangenberg
Innovation Manager, Research & Cooperation Projects, Deutsche Welle
10:05-10:20
Fighting misinformation. Handling and verifying social media content: approaches and challenge.
Nikos Sarris
Athens Technology
Center, Greece
10:20-10:35
Truly Media and Truth Nest: Practical services against misinformation.
Symeon Papadopoulos
ITI, Centre for Research
& Technology Hellas, Greece
10:35-10:50
Verifying Multimedia Content on the Internet: Recent Advanc es and Challenges Ahead.
“Industry 4.0” Session
Martina Lubon
Director, CeBIT, Germany
11:30-11:45
IoT - a paradigm shift for economy & society?!
Marc Schmettau
International Development Director, Agrino – EV.GE. Pistiolas ABEE
11:45-12:00
Industry 4.0 in the Food Industry.
Konstantin Zois
Head of Digital Factory Process Ind. & Drives, Siemens S.A.
12:00-12:15
On the way to Industry 4.0 Driving the Digital Enterprise.
“Agritech” Session
Zvezdan Zaric
Director
Greensoft, Serbia
11:30-11:45
Agrolife nation.
Petar Indovski
Director, GORD Systems
Services, Former Yogoslav
Republic of Macedonia
11:45-12:00
IntelliSTEM, intelligent solution for Agriculture.
Aleksandar Prelevic
CEO, Jugodata,
Montenegro
12:00-12:15
Viticulturist; Honey Traceability Programme.
“Healthcare” Session
Stergiani Spyrou
Head of IT
Department 3rd Regional
Health Authority
11:30-11:45
EU Joint Actions and eHealth policy: Guidelines and Recommendations on Patient Summary and ePrescription.
George Nikolaidis
CEO & Founder,
Ergobyte Informatics
S.A.
11:45-12:00
Decision Support in Healthcare: Preventing Medication Errors.
“Big Data” Session
Max Gurvits
Head of
Entrepreneurship
– In – Residence Europe
12:15-12:30
Data actionability: the next big leap in "big" data.
Grigoris Chatzikostas
Head of the business development department, Biosense institute, Serbia
12:30-12:45
Big Expectations from Big Data in the European agrifood sector.
Anastasios Gounaris
Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
12:45-13:00
Applying big data analysis in practice.
“Smart Cities” Session
Sava Zxivanovich
Director, Technology
Partnership doo,
Serbia
12:15-12:30
TP TransParent! - Smart Cities Solution.
Leonidas Anthopoulos
Associate Professor,
TEI of Thessaly,
Greece
12:30-12:45
Smart City Standards: enablers or barriers for innovation.
Athanasios Tryferidis
Research Associate,
ITI, CERTH,
Greece
12:45-13:00
Smart City Standards: enablers or barriers for innovation.
“Blockchain” Session
Dimosthenis Ioannidis
CTO, Pragma-IoT,
Greece
12:15-12:30
Key enabling blockchain technologies for the Internet of Things ecosystem.
Claudia Pop
Research Assistant at Distributed Systems
Research Laboratory,
Romania
12:30-12:45
Towards secure & blockchain - driven energy trading platforms, the eDREAM concept.
Nikolaos Kaklanis
General Manager,
MindMed, Greece
12:45-13:00
A Blockchaing-Based Health Ecosystem.
“Machine learning and Data Mining” Session
Aleksandar Ubavkov
Regional Manager
of Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Musala Soft, Bulgaria
14:00-14:15
Transforming "a lot of data" to valuable insights. A business journey by Musala Soft.
Panagiotis Tsaparas
Associate Professor,
University of Ioannina
14:15-14:30
Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms for Social Networks and Media.
Petar Petrovski
Head of software development department, Elikosoft, Former Yogoslav Republic of Macedonia
14:30-14:45
Machine Learning in Industrial Internet of Things.
“Internet of Things” Session
John Vardakas
Senior Researcher,
Iquadrat Informatica,
Spain
14:45-15:00
An IoT enabled 5G platform for vertical applications.
Vassilis Koutkias
Researcher C’,
Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Greece
15:00-15:15
Applications and Challenges of IoT in Healthcare.
Panagiotis Pampalos
CEO & Co-Founder
at HAM Systems,
Greece
15:15-15:30
Chatting with your future home.
Keynote Speakers
Henry Hatton
Sales director, eBury,
London & Athens
15:50-16:10
Keynote Speaker
How Fin Tech is key to meeting the growing needs of SMEs.
Ioannis Kaplanis
Director General, Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI)
16:10-16:20
Keynote Speaker
IP as a Vehicle for Innovation and Economic Development
Katerina Notopoulou
Head of Thessaloniki Prime Minister’s Office
16:20-16:25
Keynote Speaker
How Fin Tech is key to meeting the growing needs of SMEs.
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