PROGRAM

Plenary sessions will take place in Skalkota Room

12.00 Start Me Up (panel will be held in Greek)

• Dimitris Dimitriadis, Digital Economy and eGov expert, European Commission
• Dimitris Drakoulis, Greek Startup Manifesto
• Michalis Synodinos, Consultant, Ministry of Development
• Moderator: Dimitris Pogkas, Emea.gr

13.00 Pioneering in an Ecosystem – Constructive Disruption by Tomorrow’s Game Changers (panel will be held in English)

• Jonathan Ortmans,  President, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Ihsan Elgin, Founding Director of Fit Startup Factory, Özyeğin University’s Accelerator Program
• Jan Versteeg, Ambassador, Netherlands embassy in Athens
• Jimmy Athanasopoulos, Director Hellenic Entrepreneurship Awards
• Hendrick Halbe, Founder of Get in the Ring
• Moderator: Amy Cosper,  VP/Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine

14.00 Next Generation of Mobile Application, Bringing Space Down to Earth (panel will be held in Greek)

• George Karantonis, CEO VCI, General Secretary HAMAC
• Philippos Beveratos, Founder YOOR, NCSR “Demokritos”
• Vassilis Tsetsos, CTO Mobics
• Konstantinos Haniotis, CEO Telenavis
• Nansy Karanasiou, Head of IT Department at VIDAVO SA
• Moderator: Yiannis Rizopoulos, Journalist

15.00 Lunch Break

16.00 Starting from Scratch (panel will be held in Greek)

• Paris Kasiadaris, CEO at SourceLair
• John Papageorgiou, CEO at Truckbird
• Anastasios Voulgaris, CEO at Inverse
• Dr. Spyros Arsenis, Business Banking, Division of Development of Retail Clients
• Moderator: Sylvia Klimaki, Journalist

17.00 Disruption & Diversification – Greek Tourism Revisted (panel will be held in Greek)

• Christos Stergiou, CEO Τrue Greece
• Philipp Brinkmann, CEO travelplanet24
• Christos Doulkeridis, Brussels Region Minister, Member of Parliament with the Green Party
• Moderator: Christina Poutetsi, Journalist at Vima

18.00 Funding for Startups (panel will be held in Greek)

• Giannis Papadopoulos, CEO Attica Ventures
• Loukas Pilitsis, CEO Piraeus Equity Advisors
• Spyros Trachanis, Managing Partner, Odyssey Venture Partner
• Moderator: Dimitris Pephanis, Director In.gr

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12.00 Eu Opportunities for Young People and the Case of the Ideatree Enterpreneurship and Innovation Competition

• Filippos Lentzas, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Youth and Lifelong Learning Foundation
• Antonis Livieratos, Entrepreneurship Consultant
• Winner of IdeaTree Competition: Panagiotis Karakitsios

Workshop Leader: Thanos Triantafyllou
Language: Greek

13.00 MASTERCLASS: How to build a news site, one fact at a time: introduction to Infobitt | No one has done for the news what Wikipedia did for encyclopedias. How can we crowdsource the news? Already, a great deal of time and energy is spent sharing news via disorganized media like Twitter and blogs. This works, but it’s messy. What if we were to combine some of our praiseworthy sharing efforts together, more collaboratively? What if it were possible to create something more useful than Twitter and more complete and efficient than mainstream news sources? This talk should be attended by those interested in the Internet and social media, and especially collaborative content and citizen journalism.

Workshop Leader: Larry Sanger
Language: English

16.00 MASTERCLASS: Marketing in the Digital World | One of the biggest challenges when starting a new business, launching a new product or launching your first marketing campaign is promoting your product/services to the world. In this workshop, Stacey Ferreira will discuss tangible marketing and advertising processes and strategies to take when you’re starting your first business or launching your first product. She’ll discuss the best way to segment your target markets, give examples of the most effective means of marketing and messaging for those audiences, give tips on budget allocation for each stage of your business and evaluate the KPIs and ROI of each campaign you launch.

Workshop Leader: Stacey Ferreira
Language: English

17.00 MASTERCLASS: Customer Development: A Closer look at how to use it | When it comes to helping startups and innovators succeed, “Customer Development” is the path chosen by hundreds if not thousands of entrepreneurs each year. This rigorous methodology, developed by serial Silicon Valley entreprneur Steve Blank, brings what is often called the “scientific method” to the typically chaotic, seemingly disorganized startup process. This rigorous, step-‐by-‐step process helps innovators at small startups and big company intrapreneurships ”get it right” long before they bring the product to market. Understand key elements of the powerful Customer Development process and learn how to put its core steps—Customer Discovery and Customer Validation—to work. This hands-‐on session will dive deep into the process itself, with procedures, guidelines, case histories, and more. The session will be chaired by Startup Owner’s Manual co-‐author Bob Dorf, himself a serial entrepreneur who teaches Customer Development at Skolkovo, throughout the world, and as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School in New York City.

Workshop Leader: Bob Dorf
Language: English

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12.00 Setting up your own startup: Useful legal tips on when, where and why |The aim of the workshop is to offer hands on legal information on the most important legal challenges a new entrepreneur will have to face at the very early stages of setting up his/her new company structure. Startup companies founders will find this work shop extremely useful in order to be prepared for the load of legal requirements they will have to face at the first steps of their company and to focus on the most important ones.

Workshop Leader: Mina Zoulovits
Language: Greek

13.00 Social Media Analytics | The scope of this workshop is to provide specialized knowledge in Social Media Analytics & Insights. This workshop was designed exclusively for those who want to gain knowledge on analytics and insights and learn to read the number right and thus counting correctly the performance of their investment in Social Media. Ιt is a unique opportunity for the participants to learn the basics of how to measure the performance of their campaigns.

Workshop Leader: Diamantis Kitridis
Language: Greek

14.00 Energy & Cleantech: What on God’s Green Earth Comes Next | The scope of this workshop is to provide specialized knowledge in Energy and Clean Tech trends and insights. Greater focus will be placed on the available energy resources and demand efficiency technologies. The workshop will also put emphasis on energy saving measures, localised energy solutions, renewable energy generation, microgrids and other proactive initiatives like demand-response mechanisms. It will run as an interactive dialogue among leading entrepreneurs, advisors, engineers and subject matter experts. The aim is to explore the unique entrepreneurial and business opportunities for targeted investments.

• Ioannis Orfanos, Director, Investment Advisory, Green Value Associates
• Arnaud Henin, Partner, Gommyr Power Networks
• Apostolos Kotsaris, Vice President in Operations at Silver Ridge Power
• Vassilis Nikolopoulos, CEO & Co-founder Intelen Inc
• Dr. Theodore Tsakiris, Prof. Oil & Gas Politics & Economics, Univ. of Nicosia & Energy Programme Director ELIAMEP

Workshop Leader: Ioannis Orfanos, Director, Investment Advisory, Green Value Associates
Language: English

16.00 Ekinisi Lab – Developing a sustainable business case | Ekinisi Lab is a leading technology transfer program in Greece that assists aspiring entrepreneurs to devise their business strategy and explore their competitive advantage. Join us and unfold the secrets with experienced coaches, mentors and young innovators: Do’s and don’ts, IPRs, team development, go-live strategies, entrepreneurial best practices and more.

Maggie Athanassiadi, Young Entrepreneurship Coordinator, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises
Yannis Sidiropoulos, Project Manager, Young Entrepreneurship, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises
Athina Ikonomidou, Young Entrepreneurship Coach, EkinisiLab
Kostas Lafkas, Expert Entrepreneurship Mentor
George Tsangaris, Proteomarker οwner
Alexandros Kitselis, Grammarios Bikes owner
Vassilis Constantoudis, Nanometrology

Workshop Leader: Costas Troulos, Project Manager, Young Entrepreneurship, Hellenic Federation of Enterprises
Language: Greek

17.00 GigCompass Tribetan: Realizing Success Through Intuition and Faith | This workshop is a collection of short creative visualizations and brief written exercises designed to assist with revealing your essence, your purpose and your unique talents. The workshop exercises will help you assemble these natural qualities in order to bring you closer to your instinctive work — work that’s inspiring, fulfilling and elevating to you and your chosen audience. The workshop tools put you on the path of realizing success through intuition and faith. We all have a purpose, so join us to help discover yours!

Workshop Leader: Tiffany Norwood, Ceca Mijatovic
Language: English

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12.00 Big Data Analytics: An Overview | “Data, data everywhere!” The Economist was proclaiming in a special issue three years ago. Since then, Big Data became the “talk of the day”, with extensive coverage in mainstream newspapers, magazines and even global economic forums. The emergence of sophisticated web applications, the proliferation of social networks, the massive deployment of sensor networks and other data-producing applications have led to an exponential growth of data volumes, unforeseen just few years ago. At the same time, the incorporation of a variety of data formats (structured, semi- and un-structured) into mainstream data analysis, along with the velocity aspect of modern applications, revise the fundamental aspects of data management and data-driven analysis.

Workshop Leader: Damianos Chatziantoniou
Language: Greek

13.00 How to implement Open Innovation Practices | Open Innovation is a key trend in management. Large companies, such as Samsung, Siemens and Philips, as well as smaller innovative companies and even startups are implementing open innovation practices in order to speed up the innovation process, reduce development costs and increase the impact of innovation. This workshop will provide participants with a thorough understanding of what Open Innovation is, present the reasoning on why a company should open up its innovation process as well as a strategic framework for managers aiming to implement Open Innovation in their companies.

Workshop Leader: Antonis Livieratos
Language: Greek

14.00 When a Startup Should Speak | The aim of the workshop is to provide startups with helpful insights regarding their exposure to the media. During its course, participants will learn when and how to approach the media, how to promote their business and what to expect from this relation. Furthermore, there will be hands-on example of successful presentations to the media, as well as focal points startups need to take into account in order to distinguish themselves in an information heavy environment.

Workshop Leader: Dimitris Pefanis
Language: Greek

16.00 EU Funding for Startups | Are you a young, innovative SME or an disruptive start-up? Do you have the next big commercial idea that will disrupt the ICT industry and conquer the world? Are you looking for money for your start-up, without giving up equity? Compared to traditional investors from the private sector, EU funding provides support with minimal strings attached and does not require Entrepreneurs to surrender any ownership of their idea or shares of their StartUp. In this workshop, we will try to see the whole EU-funding map for start-ups, help you identify the right grant that fits the purpose, stage and plans of your startup, find out what SME-Instrument, FI-Ware, COSME means ask everything you always wanted, but were afraid to.

Workshop Leader: Iraklis Agiovlasitis
Language: English

17.00 Tech Strategy for Startups | High quality software is becoming not just a competitive advantage, but also a necessary factor for tech start-ups to satisfy their users as well as to increase their value. This workshop is suitable for technical and non-technical (co-)founders of startups. Its aim is:

• To show to founders how they can structurally make strategic decisions when it comes to selecting the right people and processes for the development of their products,
• To demonstrate that quality of software is not a subjective term but rather it can be measured and therefore managed.
• To provide concrete examples of bad implementations of software and how these can be improved from a technical perspective.

Workshop Leader: Yiannis Kanellopoulos
Language: Greek

18.00 Building Soft Skills for 21th Century | What prepares best youth for the 21st century workforce? Soft Skills development! During the workshop the participants will have the chance to practice a series of soft skills such as teamwork, communication, decision making, planning, organizing and prioritizing work all essential skills for success in the 21st century, both for healthy societies and for successful and employable individuals.

Workshop Leader: Maria Nomikou
Language: English