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Tasos Flabouras

General Manager, Aventurine, Greece

Tasos Flabouras

General Manager, Aventurine

Tasos Flambouras is the cofounder and General Manager of Aventurine SA, the largest game development studio in Greece. He's a Producer of Darkfall Online, an award-winning Massive Multiplayer Online Game operating in 190 countries worldwide. He is the Executive Producer of Amnesty-the Game, a serious game, developed by volunteer members of the Hellenic Game Developer’s Association, supporting Amnesty International's efforts to abolish the death penalty around the world. For the past ten years, he has worked to establish a videogame development industry in Greece. He is a cofounder of the Hellenic Game Developer’s Association and has served as its’ President. Through Aventurine, he is also a founding member of the Gaming Innovation Cluster and is currently serving on its’ Steering Committee. Tasos holds a BSc in Computer Engineering, an MSc in Electronic Engineering, and studies in Social Sciences and Cognitive Science. He has long experience in the gaming industry and in online community building and management. He has participated in the creation and growth of some of the largest online communities on the internet, has advised Government, and he frequently lends his expertise to causes he believes in.
Panos Papadopoulos

CEO, Bugsense, USA

Panos Papadopoulos

Co-founder & CEO, Bugsense, USA/Greece

Panos is the founder and CEO of BugSense, the leading mobile app quality and performance monitoring solution. He founded BugSense with Jon Vlachogiannis in 2011 and is already a profitable with high growth rate and Fortune 500 customers. Panos studied Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and Business, holds a Certificate in Global Leadership from RMP International in India and speaks 4 languages. Before BugSense, Panos also founded StayInAthens, a AirBnB like service for foreign students in Athens and worked in other US-based startups. He is also founded the greek developer communities for Ruby, Javascript and Google Developer Groups.
Panayotis Vryonis

Social media consultant

Panayotis Vryonis

Social media consultant - Athens, Greece

Panayotis Vryonis started his career as a software developer in the mid '90s. Since then he has co-founded a company providing on-line travel services, he has lead the OgilvyOne Athens Development team in it's early steps, he has participated, and in many cases lead, the development and implementation of a winning social media strategy for a political party, worked for the Greek Prime Minister's office, lead Asset Ogilvy PR's 360 Digital Influence team and held a position on the Board of Directors of one of the largest (cap.) companies of the Athens Stock Exchange. An active advocate of Open Source Software, Panayotis was one of the founding members of the Hellenic Linux Users Group in 1998 and served multiple times on the Group's board. He is one of the first Greek bloggers and the first greek podcaster. His greek blog aggregator, called "monitor", played a key role in the early stages of the Greek blogosphere. In 2012, he founded RL8.co, that provides "digital community relations" services for organisations and companies
Stefanos Vasdekis

Serial Web Entrepreneur

Stefanos Vasdekis

Serial Entrepreneur - Athens, Greece

Stefanos Vasdekis received his diploma in Civil Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 2003. In his first year as a student back in 1997, he co-founded with John Nousis his first business, a free web hosting company that was paying back its members. This project targeted the USA market and was sold in 1999. Since then, he has co-founded (always together with his soulmate John Nousis) several other web businesses in the fields of ecommerce, web publishing, software development, internet consulting, online travel reservations and social networking. Most have failed, while some are still running and three out of them already had a successful exit. Today, he focuses on small projects that target selected niches in a few European, Asian and American markets.
Dimosthenis Kaponis

Software Engineer, Cosmical

Dimosthenis Kaponis

Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, Cosmical Technology - Athens, Greece

Dimosthenis Kaponis is the founder and managing director of Cosmical Technology Ltd. and a Ph.D candidate at Imperial College London where he also got his M.Eng in Information Systems Engineering. At Imperial, he worked as a Research Associate in the Intelligent Systems and Networks group, during which time he worked on two European IST research projects, architecting an electronic contract-based trust mechanism in workflow management systems. Prior to founding Cosmical Technology in 2005, he worked as a consultant and contractor for a number of companies in the United Kingdom and Greece, specialising on software architecture, software engineering, distributed systems, security and algorithms.
Niko Bonatsos

Associate, GC Seed

Niko Bonatsos

Associate, General Catalyst Seed, US

Niko Bonatsos is an Associate with GC Seed. He focuses on investments in IT (mobile, education technology, consumerized IT business applications & consumer health) as well as seed-stage opportunities with an outlier potential. Niko is particularly interested in working with first time founders, who have a strong perspective about solving big problems their way and most people find it hard to understand them. Concurrent with his academic career, Niko worked on lean manufacturing for Yokogawa Electric Corp, biomedical signal processing at Harvard Medical School/MGH, cloud computing at Stanford University and as a founding team member of myLinkpower, a social networking start-up. Niko is a graduate of Stanford University, earning an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering as a Fulbright Scholar; the University of Cambridge, earning an M.Phil. in Manufacturing Engineering and Management; and the National Technical University of Athens, earning an engineer’s degree (Dipl.-Ing) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tasso Argyros

CTO, Aster Data

Tasso Argyros

co-founder > CTO, Aster Data Systems - San Francisco, CA, US

Tasso (Tassos) Argyros is the CTO and co-founder of Aster Data Systems, where he is responsible for all product and engineering operations of the company. Tasso was recently recognized as one of BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs for 2009 and was an SAP fellow at the Stanford Computer Science department. While at Stanford, Tasso was pursuing a Ph.D. in the Distributed Systems Group with a focus on designing cluster architectures for fast, parallel data processing using large farms of commodity servers. He holds an MsC in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Diploma in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Athens.
George Papadakis

Co founder Phaistos Networks

George Papadakis

Co founder Phaistos Networks

George is the Head Of Operations at Phaistos Networks since 1997. Having supervised the implementation of a plethora of web services (Pathfinder.gr, Adman.gr, Trinity.gr among others), he is knowledgeable enough in terms of how to incorporate up-to-date techniques while creating usable and accessible web applications.