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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.
Dimitris Athanasiadis

Collaborator, Megaventory, Greece

Dimitris Athanasiadis

Content Marketing Collaborator, Megaventory, Greece

Dimitrios Athanasiadis, 31, is a graduate from the Physics Department of the University of Athens (2001) with a PhD in Radioastronomy from the University of Manchester (2004). During his studies in the UK he has worked on reviews, data analysis using programming techniques, scientific observation, participating in various working groups, writing and presenting scientific publications, teaching to undergraduates and so on. He was also charged with responsibilities over the security and representation of undergraduate students, helping with the operation and management of the student campus. In Greece he contributed with various articles in youth press, an activity which he pursued for 2.5 years. From 2005 to 2007 he was employed in the National Observatory of Athens as a researcher, a position which included data analysis, compiling results and presenting them to the scientific team, participating in competitions and so on. In 2006 he participated with a 5-strong team in the Innovation 2006 competition held by Otenet, where he took 4th place among 2700 submissions. His role included providing the original concept, writing a large part of the business plan and doing the final presentation before the judges. He has also contributed in various blogs since 2004 (terrainnova.org, opencoffee.gr) and is an avid observer of all start-up and technology-related news he can get his eyes on. He also recently participated in various projects (websource.it, howsocial.ru, greekstart-ups.com etc), while co-organising the Open Coffee Athens events. He now works as a freelancing consultant for a number of startups and heads the PR efforts of Megaventory.com.
Steli Efti

Serial Entrepreneur

Steli Efti

Serial entrepreneur, US

Steli Efti, Co-Founder/CEO Elastic Inc. - Steli is a serial entrepreneur, anonymous learning addict, and owner of a one-way ticket that took him from Europe to San Francisco where he founded Supercool School, VibaTV, and SwipeGood. As an alumni of Y Combinator, Steli recently launched Elastic, Inc., offering sales-as-a-service to other startups in Silicon Valley and throughout the world.
John Nousis

Serial Entrepreneur

John Nousis

Serial Web Entrepreneur - Athens, Greece

John Nousis is yet trying to finish his degree in the Physics Department of the University of Athens. However, he proved to be disproportionally active in the entrepreneurial world. Just after finishing high-school, back in 1997, John co-founded his first start-up with Stefanos Vasdekis in the web hosting field. After a successful exit two years later, he moved on to co-found a number of internet companies (always together with his true soulmate, Stefanos Vasdekis) in the fields of ecommerce, web publishing, software development, internet consulting, online travel reservations and social networking. His favourite and most successful venture up to now is an ecommerce store that was selling software to US customers. Today, he spends his time on his ongoing projects and on new ones serving selected international markets.
Alex Kombogiannis

CEO, EventNow

Alex Kombogiannis

CEO and founding partner of EventNow - New York City, NY, US

Alex Kombogiannis Having produced and developed successful online interactive companies for over 12 years now, Alex Kombos represents a new breed of web entrepreneurs who is helping to mainstream the interactive realm. Working with tier one top agencies, brands and high profile corporate groups, Alex has a keen ability to start up innovative services within specific industries that help users, consumers and clients establish new standards when it comes to internet services and applications. As of 2010 Alex is focused on his 4th startup which is EventNow.com. a new services which will revolutionize how people search and book local service providers for events and parties. It will be serving an industry that grosses more than 120 billion a year.
Dimitris Achlioptas

Professor, University of Athens

Dimitris Achlioptas

Professor, University of Athens - Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Greece

Dimitris joined the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens as a Professor of Algorithm Design in 2010. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Microsoft Research, Redmond and since 2005 with the Department of Computer Science UC Santa Cruz. In theory, his expertise lies in the interaction between randomness and computation and his work on that topic has appeared in journals including Nature, Science, and the Annals of Mathematics. For this work he has received an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, and the prestigious IDEAS grant from the European Research Council. In practice, he likes to think about scalability questions and holds 18 US Patents ranging from load balancing and cache optimization to privacy-preserving social search. He actively consults with a number of Bay Area companies. In his free time enjoys overworking.
Aggelos Maglis

CEO, Atlantis

Aggelos Maglis

CEO, Atlantis Consulting - Thessaloniki, Greece

Aggelos Maglis is the CEO and President of Atlantis Consulting group, and also a board member of Wadja Ltd. He holds a Civil Engineer diploma and postgraduate studies in Technological evolution and Industrial Strategy from the University of Manchester (Prest) UK. He is a member of the Evaluation Network of the General Secretariat of Research of the EU Commission, while he also represents Atlantis towards EU bodies such as the ETEPS (European Techno- Economic Policy Support Network) and the TII (Technology, Innovation, Information).
Leda Karabela

Strategic Alliances, Innovation Accelerator, USA

Leda Karabela

Strategic Alliances Director, Innovation Accelerator, California, USA

Leda Karabela’s role is to ensure that priorities are effectively carried out via mutually beneficial relationships and collaborations with industrial/institutional partners. She is a marketing, fundraising and communication professional with over 25 years of global executive experience. Having worked on academic /private partnerships projects at Stanford Business School, she has developed critical programs , maintaining growth-focused relationships between faculty, corporations and foundations to support ongoing research, and match talent needs with educational programming. She has organized and executed a multi-million dollar capital campaign, addressing stakeholder engagement, donor cultivation and stewardship accountability. She has also directed the Stanford Computer Industry Project, a corporate membership program for a university-wide research effort that positively impacted fundraising and institutional growth for years. She is also the founder of Yhesitate, a company based on strategic communications, branding, leadership principles, solution-based methodologies, conflict resolution and cultivation of stakeholder alliances. She is part of the coaching team at SupporTED program and offers her support to the TED Fellows program designed to bring together young world-changers and trailblazers. Coaching/mentoring startup companies is one of her passion points and ways of giving back to the communities in which she conducts business. Leda has earned an LL.B. in Jurisprudence from Aristotelian University Law School (Greece), an MSc in Communication from Boston University and an Executive Coaching Graduate degree from University of Texas, Dallas School of Management. She is a Certified Coach with more than 1000 hours of client coaching experience. In addition to Stanford University, she has also worked with both physical and virtual teams in multiple countries for Fortune 50 companies such as BP and Microsoft, and has lived in Boston, San Francisco, London, Athens and Dubai.