TEDxAthens 2017

Daphne Matziaraki

Documentary Filmaker / Director

Daphne Matziaraki is an award winning documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She was born and raised in Athens Greece. She directed, produced, photographed and edited award winning “4.1 Miles,” which in 2017 was nominated for an Academy Award® in the Documentary short category.

Over 21 minutes, Matziaraki captures the efforts of Papadopoulos, a Greek coastguard captain, as he and his small crew rescue men, women and children in the waters surrounding the island of Lesbos - just 4.1 miles from the Turkish coast - in late 2015.
"I had never seen so many people, so many children, so many families being so scared," said Daphne during an interview to Al Jazeera.

Daphne has lived and worked in Europe, Africa and the United States. Matziaraki has a Master’s degree in documentary filmmaking from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, as well as a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Bristol, UK. She is currently directing her new documentary film and she works as a cinematographer on other projects.

CHRISTIAN HERNANDEZ

Managing partner at White Star Capital

Christian has extensive operating experience in technology companies, developing and scaling products and businesses internationally. Prior to co-founding White Star Capital, Christian worked at Facebook and led the international expansion of the company’s Business Development, Platform and Developer Network groups. He previously held leadership roles in the U.S. and Europe at Google and Microsoft and started his career in technology at MicroStrategy, a startup he joined prior to its 1999 IPO.

Moreover, he has worked closely with entrepreneurs and leading VCs and has been an active angel investor and advisor. He represents White Star on the Boards of KeyMe, Glow Media, Bloglovin’ and Hole 19. Christian also serves as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

He holds a degree in Economics from Duke University and an MBA from The Wharton School. Born in El Salvador and having grown up across Latin America, the U.S. and Europe, he now resides in London with his wife and three children.

Ponz Pandikuthira

Vice President at Nissan Europe

Ponz Pandikuthira is Vice President, Product Planning, Nissan Europe on 1st May, 2016. Prior to this role he was Director, responsible for Nissan's Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) business unit in Europe and Russia.
He began his career in the industry as an engineer for Chrysler in Detroit in 1996, working on Jeep and Truck manufacturing, before moving on to passenger car engineering, product planning and then marketing.

In 2008 he moved to Europe to head product management for Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles based out of the Daimler offices in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2009, he was recruited by Kia Europe, based in Frankfurt, to lead its Product Management function during its expansion in Europe.

In April 2012, Ponz joined Nissan, attracted by the diverse management team and global career development opportunities. He was appointed General Manager and Chief Marketing Manager for Crossovers, C-segment and Sports cars, managing a portfolio of six vehicles, the Nissan Qashqai, X-Trail, Pulsar, Murano, GT-R and 370Z. In July 2014, after the successful launches of Qashqai and X-Trail, he was appointed Director of the LCV business unit and member of the Nissan Europe Management Committee.

Ponz believes that the reduction of emissions, alternative ownership structures for vehicles, and alternative mobility solutions will dominate the next decade of development within the industry, He says that Nissan is well positioned to play a leading role in this rapidly changing environment. "We will need to move away from a mind-set that people just need more traditional vehicles every year to meet their mobility and transportation needs."

Tom Gash

Government adviser on Crime Policy

Tom Gash is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London’s Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science. He advises governments on crime policy and public administration internationally and is a regular contributor to debates on public policy and current affairs, writing for the Independent, Guardian and Financial Times, and speaking on television and radio.

Tom was previously a senior crime policy adviser in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Director of Research at the Institute for Government, which he joined as part of its set up team in 2008, and a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He is the author of Criminal: The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things (Penguin, 2016), which was a Times ‘Thought’ Book of the Year. It was described by the Guardian as “richly researched, supremely sane… Gash’s important book may well change your attitude to criminality and the justice system.”

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Poet, Translator-Interpreter

Poet and translator Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens in February 1939. Her father, whose origins were from the Bosporus, spoke seven languages. As the god-daughter of Nikos Kazantzakis, it was with his prodding that she published her first poem called “Monaxia” (Loneliness) at the age of 17. She has studied foreign languages in Athens, France, and Switzerland. She has published 18 books (mostly poetry collections) that have been translated into more than 10 languages.

Her most recent book in prose “Soliloquy of Loneliness” was published at the end of 2016. She has translated 56 books (mainly poems) including Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Pushkin, Mayakovsky (from Russian) and she has received international awards.

Katerina herself says that she doesn’t know what ambition is. What sets her poetry apart is a strong need to escape to imaginary lands. “I paid a heavy price when I was born”, she said, “but after that everything fell into place”.

Helena Paparizou & 8tetto

Performance

No. 1 Greek pop singer Helena Paparizou and the a capella vocal ensemble 8tetto challenge their limits on stage in a totally unexpected performance.

Helena Paparizou is a Greek pop singer born to immigrant parents in Borås, Sweden and raised in Gothenburg.
She has sold over 300.000 albums and 100.000 singles worldwide, all of which were certified gold and platinum.
She has worked with great international performers, such as Nana Mouschouri, Jill Johnsson, Albert Hammond, Vicky Leandros, Chambao and many top Greek singers.
Helena has won a total of 35 awards including the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 representing Greece, 3 Arion Music Awards, 1 Balkan Music Award, 1 Cyprus Music Award, 1 MTV Best Greek Act Award and 24 Mad Video Music Awards - more than any other artist in Greece.

8tetto (octetto) is an a capella vocal ensemble that consists of eight singers with a repertoire that extends from classical to modern Greek and international music. 8tetto first appeared in the Athens music life in 2012, and since then it has performed in many festivals, concerts, and happenings (such as the 2016 Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the 2014 International World Τravel Αwards, the 2016 European Conference AESGP, the "Santorini, the One" initiative etc.). The a capella vocal ensemble 8tetto is made up by: Peny Deligianni, Annie Fassea (sopranos), Sofia Malama, Antonia Tzitzika (mezzos), Nikos Ziaziaris, Stratis Steele (tenors), Dimitris Alexoudis, Elias Kapantais (basses) and Alexandros Faris (music instructor)

What you will witness is directed by Angelos Mentis, widely known from the Athens Olympic Games opening ceremony as one of Dimitris Papaioannou’s key associates. Moreover, this unique performance is choreographed by Evgenia Sigalou, a dancer and performer with several dance and dance theater groups and choreographers, who has taken part in many productions ( Athens Concert Hall, Athens, Epidaurus Festival, National Theatre of Northern Greece etc).

David Patrikarakos

Author, Contributing Editor, Contributing Writer

David Patrikarakos is an international author, journalist and producer with an extensive track record in high-end international affairs. As a foreign correspondent, he has reported from across the world for a variety of leading US, UK and international publications. He most recently spent over a year on-the-ground covering first the war in Ukraine and then the Greek financial crisis. As well as his journalistic writing, he has worked with think tanks and the British government to help create policy and lectured at institutions across the UK and USA. He appears regularly on international TV and radio and has also produced a variety of films on issues such as Iran’s nuclear programme to the war in the Congo to the Greek financial crisis and the war in Ukraine.

He writes for The New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, the Spectator, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Politico, London Review of Books, Reuters, Mashable, CNN, Prospect, New Statesman, has two books published so far & we cannot wait to listen to him talk about his own definition of Edge.

DINA KAPLAN

Founder, The Path

Dina Kaplan is Founder of the The Path, which teaches meditation for the modern mind. Dina is a certified meditation teacher and has led meditations across the country at festivals and conferences, for large and small groups, brands and individuals. She has studied and practiced dozens of meditation techniques.

Before founding The Path, Dina was co-founder and COO of the tech start-up Blip.tv in web video. She was an Emmy-award winning television news reporter for local NBC stations. Moreover, Dina worked as an associate producer for MTV News and at the White House as Director of Research for the Office of the White House Counsel.

Dina has taught classes at Columbia Business School, Columbia Journalism School, NYU’s Stern School of Business and NYU’s ITP program for engineers and designers. She has spoken at SXSW, the World Economic Forum, Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, DLD, Le Web, Cannes Lions, Monaco Media Forum and CeBit.

Effy Vayena

Professor of Health Policy, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, University of Zurich

Effy Vayena is Professor of Health Policy at the University of Zurich, where she leads the Health Ethics and Policy Lab.
She began her career at the World Health Organization (WHO), working on ethical and policy issues relating to health research ethics and reproductive health ethics & currently works as a consultant to WHO on several projects, visiting faculty at the Harvard Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. She is also a member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences & has published widely in major journals in medicine, public health, health policy and ethics.

Her current research focus is on ethical and policy questions in personalized medicine and digital health. At the intersection of multiple fields, she relies on normative analyses and empirical methods to explore how values such as freedom of choice, participation and privacy are affected by recent developments in precision medicine and in digital health. She is particularly interested in the issues of ethical oversight of research uses of big data, ethical uses of big data for global health, as well as the ethics of citizen science.

ELEKTRONIK MEDITATION

Performance

“Elektronik Meditation” is an experimental audio-visual project by Jannis Anastasakis and Deniz Angelaki, coming from Athens, Greece. Their performances are an amazing opportunity to experience the power of a marriage between the two different Arts as well as the power of improvisation.
In TEDxΑthens they will present a collaboration with two of the greatest musicians - improvisators in Greece, Savina Yannatou (voice) and Thodoris Rellos (baritone sax, flute)

Jannis Anastasakis is considered to be in a league of his own as a guitar player in Greece. He is coming up with unique and fresh sounds that take the music from ambient to psychedelic and off limits to new territory! All sounds and music are produced live.

Deniz Angelaki is using color as means of expression, along with the camera documenting every moment and detail that is taking place on the canvas. With a special projection technique, offers incredible attention to detail and creates a unique ambiance, providing a visual extension to the music of Jannis Anastasakis.

Savina Yannatou’s career took off collaborating with many greek composers and having released numerous albums since then. In the mid-1990s, she joined forces with jazz / traditional musicians forming a band known as 'Primavera en Salonico'.

Thodoris Rellos is one of the musicians that shaped the sound of greek jazz scene the last 25 years. He is the founder member of “Mode Plagal” band and he has also worked with the most known songwriters and bands in Greece.

Maria Kakali

Mayor of Agios Efstratios

Kakali Maria is the Mayor of Agios Efstratios. Born (24/01/1987) and raised on the island of Agios Efstratios, she graduated (2004) with honors from the local high school and was admitted to the University of Patras, Department of Education Sciences and Early Childhood Education. Committed to her personal goal, she finished her studies in 4 years and returned to her hometown to work at the island's nursery school. Unfortunately, she didn’t manage to get appointed, so she worked at a Ticket Office and got involved in the island's public welfare.

In 2010 she was elected Member and in 2013 President of the Municipal Council. In 2014, she ran for the municipal elections with the political combination "New Beginning" that won the elections. According to the current statistical data, it appears that she is the Youngest Female Mayor in Greece.

As the daughter of a fisherman's family of four, she has learned to stand on her own two feet and face all difficulties with optimism and hard work. Being well aware of the primary sector of the economy, she strongly believes that development for our country will come only if we focus on and modernize this particular sector.

Olly Hicks

Maritime Explorer & Motivational Speaker

Olly Hicks is an explorer, a maritime adventurer. As a man of the sea, Olly is a triple world record holder, ocean rower, sailor, kayaker. Moreover, Olly was the youngest person to row an ocean solo –and is the only person to row single-handed, From America to England. To date he has spent 2.2% of his life alone at sea.

On the 28th September 2005, after 124 days alone at sea (a shark attack notwithstanding), Olly landed in the Scilly Isles “not much madder than when I set off”. It was a remarkable achievement for a young man who had never rowed before, but it hadn’t quenched his thirst for adventure.

Olly’s next mission was to row single-handed around the world. The aim was to row from Tasmania to South Georgia, stop for the winter and then carry on through the tempestuous Southern Ocean back to Tasmania – a trip of 18,000 miles that would take 20 months. It was a mission that has been described by The Times as “at best perilous and at worst suicidal”.
In 2016 he completed the 1,500 mile Greenland to Scotland Challenge – a 9 week sea kayak expedition to prove that the Inuit may have made the same journey in the 17th century.

Olly is now working on the International Circumpolar Expedition. This will see him row solo around the bottom of the world and a parallel scientific research mission undertaken in the vulnerable Southern Ocean.

Nico Katsanis

Director, Center for Human Disease Modeling Professor of Cell Biology Brumley Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Duke University

Dr. Katsanis is the Director of the Centre for Human Disease Modeling, Professor of Cell Biology and Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University. He obtained his first degree in Genetics from UCL in London in 1993, then in 2002 he became an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005.

In 2009, he moved to Duke University to become the Brumley Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Pediatrics and to establish the Center for Human Disease Modeling. In recognition of his work, Dr. Katsanis was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Nephrology in 2009, the E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research in 2012 (bestowed rarely to Ph.D. scientists) and has delivered several Distinguished Lectures.

Dr Katsanis is also the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Rescindo Therapeutics, a biotech company aiming to accelerate the discovery of new drugs for primarily pediatric disorders.

He has published over 250 research papers, reviews, and book chapters, holds several international patents, serves on several advisory, editorial, and organizational boards and has delivered over 200 lectures in 22 countries.

Ilias Anastasiadis

Journalist

Ilias Anastasiadis was born in 1983 in Athens, Greece and he is journalist.
He studied Communication and Media in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and for the past decade he is writing in periodical press and internet.

Since November 2015 he is the Editor in Chief of Oneman.gr, whilst in November 2016 he published his first book titled “Monday”, published by Key Books. In his book “Monday”, he traces back to the time of his gambling addiction and describes his road to recovery in the therapeutic programme for gambling addiction in KETHEA ALFA. Now he is in the process of writing his second book.

James Williams

Design Ethicist

James Williams is a design ethicist and a co-founder of the Time Well Spent campaign, an effort that aims to evolve the design ethos of digital technologies to help them be more respectful of our time and attention, and more supportive of our deeper human values and goals. He is currently completing doctoral research at the University of Oxford, where he is focused on questions of attention and persuasion in technology design.

His research interests include philosophy, ethics, attention, persuasive technology, behavioral economics, games, task and goal management, virtual reality, augmented reality, literature, narrative, human-computer interaction, education, advertising, product design etc. In particular, James works on clarifying how we should understand and protect user freedom in contexts of highly “persuasive” design.

Previously, he worked at Google for over ten years, where he received the Founders’ Award, the company’s highest honor. He has consulted for companies and governments, and his work has been covered by publications such as The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Sofia Kouvelaki

Executive Director, The HOME Project

Sofia Kouvelaki is Executive Director at The HOME Project. A non-profit organization that provides support, protection, education and social integration services to unaccompanied minors.

She was the Program Manager of the Bodossaki Foundation Program for Unaccompanied Minors and inter alia, in charge of projects on Social Welfare Provision to socially vulnerable groups. She has worked at the UN and at UNICEF in the economic analysis and social policy division and as an Adviser and Researcher for the public and private sector in Greece.

She holds a Master of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Master in International Economics from Sciences Po Paris. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations at Brown University in the USA and a Certificate from the Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma and Recovery.

Marianthi Liapi

Architect - Researcher

Marianthi Liapi is an architect and a researcher specializing in the qualitative upgrade of educational spaces through the innovative fusion of participatory design and the contemporary maker culture. She developed an interdisciplinary methodology titled Educational Pla(y)ces (Εκπαιδότοποι in Greek) guiding architects to engage together with teachers and their students in creative, hands-on learning activities with a dynamic spatial imprint that affects the school positively.

In a broader perspective, her work focuses on the experiential ergonomics of space and the design of human-centered environments. In 2008 she received the Europe 40 under 40 Architecture Award. In 2015, she was a Silver Winner at the IDA International Design Awards with her Many Happy re-Turns project for children.

Currently she is the Research Director of the Educational Pla(y)ces Group at the Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory (TUC TIE Lab), based in the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Crete. She is also the Project Manager of the lab’s interdisciplinary research programs in Architecture and Education. She holds a Diploma in Architecture and Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc degree in Design and Computation from MIT. For her studies in the US she was awarded scholarships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Michelis Foundation, the Gerontelis Foundation and MIT

Lindy Hop & Hood Groove

Performance

Athens Lindy Hop and Hood Groove, two groups of experienced dancers come together for the first time on the stage of TEDxAthens to combine two dance styles that may seem to be at odds with each other while they actually have many things in common.

Athens Lindy Hop is a group of artists that brought the Swing culture in Athens for the first time in 2008. Lindy hop is the original swing dance of the 1930s and 1940s that rose up in Harlem, New York. More distinctly, the group focuses on preserving the tradition and historical culture of this dance tailored to the modern lifestyle and using innovative ideas and diversity in Swing dance styles.

At the same time, Breaking, Popping, Locking, Hip Hop Party Dancing are dance styles that come from the United States in the early 1970s. Their style emerged right on the streets and it was so impressive that it grew into the Hip Hop as we know it today. On this score, Hood Groove Management worked out a way to bring the best and more experienced street style dancers of Greece under one umbrella, giving the audience the chance to experience stunning projects.

With their striking ability to adapt to any project and the energizing skills to pump up the audience, these two extraordinary dance groups are bound to give us a unique and breakthrough performance.

Stratis Panourios

Director & Actor

Stratis Panourios was born in Mytilene/Lesbos Greece. He is a theater and cinema director, writer and actor. He studied theatrical directing at the Greek National Theater and film directing at the "New York College" in Athens, playwriting at the Greek Playwrights Company (E.E.TH.S) and acting at the "Drama School of the National Theater".

In his role as director, he has worked at the National Theater, the Cyprus Theater Organization, the Municipal Regional Theater of Patras, Agrinio and Corfu Greece, and he has also directed plays in Athens, Lesvos and Italy. His theatrical plays have been performed in Greece and Cyprus. He is a member of the International Theater Institute and an associate of the Swedish Institute of Athens. He is also a founding member of the Cultural Organization "Kochili".

This last year, he has been collaborating with the Benaki Museum and the National Theater on a pioneering project that challenges Greek cultural norms with the participation of actors and the Museum's curators. It is a research program entitled "From the Silence of the Display Case to Living Theatrical Voices"; a different museum tour where actors will bring texts to life, casting light on aspects of history that are given voice by pieces in the display cases.
Since January 2016, he has been collaborating with the Korydallos prisons, the National Theater and the Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA), launching the 1st Theater Workshop inside the prisons.

At the same time, Stratis is an acting and directing instructor and has introduced his own methods, such as: "Player of the Moment" and "Directing the Miraculous".

George Zervos

Performer

George Zervos is one of our favorite people in the new music life of Greece.
Mostly known as a founding member of the Penny & The Swingin' Cats band but also as "Elvis Presley" from the "Elvis Alive & Lookin' for Trouble" show, he is always on the move and has a knack for pumping up the audience. His boundless energy and electrifying performance will be setting off the fireworks through a dance show that will deliver the experience of a lifetime!

George Zervos has worked with famous local artists such as Dionysis Savvopoulos, Kostis Maraveyas, Panos Mouzourakis, Lavrentis Machairitsas, Yiannis Zouganelis, Marietta Fafouti etc. He has also worked with several great international artists such as Thievery Corporation, Parov Stelar, Marc Almond, Imany, Jive Aces, Royal Crown Revue, Puppini Sisters, Adam Levy etc. Using his Rock n' Roll and Americana background, he will soon be releasing his debut album "For Your Love" by The Lyst Records, where he documents people's desires, fears, animal instincts, taboos and other inexplicable pulls. A sound adapted to modern environment and challenges, with influences from the 1970s and quick music changes.

Moa Bones

Performance

Moa Bones (aka Dimitris Aronis) is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Athens, Greece in May 1981. With an already active presence in the local music scene as Modrec’s singer and guitar player, in 2006 he began to write and release his own songs under the name Palindrom.

Moa Bones has performed in many concerts around Greece, the most significant being those at the Nixon and the sixDogs in 2011-2012. He has also done special solo acts at the Upfest Festival (July 2013 and 2014), at the 2015 summer tour sealed by the opening act for Pavlos Pavlidis (Technopolis), at the National Observatory of Athens (2016), and he was the opening act for Wovenhand at the FUZZ and for Calexico in Thessaloniki/Athens.

A new era now begins for Moa Bones as he goes back to the recording studio for his new album. At the same time, he has scheduled a number of concerts in 2017 with a totally different concept.
Old and new songs will bring together the atmosphere of his first live shows with the energy of his recent performances on the stage of TEDxAthens.

Nikos Xanthoulis

Μusician, Researcher

Dr. Nikos Xanthoulis is a composer, a research fellow at the Academy of Athens and a Professor – Consultant at the Hellenic Open University. Starting from 1984 and for 25 years he served as the Principal A’ trumpeter of the Greek National Opera orchestra. From 2009 until 2012, he was responsible for the Educational Programs of the National Greek Νational Opera & right after that he gained the position of the Artistic Director of the Musical Ensembles at the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT).

As a soloist and a composer, he has been presented in over 30 countries. He has published thirteen personal albums and participated in four group ones. His composition work focused mainly in children operas, two of which were performed at the Greek National Opera, and in Ancient Theatre music.

The American School of Classical studies has twice awarded him with the Kress Lectureship distinction for his research on Ancient Greek Music. In November of 2016 he was invited to present his work at the Historical School of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The last five years he has put his focus on studying the ancient Greek lyre, for which he has composed the first soloist composition after 1,600 years of silence, the “Concert for ancient lyre and symphony orchestra”, which was presented in Poland and in Berlin.

Garyfallia Spyrou

Sign language teacher

Garyfallia Spyrou was born in September 1985 in Athens. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
She has worked in various fields and, since November 2011, she has been a Greek Sign Language teacher.

She has served as an Advisor for the Hellenic Federation of the Deaf and worked for 5 years as a Coordinator for the Youth Committee of the Federation. In 2014-2015 she participated in the European Union of the Deaf Youth History Workgroup, which is based in Brussels, and significantly contributed to the project of recording the history of the deaf in Europe. She was also employed shortly in the Council of Europe- European Youth Center Budapest as a media coordinator.

She has attended many international, European and local seminars and conferences on people with disabilities etc.
She has also taken part in the interpretation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a user of the Greek Sign Language for the Project "Design and Development of Accessible Educational & Instructional Material for Students with Disabilities - Horizontal Action" of the Institute of Educational Policy.

For a year now, she has been active in the media department of the Deaf Champions League as a presenter and interviewer in football games.
What interests her more is the Deaf community and the accessibility for people with disabilities, placing an extra focus on the use of the Greek Sign Language.

Giorgos Mouchtaridis

Journalist, Radio producer

Giorgos Mouchtaridis was born in Athens where he studied Management & Economics, and Translation at the British Council. At the same time, he got involved in journalism writing for the music magazine ECHOS & HI-FI from album reviews to articles and interviews with significant Greek and foreign musicians. He has also written articles on music for other magazines (7 IMERES, EIKONES, 7 - KYRIAKATIKI ELEFTHEROTYPIA).
He has worked on the production and organization of music events and festivals (WOMAD, KOSMOS FESTIVAL, RIVER PARTY), but it was the radio that won him over.

He began his radio career in the 4th program of the state-owned public radio and continued with private radio stations such as Pop FM 92,4 and Rythmos 101,1. In the past 15 years, he has been both a radio producer and a director in two of the most successful radio stations in the last two decades: Kosmos 93,6 (ERT) and Pepper 96,6 (which he set up from scratch). He has been active for 25 years on the radio and has released four certified gold collections of songs entitled "The bright side of the road". The best part of his day is his two-hour morning radio show that he enjoys more than anything!

Dimitris Kokoris

Live Drawing

How can you document a presentation? How can you depict an emotion?

For TedxAthens 2017, visual artist Dimitris Kokoris will attempt to capture the experience and mood of the conference, drawing live in the Book Stage throughout the day.

Nikos Komninos

COO at Intale

Nikos Komninos is the COO of Intale, a VC-funded startup that aims to revolutionize the supply chain of convenience stores worldwide. Previously, he worked as the Global Data Lead for IPG Mediabrands, part of Interpublic which is one of the big four ad agencies worldwide. He evangelized the use of data for better targeting and automated media buying in 29 countries and 4 continents.

Previously he held roles as the Commercial Director of Hyundai Hellas and the Group Strategy and Marketing Director of ICAP, where he subsequently spent 2 years growing its subsidiaries in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. Nikos has done business, on the ground, in more than 15 countries. In the past, he co-founded ihavemoved.com in the UK and expanded it to Germany.

Nikos has studied Computer Science and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from London Business School. He is an advisor at several companies, among which AI-startup Reportbrain, and he just completed his first novel, a fiction book dealing with the impact of AI and nanotechnology to the future of humankind.

Makis Provatas

Presenter

Makis Provatas was born in Athens. He studied Premed at the Worcester St. College of Massachusetts came back to Greece where he graduated from the School of Dentistry of Thessaloniki. He has been a radio producer since 1998, and for the past 9 years, he has been airing his daily radio show on VIMAfm 99,5. He has done more than 150 interviews for VIMA tis KYRIAKIS, VIMagazino and VIMAMΕΝ, including Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Dario Fo, Eric Hobsbawm, Noam Chomsky, Peter Brook, Carlos Fuentes, Irvin Yalom, Patti Smith, Eric Burdon, John Malkovich, Garry Kasparov etc.
He also works with the magazine "ISTORIA" on behalf of which he has hosted interviews mainly political in nature.

For five years, Makis and the lyricist Lina Nikolakopoulou hosted a number of meetings called "Enas Logos Parapano" at GAZARTE, and for the last two years, he and the novelist Christos Chomenidis have been presenting the series of meetings entitled "O Tritos Anthropos" at the PUBLIC bookstores.

Together with the theoretical physicist Dimitris Nanopoulos he has written the book (biography - essay): "Ston trito vracho apo ton Ilio", published in November 2015, PATAKIS Publications.

Carmen Oprea

Co-founder & COO Socital

Carmen wants to live in a world where technology helps us solve our most pressing issues. “Every piece of data helps us understand users and problems better, identify opportunities and execute ideas at global scale.”
As a serial tech entrepreneur, as well as cofounder and current COO at Socital, she’s been recognised as driving one of the leading enterprise tech companies to follow by The Next Web and Alibaba.

When she’s not leading product and go to market at Socital, you can find her actively taking part in conferences, discussing tomorrow's opportunities shaped by technology with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.Her previous work includes the Middle Eastern expansion of Humantelligence, a US based enterprise tech that uses AI to streamline the interview process by 79% while reducing subjectivity.

Peskias C. & Mellos G.

The new, sustainable gastronomy: Traditional Greek cuisine as a paradigm.

From the farm straight to our plates: adhering to a sustainable diet, rationally managing natural resources, the benefits of seasonality, making good use of leftovers so as not to waste food.

The organic farmer Giannis Mellos and chef Christophoros Peskias, "Gastronomos" magazine's friends & collaborators, address nutritional issues of the future inspired by Greek cuisine's past. And they will cook without... fire, so as to prove that the tender spring artichoke and raw radishes need minimal processing for their flavor to be brought out.

Sometimes savoriness is not a feat, but simply... a state of being.

Participants: 30
Duration: 30'

Imaginary Rooms

Characters library. Doodling as a creative way of relaxing.

Spontaneity is a concept almost forgotten by the adults. Usually, it's hard to sketch directly with a marker, if we do not have a pencil and an eraser to correct possible errors.

Moreover, the continuous use of modern technology removes us more and more from the analog means of expression, such as writing and drawing.

Through this short workshop, with the practice of doodling as a key vehicle and pen as the main tool, we will try to redefine the relation between scribblings-expansion and making notes-playing.

Participants: 30
Duration: 30'

SUMMIT

6Χ6 Quest: The digital side of adventure

We offer you the ultimate interactive experience, a digital scavenger hunt designed by SUMMIT. Participants will have to use their strengths, working in a team with strangers as teammates. Teams of 6 people will have 6 hours at their disposal and 1 digital map which will lead them to discover various tasks scattered throughout the venue. The perfect opportunity to explore Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center like no-one ever has.

Participants: 120
Duration: 6h

Meditation with Dina Kaplan

The Path To Meditation

Join us, as Dina Kaplan, founder of The Path, guides us on a journey through the four categories of meditation, aiming to help you to learn which type is best for you.

This workshop can also serve as an introduction to meditation or an explanation of different techniques, each of which affects the mind in a different, and powerful, way.

Participants: 25
Duration: 30'

Iosif Nikoloudis

Knife's Edge. Bringing an old knife back to life.

Within about 20-25 minutes, we are going to turn a simple, blunt butter knife into a sharp meat cutting one, using only our muscular strength and some simple materials, such as a sanding stone and some pieces of sandpaper.

Apart from these materials, we are also going to use all the basic means of protection (goggles, gloves, etc).

Participants: 15
Duration: 30'

Panos Katsis

‘Hands’. Perform a song in the Greek Sign Language.

Panos Katsis, actor at the Deaf Theater of Greece and Greek Sign Language teacher at the Hellenic Federation of the Deaf, is going to teach us how a song can be ‘heard’ without any kind of sound.
Word by word, lyric by lyric, we will perform the song ‘Hands’ by Locomondo in Greek Sign Language. In the end, the performance will be recorded and shared within our community.

Participants: 20
Duration: 30'

Q&A with Tom Gash

Q&A session

Tom Gash will try to answer the eternal question: “Why people do bad things?”. An alternative Q&A Session about criminality, crime policy and the justice system's’ strengths and weaknesses.

Participants: 30
Duration: 30

Q&A with Christian Hernandez

Q&A session

A revealing Q&A with Christian Hernandez on the accelerating advances in AI, robotics and genomics, and the the short term impact these are likely to have in our lives.

Participants: 30
Duration: 30

Q&A with Olly Hicks

Q&A session

Olly Hicks will answer our questions about fear, adversity, challenges and how facing them can empower us. With his unique perception on life, Olly comes to discuss how you can survive on sea, when travelling from America to UK.

Participants: 30
Duration: 30

Q&A with Effy Vayena

Q&A session

One of the greatest scientists of Health Ethics and Policy, Effy Vayena will join us in a revealing Q&A Session regarding ethical and policy questions in personalized medicine and digital health.

Participants: 30
Duration: 30

Q&A with David Patrikarakos

Q&A session

While he’s the one usually asking questions, this time David Patrikarakos will be on the other end, receiving and responding to audience’s questions about how international politics and social-economic developments have been shaped in the post-truth politics era.

Participants: 30
Duration: 30

Announced speakers

Daphne Matziaraki

Daphne Matziaraki

Documentary Filmaker / Director

CHRISTIAN HERNANDEZ

CHRISTIAN HERNANDEZ

Managing partner at White Star Capital

Ponz Pandikuthira

Ponz Pandikuthira

Vice President at Nissan Europe

Tom Gash

Tom Gash

Government adviser on Crime Policy

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Poet, Translator-Interpreter

Helena Paparizou & 8tetto

Helena Paparizou & 8tetto

Performance

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos

Author, Contributing Editor, Contributing Writer

DINA KAPLAN

DINA KAPLAN

Founder, The Path

Effy Vayena

Effy Vayena

Professor of Health Policy, Health Ethics and Policy Lab, University of Zurich

ELEKTRONIK MEDITATION

ELEKTRONIK MEDITATION

Performance

Maria Kakali

Maria Kakali

Mayor of Agios Efstratios

Olly Hicks

Olly Hicks

Maritime Explorer & Motivational Speaker

Nico Katsanis

Nico Katsanis

Director, Center for Human Disease Modeling Professor of Cell Biology Brumley Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Duke University

Ilias Anastasiadis

Ilias Anastasiadis

Journalist

James Williams

James Williams

Design Ethicist

Sofia Kouvelaki

Sofia Kouvelaki

Executive Director, The HOME Project

Marianthi Liapi

Marianthi Liapi

Architect - Researcher

Lindy Hop & Hood Groove

Lindy Hop & Hood Groove

Performance

Stratis Panourios

Stratis Panourios

Director & Actor

George Zervos

George Zervos

Performer

Moa Bones

Moa Bones

Performance

Nikos Xanthoulis

Nikos Xanthoulis

Μusician, Researcher

Garyfallia Spyrou

Garyfallia Spyrou

Sign language teacher

Giorgos Mouchtaridis

Giorgos Mouchtaridis

Journalist, Radio producer

Dimitris Kokoris

Dimitris Kokoris

Live Drawing

Nikos Komninos

Nikos Komninos

COO at Intale

Makis Provatas