TEDxPanteionUniversity

Speakers

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• Angeliki Papasava

  Dr. Angeliki Papasavva, SFHEA, CMBE is an academic and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in teaching Management. She holds a PhD in International Management from the International School of Management and an MBA from Royal Holloway, University of London. She has founded businesses and worked in multinational companies in the IT sector. Currently, she is the CEO of iLearn Global Ltd. in London, specializing in Talent Development. Since 2017, she has been serving as an Executive Strategy Coach at IMD in Lausanne. Dr. Papasavva has also been Programme Director of the MSc in Engineering Management at the University of Hull and continues to teach at universities across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

• Dimitris Komninos

  Dimitris Komninos, a graduate Electrical Engineer from NTUA, is the co-founder and CEO of Mood, a startup that has revolutionized the way people discover music events and purchase tickets in Greece. Originally from Mytilene, he devoted himself to his idea after graduating from NTUA — an idea that today has an active presence in Greece, the Netherlands, and Romania. At just 19 years old, while still a student, he founded Mood. Having started programming at the age of 10, Dimitris now focuses mainly on business development, marketing, expansion, and securing funding for Mood’s growth. He strongly believes that the key to every successful team lies in maximizing learning.”

• Giorgos Giotsas

  An award-winning author in both Greece and the United States, with personal books and contributions to anthologies. He is an activist dedicated to raising awareness about autism and an active member of sports committees for children on the spectrum.He lives in a colorful home in Athens with his wife, their two children, and a small Chihuahua. Numerous print and digital media outlets have featured interviews and tributes about him and his work.His latest novel, The Special Child, published by Bell in a bookstore edition, was honored by Athens Voice as “Book of the Year.”

• Marilia Antoniadou

  Maria-Evangelia Antoniadou is a Psychologist–Psychotherapist with studies in the Departments of Psychology and Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist and Dialectical Behavior Therapist, specializing in the treatment and intervention of individuals with complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.She has collaborated with the 1st Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Athens at Aiginiteio Hospital, within the Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program for Borderline Personality Disorder, as well as in the Special Eating Disorders Unit. She also serves as a scientific associate and CBT supervisor at the Hellenic Association for Cognitive Behavioral Studies and at the Institute for Behavioral Research and Therapy.

• Panos (Beta) Vouros

  Panagiotis Vouros (BETA) was born in Athens in 1991 and grew up in Ano Liosia. Although his first artistic encounter came through music at a very young age, it was ultimately Tattoo Art that won him over. At the age of 19, he left Greece and, through a journey of studies and professional experiences in both music and the sciences in England and Italy, he was introduced to the art of tattooing. For the past ten years, tattooing has been his main professional pursuit.He specializes in calligraphy tattoos (lettering), as well as the black-and-grey style with roots in California, known as Chicano.After 11 years abroad, he returned to Greece with the goal of applying and further developing the experiences and knowledge he gained internationally, contributing to the evolution of the Greek tattoo scene.

• Spyros Gkelis

  Spyros Gkelis is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Plant Organism Biodiversity at the Department of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He studied Biology and earned his PhD on the ecotoxicology and biodiversity of cyanobacteria. His research focuses on the diversity, molecular phylogeny, genomics, and metabolomics of photosynthetic microorganisms. He teaches in undergraduate and postgraduate programs and has authored more than 55 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and over 200 publications in total.

• Thanasis Katerinopoulos

  Thanasis Katerinopoulos was born in Malevro–Kerasia, Agrinio, and is a retired officer of the Hellenic Police with extensive experience in crime prevention. He served as Head of the Operations Department of the Counter-Terrorism Unit.He has been trained at the FBI, New Scotland Yard, and various U.S. universities on terrorism, crisis management, and negotiation. He has also served as a professor at the Hellenic Police Officers’ Schools and as a security consultant.In recent years, he has maintained a prominent media presence as an analyst of serious criminal cases.

• Zabel Mouratian

  Zabel Mouratian, teacher, studied not only Educational Science but also Museology at a postgraduate level. She worked for several years as Head of Educational Programs and as Director of the Hellenic Children’s Museum (HCM), actively contributing to the creation of the first Children’s Museum in Greece in 1994. Since 2007, she has been serving as Chair of the Board of Directors of the HCM, offering her work on a voluntary basis.She teaches in a public primary school, following the principles of discovery learning. Her fields of knowledge and action include adult education in museum pedagogy, the design of educational programs and interactive exhibits, as well as the management and sustainability of non-profit organizations.A mother of two children, she loves traveling, reading, theatre, and music.