Speakers / Panel

Monday 12/9/2022 - Space & Defense Industry / New Prospects for Cooperation between Greece & France

François de Ricoflis

Commercial Attaché in the French Embassy in Greece

Laurent Thuillier

President of the French-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Aristeidis Alexopoulos

Vice Admiral (rtd) HN General Director GDDIA

Christos Poulianitis

Vice Admiral (rtd), Representative of the Opposition Party SYRIZA PA

Laurent Mourre

Commercial Director Europe, N. America, NAVAL GROUP

Dr. Athanasios Potsis

President of the Hellenic Association of Space Industry

Monday 12/9/2022 - Implementation of the space industry in Smart Cities

Leonidas Christopoulos

Secretary General of Digital Governance and Simplification of Procedures

Grigoris Theodorakis

Former Secretary General of the Ministry of Administrative Reconstruction, Representative of the Opposition Party SYRIZA PA

Lazaros Maloutas

Mayor of Kozani, Ambassador of the European Climate Pact to Greece

Florian Trentesaux

Project Manager Smart City, BOUYGUES ENERGIES & SERVICES FRANCE

Monday 12/9/2022 - POST FORUM: PANEL - HELLENIC SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (HSWMA) - Circular Economy: Opportunities and Challenges for Northern Greece

Manolis Grafakos

General Secretary of Waste Management Coordination - Ministry of Environment & Energy

Mr. Ignatios Kaitezidis

PRESIDENT OF REGIONAL UNION OF MUNICIPALITIES OF CENTRAL MACEDONIA REGION MAYOR OF PILEA-HORTIATIS

Michalis Geranis

President of the Regional SWMA of Central Macedonia and President of the Municipal Council of Pylaia - Chortiatis

Athanassios Savvakis

President, Federation of Industries of Greece

Georgios Tsakoumis

President of the Executive Committee of the Technical Chamber of Greece/Section of Central Macedonia (TΕΕ/ΤΚΜ)

Gerhard Bauer

District Chief Executive Schwäbisch Hall

Nicolas Moussiopoulos

Professor, Aristotle University's School of Mechanical Engineering and Head, AUTh's Sustainability Engineering Laboratory

George Iliopoulos

President of the Hellenic Solid Waste Management Association

Tuesday 13/9/2022 - Introductory remarks of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce| U.S. Innovation Investments - Transforming the regional and national economy

Vassilis E. Kafatos

Vice-President and Northern Greece Committee Chair, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

Tuesday 13/9/2022 - Ransomware: Taking advantage of the Crisis

Tuesday 13/9/2022 - Take the World by Cloud

Tuesday 13/9/2022 - The investment climate in Greece and the role of the USA

Harris Mamoulakis

Member of Parliament, Deputy Head of Development & Investments Sector of the Opposition Party SYRIZA PA

Ilias Spirtounias

Executive Director, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

Christos Harpantidis

President & CEO, Papastratos – Managing Director EU South East Cluster, Philip Morris International

Tuesday 13/9/2022 - Digital Transformation: The opportunity for Greece

Iwona Sikora

Vice President and General Manager of Europe & South Africa, Iron Mountain

Viktoria Kalfaki

Head of Public Sector Greece & Cyprus, Google Cloud

Tuesday 13/9/2022 - POST FORUM: PANEL - Delphi Economic Forum - The Transatlantic Relations after the Ukraine War

Evangelos Kalpadakis

Diplomatic Advisor to the President of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance and Leader of the Main Opposition

Konstantinos Filis

Director of the Institute of International Affairs & Associate Professor of Int’l Relations, American College of Greece

Athanassios G. Platias

Professor of Strategy, Department of Int’l & European Studies, University of Piraeus

Marilena Koppa

Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of European & Int’l Studies, Panteion University

Symeon G. Tsomokos

Founder & President, Delphi Economic Forum

Wednesday 14/9/2022 - Waste Management and Recycling in Germany and Greece: Technologies, potential and prospects

Andreas Spyridis

President of the Northern Greece Committee of the German-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Petros Varelidis

General Secretary for Natural Environment and Water

Konstantinos Tsioptsias

Planning and development director, DIADYMA S.A.

Vassilis Gounaris

President of the German-Greek Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Managing Director of BASF Hellas S.A.

Konstantinos Athanasiadis

Managing Director of S. & K. ATHANASIADIS P.C and Representative of WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH

Kostas Papanikolaou

Strategy & Development Director at SAMARAS & ASSOCIATES S.A. – CONSULTING ENGINEERS

Wednesday 14/9/2022 - Waste to Energy & Biogas: Energy utilization of organic waste – Biogas and Biomethane as an alternative to natural gas

Manolis Grafakos

General Secretary of Waste Management Coordination - Ministry of Environment & Energy

Michalis Geranis

President of the Regional SWMA of Central Macedonia and President of the Municipal Council of Pylaia - Chortiatis

Dimitrios Kontaxis

General Manager of Waste Management Division of Motor Oil Hellas

Spyros Tziakas

Co-Founder of Ergoplanning Ltd. and Vice President at the Hellenic Association of Biogas Producers (ESPAV)

Stergioulas Stelios

Founder of HYDROTUBE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRUCTIONS and Representative Biogas Hochreiter GmbH

Christos Zafiris

Agriculture engineer with MSc in Environmental Planning of Cities and Buildings. Responsible for the Biogas and Biomethane Unit, of the Biomass Department at CRES.

Christos Chasapopoulos

Operations Manager Landfill-gas Power Stations North Greece

Wednesday 14/9/2022 - POST FORUM: PANEL - Sustainable Energy in a Globalized World

Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher

Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Josef Radermacher, Director (CEO) of FAW/n (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing/n), Ulm (Germany)

Grigoris Zarotiadis

Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Political Sciences, AUTh

Eftichios Sartzetakis

Professor of Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, University of Macedonia

Nicolas Moussiopoulos

Professor, Aristotle University's School of Mechanical Engineering and Head, AUTh's Sustainability Engineering Laboratory

Wednesday 14/9/2022 - POST FORUM: PANEL - How "green" are Natural Gas and LNG?

Prof. Dr. Eden Mamut

Professor for Engineering Thermodynamics and Advanced Energy Systems, Director of the Institute for Nanotechnologies & Alternative Energy Sources at “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania

Ioannis Kougias

Manager of the Department of Regulatory & Business Analysis at Elpedison S.A.

Professor for Energy Systems at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Chairman of the Board of EYATH S.A. - Thessaloniki Water Supply and Sewage Company

Wednesday 14/9/2022 - POST FORUM: PANEL - United Nations Council of Engineers on the Energy Transition

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN)

Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher

Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Josef Radermacher, Director (CEO) of FAW/n (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing/n), Ulm (Germany)

Nicolaos Theodossiou

Professor, Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Dept. of Civil Engineering, AUTh Chair of SDSN Black Sea

Thursday 15/9/2022 - Opening Session of the Greece-UAE Business Gathering

Rashad Mabger

Secretary General, Arab Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Development, Honorary Consul of Yemen in Greece

Thursday 15/9/2022 - Identifying Potential for Cooperation in Maritime, Port Industries & Environmental Waste Management

Dr. Kyriakos Pozrikidis

Managing Director of TIF-HELEXPO S.A.

Harris Geronikolas

President of the Greek-Arab Chamber of Commerce & Development

Athanassios Liagkos

Executive Chairman of the BoD & Managing Director of Thessaloniki Port Authority S.A

Makis Spyratos

Business Development Director Middle East, Polygreen

Damianos Efthymiadis

Business Development Director, Archirodon Group NV

George Xiradakis

Founder - Managing Director of XRTC Business Consultants

Thursday 15/9/2022 - Agri-Food and Fish Farming: Bilateral Exchange of Experiences and Potential Cooperation

Dimitris Thomopoulos

Commercial Attaché in the Greek Embassy, UAE

Thomas Douzis

Co-founder & CEO of ERGON FOODS

Andreas Ntatsopoulos

Biologist - Aquaculture Consultant

Prof. Ahmed El Tigani

CEO, Al Rawabi Dairy Co. LLC

Thursday 15/9/2022 - Opportunities for Investment with particular Focus on Tourism and Real Estate Industries

Apostolos Panas

Member and Secretary of the Hellenic Parliament and Head of PASOK's Development & Investment sector

Prof. Dr. Haris Lambropoulos

President, Hellenic Development Bank of Investments B.D. Member, Athens Chamber of Commerce & of Investments S.A. & B.D. Member, Arab-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce & Development

John Revithis

Founder and General Manager of REVITHIS Real Estate, a member of the REVITHIS & PARTNERS group of companies, economist and real estate appraiser, Honorary President of the Association of Real Estate Agents of Attica and Former President of the Federation

Thursday 15/9/2022 - POST FORUM: PANEL - TIF-HELEXPO - Thessaloniki 2030: Challenging the Future of the City

Stavros Kalafatis

Deputy Minister of Interior Sector Macedonia and Thrace

Kyriaki Malama

Member of Parliament, Deputy Head of Interior (Macedonia-Thrace sector), Representative of the Opposition Party SYRIZA PA

Apostolos Tzitzikostas

Governor of the Region of Central Macedonia

Konstantinos Zervas

Mayor of Thessaloniki

Charalampos G. Kastanidis

MP Thessaloniki A, PASOK-KINIMA ALLAGIS

Simeon Diamantidis

President of SEVE-Greek Exporters Association

Friday 16/9/2022 - Transport & Smart Mobility

Christos Giannoulis

Deputy Head of Transport of the Main Opposition Party SYRIZA-PA

Dimitris Gerogiannis

CEO, AEGEAN

Prof. Dario Lo Bosco

President of HELLENIC TRAINS - Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane

Ing. Theodoros Tolias

Passengers Director HELLENIC TRAIN – FSI Group

Mrs. Barbara FERRARI

Head of Central Eastern & Southern Europe Sales, HITACHI RAIL STS

Dr. Georgia Ayfantopoulou

Deputy Director of IMET – Research Director, Head of Sector B: "Infrastructure and Networks, Sustainable Mobility and Freight Transport

Ing. Francesco Bandinelli

Chairman of Movyon South East Europe SA