Date: October 2020
The second cycle of Real Skills for Scientists online seminars for young scientists was successfully completed, once again in collaboration with the National Documentation Centre (EKT)! Building on the success of our first series, we delivered the 2nd cycle of webinars, Real Skills for Scientists – Computer Science, featuring twelve distinguished speakers from Greece and around the world, and attracting nearly 2,000 participants from 22 countries.
Participants joined from across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East—including Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, the United States, Chile, and the United Arab Emirates. The audience included professionals, students, and researchers of Greek and Cypriot origin who study or work abroad.
Our speakers included:
- Marili Nika, Speech AI Product Manager, Google USA
- Manolis Babatsikos, Founder; 3D VR/AR Medical Visualization Specialist, 3DMedWorld
- Manolis Makris, Frontend Developer, Datawise Data Engineering LLC
- Marilia Kissa, former Applied Data Scientist, Group Nine Media, San Francisco
- Giorgos Megas, Innovation Advisor at EKT; National Contact Point for Horizon 2020 ICT; Enterprise Europe Network Innovation Expert
- Giorgos Papavasileiou, Founding Partner & CTO, Avlos
- Panagiotis Kolios, Assistant Research Professor, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus
- Panagiotis Sakellis, Associate to the Special Secretary, Ministry of Development & Investments
- Nikolaos Mavridis, MIT PhD; Assistant Professor and Director of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML), United Arab Emirates University
- Giorgos Kourakos, Event Organizer – Project Manager, Digital Expo (KMS Productions)
- Dafni Vitsikounaki, Commercial & Economic Attaché, Consulate of Greece in San Francisco, USA
- Rigas Zapounidis, Electrical & Computer Engineer; Secretary of the Hellenic Scientists Association of Munich
You can watch the three webinars of the 2nd cycle here: 8/10, 15/10, 22/10, as well as the trailer.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to our volunteer Nancy Megremi for preparing and sharing this post.
