// A.I. Summit 2023 — Agenda

Talks & Workshops From A.I. Summit 2023

One full day of keynotes, quick sessions and hands-on workshops on Artificial Intelligence — the premier AI summit in Greece. Every session is available to watch on demand.

Date
November 2, 2023
Location
Athens, Greece
Format
1 Day · 2 Tracks · 26 Sessions
// Full Schedule — November 2, 2023

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09:25 – 09:45
Kick-Off

A.I. Summit Kick-Off

The official opening of the day — welcome, framing of the agenda and what to expect across the conference and workshop tracks.

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09:45 – 10:15
Keynote

The Role Of AI In The Space Economy: The Era Of Space Analytics

How the convergence of AI and space technology is reshaping Earth Observation and satellite data analytics — turning space data into a driver of innovation, sustainability and economic growth.

Ioannis GkekasIoannis GkekasData & AI Managing Director, Accenture
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10:25 – 10:45
Quick Session

Learnings From Deploying Enterprise Open AI

Real-world lessons from running Azure OpenAI in energy, financial services and manufacturing — pairing models with proprietary data to lift productivity while handling messy data, security and privacy.

Stijn SchuermansStijn SchuermansChief Product Officer, Satori Analytics
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10:45 – 11:05
Quick Session

A.I. For Product Management

How AI is shaping product roadmaps and supporting product managers day to day, illustrated with concrete examples from real scenarios.

Mihalis RikakisMihalis RikakisCEO, Dikaio.ai
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11:05 – 11:25
Quick Session

How To Align AI & Product Teams

Practical strategies for building a shared development cycle between AI and product teams so internal AI systems are actually adopted and deliver value rather than going unused.

George KastrinakisGeorge KastrinakisDirector of Data Science, Orfium
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11:25 – 11:50
Coffee Break
11:50 – 12:10
Quick Session

A.I. And Ethics — The Alignment Problem

A historical tour through the evolution of AI and a deep look at the alignment problem — the challenge of keeping AI systems aligned with human values and goals.

Panos BassiosPanos BassiosDigital, Data & Analytics Director, MSD
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12:10 – 12:30
Quick Session

Gen AI Strategy For The Enterprise: Unlocking Value And Minimizing Risk

The strategic landscape of Generative AI through a Fintech lens — its value chain, transformative business cases, and best practices for governance and de-risking the enterprise Gen AI journey.

Stathis OnasoglouStathis OnasoglouPrincipal, Fintech Industry, Google
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12:30 – 12:50
Quick Session

AI For Product…Hype Or The New Normal?

How to spot genuine user needs and use AI as a catalyst to solve them — identifying AI use cases, folding them into the roadmap, and overcoming the challenges along the way.

Sofia MichiliSofia MichiliGroup Product Manager, Hotjar
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12:50 – 13:10
Quick Session

Using AI To Optimize 5G Networks

Applying AI and ML to 5G networks — minimizing energy use and carbon footprint, pre-empting performance issues, managing interference and improving customer network experience.

Christos RizosChristos RizosCTO, Intracom Telecom
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13:10 – 13:30
Quick Session

How To Deal With Data Limitations When Investing In Conversational A.I.

Building a chatbot on corporate circulars at NBG — and the tool created to summarize, generate Q&As and compose documents when the source data lacks what's needed to train effectively.

George MarinosGeorge MarinosAssistant General Manager, Innovation & Digital Partnerships, National Bank of Greece
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13:30 – 13:50
Quick Session

Unleashing The Potential Of AI: Exploring Business Opportunities And Challenges

Harnessing generative AI for business innovation — its role and limits, combining it with analytics and ML to boost performance, and dispelling common misconceptions in real deployments.

Elisavet KyritsiElisavet KyritsiAlliances Director EMEA, Teradata
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13:50 – 14:30
Lunch Break
14:50 – 15:10
Quick Session

How To Unlock Business Potential With Conversational A.I.

The role of Conversational AI in modern business — moving beyond rule-based bots to human-like implementations that drive efficiency, savings and better customer experience across industries.

Konstantinos KanistrasKonstantinos KanistrasHead of Insights & Decision Science, Advisory Senior Manager, PwC Greece
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15:10 – 15:30
Quick Session

Harness AI For Good: Fostering Innovation, Ensuring Responsibility, Creating Opportunity For SMBs

How small and medium businesses can use AI responsibly to improve products, processes and customer experiences — with practical strategies for prioritizing use cases and building a culture of AI learning.

Nadine KaraliNadine KaraliCommercial Director Corporate & SMB, Microsoft Greece, Cyprus & Malta
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15:30 – 15:50
Quick Session

Unlocking The Potential: Overcoming Resistance To AI Adoption

Why companies resist AI and what to do about it — addressing the common obstacles to adoption with actionable solutions that help organizations thrive in the age of AI.

Marion NikoloudakiMarion NikoloudakiHead of Data, Analytics, AI/ML, ITT Inc.
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15:50 – 16:10
Quick Session

The Future Of Product Development In The Age Of A.I.

How AI projects are evolving and what enterprises really need from them — with a focus on pain points in the Greek market, SME AI maturity, and ways to bridge the gap.

Nikolaos EpitropakisNikolaos EpitropakisAdvanced Analytics & Strategy Manager, Deloitte
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16:10 – 16:30
Quick Session

Machine Learning Operationalization At Scale

How an international retailer tackles complexity with a hub-and-spoke model — common analytics layers, MLOps for parallel multi-country model lifecycles, and the cultural shift of running it at scale.

Yannis AngelisYannis AngelisAnalytics & Insights Platform Manager, Coca-Cola Hellenic
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16:50 – 17:10
Quick Session

Gen AI Utilization For Continuous Improvement In Day-To-Day Operations

How Teleperformance integrated Generative AI to redefine global processes — case studies and AI-powered solutions that optimize customer interactions and drive data-driven, systematic improvement.

Despoina PapachrysanthouDespoina PapachrysanthouEVP for Global Processes & Continuous Improvement, Teleperformance
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17:10 – 17:30
Quick Session

Unveiling Gender Bias In AI: Ethical Considerations And Solutions

Examining the factors behind gender bias in AI algorithms and decision-making, with real-life cases and proactive measures to mitigate risk and promote fairness.

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10:25 – 11:25
Workshop

Leveraging Large Language Models In A Communication Platform

Using AI to streamline SRE, incident, and change management inside a communication platform — without compromising private data — and the role of open-source models for customization.

Spiros EconomakisSpiros EconomakisHead of Cloud Infrastructure, Mattermost
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12:00 – 13:00
Workshop

A Needle In A Haystack: A Guide To Scale Up Your Billion-Vector Space

Efficient nearest-neighbour search across a billion high-dimensional embedding vectors — the core indexes and practical techniques from the FAISS library that make billion-scale queries feasible.

Kostas EftaxiasKostas EftaxiasSr Data Scientist, Orfium
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13:00 – 14:00
Workshop

Novel Time Slicing Approach For Customer Defection Models

Forecasting customer churn in a non-contractual setting using the sliding multi-time slicing (SMTS) technique — an inventive approach to training and evaluating models across multiple time intervals.

Kyriakos GeorgiouKyriakos GeorgiouChief Risk & Data Science Officer, Finloup
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14:50 – 15:50
Workshop

AI In Business Intelligence — Extracting Data With AI

Using AI to unlock data that was previously inaccessible to BI teams — structuring documents automatically so analysts can move faster, surface hidden opportunities and scale data extraction.

Lefteris KyprianouLefteris KyprianouBusiness Intelligence Developer, VIPA Group
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15:50 – 16:50
Workshop

Quantifying The Incremental Impact Of An Agri-Tech Product With Causal AI

A case study with the National Observatory of Athens and Corteva for cotton farmers — using causal AI to rigorously estimate a digital product's incremental impact on crop yield.

Ilias TsoumasIlias TsoumasResearch Data Scientist, National Observatory of AthensGeorgios GiannarakisGeorgios GiannarakisData Scientist, National Observatory of Athens
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16:30 – 16:50
Workshop

How A.I. Makes The Network More Secure, Smarter And Simpler

Using AI/ML pattern recognition to spot threats before they become incidents across cloud, hybrid and IoT environments — and tooling that simplifies the work of IT and security teams.

Evi KechagiaEvi KechagiaCybersecurity Technical Solutions Architect, Cisco Greece, Cyprus & Malta
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