Invited Speakers

Title: “Fostering an innovation ecosystem with the objective of moving research to the business landscape”

Antonis has been a Venture Builder with more than 22 years of experience in building from scratch and running tech ventures.

He has been a pioneer in introducing new technological solutions that are utilizing big data, human-computer interaction interfaces, hardware components, and artificial intelligence.

Antonis is a tech-savvy executive with a track record of managing digital transformation projects, launching consumer tech ventures, and supporting venture builders across multiple continents.

He has also been a Senior Manager with 22 years of international experience in creating and growing innovative teams as well as an experienced Product Manager and an early adopter of the lean/agile startup methodology that has been implemented in various projects/startups.

He has the proven ability to introduce an operational layer on top of the secret sauce of every team and new venture.

A TEDx speaker, guest lecturer in 3 universities, international awards winner, and voted as one of the 10 Greek entrepreneurs that you should look out for, Antonis Argyros has always had the same vision: bridging the gap between offline and online using cool technologies as the enabler while bringing concrete value to the end-user from day one.

Title: “Flexible and Printed Electronics – Sensors and Systems”

Dr Grigoris Kaltsas serves at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering of the University of West Attica as a full Professor while from 12/2013 to 03/2018 he was the president of the Department of Electronics of the TEI of Athens.

He has participated as coordinator and principal investigator in more than 25 European and National research projects and is an active member of various scientific committees-organizations in the broader field of microsystems-sensors. He has been awarded five patents, two of which are international.

He is the author of 180 scientific articles in international scientific journals and conferences, while he has at least 1180 citations with an h-index=20 (source: www.scopus.com).

He has held 10 invited talks at major international conferences, summer schools, and workshops in the field of microsystems and sensor technology.

Since 2011 he has been the Head of the Scientific Board of EMBIO Diagnostics Ltd (EMBIO) (http://www.embiodiagnostics.com/), which provides cutting-edge services and products in the area of biological systems and devices and is the world leader in cellular biosensors. He is the founder and head of the established Research Laboratory “Microsystems, Sensors, Embedded Devices and Automation” (microSENSES).

In addition, he served as Technical Program Chairman of the international scientific conference “Eurosensors 2011”. He is also a member of the International Program Committee of the conferences: “Eurosensors” (2012-23), “Micro-and Nano-Engineering (2008-2023), “ALLSENSORS” (2016-2023), “SENSORCOMM” (2018-23) and HORA (2020-21).

Finally, he is an editor in various international scientific journals (MDPI Sensors, ISRN Electronics Journal, Sensors & Actuators A and B, and Elsevier-Procedia Engineering), while he is an active reviewer in a number of international scientific journals in the area of microsystems.

Title: Combining sensing and electronics based on Transition metal dichalcogenides and other layered materials

Dr. George Deligeorgis earned his PhD in 2008 working on GaAs based Semiconductor laser diodes for telecommunication applications. Following his PhD, carbon-based devices (Graphene and CNTs) became his principal research interest. He stayed in LAAS-CNRS (Laboratory for analysis and architecture of Systems, National Center of Scientific Research), in France between 2010-2014 where he continued his activity in the same subject. He is a Researcher in FORTH – IESL since (2015) working on high frequency carbon and 2D based devices.

Dr. Deligeorgis has worked on numerous projects in design and fabrication of compound semiconductor devices in the field of photonics and high frequency electronics (MMIC) for the last decade. He was involved in several National and European funded projects in the fields of photonics, RF device fabrication and polaritonic devices.

He is currently leading the 2 dimensional material based electronics activity in the microelectornics research group, while working on nonlinear graphene based RF devices and polariton optoelectronics devices combining his knowledge in physics and nanotechnology. He has published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has several invited and contributed talks. Finally, Dr.

Deligeorgis is a founding member of the “Graphene Center, Greece”, member of the Steering board of Micro & Nano nanotechnology company, a member of several associations (IEEE e.t.c) and a reviewer in several international journals.

Title: “Memristor nanodevices for novel computation”

Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis received the M.Eng. Diploma as well as the Ph.D. Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Democritus University of Thrace, in 1996 and 2001, respectively; he is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 2018. In addition, he has been a visiting researcher / professor at UWE, UK since 2014 and prior to his academic appointment, he has worked in the private sector as a co-founder and research associate of Ulysses Ltd. (1999-2002).

He is author(co-author) of more than 120 peer reviewed articles in prestigious international scientific journals and more than 150 peer reviewed articles in proceedings of international scientific conferences. He has co-authored and co-edited 7 scientific books (six international and one national book) and is the author of 25 chapters in international scientific books.

He is an Associate Editor in well-known magazines in the field of circuits and systems, such as IEEE Trans. on Nanotechnology, IEEE TCAS II, IEEE Tran, on Computer, Plos One, Microelectronics, Integration, JCA, IJUC, IJPDS, etc. and is an elected member of many international and national scientific associations. He has supervised and he is supervising 11 Doctoral Dissertations, 22 Postgraduate Theses and 75 Diploma Theses, while some of the above dissertations and theses have been awarded by the Department, and by domestic and international bodies.

Prof. G. Sirakoulis has worked as a Coordinator, Principal Investigator or Scientific Officer/Researcher in more than 30 research projects funded by GSRT, the European Union, HFRI, as well as by institutions and private companies in Greece and abroad, in research topics related to nanoelectronics, future and emergent electronic-nanoelectronic devices, circuits and architecture, novel computational architecture, applications of complex and intelligent electronic systems in robotics, energy, building evacuation, etc.

He has organized many international conferences and workshops, such as NANOARCH 2019, NANOARCH 2018, PACET 2017, etc. and has delivered invited talks at more than 30 international conferences, workshops and universities abroad.