🕤  09:30 - 11:00  

Session 18  -  Speakers session  

Theme: The Bioengineering Revolution: Bridging Life Sciences and Technology 

 Chair   Grigoris Amoutzias,  Professor, Bioinformatics in Microbiology, University of Thessaly, Greece

 Speakers 

• Irini Angelidaki, Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Title: Microbial Consortia Powering the Green Biotech Revolution

• Petros Giannikopoulos, Director, Interventional Genomics Unit, Innovative Genomics Institute, USA

Title: On-demand CRISPR Therapies for Rare Genetic Diseases

• Vasilis Ntziachristos, Professor of Medicine and Electrical Engineering, Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University of Munich  Germany

Title: Bioengineering as the engine of clinical translation and healthcare economy.

• Maria Mirotsou, Vice President, Scribe Therapeutics, USA

Title: TBD

🕤   09:30 - 11:00  

Session 19  -  Startup Pitching  (Parallel Session) 

 Startup Chair:   TBD

• TBD x6

 VC Panel Chair:   Leda Kourita,  Physician, Entrepreneur, Investor, & Associate Partner, BioInnovation Greece, USA

• • Cassandra Kosmidou, Investment Manager at Big Pi Ventures, Greece

  • TBD

🕦   11:30 - 13:00  

Session 20  -  Speakers session  

Theme: Personalizing Nutrition and Human Health 

 Chair  Antigoni Dimas,  Group Leader at IFBR - BSRC “Alexander Fleming”, Greece

 Speakers  

•  Antigoni Dimas, Group Leader at IFBR - BSRC “Alexander Fleming”, Greece

Title: When meat leaves the menu: the molecular consequences of animal product dietary restriction

• Yiannis Kourmpetis, Founder & CEO Siftlink, Switzerland

Title: What If Fermentation Was the Future of Personalized Nutrition?

• Kalliopi Gkouskou, Assistant Professor at Medical School NKUA & Co-Founder, CEO GENOSOPHY, Greece 

Title: From Genes to Solutions: Bridging Genomic Innovation with Public Health Impact

• Nikos Scarmeas, Professor of Neurology, NTUA, and Associate Professor of Neurology Columbia University, Greece

Title: Nutrition and Cognition: multidimensional complexity related challenges.

🕤  11:30 - 13:00  

Session 21-  Startup Pitching  (Parallel Session) 

 Startup Chair   TBD

• TBD x6

 VC Panel Chai    TBD

• • TBD

🕑  14:00 - 14:30  

Session 22 -  Keynote Talk  

 Chair   TBD

 Speaker   John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Population Health and of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, USA

Title: The scientific literature under threat: bias, QRPs, fraud, AI, activism, and politics

🕝   14:30 - 15:30 

Session 23  -  Round Table  

Theme: The Digital Health Innovation  

 Chair   TBD

 Panelists   

• Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, General Manager @ Pharma Innovation Forum (PIF), Greece

• Ioannis Xenarios, CTO,  TwinEdge Bioscience, Head of Data Analysis Platform at Health2030 Genome Center, Professor at CHUV,  Switzerland

• Vakchos Leskaselis, Marketing Manager & UI/UX Lead at Gnomon Informatics SA, Greece

• Yannis Pandis, Site Lead, Pfizer Thessaloniki & Lead, Center for Digital Innovation (CDI), Greece

🕓  16:00 - 16:30 

Session 24  -  Fireside Chat   (In Greek) 

Theme: TBD 

 Moderator  Anna Grimani, Journalist, Author, Greece

 Featured Guest  Joseph Sifakis, Research Director, VERIMAG, France

🕟  16:30 - 17:30  

Session 25  -  Round Table  

Theme: Turning Science into Companies  

 Chair   Victoria Kimonides,  Director, Insaitu Ltd.  & Associate Partner, BioInnovation Greece, Greece

 Panelists 

• Fay Christodoulou, Chief Scientific Officer, Microfluidics, INTEGRA Biosciences, USA

• Nektarios (Aris) Oraiopoulos, Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, UK

• George Georgiou, Professor, Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, U. Texas, Austin, USA

• TBD

 🕕     18:00 - 18:15      Session 26  -  Spotlight Talk  

 Chair   TBD

 Speaker  TBD

🕡   18:15 - 19:15 

Session 27  -  Round Table  

Theme:  From IP to Product: Commercializing Scientific Breakthroughs  

 Chair   Eri Toka, Technology Transfer & Innovation Lead, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

 Panelists 

• Maria Markidou Georgiadou, Managing Director at Cyprus Seeds, Cyprus

• Nikolaos Milonas, Academic Advisor, Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Greece

• Arianna Ioannidou, Community Manager, egg – enter grow go, Eurobank, Greece

• Demetrios Mallios, Founder/CEO, Aeon Group of Companies , Greece

• Michael Dritsas, Ministry of Economy & Finance , Greece