🕤  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: In Vivo CRISPR for Dyslipidemias: A New Treatment Paradigm

🕤   09:30 - 10:30  

Session 19a  -  Startup Pitching  (Parallel Session @Innovathens) 

 Pitching Chair:   Georgia Kokaraki, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, & Co-founder & Partner, BioInnovation Greece

• Labros Digonis, Co-founder & CEO, InSyBio, Greece 

• Andrea Dimitracopoulos, Co-Founder & COO, Deepmirror, UK

• Dimitris Iakovakis, Cofounder, Koios Care, Belgium

• Sotiris Liliopoulos, Co-founder & CTO, Aisthesis Medical, UK

• Georgios Skretas, CEO, ResQ Biotech & Director, Institute for Bio-innovation, BSRC Alexander Fleming, Greece

• Zoe Watson,  Co-Founder & CEO, Microvitality, & Sofia Paschenti, Co-Founder & COO, Microvitality, USA

🕥   10:30 - 11:00  

Session 19b  -  Startup Pitching VC Panel  (Parallel Session @Innovathens) 

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

 VC Panel:   

• • Demetris Iacovides, Investor,  Metavallon VC, Greece

  • Ioanna Mylonaki, Partner, Untethered Ventures, Greece

  • Panos Papadopoulos, Partner, Marathon Venture Capital, Greece

  • Nikolaos Tsoniotis, Partner, Ideas Forward, Greece

  • Alex Vamvakas, Partner, Evercurious VC, Greece

🕦   11:30 - 13:00  

Session 20  -  Speakers session  

Theme: Personalizing Nutrition and Human Health 

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

 Speakers  

•  Antigone 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 Sustainable Nutrition?

• Mary Yannakoulia, Professor of Nutrition and Eating Behavior, Harokopio University, Greece

Title: One size doesn't fit all: navigating the world of Diets 

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

Title: Nutrition and Cognition: multidimensional complexity related challenges.

🕦  11:30 - 12:30  

Session 21a  -  Startup Pitching  (Parallel Session @Innovathens) 

 Pitching Chair   Irinna Vavaletskou Palaiologou, Scale Up and Healthcare Lead, Endeavor Greece

• Constantinos Anagnostopoulos, CEO/CTO and Cofounder, Pleioflow Ltd.  & Theodoros Mastrokostopoulos Chief Strategy Officer, Pleioflow Ltd. Greece

• Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis, CEO & CSO,  Innate Repair, UK

• Zoe Kourtzi, CSO, Prodromic, UK

• Sofoklis Kyriazakos, CEO, Healthentia, Belgium

• Alexios Matralis, Chief Medicinal Chemist, Inolysis, Greece

• Steven Petratos, Laboratory Head, Regenerative Neuroscience and Development Group, Monash University, Australia

• Alexia Polissidis, Co-founder & CEO, Anacalypsis Therapeutics,  Greece

🕧  12:30 - 13:00  

Session 21b  -  Startup Pitching  (Parallel Session @Innovathens) 

 Chair    Panagiotis Karampinis, Managing Director, Endeavor Greece

 VC Panel:   

• • Stefanos Capsaskis, Partner, Corallia Ventures , Greece

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

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

  • Mike Romanos, Associate Dean for Enterprise, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, UK

  • Andreas Stavropoulos, Partner, Threshold Venture, USA

🕑 14:00 - 14:30 

Session 22  -  Fireside Chat   (In Greek) 

Theme: Artificial Intelligence –  Knowledge development  and application

 Moderator  Anna Grimani, Journalist, Author, Greece

 Featured Guest  Joseph Sifakis, Turing Award 2007

🕝   14:30 - 15:30 

Session 23  -  Round Table  

Theme: The Digital Health Innovation  

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

 Panelists   

• Kostis Kaggelides, CEO, Gnomon Informatics SA, Greece

• Yannis Pandis, Site Lead for Pfizer Thessaloniki and Leader of the Center for Digital Innovation (CDI), Greece

• Eirini Schlosser, Founder & CEO, Dyania Health, USA

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

🕓  16:00 - 16:30 

Session 24 -  Fireside Chat

Theme: Powering Greek Innovation: ESETEK’s Roadmap for Research and Entrepreneurship 

 Moderator   Panagiotis Karampinis, Managing Director, Endeavor Greece

 Speaker   George Nounesis, Director and Chairman of the Board, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos" & Chair, ESETEK, Greece

🕟  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

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

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

• Georgios Varsos, Partner, VU Venture Partners, USA

• Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Secretary General for Information Systems and Digital Governance, Greece

 🕕  18:00 - 18:15    

 Session 26  -  Spotlight Talk  

 Chair   Georgios Varsos, Partner, VU Venture Partners, USA

 Speaker   Christos Kontovounisios, Head of Surgery 2nd Surgical Department Evaggelismos General Hospital, Visiting Professor NKUA, Visiting Reader Imperial College

Title: The role of surgical entrepreneurship on addressing healthcare challenges and improving patient outcomes

🕡   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 

• Michael Dritsas, Ministry of Economy & Finance , Greece

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

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

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

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