🕤  09:30 - 11:00  

Session 28  -  Speakers Session  

Theme: The AI-Powered Health and Drug Discovery Era  

 Chair   George Pavlopoulos,  Co-founder BioInnovation Greece, Greece

 Speakers 

• Angela Spatharou, Senior Partner and Leader, EMEA Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM Consulting , UK

Title: AI, Innovation and Health System Productivity: Delivering Value at Enterprise Level

• Dimitrios Skaltsas, Co-founder & CEO,  Intelligencia AI, USA

Title: Building a company- a modern Odyssey

• Orestis Trasanidis, Managing Director EIT Digital, Hub Silicon Valley, Belgium

Title: Europe, It's Not the Tech. It's the Thinking

• Ioannis Emiris, President and General Director, "Athena"​ Research and Innovation Center, Greece

Title:  Is AI fulfilling its promise towards the Greek Biotech and Bioeconomy ecosystem? 

🕤   09:30 - 11:00  

Session 29  -  BioSTART Competition  (Parallel Session) 

 Chair   Michalis Aivaliotis, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

 Co-Chair   Panagiotis Michailidis, Infectious Diseases MSc Student, DUTh, and  Co-Founder & Coordinator, Panhellenic Student Conference of Bioscientists, Greece 

 Speakers 

• TBD x6

🕦   11:30 - 12:15 

Session 30  -  Round Table  

Theme:  Visionary Leadership in Pharma: Building the Next Healthcare Paradigm

 Chair  TBD

 Panelists 

• Labrina Barmpetaki, Managing Director at AbbVie, President at PhARMA Innovation Forum Greece (PIF), Greece 

• Vassia Tegoulia, Vice President - Head of Analytical Sciences at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. USA

• TBD

• TBD

🕤   12:15 - 13:00 

Session 31 -  Round Table   

Theme:  Biobanks and Clinical Trials: Bridging Research and Patient Care  

  Chair  TBD

  Panelists 

• Kostas Syrigos, Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Greece

• Olympios Papadimitriou, General Manager at Novo Nordisk & President of Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies, Greece

• Joao Breda, Head, WHO Athens Quality of Care and Patient Safety Office, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Greece 

• TBD

🕑   14:00 - 14:30 

Session 32 -  Keynote Talk  

 Chair   TBD

 Speaker  Anya (Hana) Eldan, Partner, Edge Medical Ventures, Israel

Title: TBD

🕝   14:30 - 15:30 

Session 33  -  Round Table  

Theme:  How is Data Economies and AI affecting Life Sciences  

 Chair   Dora Varvarigou,  Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece

  Panelists 

• Andreas Stavropoulos, Partner, Threshold Venture, USA

• Danai Spentzou, Coordinator, Young Voices in Health Policy (YVHP), European Parliament, Belgium 

• TBD

• TBD

🕓   16:00 - 16:30 

Session 34  -  Fireside Chat  

Theme: TBD

 Moderator   Athanassios Ellis, Editor In Chief at Kathimerini English Edition, Greece

 Featured Guest  TBD

🕟   16:30 - 17:30 

Session 35  -  Round Table  

Theme:  Igniting University Innovation: Pathways to Entrepreneurship  

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

  Panelists 

• Rhonda Shrader, Executive Director, Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship, USA

• Nicolas Huber, Director, Commercial Operations and Partnerships, LIHE,  King's College London, UK

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

🕡   18:00 - 19:00 

Session 36  -  Round Table  

Theme:  Legal and Ethical Frontiers in AI-Powered Life Sciences  

 Chair   Ioanna Michalopoulou, Managing Partner Michalopoulou & Associates-Lawgroup,  & Associate Partner, BioInnovation Greece

  Panelists 

• Effy Vayena, Professor at ETH Zurich, Associate Vice President for Digital Transformation & Governance, Switzerland

• Georgios Papadopoulos, Investor, Founder of Atypon, USA

• Lampros Kourtis, Partner, Olivetree Venture Capital, Greece

• Christos Tryfonas, Technology Executive, Serial Entrepreneur, Advisor, CTO, USA

• Nicholas Papandreou, Member of European Parliament, Belgium

🕕   19:00 - 19:30 

Session 37  -  Poster and BioSTART Awards 

 Chair   TBD