Global Greek Influence- Giota Pimenidou

What makes our future better and wiser? You can find out how technology, science and engineering research help in the innovation and growth of our societies through your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future. In this last part, we cover  quantum computing, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, future digital education, chemical engineering and new disciplines  from the point of view o...

The first part of your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future covering: AI, medicine, business, space exploration and exploitation, transportation and smart cities, quantum computing on cybersecurity and drug discovery, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, digital-future-global education, chemical engineering- new disciplines- the Universe, from the point of view of Global Greek Exper...

What are the five trends in the growing movement of remote work? What are the five scenarios of the future hybrid approach, remote and in-person work? What tools could guarantee improved productivity of remote work business operations? What is the impact of remote work on business  operations? Why remote work flexibility becomes an important consideration for both employee retention and recruitmen...

The least approached answers of 5+1 questions for renewables and emissions reduction you might listen to elsewhere as custom-made to various sectors narratives: Why do we want to reduce emissions? Who benefits from reducing emissions? Why would the industries and economic actors be interested in reducing emissions? What strategies could industrial actors follow to reduce emissions? How can we redu...

Dr Spyros Kasapis, a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center and working on Machine Learning Applications for Heliophysics speaks about: space weather, upcoming space missions and space communications, studying abroad, his vision of space exploration, its international competition and emerging space technologies, and some reflection on his career so far and his PhD experience. Spyros d...

What do birthdays have to do with technology? Anyone and anything born: a human, a technology, an idea, reminds us of the beginning of a life cycle. What is the future of AI in scientific research (ChatGPT- Large Language models), and why should it matter to all? Is there a future for engineering, science and technology researchers' innovation in politics?  Why, when innovation is born, should...

Gerasimos Papaleventis (Vice President - Treasury, Head of Controlling and Monitoring in FIMBank plc, Malta) discusses and helps us detangle the implications of the current banks’ crises to see how they could affect the start-up and technology sectors: how startup-focused banks affect the innovation ecosystem globally (US, Israel, the Gulf countries), upcoming vulnerabilities to the US banking sys...

Professor Ioannis Brilakis, the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK), discusses how AI in infrastructure transforms the future of the Built Environment: · making roads safer and greener, · robotics and automation science and technology, · game technologies in construction plant safety operations, · 3D mobile mapping and digital twins f...

Why is the socio-cultural safety mentality important to avoid needless accidents when we have available technologies? Why is the design of safety procedures important, even if we employ the latest cutting-edge technologies available? Why are socio-cultural safety mentality and the design, implementation and practice of safety procedures communicating vessels? The three Es: Engineering, Enforcement...

Michael Dritsas, CEO of ‘ Elevate Greece ’, the Hellenic Republic’s national start-up platform and in-depth information resource on the Greek start-up Ecosystem, is the Head of the Cabinet of the Deputy Minister for Development and Investments under Research and Innovation. Mr Dritsas discusses: boosting organisational and corporate synergies to heighten Greece's innovation environment and knowled...

Why do we meet national and international competition in the world economy around start-ups? How did we get to the point that the old economy no longer serves the new one? And what are the reasons such a trend was set? Would the innovation approach toward science, engineering and technology serve research as we know or transform it into a new research type? Does innovating the economy and scientif...

The Deputy Minister of Development and Investments of the Hellenic Republic, under the Research and Innovation portfolio, Christos Dimas (PhD), discusses: · How "Elevate Greece" links start-ups with investors to accelerate nationally or internationally · Changing the mentality of academia toward innovation and entrepreneurship · Transforming structures within the institutions and public organisati...

What is the interplay between neuroscience, leadership, innovation, human capital and talent? Is foresight a concrete procedure for organisations, or is it also transferrable to individuals? Is upskilling and retraining enough when we transform the economy through novel technologies whose core are innovative science and engineering? Or are we missing deepening novelty through the personalised fore...

With Dr Kyriaki (Kiki) Sonidou, a GP (General Practitioner), a specialist in Cardiology and Diabetes, and President of the Hellenic Medical Society in the U.K., LSE and Harvard University Global Health delivery and systems), we discuss: if we are close to the end of the pandemic (or is it too soon to tell) and the new variants, the triple threat of COVID-19, flu, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus),...

Professor Dimitris Drikakis (Vice President for Global Partnerships, Executive Director for Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Defence and Security Research Institute President) discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI): and Computational Science become predictive technologies, impacts on innovation, accelerates the energy sector, calls for re-approaching the value and...

With Dr Constantine Stratakis (Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Chief Scientific Officer of ELPEN, SA), we discuss how precision medicine: becomes a tool by AI that can be used for prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, predicts diseases before they happ...

Welcoming you into the 4th season of the Global Greek Influence podcast, you are re-introduced to what binds together: · international Greeks who talk about technology through research, innovation, the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and (yes) history, · to define and address our current and future challenges on earth and (possibly) in space in a technology podcast. One could say that redef...

This is our first new year’s episode and the first one in Greek! We keep our usual technology and around-technology format. My first guest is Dr Dimitris Kontziampasis, whom you first met in January 2020 at the episode “ A Greek, young academic living and working abroad ”. Our episodes in English will resume next Sunday, but more episodes in Greek will be introduced. We now meet Dimitris, three ye...

As engineers, scientists, technologists, researchers in STEM and other researchers, we seek originality in science and its potential applications. As people, we fit into a role we choose. Christmas is a season we mostly reconnect with our people, also tend to look inwards and seek answers. How can we explain the new by studying the old? In this episode with Marios Koutsoukos (PhD candidate soon to...

"The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology"  is about i) re-inventing their research field and bringing transparency to the new market and economy, ii) creating an environment where researchers can also thrive as individuals based on their talents and human approach, iii) enjoying more every moment and step without worrying too much or striving for perfection. I am talki...

With Tyrone Pitsis (Professor of Strategy and Technology, Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Management, Durham University, U.K.), we discuss: The necessity of collaborations (alliance) in entrepreneurship. Design(erly) thinking in strategic formulation. Does foresight help us predict the future? What makes a project critical (to the eyes of the beholder), Redesigning leadership...

"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)" is about bringing together engineering knowledge, human senses, and product quality, also improving operational instabilities in advanced automobility (fuel cells), "connected and autonomous" vehicles (CAVs) and sustainable transport cybersecurity. I am talking to Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, William Clay Ford Pro...

Dr Vasilis Gregoriou (CEO of Advent Technologies in the US, PhD in Physical Chemistry from Duke University in the US, Director and Chairman of the Board at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)) discusses - in what Advent Technologies owes its technological #leadership worldwide, - the factors that make the “readiest” #hydrogen and #renewablefuels market between Europe, the US and Japan...

"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 1: Innovation in travel futures" is about the current, future and #hybrid technologies (internal combustion #engines , #fuelcells , #batteries ) also multimodal travelling and mobility-as-a-service in smart cities travel, perceived #experience quality in automobility 5.0 and cognitive processes' mapping. #podcast #travel #smartcities . I  am tal...

Making decisions at a personal, professional also collective level, especially in times of crisis, is a process we tend to avoid, or we foresee the uncertainties related to them. In this special episode, Professor Koundouri and Professor Psychogios answer to: how can we make better and faster decisions, how can we make the best decisions under the uncertainty of current rapid global changes, the k...