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11th Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs, 3 December 2023
11ο Διεθνές Συμπόσιο Θεσσαλονίκης, 3 Δεκεμβριίου 2023

11th Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs / 11ο Διεθνές Συμπόσιο Θεσσαλονίκης

The Thessaloniki International Symposium in World Affairs was inaugurated in 2012, on the occasion of the festivities commemorating Thessaloniki’s centennial since it’s liberation. The Symposium aims to provide a platform for dialogue on the critical challenges of today’s world.

Το Διεθνές Συμπόσιο της Θεσσαλονίκης θεσπίστηκε και πραγματοποιήθηκε για πρώτη φορά το 2012, με αφορμή τις επετειακές εκδηλώσεις για τα εκατό χρόνια από την απελευθέρωση της Θεσσαλονίκης. Στόχος του Διεθνούς Συμποσίου είναι να παρέχει ένα φόρουμ διαλόγου όπου θα συζητούνται οι κρίσιμες προκλήσεις του σημερινού κόσμου.

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11th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN WORLD AFFAIRS

New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

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πρόγραμμα 2023

11ο ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ

«Νέοι Ορίζοντες στη Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη»

ΚΑΤΕΒΑΣΤΕ ΤΟ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ

Agenda 2023, 3 December

10:00 - Welcome

10:10 - An Introduction to AI: What Everyone Needs to Know

Marily Nika - AI Product Lead, Facebook (META)

Dimitrios Koukiadis - Assistant Professor, School of Law, Department of Law, University of Nicosia

Thomas Jarzombek - Member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Committee on Digitization of Bundestag

Moderator: Marian Wendt - Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Greece and Cyprus

11:15 - Perspectives on the Social, Political and Economic Implications of AI

Giorgos Verdi - Policy Advisor at the European DIGITAL SME Alliance

Shamira Ahmed - Policy Leader Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Marco Vogele - IBM, Dubai, Middle East and North Africa Region

Tilemachos Moraitis - Government Affairs, Regional Manager Director, Microsoft

Moderator: Kristin Fabbe - Chair of Comparative Politics Analysis, School of Transnational Governance at European University Institute, Florence, Italy

12:30 - Coffee Break

13:00 - Politics, Policy and AI

Anna Diamantopoulou - President of DIKTIO – Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, Ex. European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities

Dimitris Papastergiou - Minister of Digital Governance of the Hellenic Republic

Moderator: Dimitris Kairidis - Professor of International Politics, Panteion University, Athens, Minister of Asylum and Migration of the Hellenic Republic

14:00 - End of Confernece

Πρόγραμμα 2023, 3 Δεκεμβριίου

10:00 - Χαιρετισμοί

10:10 - Μια εισαγωγή στην Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: Τί πρέπει όλοι να γνωρίζουμε;

Marily Nika - AI Product Lead, Facebook (META)

Δημήτριος Κουκιάδης - Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Νομική Σχολή, Τμήμα Νομικής, Πανεπιστήμιο Λευκωσίας

Thomas Jarzombek- Μέλος της Επιτροπής Εκπαίδευσης, Έρευνας και
Τεχνολογικής Ανάπτυξης και της Επιτροπής Ψηφιακής Διακυβέρνησης της Ομοσπονδιακής Βουλής της Γερμανίας

Συντονιστής: Marian Wendt - Διευθυντής, Ίδρυμα Konrad Adenauer, Παράρτημα Ελλάδος και Κύπρου

11:15 - Κοινωνικές, Πολιτικές και Οικονομικές επιπτώσεις της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης

Γιώργος Βέρδη - Σύμβουλος Ευρωπαϊκής Πολιτικής στο Ευρωπαϊκό Δίκτυο Μικρομεσαίων Επιχειρήσεων Τεχνολογίας

Shamira Ahmed - Policy Leader Fellow, Ευρωπαϊκό Πανεπιστημιακό Ινστιτούτο της Φλωρεντίας, Ιταλία

Marco Vogele - IBM, Ντουμπάι, Υπεύθυνος για τη Μέση Ανατολή και τη Βόρεια Αφρική

Τηλέμαχος Μωραΐτης - Government Affairs, Regional Manager Director, Microsoft

Συντονίστρια: Kristin Fabbe - Καθηγήτρια Συγκριτικής Πολιτικής, Τμήμα Διακρατικής Διακυβέρνησης στο Ευρωπαϊκό Πανεπιστημιακό Ινστιτούτο της Φλωρεντίας, Ιταλία

12:30 - Διάλειμμα

13:00 -Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη και Εθνική Στρατηγική

Άννα Διαμαντοπούλου - Πρόεδρος του Δικτύου για τη Μεταρρύθμιση στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη, Πρώην Ευρωπαία Επίτροπος για την Απασχόληση, τις Κοινωνικές Υποθέσεις και τις Ίσες Ευκαιρίες

Δημήτρης Παπαστεργίου - Υπουργός Ψηφιακής Διακυβέρνησης

Συντονιστής: Δημήτρης Καιρίδης - Καθηγητής Διεθνών Σχέσεων,
Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο, Υπουργός Μετανάστευσης και Ασύλου

14:00 - Τέλος Συνεδρίου

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speakers - moderators / ομιλητές - συντονιστές

Stavros Andreadis - Chairman, The Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece

Stavros Andreadis is the Honorary President of the SANI/IKOS Group of companies and Chairman of the Cultural Association of Business of Northern Greece (www.culturalsociety.gr). In 2013 Ernst and Young elected him as the Greek pioneer entrepreneur of the year. Since 2019 Mr. Andreadis has also been chairing the Governance Council of the Theophano Foundation (www.theophano.eu).

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Stavros Andreadis - Chairman, The Cultural Society of Entrepreneurs of Northern Greece

Stavros Andreadis is the Honorary President of the SANI/IKOS Group of companies and Chairman of the Cultural Association of Business of Northern Greece (www.culturalsociety.gr). In 2013 Ernst and Young elected him as the Greek pioneer entrepreneur of the year. Since 2019 Mr. Andreadis has also been chairing the Governance Council of the Theophano Foundation (www.theophano.eu).

Dimitris Kairidis - Minister of Migration and Asylum; Professor of International Politics, Panteion University.

Dimitris Kairidis is the founding Director of the Navarino Network in Thessaloniki. He has taught in many universities in Greece and abroad. He has published extensively on international politics including books on nationalism and ethnic conflict, US foreign policy and Greek-Turkish relations.

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Dimitris Kairidis - Minister of Migration and Asylum; Professor of International Politics, Panteion University.

Dimitris Kairidis was sworn in as Minister of Migration and Asylum of Greece on June 27, 2023. He was first elected to the Hellenic Parliament with the New Democracy party, on July 7, 2019, representing Athens-North. He was reelected on May 21 and June 25, 2023.

Anna Diamantopoulou - President of DIKTIO – Network for Reform in Greece and Europe

She served as the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, and has held several significant portfolios as a Minister in the Greek government as well.

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Anna Diamantopoulou - President of DIKTIO – Network for Reform in Greece and Europe

Anna Diamantopoulou is President of DIKTIO – Network for Reform in Greece and Europe, a leading non-partisan, Athens-based think tank. Ms. Diamantopoulou served as the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, and has held several significant portfolios as a Minister in the Greek government as well. She was Minister of Development, Competitiveness and Shipping, and, prior to that, Minister of Education, Research and Technology, and Lifelong learning. Ms. Diamantopoulou is a member other Advisory Board of<br /> Brenthuster Foundation in South Africa. She is member of the Board of Trustees of the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe, a Council Member of the European Council on foreign relations (ECFR), and a member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) and member of the Advisory Board of the Delphi Economic forum. Anna also sits on corporate boards, including the Board of Directors of Coca Cola HBC, an FTSE 100 company and the Global Advisory Board of KEKST CNC, a global strategic communications firm, member of Publicis Groupe.

Dimitris Papastergiou - Minister of Digital Governance

In 2019 he was elected president of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece (KEDKE).

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Dimitris Papastergiou - Minister of Digital Governance

Dimitris Papastergiou was born in 1973, studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, and was involved in radio, computer programs, and renewable energy sources. In 2002 and 2006 he was elected municipal councilor, while he was elected Mayor of Trikala in 2014 and 2019, now serving his second term. At the same time, in 2019 he was elected president of the Central Union of Municipalities of Greece (KEDKE).

Shamira Ahmed - Founder and executive director of the Data Economy Policy Hub

She is also the founder of Artificial Intelligence for Circularity Exchange (AI4CE), a platform created to promote diverse perspectives for an AI-led just green-digital transition to support the circular economy model (CEM), in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

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Shamira Ahmed - Founder and executive director of the Data Economy Policy Hub

Shamira Ahmed is the founder and executive director of the Data Economy Policy Hub (DepHUB), the first independent think tank founded by an indigenous African woman in South Africa. She is also the founder of Artificial Intelligence for Circularity Exchange (AI4CE), a platform created to promote diverse perspectives for an AI-led just green-digital transition to support the circular economy model (CEM), in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Shamira is a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Chair of the Digital for Development (D4D) Hub, Civil Society & Academia Advisory Group (CSAAG), and a member of various working groups such as the United Nation’s Internet Governance Forum (UNIGF) Policy Network on Artificial Intelligence (PNAI), Partnership on AI’s (PAI) Demographic Data and Algorithmic Fairness, and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) Measuring E-commerce and Digital Economy Statistics, to name a few.

Kristin Fabbei - Professor of Transnational Governance at the EUI School of Transnational Governance

At Harvard, she taught ``Globalization and Emerging Markets``, and ``Business, Government and the International Economy`` in the MBA curriculum.

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Kristin Fabbei - Professor of Transnational Governance at the EUI School of Transnational Governance

Kristin Fabbe is a Full-time Professor of Transnational Governance at the EUI School of Transnational Governance. Professor Fabbe formerly served as Jakurski Family Associate Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. At Harvard, she taught ``Globalization and Emerging Markets``, and ``Business, Government and the International Economy`` in the MBA curriculum. She has also taught in several executive education programmes. Prior to Harvard, she was a professor in the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College, where she taught on Middle East Politics. She also works on issues of migration management and the geopolitics of human mobility. She regularly consults for national governments, the private sector and international organizations on these issues.

Thomas Jarzombek - Member of the German Parliament, Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

Today he is spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment and a member of the Digital Committee.

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Thomas Jarzombek - Member of the German Parliament, Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

Thomas Jarzombek (50) comes from Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia. He started an IT consulting company in 1996 while being a student of Economics. He has been politically active for more than 25 years, for example as a member of the City Council of Düsseldorf as well as member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia. In 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 he was elected to the German Bundestag. Since 2014 Thomas Jarzombek is the Chairman of the CDU Düsseldorf. 2014-2018 he was the Spokesperson of the CDU/CSU-parliamentary group in the Digital Agenda<br /> Committee of the Bundestag. He also was member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure from 2009 till 2021. From 2018-2021 he was the representative of the Federal Ministry of Economics for the digital economy and start-ups. In addition, he was the federal government's coordinator for German aerospace policy. The focus of his work as representative for the digital economy and start-ups was the dialogue with the players in the digital industry and with start-ups. His goal was to make the digital market even more accessible for start-ups and to improve the political framework for an international market. During his tenure, the future fund was founded with a volume of 10 billion euros. Today he is spokesman for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment and a member of the Digital Committee.

Dr. Dimitrios Koukiadis - Assistant Professor of European/Comparative Law, Personal Data Protection Law, and Internet Law at the University of Nicosia

He studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Law (LL.B., summa cum laude), at Northwestern University, School of Law/Kellogg School of Business (LL.M., Honorably), at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government in the fields of public organization and leadership.

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Dr. Dimitrios Koukiadis - Assistant Professor of European/Comparative Law, Personal Data Protection Law, and Internet Law at the University of Nicosia

Dr. Dimitrios Koukiadis is an Assistant Professor of European/Comparative Law, Personal Data Protection Law, and Internet Law at the University of Nicosia, School of Law, and Adjunct Professor of European/Comparative Law at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, School of Law. He studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Law (LL.B., summa cum laude), at Northwestern University, School of Law/Kellogg School of Business (LL.M., Honorably), at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government in the fields of public organization and leadership, at the University of Chicago, Internet and Media Platforms, and at the University of Edinburgh, Internet, Artificial intelligence Planning and Philosophy of Sciences. He holds a Doctorate in Laws (LL.D., summa cum laude) from Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, School of Law. He is member of Thessaloniki Bar Association and Frankfurt Bar Association, as well as Certified Mediator/Arbitrator in Germany, USA and Greece specialized in Labor-, Commercial-, Energy-, Medical-, Family mediation and Commercial/Energy Arbitration. He is also member of the Greek Organization of Mediation and Arbitration for labor/employment conflict resolution. His fields of work and academic scholarship include Information Technology Law, European Comparative Constitutional Law, Personal Data Protection Law, Labor Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Tilemachos Moraitis - Microsoft’s Government Affairs Manager in Southeast and Central Europe.

He is based in Athens and his role is to monitor and advise on regulatory and public policy issues in relation to digital technology as well as raise awareness on trending technology topics such as AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and skilling.

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Tilemachos Moraitis - Microsoft’s Government Affairs Manager in Southeast and Central Europe.

Tilemachos Moraitis serves as Microsoft’s Government Affairs Manager in Southeast and Central Europe. He is based in Athens and his role is to monitor and advise on regulatory and public policy issues in relation to digital technology as well as raise awareness on trending technology topics such as AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and skilling. He joined Microsoft in 2018 initially covering Greece and since then his portfolio has expanded to include Cyprus, Malta, the Balkans, and Ukraine. Prior to joining Microsoft, Tilemachos held executive roles in Local Government in Greece such as the Regional Government of Ionian Islands and the Municipality of Chalkida, where he was mainly responsible for reforming their organizational structure and for driving digital transformation projects. Tilemachos is originally from Corfu. He is a graduate of the University of Macedonia in Thessalonica and holds a master’s from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. His academic expertise lies in the field of international economics and diplomacy.

Marily Nikka - Award winning AI Product Management

TED AI speaker, and an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

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Marily Nikka - Award winning AI Product Management

Based in Silicon Valley, Dr. Marily Nika is an award-winning AI Product Management leader & one of the world’s top AI educators with 10+ years of experience building AI products at Google & Meta. Marily earned a PhD in Machine Learning at Imperial College London and is also an author, a TED AI speaker, and an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. She founded the AI Product Academy and writes about AI.

Giorgos Verdi - Policy Advisor at the European DIGITAL SME Alliance

In 2023, Giorgos launched Verdi Futures, a non-profit that provides advice to decision-makers on the ethics and regulation of AI and emerging technologies.

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Giorgos Verdi - Policy Advisor at the European DIGITAL SME Alliance

Giorgos Verdi is a Policy Advisor at the European DIGITAL SME Alliance, leading policy development on the EU’s AI Act for a network of 45.000 enterprises. Giorgos has also been named a Youth Expert by the Council of Europe, where he provided recommendations to the Council’s Youth Strategy on the impact of AI. He has been invited as an expert to events of the OECD, the European People’s Party and the Greek Ministry of Digital

Marco Vogele - IBM Consulting’s Industry Transformation Unit and Enterprise Strategy Leader in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Marco was awarded the “Excellence and Influence” Award, as one of the Global Consulting Leaders from ‘Consulting Magazine’.

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Marco Vogele - IBM Consulting’s Industry Transformation Unit and Enterprise Strategy Leader in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Marco is IBM Consulting’s Industry Transformation Unit and Enterprise Strategy Leader in the Middle East and North Africa region. He is a tri-lingual (German, English, and Arabic) Business Technologist that has extensive Consulting, Technology, and Transformation experience. He has worked with public and private sector clients across the world. He has advised CEOs, Government Ministers, and other top Executives regarding their innovation agenda, digital strategy, and overall business transformation programs. His key focus area is helping people, communities, companies, and countries to make the most of Emerging Technologies. Marco was awarded the “Excellence and Influence” Award, as one of the Global Consulting Leaders from ‘Consulting Magazine’, was a co-author of a Consulting book. He is the host of “Impact”, a podcast in collaboration with Harvard Business School, where he interviews senior leaders in the Middle East and deep dives into the positive impact they created. He is an Engineer by background (studied at MIT in the US and KIT in Germany) and is a Harvard Business School alumnus. He was selected amongst 40 Senior Executives across the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to graduate from MBZUAI university – UAE’s flagship university that is shaping UAE's AI vision 2031.

Marian Wendt - Head of the Greece and Cyprus Office, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Wendt became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing North Saxony.

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Marian Wendt - Head of the Greece and Cyprus Office, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Wendt became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election, representing North Saxony. He was a member of the Committee on Petitions and the Committee on Internal Affairs. From 2018, he was also a member of the Committee for the Scrutiny of Acoustic Surveillance of the Private Home. He served as his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on political extremism and the EU–US Privacy Shield.</p> <p>In addition to his committee assignments, Wendt was part of the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group, the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South-Eastern Europe and the Berlin-Taipei Parliamentary Circle of Friends.</p> <p>In September 2020, Wendt announced that he would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.`{`4`}`

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