Kyriakos Pierrakakis is a political scientist and computer scientist. He is a graduate of MIT (M.Sc. in Technology Policy), Harvard Kennedy School (M.A. in Public Policy) and the IT department of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is also a graduate of the Leontio Lyceum of Patissia.

In the past he worked as research director of the independent, non-profit research and analysis organization “diANEOsis”. From this position he coordinated a series of research groups with emphasis on studies that had as main object the economic and productive reconstruction of the country.

He has also worked in research institutes in Greece and abroad on subjects related to technological policy and has served as president of the Youth Institute.

He was born in 1983 in Athens. He is married and has three children.

He speaks English and French.

He was born in 1977 and is a graduate of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, holds a master’s degree in Quality Management and Technology.

Until August 2021, he served as Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister. From July 2019 to January 2021 he was Deputy Minister of Interior, responsible for Local Government and Elections.

From the election of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the Presidency of New Democracy, in 2016, Director of Informatics of the party and head of the digital campaign of the European elections of May 2019 and the national elections of July 2019.

In 2014, he was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Administrative Reform and e-Government. From 2011 to 2014 he was General Secretary of the Municipality of Athens. Since 2010 special advisor to the Ministry of Interior, Decentralization and e-Government, where he worked on the drafting and preparation of the implementation of the new institutional framework for Local Government (“Kallikratis” program), as well as the new law on electoral expenses in Municipal and Regional elections.

For over a decade he worked in IT and market research companies in the private sector, as a computer programmer, database administrator and research data analyst.

Christos Dimas is a lawyer and member of parliament for Corinth with New Democracy. He was born on May 29, 1980. He graduated from the Law School of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and from Queen Mary University in London.

He received his Master’s Degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
He then completed his PhD in European Politics from the LSE, with a scholarship from the Alexandros Onassis Foundation. The title of his doctoral dissertation is: “The importance of the national institutional framework and domestic consultation during proposed reforms. The case of the privatization of national telecommunications in Greece and Ireland.”

Prior to his candidacy, he worked in the private sector as a business consultant for The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
He was elected MP of Corinth with New Democracy in the elections of May and June 2012 and since then he is continuously elected as the first MP of the prefecture.

He participates in the Production-Trade Committees and the Protection of the Environment of the Parliament and is the Deputy Head of Economy and Development of the New Democracy.
In his free time he enjoys playing football and basketball and reading history books. He is married to lawyer Nikoleta Syregela and they have a daughter and a son.

Georgios Georgantas is the Deputy Minister of Digital Governance, Responsible for Simplification of Procedures and Member of Parliament for the Prefecture of Kilkis. He studied at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace and since 1992 has been practicing law.

He was elected Member of Parliament in May 2012, while he was re-elected in June of the same year as well as in the electoral contests of January and September 2015 and July 2019. From February 2016 to July 2019 he was Head of Administrative Reconstruction of ND, following a decision of President, Mr. Kyriakou Mitsotaki. In November 2014, by decision of the Prime Minister, Mr. Antonis Samaras, he took over as Deputy Minister of Education, Religions and Lifelong Learning.

He has an active parliamentary presence, having participated in various committees of the Parliament, such as the Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice, while he has played a key role as a member of the Committee of Inquiry into scandals in the field of Health during the years 1997-2014. and the Special Parliamentary Committee for conducting a preliminary examination, in accordance with the decision of the Plenary Session of the Parliament taken during the meeting of 21 February 2018, regarding the NOVARTIS case.

Despina Spanou is the Head of the Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission overseeing the European Union’s policies on security, migration and asylum, health, skills, education, culture and sports.

Her work on security consists in coordinating all areas under the heading of the EU Security Union, ranging from counter-terrorism, cybercrime, cybersecurity to hybrid threats. In this capacity, Ms Spanou coordinates the implementation of the EU Security Union Strategy 2020-2025, the first ever EU Strategy encompassing the whole spectrum of security work in the EU.

Previously, she was Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity at the Directorate-General for Communications Network, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission.

In this capacity, Ms Spanou was responsible for the European Union’s cybersecurity policy and law, digital privacy, connected cities and mobility, digital health, eGovernment and electronic identification. She was responsible for the implementation of the EU legislation on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive) and for the negotiations of the EU Cybersecurity Act as well as cyber dialogues with the EU’s international partners.

Ms Spanou has served as a member of the management board of ENISA, the EU agency for cybersecurity, and of the Steering Board of the Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU Institutions, bodies and agencies (CERT-EU). She is a founding member of the Women4Cyber initiative and advocate for the need for more cybersecurity experts in Europe.
Despina Spanou has also been Director for Consumer Affairs at the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (2013-2017) in charge of consumer policy, consumer and marketing law, redress and enforcement, and product safety. Prior to this position, she was Principal Adviser in the Directorate- General for Health and Consumers.

She was the Deputy Head of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Health and Consumers Mr Kyprianou (2004-2008) and of the Commissioner for Health Ms Vassiliou (2008-2010). Despina Spanou started her career at the European Commission at the Directorate General for Competition (in 2003). She had previously practiced European law with the Brussels branch of a US law firm.

Despina Spanou is a member of the Athens Bar Association and holds a Ph.D. in European law from the University of Cambridge. She is of Greek and Cypriot origin.

Professor Konstantinos Masselos is Chairman of the National Telecommunications & Post Committee, since February 2018.

He is Professor of Computer Systems Design at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Peloponnese, where he has been working since 2006. He is also the Ηead of the relevant research team. He served as Dean of the above university, in the period 2012-2017. In addition, he was Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Technology (2009-2011), Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (2010-2012) and Chairman of the Research Committee (2010-2013).

From 2010-2016 he was an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Imperial College. Also, from 2005 to 2008 he was a Lecturer in this Department. In the period 2001-2004 he worked in the company INTRACOM, in projects of research and development of wireless communication systems.

He has participated in a significant number of research and development projects and has experience as a consultant in industry, start-up companies and public organizations. Since 2005 he has been continuously involved as an expert in evaluations of funding proposals and research projects of the European Commission. From 2015-2017 he was a Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST).

His research interests focus on the areas of compilers, High Level Synthesis (HLS), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), high-performance computing systems, and space computing systems. He has published more than 120 articles in international journals, conferences and collective volumes.

Professor Konstantinos Masselos is an Electrical Engineer at the University of Patras (1994). He holds an MSc in VLSI Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1996) and a PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology of the University of Patras (2000). He completed his doctoral dissertation in collaboration with the Inter-university Micro Electronics Center (IMEC) in Belgium, where he was a researcher from 1997-1999.

Athanasios Staveris is a graduate of the Department of Physics of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a postgraduate degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the National Technical University of Athens, a PhD in High Energy Physics from the National Kapodistrian University and MBA for Executives from the University of Plymouth.

He has academic experience in the field of High Energy Physics working as a researcher in the CDF International Experiment in Fermilab, USA, having won a European Scholarship (RTN scholarship) and in collaboration with the Pione Institute of Nuclear Physics of Pisa (INFN Sez). In addition, he has more than ten years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale ICT projects in the private sector, working internationally.

He specializes in data analysis, the use of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (AI / ML) algorithms and text analysis using NLP (Natural Language Processing) methodologies. From July 2019 until today he was an advisor to the Minister of State and Digital Government, where he had a special contribution to the management of cybersecurity issues and the completion of service 112 in collaboration with the General Secretariat for Civil Protection.

He was born in 1973. He holds an Electrical Engineering & Computer Technology diploma from the Technical University of Patras, and an International MBA from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He has worked for 23 years, in multinational technology and telecommunications companies abroad (Siemens AG) and in Greece (Wind Hellas, Vodafone Hellas, Tellas, Forthnet).

As Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) in Wind Hellas, he played a decisive role in the company’s growth, broadening customer base and leading the investments in next-generation networks. As Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) in Tellas and Hellas On Line he designed and implemented successful Marketing & Brand strategies.

As an executive in the Research & Development department of Siemens AG in Austria and Germany, he actively participated in the development of innovative mobile network services at a global level. During his service as the Secretary General for Telecommunications & Post of the Ministry of Digital Governance, he strongly contributed to the acceleration of the digital transformation of Greece. Among others, the preparation of the auction for the 5G licenses was completed, while at the same time, the 13033 SMS service design & implementation during the Covid-19 pandemic has received international recognition by the EC and the OECD.

He has served as a BoD member of the Association of Greek Information Technology and Telecommunications Companies (SEPE) and as a BoD member & Treasurer of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) in Brussels.

He was born in 1985 in Agios Vlasios, Thesprotia.

He is a graduate of the Technical University of Crete, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineer. He is a freelancer and has been working since 2010 as a programmer and computer technician in Igoumenitsa.

Elected Member of Hellenic Parliament in Region Thesprotia for three elections in a row at 2015 (January) 2015 (September) and 2019 (July).
In current (17th) Parliamentary Term he elected Dean of the Hellenic Parliament.
From September 2015 until June 2019 he was Secretary of the Hellenic Parliament.
Coordinator of Digital Policy Sector of SYRIZA’s Parliamentary Group.
Elected member of Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).
Candidate member of the Hellenic parliament in 2012 in Region Thesprotia with the political party of SYRIZA-EKM.
Youth’s member of political party of SYNASPISMOS from 2007 until 2010.
Member of regional Committee of SYRIZA party in Thesprotia.
Member of antiracist movement of Thesprotia.

Mr. Ioannis Alexakis is Head of Directorate for Cybersecurity Strategic Planning – General Directorate of Cybersecurity – Ministry of Digital Government, having, among other things, the responsibility of drafting and coordinating the implementation of the “National Cybersecurity Strategy 2020 – 2025”.

He is a legal and political scientist (Department of Law, EKPA, postgraduate studies in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, EKPA).

He graduated from the National School of Public Administration (ESDD) in 2006 and has served in the Ministries of Infrastructure and Transport, Administrative Reform, Interior and Justice, Transparency & Human Rights.

He has been Head of Directorate for Security Policy of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (2017 – 2020) and, having specialized in personal data protection law, he was Data Protection Officer of the same Ministry during the above period.

As a member of the register of trainers of EKDDA, he has taught at the National School of Public Administration and Local Government while he has participated as a speaker in conferences and workshops on personal data protection, cybersecurity, and public administration.

Nikos Chatzinikolaou was born on October the 9th 1962, in Alexandroupolis, Evros. He started working as a journalist in 1983 covering education topics in the newspaper “MESIMVRINI”.

In 1984, he received the “Botsi” award for journalism. He then started to cover political issues. Meanwhile, he started his collaboration with the Sunday edition of the newspaper “Akropolis”, the newspaper “Ethnos” and the magazines “ENA” and “STATUS”.

In 1987, he started working for the newly founded radio “ATHINA 9,84”. At the same time he became member of the founding committee of the station. He also temporarily worked at the radio stations “ERA”, “SKY 100,4”, “PLANET” and “STATUS FM”.

In 1989, he started his collaboration with MEGA TV station. From 1998 until 2003 he was General Director of News and Information department of the station.

From 2003 until 2007, he collaborates with ALPHA TV Station, as Executive Vice President and General Director of News and Information department and later, as Chairman and CEO.

From April 2007 until October 2011 he collaborates with ALTER TV station.

In September 2007 he founded along with Andreas Kouris the «Real Group», which owns the radio station “Real Fm 97.8” in Athens, “Real Fm 107.1” in Salonica, “Ellinikos 93,2” in Athens, the weekly (every Sunday) newspaper “Real News” and the news portal “Real.gr”.

In 2012 Nikos Chatzinikolaou created his own personal site-blog “Enikos.gr” and the financial news blog “Enikonomia.gr”.

From September 2013 until June 2016, he collaborates with STAR Channel TV Station.

Since January 2017, he is the anchorman of the main news edition of ANT1 TV Station.

Nikos Chatzinikolaou is board member of European Newspaper Publishers Association (ENPA).

She studied Political Sciences at the Department of Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and media training at the BBC Academy. She is a journalist, political analyst, TV anchorwoman until 2011 and General Manager of the think tank Institute of Democracy, Konstantinos Karamanlis until 2014.

She is an experienced and distinguished media trainer for “tradional” and cyber crisis management in companies such as: PETROLA HELLAS, HELLENIC PETROLEUM (ELPE), LAFARGE BETON, HALYPS BUILDING MATERIALS, ITALCEMENTI GROUP, REGENCY CASINO THESSALONIKI, HSBC, CREDIT AGRICOLE LIFE, DELTA, KATSELIS, GOODY’S, EVEREST, CARREFOUR, GENESIS FARMA and others.

Mr. Argyriadis currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Huawei Technologies South Balkan Region with responsibilities of Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia. He has more than 20 years of experience in telecom industry, serving from different companies and roles Information & Communications Technology (ICT) objectives. His expertise is in broadband evolution of carriers’ business, and how ICT industry can assist operators’ digital connectivity efforts, innovation, and sustainable development, but also how ICT practices can lead towards the digital awareness and transformation of the local society.

Vassilis Argyriadis holds a Master’s Degree (MSc) in Telecoms from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master’s Degree (MSc) in Business Administration from Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB). He has also obtained a Bachelor Degree (BSc) in Physics from University of Ioannina.

Mr. Alexandros Manos is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience leading companies in developing, marketing, and selling internationally cutting-edge technologies.

He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Business Economics from Brown University, and an MSc in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Since January 2015, he is a member of the Board of Directors & holds the Chief Executive Officer position of INTRASOFT International, a Luxembourg based leading European IT Solutions and Services Group of Companies.

Previously held positions include:

• Board Member & CEO of Intracom Telecom, an international telecommunication systems vendor.
• CEO of Conklin Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia, a company offering broadband solutions and IPTV to the US market.

He is a member of a several scientific, engineering and economics societies and a young global leader of World Economic Forum (WEF).

George Patsis is a highly accomplished expert in information security with a proven track record in developing and implementing large-scale security programs for major Global 500
Corporations. As an Entrepreneur, he holds a passion for identifying market opportunities and building brands. He pioneers and leads the design and development of innovative services and products in the area of strategic security intelligence and risk management.

George is also:

• A member of the Athens Club, founded in 1875 and established since then as a social and intellectual center of a special brilliance.
• A regular member of the Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Services (HAMAC).
• An active member of both the University College London (UCL) and Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) Alumni.

George Patsis has studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University College of London (UCL) and holds an MSc in Information Security Management from the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL).

In 2013 George was selected as a High-Impact Entrepreneur to join the most exclusive entrepreneur network in the world, the Endeavor Global Network.

Manos Manousakis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of Independent Power Transmission Operator (IPTO or ADMIE) since June 2017. In 2019, he was elected Member of the Board of Directors of the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E).

Previously, Mr. Manousakis was the CEO of OTE Rural North and South, having held various positions of responsibility in the Greek Telecommunications Company, where he played an instrumental role in the design of cutting-edge telecommunication services. He was appointed Secretary General of the Hellenic Ministry of Economy (2015), as well as a Director at Black Sea Trade and Development Bank for the same period.

Mr Manousakis holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. He has also academic experience, having been a lecturer at the University of Piraeus. His career combines business development leadership and complex project management with country strategic planning.

Mr Konstantinos Megas is executive director business security and continuity OTE Group.

Mr Megas joined OTE Group in 2012 and during his term until today has implemented among others the situation center and the security operation center.

The target is the mutation of the procedures and the security systems expertise focusing to the prevention and protection of the company and the clients of OTE Group from security incidents and the assurance of the business continuity of the Group as well.

Before joining OTE GROUP , Mr Megas worked for Ericsson as engineer of network management system, product manager for Intracom, sales director for Cisco and Network and IT operations director for Vodafone.

Mr Megas is a graduate of the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm, Sweden with a Master of Science in electronic engineering and in project management finance.

Mr. Kostas Rouptsos was born in Athens on 1973. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) . His professional career has started in 2000 with the establishment of INDIGITAL S.A. company in which he holds the title of President and CEO.

In the first decade of operation, INDIGITAL developed specialized and customizable software and applications, while focusing on Open Data Management technologies, resulting on the development of innews, the leading Media Intelligence Platform (Monitoring and Analytics) in Greece and Cyprus. Having accomplished many demanding projects, INDIGITAL has earned great experience and expertise in many fields such as Big Data, Image/Video/Speech Processing and Recognition, OCR technologies and Work flow Management. Since 2010, activities have expanded in other areas such as Document Management Systems with Digital Signatures. Sports Web Applications, 3D/VR content production and applications, Digital Ticket applications and Digital Marketing Services.

Main goal for INDIGITAL is the technological specialization on competitive business sectors, while producing added value services and products of state-of-the-art quality for both public and private stakeholders.

Nikos Babalis holds the position of Chief Information & Transformation Officer of WIND Hellas, already having 25 years of experience in the telecommunications sector domestically and internationally, in positions of high administrative responsibility, mainly in the field of technology, but also in general administration.

He has studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, holds a Master’s degree in Communications & Signal Processing from Imperial College London, and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.

Gilad Zahavi is a Senior Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence Analytics at Cognyte, the global leader in security analytics software that empowers governments and enterprises with Actionable Intelligence for a Safer World™.

Gilad has over 15 years of security experience and is a leading expert in the cyber threat intelligence domain.

Prior to joining Cognyte, he held executive positions at SenseCy Cyber Intelligence Ltd. and Terrogence Ltd. (both acquired by Cognyte).

He holds an MA in Near Middle Eastern Studies and a BA in Islamic Studies and Communications.

Dionysis is the General Manager and BoD Member of Volton S.A and KEN S.A. both companies belong to a group of companies active in the generation, supply and trading of Electricity, as well as in the supply of Natural Gas in Greece.

He started his professional career in 1998 and since then he has been a Senior Executive in large business groups such as Nova, Forthnet , Demco Group etc. He has many years of experience and specialization in the field of Energy, Media, Telecommunications, Informatics and Retail.

He was born in Athens in 1972 and holds a BA and an MBA specializing in Marketing. He is a regular member of the Hellenic Society of Business Administration (EEDE) and Vice President of the Hellenic Institute of Marketing (EIM).

Andreas Papadakis, is a graduate of the Greek-French School of Agia Paraskevi (French department, Baccalaureat positive direction), has a degree in Business Administration and an MSc Strategic Management degree from the leading French Business School (Grande Ecole) HEC.

Key stations in his career before the Archeiothiki were KANTOR Business Consultants where he led management consulting projects (strategy and reorganization planning, privatizations), Carrefour-Marinopoulos and Wackenhut Security Hellas, where he undertook Expansion and Business Development projects in Greece and abroad ( strategic projects, acquisitions).

In 2006, he founded the Archeiothiki together with Pericles Argyros.

Andreas “Cowboy” Derdemezis was born in 1979 and is a graduate of the University of Greenwich.

Holder of two master’s degrees in Information and Communication Technology, specializing in ΙΤ Security, with many years of experience in both the Greek and Israeli markets, in high-profile companies/multinationals and funds.

Technopreneur, a leader in the video game entertainment industry in Greece, with a rich technological background in the fields of Computer Security, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain.

Collaborates with Dome Consulting Firm as an expert in “Wargaming”, simulation and threat management, where through vivid storytelling and gamification, the fields of Social Engineering, Hacking Ethics / Culture, Advanced System / Network Monitoring, IT Security Vs. Corporate dynamics and the visualization of modern threats are explored in a unique way, providing the necessary decoding of security concepts to top-tier Executives.