George Sidiropoulos is a technical innovator and co-founder of Think Silicon. He started his engineering career at Atmel as an ASIC designer, involved in many SoC designs that reached the wifi and the VoIP markets. He continued as an ASIC designer at Think Silicon developing ultra-low power GPUs before moving to the business side. As the CEO of Think Silicon, he was responsible for corporate strategy, business development, funding, sales and IPR. Think Silicon was acquired by Applied Materials and George is fighting to maintain his startup mentality in order to grow the business and the team aggressively.

Conno Christou studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. After his studies in 2013, he co-founded Avocarrot along with 3 other college friends in London, and the following year they expanded to San Francisco. Among other awards, Avocarrot was voted as one of the 8 most promising startups worldwide (excl USA) by Google for Entrepreneurs, and was awarded as ‘The Next Big Thing’ at ad:tech – the biggest advertising technology event in the world. Avocarrot raised $3 million from investors in the US, UK and Greece. In 2016 they joined Endeavor global network, and later in the year, the company was acquired by Glispa Global Group for a reported $20 million. Conno served as the Vice President of Innovation in the mother company for 4 years.

Aimilios Chalamandaris was a co-founder and CEO of Innoetics. He holds a BA and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the NTUA, as well as a master’s degree in Telecommunications and Digital Signal Processing from the Imperial College of London. He is one of the founding members of the team which developed one of the world’s leading synthetic speech technologies. He has led to the establishment of Innoetics as one of the most important companies of synthetic speech internationally, culminating in its acquisition by Samsung Electronics in 2017. Today Aimilios is the Head of R&D at Samsung Electronics Greece, and he is a big supporter of the Greek startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Since 2020 he is honored to be also serving as a member of the National Council for Research and Innovation, the supreme advisory body for the formulation and implementation of the national policy for Research, Technology and Innovation in Greece.

Myrto Papathanou is a Founding Partner at Metavallon VC, a $35M venture capital fund investing in early stage technology companies stemming from Greece. She has 15 years of experience in the fields of finance and entrepreneurship and has been involved in technology companies as a founder, mentor, investor and board member. Before co-founding Metavallon VC, she served as Group CFO and Head of Corporate Development at EFA Ventures. Since 2019 she is part of the Advisory Board of WomenOnTop promoting women’s inclusion and representation in business. In 2016 she was recognized as ‘Leader of the Year’ by Linkage Greece in appreciation of her extraordinary leadership and contribution to the progress of business and society. In 2019 she became a Kauffman Fellow, the first from Greece. In 2020 she was included in Fortune Greece’s 40 under 40 list. Myrto is an economist from City University, with an MSc in Finance from Imperial College and an MBA from INSEAD.

Cosma Pabouctsidis was born in Switzerland in 1959 to Greek parents who migrated from Serres. He did all his studies in Geneva and got his Electronics Engineering Diploma in 1978. At age 23, Cosma moved to the US, where he stayed 21 years before returning to Switzerland in 2004. In the US, Cosma worked in two large semiconductor corporations and did two successful startups. Roboteq is the second company he founded. It started it in 2002 as a side project while he was employed at a large electronics chip maker, and ultimately became a serious venture and his full-time job around 2010. Roboteq, which makes motion control, navigation sensors and power management solutions for mobile robots, was acquired by Japan’s Nidec Corporation in 2019.