Eirini Agapidaki was raised in Palekastro, Sitia, Crete and is a psychologist. She also holds an MSc in Health Promotion and Education and a Ph.D. in Health Psychology -both from the School of Medicine of the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens. In her doctoral research, she designed, implemented and evaluated a program for the early detection and management of maternal depression using ICT.

She has participated as a research associate in several national, European and international public health research programs, has published papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and gave many presentations in national and international conferences. She is appointed as a Lecturer of Public Health by the School of Medicine of the European University Cyprus and lives in Nicosia.

She has a strong belief in people’s capacity for self-consciousness and awareness as well as in their ability to accept the obscured and aggressive elements of the self and transform them into sources of understanding, profound knowledge and creativity. She keeps wondering about many things, enjoys reading biographies and strives to parent herself.

Antonis Kalogeropoulos is an assistant professor in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool and a research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. For the past three years he has been part of the Digital News Report survey, the largest study on news use in the world with a sample of 74,000 people in 38 countries, including Greece. His doctoral thesis examined economic news and how it affects political attitudes.

His talk will be focused on the recent changes in news consumption habits in Greece; the reliance on alternative news sources such as social media, and the lack of trust in traditional news outlets. He will further discuss the impact of these changes on public opinion, digital inequalities and the future of journalism.

Dr. Evangelos Liotzis is a sexuality expert. He received his PhD from the University of Athens. As a sex, relationships and marriage counselor he provides consulting services for individuals and couples in relation to their sexual, personal and social lives.

He has published articles in scientific journals, has participated in academic conferences and research programs, and has been invited by universities for lectures. He has been an accredited lecturer at the University of Derby and he has recently published his book Pornographication: Tracing modern sexuality.

Ira Katsouda is a stand-up comedian who performs in Athens, Thessaloniki, and all parts of Greece. She is now preparing her second solo performance which she will put on in 2019-2020 in Athens and Thessaloniki.

In 2014-15, in collaboration with A. Pasatis, she presented the first stand-up comedy battle in Greece in the context of the show “Everyone’s Own”, while in 2016 they organized and presented together the first live stand-up comedy talk show “The Comedians” (Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation).

She has participated in ‘Stand Up for U’ 2016 for the program “Godfather of Unicef” that was transmitted by ALPHA channel and has also presented her work in TEDx events (Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis).

Fereniki Panagopoulou is a lawyer and assistant professor of constitutional law at Panteion University. She served for eight years as a legal auditor at the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, where she handled more than a thousand personal data protection cases. She studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Basic studies and Postgraduate Diploma in Public Law), Fair and Public Health at Harvard University.

She holds a Ph.D. in constitutional law and bioethics from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She has taught constitutional law, law and new technologies, public health law, American law and bioethics at the University of Berlin, the Faculty of Economics and Law of Berlin, Panteion University, University of Athens, University of Piraeus, University of Macedonia and the University of Peloponnese.

Christos Kiousis was born and raised in Athens, but he lives and works for the last 22 years in Thessaloniki. He studied Film and Television at the Stavrakos School, speaks English every day, German whenever he remembers it and Italian when being on vacation. He works in television productions since 1994.

He co-presents the satirical broadcast “Radio Arvyla” in SKAI TV, presents his radio show every weekend at home radio 891.gr and writes in gazzetta.gr for Liquid Media. He is also the Director of Studies in SME Arts and Management at the DELTA 360 educational group. He is dreaming of traveling a lot, tasting new flavors, writing many stories and claiming one day to share enough of his time between his two beloved cities with bridges, Chalkida and Constantinople.

Martha Matsa is a Greek competitive swimmer for Olympiacos SFP, specialized in freestyle sprint events. She has been a member of the Greek national team since 2003, taking part in numerous competitions. As an athlete, she has enjoyed success in both national and international level including several national titles. Special highlight of her career has been her participation in three Olympic Games. 

Martha also holds a degree in Educational Studies. She has worked as a school teacher in several schools across Greece. The arrival of a great number of immigrants in Greece has given her the opportunity to work for the so-called “on-boarding classes”, helping young children from other countries to learn the Greek language. 

Her bifold experience of swimming and teaching allowed Martha to start the “swim for a good purpose” cause in 2019 in order to help immigrant children fight their fear of water. 

Yiannis Tsapras is an astronomer looking for planets around distant stars. He has participated in the discovery of dozens of exoplanets, including that of Proxima b, a terrestrial planet around our closest neighboring star.

Yiannis currently works at Heidelberg University, where he coordinates an international effort to discover hard-to-find exoplanets in wide orbits using a technique called gravitational microlensing and a world-spanning network of robotic telescopes.

Serafim Tsotsonis is a pianist, music producer and sound designer. He has composed music for films, plays, documentaries, video art, TV spots, and has also edited productions of other artists and remixes of songs from a wide range of Greek and foreign artists. His personal work is characterized by experiments, creating his own exclusive identity: a mixture of soundscapes with melancholically atmospheric elements.

He has also been represented as part of the duo Ocean Ηope, a collaboration with his sister, Angeliki. This project has been presented internationally with the EP “Chamber Dreams” and their first album “Rolling Days”, from Hush Hush Records (Seattle, USA).

He recently released his fifth solo album “Believers” by Klik Records.

Eleonora Meleti is a Greek journalist and TV hostess who began her career back in 2001 when she decided to pursue her dream and become a journalist.

She initially worked at the TV station Alter in the department of international news.  In July 2003, following hundreds of reports, she is given the opportunity to present the newscast program, thus opening a new chapter in her carrier.

In December 2004 she will join the TV station ANT1 where she will remain in the news division as a newscast presenter until September 2005, when the station proposes to her to take over the presentation of the longest daily entertainment show in the history of Greek television. The show “Morning Coffee” with Eleonora Meleti will be for the next three years first in ratings.

In 2008, Eleonora is part of the TV Station Star, which entrusted her a 3-hour daily program in entertainment, as well as her return to the presentation of newscasts, while in 2014 she conceptualizes her new TV program, called “hashtag”, bringing on the surface important topics such as “pedophilia”, “refugees “, “prostitution”, “lethal injection” and more, and her show gets awarded.   For the last two years, she is the hostess of a late-night show called “After Midnight”, hosting interviews with people of current affairs.

Eleonora Meleti has a bachelor’s degree in French literature and a master’s degree in Italian linguistics. She holds a total of 17 certificates in French, English, Italian, Spanish and Arabic and she is active on the internet, maintaining her own blog, causing a sensation with her “sharp” pen and her remarkable texts.

She is married and mother of a 16-months-old daughter.

He began his classical guitar lessons at the age of 9 and graduated with an excellent degree at the age of 21, where he began giving lessons in music schools in the city.

At the same time, he studied electric guitar and improvisation, by attending courses and seminars from renowned musicians.

He studied sound and musical instruments technology (at Lixuri), where he specialized in the manufacturing technology of the piano (technician-stringer). His job placement at a leading musical house (NIKOTIAN O. E.), provided him with knowledge acquired from very experienced piano technicians.

As a musician-guitarist, he participated in bands of different musical styles, recording in domestic companies and playing live in countless small and large music scenes alongside renowned domestic people as well as bands abroad. For the last ten years, he has been occupied with the rockabilly music and the band “All night groovers” where he sings and plays guitar. He is expected to release his first solo album next year, using the name Luke Mocker.

Dimitris Maramis studied piano and composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Great Britain. He has collaborated with cultural organizations such as: National Opera of Greece (Stavros Niarchos Foundation), National Theatre of Greece, National Theatre of Northern Greece, Armonia Atenea – The Friends of Music Orchestra, Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall and Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Dimitria Festival, Stegi – Onassis Foundation (Greek Design), and more.

He has presented his works abroad:  in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg. He has released eight personal albums. Indicative titles of his discography are Dark Love and Emotional Age. He has written music for forty histrionics, cinema and educational television. He has been awarded thrice for his theatre music (in 2012, 2017 and 2018). The modern opera – musical Erotokritos, the Alternative Stage’s assignment of the Greek National Opera in 2017, was characterized as one of the greatest successes of the Greek National Opera, extracting dithyrambic reviews and presented a performance to the Alternative Stage of Stavros Niarchos Foundation, in Herodes Atticus Odeon, at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall and at the Cultural Centre in Heraklion. The composer’s second modern opera, Haunted, based on three folk songs, was commissioned by the Athens Concert Hall and was successfully presented extracting enthusiastic reviews in 2019 at Alexandra Triandi Hall.

Dimitris Maramis is the artistic director of the newly established Festival of Delphi, Lalon Idor, founded in 2018.

Dr. Konstantinos Tasoulis is an educator, researcher, and business consultant in the field of human resources management. He is an Associate professor of human resources management at the American College of Greece (DEREE & amp; ALBA), where he teaches strategic human resources management, leadership and organizational behavior in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. He has also trained students in universities beside Greece such as the New York University and the University of Bath, as well as executives of all levels in numerous enterprises.

His research interests include strategic management of human recourses, the integrity of leadership, management and development of talents, and corporate social responsibility. His studies have been published in international scientific journals, books, conferences, as well as in the domestic press. He has supervised doctoral theses at the International School of Management in Paris, he is one of the edition curators of the International Leadership Journal, and co-founder of Hellenic HR Pedia (hrpi.gr). He has worked as a human resource management consultant at PwC (2007- 2010) offering services to Greek and multinational companies of various fields.

He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bath (2007) as a Scholar of the Alexandros Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. He speaks four languages and he holds an MSc in Management and HRM, University of Bath, and BA Economics diplomas, the University of the West of England, Bristol, which were awarded with distinction.

He was born and raised in Mytilene.

He started working at the theater in the early 80s’. He has worked in more than 100 theatrical plays and he has met with all the great filmmakers and actors of his time; Minos Volanakis, Andreas Voutsinas, Jules Dassin, Kostas Tsianos, Stamatis Fasoulis, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Maya Lymperopoulou, Yannis Kakleas, Themis Moumoulidis, Konstantinos Markoulakis, etc. He has performed in successful TV series and the movies “Straight Story” by Vladimiros Kyriakides, and “Journey to Mytilene” by Lakis Papastathis in the cinema.

He continues to be active and hopes that he will be able to work for many more years doing what he loves and to travel in Greece and all over the world.