In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Culture Center
Leof. Andrea Siggrou 364
Kallithea, Athens, Attiki, 176 74
Greece

8etto

8tetto (octetto) is an a capella vocal ensemble that consists of eight singers with a repertoire that extends from classical to modern Greek and international music. 8tetto first appeared in the Athens music life in 2012, and since then it has performed in many festivals, concerts, and happenings (such as the 2016 Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the 2014 International World Τravel Αwards, the 2016 European Conference AESGP, the "Santorini, the One" initiative etc.). The a capella vocal ensemble 8tetto is made up by: Peny Deligianni, Annie Fassea (sopranos), Sofia Malama, Antonia Tzitzika (mezzos), Nikos Ziaziaris, Stratis Steele (tenors), Dimitris Alexoudis, Elias Kapantais (basses) and Alexandros Faris (music instructor).

Christian Hernandez

Christian Hernandez is a Founding Partner at White Star Capital, a London-based Venture Capital Fund. He has extensive operating experience in technology companies, developing and scaling products and businesses internationally. Prior to co-founding White Star Capital, Christian worked at Facebook and led the international expansion of the company’s Business Development, Platform and Developer Network groups. He previously held leadership roles in the U.S. and Europe at Google and Microsoft and started his career in technology at MicroStrategy, a startup he joined prior to its 1999 IPO. Moreover, he has worked closely with entrepreneurs and leading VCs and has been an active angel investor and advisor. He represents White Star on the Boards of KeyMe, Glow Media, Bloglovin’ and Hole 19. Christian also serves as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Daphne Matziaraki

Daphne Matziaraki is an award winning documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She was born and raised in Athens Greece. She directed, produced, photographed and edited award winning “4.1 Miles,” which in 2017 was nominated for an Academy Award® in the Documentary short category.

David Patrikarakos

David Patrikarakos is an international author, journalist and producer with an extensive track record in high-end international affairs. As a foreign correspondent, he has reported from across the world for a variety of leading US, UK and international publications.

Dina Kaplan

Dina Kaplan is Founder of the The Path, which teaches meditation for the modern mind. Dina is a certified meditation teacher and has led meditations across the country at festivals and conferences, for large and small groups, brands and individuals. She has studied and practiced dozens of meditation techniques.

Effy Vayena

Effy Vayena is Professor of Health Policy at the University of Zurich, where she leads the Health Ethics and Policy Lab.

Helena Paparizou

Helena Paparizou is a Greek pop singer born to immigrant parents in Borås, Sweden and raised in Gothenburg. She has sold over 300.000 albums and 100.000 singles worldwide, all of which were certified gold and platinum. She has worked with great international performers, such as Nana Mouschouri, Jill Johnsson, Albert Hammond, Vicky Leandros, Chambao and many top Greek singers. Helena has won a total of 35 awards including the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 representing Greece, 3 Arion Music Awards, 1 Balkan Music Award, 1 Cyprus Music Award, 1 MTV Best Greek Act Award and 24 Mad Video Music Awards - more than any other artist in Greece.

Ilias Anastasiadis

Ilias Anastasiadis was born in 1983 in Athens, Greece and he is a journalist.

James Williams

James Williams is a design ethicist and a co-founder of the Time Well Spent campaign, an effort that aims to evolve the design ethos of digital technologies to help them be more respectful of our time and attention, and more supportive of our deeper human values and goals. He is currently completing doctoral research at the University of Oxford, where he is focused on questions of attention and persuasion in technology design.

Jannis Anastasakis and Deniz Angelaki

“Elektronik Meditation” is an experimental audio-visual project by Jannis Anastasakis and Deniz Angelaki, coming from Athens, Greece. Their performances are an amazing opportunity to experience the power of a marriage between the two different Arts as well as the power of improvisation.

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke

Poet and translator Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens in February 1939. Her father, whose origins were from the Bosporus, spoke seven languages. As the god-daughter of Nikos Kazantzakis, it was with his prodding that she published her first poem called “Monaxia” (Loneliness) at the age of 17. She has studied foreign languages in Athens, France, and Switzerland. She has published 18 books (mostly poetry collections) that have been translated into more than 10 languages. Her most recent book in prose “Soliloquy of Loneliness” was published at the end of 2016. She has translated 56 books (mainly poems) including Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Pushkin, Mayakovsky (from Russian) and she has received international awards.

Lindy Hop & Hood Grove

Athens Lindy Hop is a group of artists that brought the Swing culture in Athens for the first time in 2008. Lindy hop is the original swing dance of the 1930s and 1940s that rose up in Harlem, New York. More distinctly, the group focuses on preserving the tradition and historical culture of this dance tailored to the modern lifestyle and using innovative ideas and diversity in Swing dance styles.

Maria Kakkali

Kakali Maria is the Mayor of Agios Efstratios. Born (24/01/1987) and raised on the island of Agios Efstratios, she graduated (2004) with honors from the local high school and was admitted to the University of Patras, Department of Education Sciences and Early Childhood Education. Committed to her personal goal, she finished her studies in 4 years and returned to her hometown to work at the island's nursery school. Unfortunately, she didn’t manage to get appointed, so she worked at a Ticket Office and got involved in the island's public welfare. In 2010 she was elected Member and in 2013 President of the Municipal Council. In 2014, she ran for the municipal elections with the political combination "New Beginning" that won the elections. According to the current statistical data, it appears that she is the Youngest Female Mayor in Greece.

Marianthi Liapi

Marianthi Liapi is an architect and a researcher specializing in the qualitative upgrade of educational spaces through the innovative fusion of participatory design and the contemporary maker culture. She developed an interdisciplinary methodology titled Educational Pla(y)ces (Εκπαιδότοποι in Greek) guiding architects to engage together with teachers and their students in creative, hands-on learning activities with a dynamic spatial imprint that affects the school positively.

Moa Bones

Moa Bones (aka Dimitris Aronis) is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Athens, Greece in May 1981. With an already active presence in the local music scene as Modrec’s singer and guitar player, in 2006 he began to write and release his own songs under the name Palindrom.

Nico Katsanis

Dr. Katsanis is the Director of the Centre for Human Disease Modeling, Professor of Cell Biology and Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics at Duke University. He obtained his first degree in Genetics from UCL in London in 1993, then in 2002 he became an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005.

Nikos Komninos and Carmen Oprea

Carmen Oprea Carmen Oprea wants to live in a world where technology helps us solve our most pressing issues. “Every piece of data helps us understand users and problems better, identify opportunities and execute ideas at global scale.” As a serial tech entrepreneur, as well as cofounder and current COO at Socital, she’s been recognised as driving one of the leading enterprise tech companies to follow by The Next Web and Alibaba. Nikos Komninos Nikos Komninos is the COO of Intale, a VC-funded startup that aims to revolutionize the supply chain of convenience stores worldwide. Previously, he worked as the Global Data Lead for IPG Mediabrands, part of Interpublic which is one of the big four ad agencies worldwide. He evangelized the use of data for better targeting and automated media buying in 29 countries and 4 continents.

Olly Hicks

Olly Hicks is an explorer, a maritime adventurer. As a man of the sea, Olly is a triple world record holder, ocean rower, sailor, kayaker. Moreover, Olly was the youngest person to row an ocean solo –and is the only person to row single-handed, From America to England. To date he has spent 2.2% of his life alone at sea.

Ponz Pandikuthira

Ponz Pandikuthira is Vice President, Product Planning, Nissan Europe on 1st May, 2016. Prior to this role he was Director, responsible for Nissan's Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) business unit in Europe and Russia.

Sofia Kouvelaki

Sofia Kouvelaki is Executive Director at The HOME Project. A non-profit organization that provides support, protection, education and social integration services to unaccompanied minors.

Stratis Panourios

Stratis Panourios was born in Mytilene/Lesbos Greece. He is a theater and cinema director, writer and actor. He studied theatrical directing at the Greek National Theater and film directing at the "New York College" in Athens, playwriting at the Greek Playwrights Company (E.E.TH.S) and acting at the "Drama School of the National Theater". In his role as director, he has worked at the National Theater, the Cyprus Theater Organization, the Municipal Regional Theater of Patras, Agrinio and Corfu Greece, and he has also directed plays in Athens, Lesvos and Italy. His theatrical plays have been performed in Greece and Cyprus. He is a member of the International Theater Institute and an associate of the Swedish Institute of Athens. He is also a founding member of the Cultural Organization "Kochili".

Tom Gash

Tom Gash is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London’s Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science. He advises governments on crime policy and public administration internationally and is a regular contributor to debates on public policy and current affairs, writing for the Independent, Guardian and Financial Times, and speaking on television and radio.