Theme: Ethos/ Ήθος

« Ήθος ανθρώπω δαίμων».
Heraclitus, the ancient Greek philosopher, referred to ethos (a person’s character) as the determining factor of what will happen to them in the future (fate).
Ethos - our personalities, our virtues and our passions. The course of history, the customs of past life and our outlook towards the challenges that lie ahead. Our experiences and overwhelming emotions. Difficult life choices and our re-evaluation of things. Our childhood dreams and our coming-of-age. Ethos is the future.
TEDxChalkida’s Paths (first event) paved the way for our second event Exelixis. The driving force behind them was ethos. Ethos, TEDxChalkida third event's theme.
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Συνεδριακό Κέντρο Περιφερειακής Ενότητας Εύβοιας
Leof. Chaina 93
Chalkida, Evvoia, 34100
Greece

Antonis Kalogeropoulos

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.

Christos Hatzipanagiotis

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.

Dimitris Maramis

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.

Eirini Agapidaki

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.

Eleonora Meleti

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.

Evangelos Liotzis

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.

Konstantinos Tasoulis

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.

Martha Matsa

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

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.