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Bastion of Grand Master's Palace of Rhodes
Grand Master's Palace
Medieval Town
Rhodes, Notio Aigaio, 85100
Greece

Andreas Kaklios

Andreas Kakliós is one of the founders of the excellent initiative "Smokeless Rhodes" with the purpose of cultivating a culture of respect with the motto "I respect, I smoke outside". What inspired them, what types of resistance did they face, what dynamic powers did they discover, what is the vision that leads them? Answers that ought to lead the process of social change from each citizen.

Antonis Repanas

Antonis Repanas is the cofounder of Human Stories, a gallery of stories that emerged out of the economic and refugee Greek crises. Antonis has served as a journalist for over three decades and is a regular associate of international news agencies visiting Greece. He was awarded by the President of the Hellenic Republic for his services in investigative journalism, especially as he helped the world recognize the wholesome and authentic aspects of the refugee crisis as told through personal stories. He continues curating HumanStories.gr with a team of journalists.

Dimitris Triantaphyllou

Dimitris Triantaphyllou lives in Istanbul since 2010 where he is an associate professor of International Relations at the University of Kadir Has and the director of the Center of International and European Studies. He holds a a BA in Political Science and History from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA and PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The combination of his existential quest as a world citizen with his need to communicate better with his students, especially as a Greek internationalist at a university in Turkey during times of change and upheaval drove him to take on the role of the bridge-maker through the creation and execution of programs that bring together people of many countries with an aim for shared questioning and collaboration.

Kostas Karpouzis

Kostas karpouzis is the Research Director and Head of Games Programming at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He has worked on two awarded games, Siren and Navigo that received the Best Serious Game from Serious Games Society in 2013 and 2018 respectively. Aside from research Mr. Karpouzis contributes to initiatives for the safe use of technology and digital games, the use of computers in schools and increasing the participation of girls in coding.

Makis Provatas

Born in Athens. Studied pre-med at Worcester St. College in Massachusetts and proceeded to graduate from the Dentist school of Thessalonica. Since 1999 he hosts a daily radio show at Athens Voice Radio. Since 2010 he has presented in a series of conversations over 350 important personalities from Greece and around the world, such as Stephen Hawking, Dario Fo, Noam Chomsky, John Cleese, Carlos Fuentes, Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende, Patti Smith, John Malkovich, Mikhail Baryshnikov among others. He has co-authored two books: “Third Rock from the Sun” with physicist Dimitris Nanopoulos and “Only a few kilometers.. Stories for History” with historian Maria Efthymiou.

Nell Watson

Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson is a Machine Intelligence specialist, educator, and tech philosopher who grew up in Northern Ireland. She helped to develop pioneering Machine Vision techniques at her company Poikos (now QuantaCorp), which enables fast and accurate body measurement from two photos. Later she decided to teach these techniques to others, as author of Machine Intelligence coursebooks for O’Reilly Media. Nell serves as Vice-Chairman of the IEEE P7001 Committee creating new safety standards for autonomous systems, and Chair of Transparency Experts Focus Group at the IEEE Standards Association Ethics Certification Programme. She is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of EthicsNet.org, a community teaching pro-social behaviors to machines. She serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor to The Future Society at Harvard, and holds Fellowships with the British Computing Society, and Royal Statistical Society, among others.

Petros Polychronis

Child-psychiatrist, group and family psychotherapist.

Child-psychiatrist, group and family psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor. Dr. Polychronis is presently the Director of the Athenian Institute of Anthropos in Greece, among the first centers to practice family therapy in Europe. He is involved as a consultant to the development of support programs for multi-problem families in a variety of contexts dealing with Child and Family welfare. Founding Member of the European Family Therapy Association (E.F.T.A.), of the Hellenic Association for Systems Thinking and Family Psychotherapy, and of the Greek Society for De-Institutionalization and Mental Health. He has served on the Executive Council of the World Association for Social Psychiatry and of the Hellenic Child-Psychiatric Association and is an Honorary Member of the Executive Council of the Therapeutic Center for Addicted Individuals and their Families (KE.TH.E.A.). Dr. Polychronis is a Visiting Professor at Postgraduate programs at the Universities of Athens, Crete and Ioannina.

Thanos Veremis

Historian

Thanos Veremis (D. Phil, Oxon) is Professor Emeritus of Political history at the University of Athens, Department of European and International Studies and Founding Member of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He has been Research Associate, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London 1978-79; Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard Univ. 1983; Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton Univ. 1987; Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford 1993-94; Constantine Karamanlis Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford Massachusetts (2000-2003); and more recently President of the National Council of Education, 2004-2010.