Megan Mitchell’s career has been dedicated to expanding educational access and innovation. Currently the Senior Director of Universal Learning, Mitchell is spearheading the development and launch of new offerings from MIT Open Learning — a collection of online, digital, AI-enabled curricula centered on cross-disciplinary topic areas that prepare learners everywhere to impact global challenges. Universal AI, the first of these offerings, will launch in Fall 2025.
Katerina Pastra is a Senior Researcher (Grade B) at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center and Head of the Language and Robots Lab. She founded and directed for a decade (2010–2020) the Institute of Cognitive Research and Technology (ICRT), an interdisciplinary research organization specializing in multimodal cognition, embodied language processing, and multisensory perception, whose activities have since been integrated into the Athena Research Center.
Dr. Kostas Karpouzis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University.
Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis, PhD (MIT), Academic and Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Thanos Markantonis is an economist, graduate of the Athens University of Economics and Business, with an MSc in Financial Markets/Capital Markets, and a certified fund manager.
Speech of Honorary President John Papanikolaou at the 3rd Annual Conference
Chairman Angelos Chaniotis’ Address at the 3rd Annual Conference
Professor Sotirios Theofanis, Founding Member of Komvos, was recently appointed as a member of the “Standing Committee on Port Operations and Infrastructure” (AW011) of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), which is part of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).
Prof. Hercules Haralambides has been recognized as the most influential academic in the field of Shipping and Port Management according to the Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) indicator.
