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Program

Empowering Europe’s Chips Ecosystem through Emerging Technologies

Friday 24/10/2025 – DAY 1
09:00 – 09:30Arrival - Registration
09:30 – 10:05Opening Ceremony, Main Hall
Welcome addresses by conference organizers and institutional representatives.

Prof. Ioannis VOYIATZIS | Professor, University of West Attica
Prof. Cleo SGOUROPOULOU | Board of Directors, University of West Attica
Dr. Manolis ZERVAKIS | President, Hellenic Emerging Technologies Association
Eleftherios KRITIKOS | General Secretary for Industry, Ministry of Development and Investments, Greece
Conference Co-Chairs Conference Co-Organizers’: Prof. Ioannis VOYIATZIS, Prof. Dimitrios SOUDRIS, Asst. Prof. Paris CHRYSOS, Asst. Prof. Gregory DOUMENIS

Master of Ceremony: Prof. Ioannis VOYIATZIS | Professor, University of West Attica
10:05 – 10:45Keynote Speech, Main Hall

Dionysios DIAMANTOPOULOS | Staff Research Scientist, IBM Research Europe
Title: The Great Chips Act: From Silicon to a Thinking AI World.
10:45 – 11:30Special Session | Smart Batteries for Smart Energy | Power Factors, Main Hall

George KONSTANTOULAKIS | Executive Director, SCADA and EMS, Power Factors, George PALAIOLOGOU | O&M Senior Manager, Global Operations, M Renewables, Metlen Energy & Metal, Evangelos GALINAS | ESS Sr. Technical Advisor, Panagiotis ZAPARTAS | KENOTOM, Managing Partner.

Moderator: Dr. Gregory DOUMENIS| Asst. Professor University of Ioannina
11:30 – 11:50Networking Coffee Break
11:50 – 13:20Parallel Paper Presentations
Session S1.1 | Smart Energy & System Resilience, Main Hall
Asst. Prof Gregory DOUMENIS, Dr. George KONSTANDOULAKIS

11:50 – 12:00 | Session Presentation: Energy Intelligence and System Resilience in the Chips Act Framework
Asst. Prof Gregory DOUMENIS, Dr. George KONSTANDOULAKIS

12:00 – 12:20 | 15. Impact of Battery Cell Characteristics on Forklift Powertrain Performance
Sotirios Athanasiou (1), Sotirios Efterpiou (2), Nikolaos Drougkas (2)
(1) Sunlight Group Energy Storage Systems, Athens, Greece,
(2) Sunlight Group Energy Storage Systems, Neo Olvio, Greece

12:20 – 12:40 | 23. A Model-Based Approach to Battery SOC Estimation Using Kalman Filtering
Christos Avgerinos, Stamatios Asimakidis, Andreas Kechagias, Christos Sansaridis and Tilemachos Matiakis
Kenotom P.C, Greece

12:40 – 13:00 | 25. A Practical Approach to Energy Disaggregation in Household Electrical Installations Using Deep Learning.
Dimitrios Mylonas (1), Alberto Erspamer (1), Konstantinos Athanasiadis (2), Christos Yiakopoulos 1, Ioannis Poulakis (3), Panayiotis Tsanakas (2), Ioannis Antoniadis (1)
(1) School of Mechanical Engineering, NTUA, (2) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, 3Director of R&D, SSA

13:00 – 13:20 | 34. Air Quality Monitoring in Class-5 Operating Rooms Using ESEN-MESN12 Multi-Sensing Nodes: A Real-World Deployment Case Study
Georgios Alexandratos, Panagiotis Athanasios Sperdoulis and Emmanuil Zervakis
ES Systems s.a., Athens, Greece
Session S2.1 | Innovation & Technology Management, Hall II
Dr. Iakovos STAMOULIS, Spyros PAPATHANASIOU

Session Presentation: Building a Community in the Chips Era
11:50 – 12:00 | Paris CHRYSOS | Assistant professor, School of Science, University of Athens

12:00 – 12:20 | 14. Tokenized Startups and Decentralized Innovation: Exploring DAO-Based Models in Emerging Tech Ecosystems
Panagiotis Georgitseas (1) and Spyros Papathanasiou (2)
(1) Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
(2) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

12:20 – 12:40 | 18. Deep-tech Startups and Ecosystem Dynamics: Insights from France and Greece
Aliki Nianaki (1), Christina Theodoraki (2) and Antonios D. Livieratos (1)
(1) Department of Business Administration, NKUA, Greece
(2) IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management, Aix-Marseille University, France

12:40 – 13:00 | 26. Coordinators in EU Digital transformation projects: The active core of the strong and the emerging
Constantinos-Symeon Nisiotis (1), Paris Chrysos (2) and Charalampos Chrysomallidis (3)
(1) Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of the Aegean, GR,
(2) Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, NKUA, GR,
(3) Department of Business and Organization Administration, School of Management, University of the Peloponnese, Greece
13:20 – 14:20Networking Lunch Break
14:20 – 14:50Invited Talk, Main Hall

Christoforos Kachris | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Title: Skills for the Semiconductor Industry: Unlocking New Careers in Microelectronics
14:50 – 16:20Technical Business Presentation – Workshops, Main Hall

14:50 – 15:20 | Power Factors Unity REMS: To optimize every kWh of renewable energy with unified technology from the sensor to the cloud | Vaso KATSIKI, Senior Product Manager | Power Factors SA

15:20 – 15:50 | Renesas Edge AI processing and solutions | George CHARDALIAS, System Application Engineer | Renesas

15:50 – 16:20 | Cyber Resilience Act Compliance Wizard | Kyriakos AGAVANAKIS, CTO | MEAZON

Moderator: Konstantina TSIAPALI | VP HETIA BoD – HCCC Project Coordinator
16:20 – 17:50Career Day: Career Opportunities in the Chips Act Era, Main Hall & Foyer
Engage with leading semiconductor employers through presentations, talks, and Q&A sessions

16:20 – 16:35 | Power Factors SA - Giota KARAGIANNI, Talent Acquisition Specialist &
Anastasis CHASIOTIS, Talent Acquisition Coordinator

16:35 – 16:50 | RENESAS - Panagiotis MOUSTAKAS, Manager Global Online AE, Wireless Connectivity - MCU - MPU - Automotive - Analog - Power | Renesas

16:50 – 17:00 | MEAZON - John GIONAS, COO at MEAZON

17:00 – 17:10 | Intracom Defense - Evangelos KYRIAZIS, Talent Acquisition Operational Unit Leader

17:10 – 17:20 | OHB Hellas - Alexis CHATZISTYLIANOS | Embedded Electronics Engineer &
Grigoris ZISIS | Business Development Manager

17:20 – 17:30 | ArgoSemi - Manolis FRATZESKAKIS, CEO at Argo semiconductors

17:30 – 17:40 | EFA GROUP - Sofia REMPAPI, Talent Acquisition Specialist, EFA Group

17:40 – 17:50 | THEON GROUP - Ioannis KARAGIANNIDIS, Talent Acquisition Specialist, Theon Group

Moderator: Dr. Emmanouil ZERVAKIS | President, Hellenic Emerging Technologies Association
17:50 – 18:00Closing Remarks – Day 1, Main Hall
Summary and key takeaways from the day’s sessions.

Paris CHRYSOS | Assistant professor, School of Science, University of Athens
19:00– 23:00Networking Cocktail Reception at Terra Petra - Καράβι 360, Open Bar | 1 Anatolikis Romylias St., Petroupoli 132 31, Greece
By invitation only – exclusively for ETCEI 2025 speakers & attendees.
Saturday 25/10/2025 – DAY 2
09:00 – 09:30Arrival - Registration
09:30 – 10:00Opening Presentation – Hellenic Chips Competence Centre (HCCC), Main Hall
The HCCC Initiative: Opportunities and Impact for the Greek Semiconductor and Emerging Tech Ecosystem
John KIKIDIS | Vice President Executive Board of HCCC
10:00 – 11:30Parallel Paper Presentations
Sessions S1.2 | Intelligent Devices, Circuits & Architectures, Main Hall
Prof. Dimitrios SOUDRIS, Prof. Ioannis VOYIATZIS

10:00 – 10:18 | 24. A DNN-to-Chip Design Flow for Energy Efficient Programmable Inference on the Edge
Georgios Alexandris, Alexis Maras, Panagiotis Chaidos, Ilias Papalamprou, Dimitrios Soudris and Sotirios Xydis.
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece

10:18 – 10:36 | 30. Towards Efficient Spectrum Sensing for 5G/B5G Communications using Walsh Receivers
Ioannis A. Bartsiokas (1), Panagiotis Vlachos (1), Michael Tzortzakakis (1), George Karachalios (1) and
Cedric Dehos (2)
(1) Intracom Defense, Koropi, Greece,
(2) CEA-Leti, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Minatec Campus Grenoble, France

10:36 – 10:54 | 39. An FPGA Implementation of LSTM for ECG Processing
Panagiotis Zintzovas, Vassilis Paliouras and Ioannis Kouretas
University of Patras, Patras, Greece

10:54 – 11:12 | 13. AI Model Optimization for RISC-V Microcontroller Architectures
Anastasios Fanariotis, Theofanis Orphanoudakis and Vasilis Fotopoulos
Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

11:12 – 11:30 | 7. Designing M-bit Adders Utilizing the Compute-In-Memory Approach
Theocharis Diamantidis, Georgios Lentaris and Dimitrios Soudris
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece
Sessions S2.2 | Mobile Intelligence, Robotics and AI at the Edge, Hall - II
Prof. Maria TZAMTZI, Dr. Christos THEOCHARATOS

10:00 – 10:18 | 2. Classification of Pharmaceutical Blisters Packs using Computer vision in Edge AI platforms
Panagiotis Chatzikyriakos and Christoforos Kachris
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of West Attica

10:18 – 10:36 | 4. Skin Cancer Identification on Edge Devices exploiting Kolmogorov Arnold Network
G. Venitourakis (1), M. Patsi (1), K. Charalampeli (1), C. Kachris (2) and D. Reisis (1)
(1) Electronics Lab, Physics Dpt, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
(2) Electrical and Electronics Engineering Dpt, Univ. of West Attica, Athens, Greece

10:36 – 10:54 | 22. A Multichannel Deep Learning Approach for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection using EEG-Based Topographic Maps
Konstantinos Stefanou (1), Andreas Miltiadous (1), Christos Bellos (2), Georgios Stergios (1), Markos G. Tsipouras (2), Alexandros T. Tzallas (1) and Nikolaos Giannakeas (1)
(1) Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Ioannina, Arta, Greece (2) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece

10:54 – 11:12 | 33. TwinSynth: Rapid 3D Digital-Twin Scene Generation from Text or Sketch
Nikos Fragoulis, Andreas Makedonas
Irida Labs A.E, Patras, Greece
11:30 – 11:50Networking Coffee Break
11:50 – 13:20Parallel Paper Presentations
Sessions S1.3 | Mobile Intelligence, Robotics and AI at the Edge, Main Hall
Dr. Christos THEOCHARATOS, Prof. Maria TZAMTZI

11:50 – 12:08 | 32. Quality Assessment in Resistance Spot Welding using Thermal Imaging and Machine Learning
Thanassis Polizogopoulos (1), Kyriakos Sabatakakis (2), Nikolaos Bourlesas (2), Harry Bikas (2), Panagiotis Stavropoulos (2), Christos Theocharatos (1)
(1) Irida Labs, Patras, Greece
(2) Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation (LMS), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

12:08 – 12:26 | 41. Toward Model Matching for Remotely Controlled Differential Drive Robotic Vehicles
Nikolaos D. Kouvakas (1), Fotis N. Koumboulis (1) , Konstantinos G. Tzierakis (1,2), John Sigalas (1) and Anastasios Dimakakos (2)
(1) Robotics, Automatic Control and Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, NKUA, Euboea, Greece
(2) Core Department, NKUA, Euboea, Greece

12:26 – 12:44 | 16. Edge Intelligence in Space: Heterogeneous Processing Platforms for AI in Satellite as a service
Antonis Karteris (1), Alexis Chatzistylianos (1), Evgenios Tsigkanos (1), Giannis Panagiotopoulos (1), Alexandros Stavropoulos (1), Niki Doulou (1), Mathieu Bernou (1), George Lentaris (2)
(1) OHB Hellas, Athens, Greece
(2) University of West Attica, Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, Greece

12:44 – 13:02 | 42. Supervisors for Flexible X-type Industrial Floors: The case study of four manufacturing units
Fotis N. Koumboulis (1), Dimitrios G. Fragkoulis (1), Maria P. Tzamtzi (1), Konstantinos G. Tzierakis (1,2), Ioannis Marres (2)
(1) Robotics, Automatic Control and Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory, Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, NKUA, Euboea, Greece
(2) Core Department, NKUA, Euboea, Greece

13:02 – 13:20 | 43. Developing an autonomous system for olive fruit harvesting based on robotic vision and machine learning
Dimitrios Kosmopoulos (1) and Dimitrios Avgeros(2)
(1) University of Patras, Rio, Greece
(2) Avgeros S.A., Alissos, Greece
Sessions S2.3 | Intelligent Devices, Circuits & Architectures, Hall – II
Prof. Ioannis VOYIATZIS, Prof. Dimitrios SOUDRIS

11:50 – 12:08 | 17. Next generation AI chips using ferroelectric compute-in-memory synaptic arrays
A. Dimoulas (1), L. Begon-Lours (2), M. Deluca (3), T. Kaempfe (4), M.-H. Park (5),
D. Kwon (6), K.-S. Min (7), Y.-H. Gong (8)
(1) NCSR DEMOKRITOS, Athens, Greece,
(2) ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland,
(3) Silicon Austrian Labs, Graz, Austria,
(4) Fraunhofer, IPMS/CNT, Dresden, Germany,
(5) Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of South Korea,
(6) Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of South Korea,
(7) Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of South Korea,
(8) Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of South Korea

12:08 – 12:26 | 35. Physics-Based Compact I–V Model for III-Nitride Quantum Well LEDs: Active–Defected Device Pair Approach for Predicting Surface Recombination
Andreas P. Kolios (1), Miltiadis K. Nakos (1), Charalabos A. Dimitriadis (2), Constantinos T. Angelis (1), Andreas Tsormpatzoglou (1)
(1) University of Ioannina, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Arta, Greece,
(2) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Physics, Thessaloniki, Greece.

12:26 – 12:44 | 29. Realization of a Shallow Neural Network with SiO2-based Memristive Crossbar Arrays
Charalampos Tsioustas, Panagiotis Bousoulas, Maria Kainourgiaki, Danai Spathi, Viktoras Pagonis and Dimitris Tsoukalas.
School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Athens, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

12:44 – 13:02 | 31. A Low-Power Analog Integrated Artificial Neural Network Architecture for Hand Posture Classification
Andreas Papathanasiou, Vassilis Alimisis and Paul P. Sotiriadis
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece

13:02 – 13:20 | 28. An Integrated Digital Twin Architecture for Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processes: Fusing Physics-based Simulations with AI
Michael Mayr (1), Ioannis Meintanis (2), Valentina Zambrano (3), Carlos Mallor (3), Sebastien Lani (4), Joel Wenger (4), and Georgios C. Chasparis (1)
(1) Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria,
(2) Core Innovation, Athens, Greece,
(3) Instituto Tecnologico de Arago, Zaragoza, Spain,
(4) Swiss Advanced Manufacturing Center, Switzerland
13:20 – 14:00Networking Snack Break
14:00 – 15:00Parallel Poster & Paper Presentations
POSTER Presentation, Foyer

03 | Object Detection on Edge, Cloud or Mobile: A design space exploration on performance, energy and accuracy
Aristotelis Kretsimos and Christoforos Kachris
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of West Attica

08 | ResNet Autoencoder-Classifier for Representation Learning
Georgios Konstantoulas (1), Nikos Fragoulis (2) and Christos Theocharatos (2)
(1) Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece (2) Irida Labs, Patras, Greece

10 | FPGA-based GBDTs accelerator for the LURAD radiation monitor
John Vourvoulakis (1), Konstantinos Karafasoulis (2), John Kazas (3), Constantinos Potiriadis (4) and Charalambos Lambropoulos (5)
(1) International Hellenic University, Greece, (2) Hellenic Army Academy, Greece, (3) Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Greece (5) Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, NKUA

20 | Securing the 5G Ecosystem: Real-Time Risk Management from Core to Edge
Dionysia Varvarigou (1), Kostas Lampropoulos (1), Spyros Denazis (1), Paris Kitsos (1,2)
(1) University of Patras, Greece, (2) University of the Peloponnese Patras, Greece

27 | A Methodology and Replication Roadmap for Designing Digital Twins in Additive Manufacturing
Ioannis Meintanis (1), Valentina Zambrano (2), Michael Mayr (3), Carlos Mallor (2), Sebastien Lani (4), Joel Wenger (4) and Georgios Chasparis (3)
(1) Core Innovation, Athens, Greece, (2 Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (ITA), Zaragoza, Spain, (3) 3Software Competence Center Hagenberg (SCCH), Hagenberg, Austria, (4) Swiss Advanced Manufacturing Center (SAMC), Bienne, Switzerland

36 | Optimizing Data Collection for AI-based Avian Detection
George Dimas, Ioannis Misios, Lampros Argyris and Vassilis Orfanos
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38 | Compact ReRAM Error Correction Pipeline via Adaptive Time-to-Digital Conversion
I. Tompris (1), I. K. Chatzipaschalis (1,2), I. - A. Fyrigos (1), and G. Ch. Sirakoulis (1)
(1) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace (DUTh), Xanthi, Greece
(2) Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

44 | CRACoWi EU project presentation
Kyriakos Agavanakis, Ioannis Gionas
Meazon, Patra, Greece
Session S1.4 | Innovation in Space Technologies Development, Main Hall
Prof. Dionisios REISIS, Dr. Emmanouil ZERVAKIS

14:00 – 14:20 | 40. Development of a Compact and Efficient ADCS for the AcubeSAT Mission
Alexandra Tsela, Aikaterini Papadopoulou, Vasileios-Panagiotis Moustakas and Alkis Hatzopoulos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

14:20 – 14:40 | 21. Analyzing SATNOGS open-source global network of satellite ground-stations collaboration with the Contribution Matrix
Paris Chrysos (1) and Konstantinos Sioumalas-Christodoulou (2)
(1) Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, NKUA, (2) Gruppo Maggioli - R&D Greek Branch, Greece

14:40 – 15:00 | Book Presentation: “Cubesats: democratizing access to space”
Paris CHRYSOS | Asst. Professor, Department of Digital Industry Technologies, School of Science, NKUA
15:00 – 15:40Keynote Speech, Main Hall
Prof. Kostis DASKALAKIS | Avanessians Professor of Computer Science at MIT
Title: A world of interacting AIs

Side Event – Chips Act Greece: Research, Innovation and Industrial Opportunities

15:40 – 16:10Keynote Speech, Main Hall

Romano HOOFMAN | Strategic Development Director, imec
Title: EUROpractice and Beyond: Empowering Europe's Semiconductor Innovation under the Chips Act.
16:10 – 16:50Panel Discussion, Main Hall

Topic: Chips Act: New Opportunities for Research, Industry and Startups
Participants: Romano HOOFMAN | imec, John KIKIDIS | Renesas, Ioannis RAPTIS | NCSRD, George KALANTZIS | Industrial Edge Engineering.
Moderator: Dr. Sotiris BANTAS | HETiA BoD Member & WP Leader HCCC
16:50 – 17:20Round Table Discussion, Main Hall

Topic: Strengthening the Semiconductor Value Chain: From Research to Industry
Participants: Alexis BIRBAS | UPatras, Chrissavgi DRE | Deputy Director, New Technologies, INTRACOM DEFENSE, Grigoris ZISIS | Business Development Manager ΟΗΒ, Michalis DRITSAS Policy Officer, Strategy & Implementation Coordination Service

Moderator: Prof. Dimitris KENOURGIOS | member of the Administrative Council of the NKUA, Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics (TOE)
17:20 – 17:30Closing Remarks – Day 2, Main Hall

Prof. Dimitrios SOUDRIS | School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens
17:30 – 17:50Conference Summary & 2026 Outlook, Main Hall

Presentation of the Conference Summary Report and announcement of Edge Intelligence 2026.
17:50 – 19:30Farewell Gathering
Sponsors

Emerging Tech Conference Edge Intelligence is organized within the framework of the HCCC project, supported by Chips JU and its members, and is co-funded by European Union and the Greek Government via the “Competitiveness” Programme.