Speakers

Dionysios Diamantopoulos
Staff Research Scientist at the Hybrid Cloud Research Dept. of IBM Research Europe

Dionysios Diamantopoulos is a Staff Research Scientist at the Hybrid Cloud Research department of IBM Research Europe. His research interests include computational storage systems, transprecision & near-memory computing, and energy-efficient heterogeneous systems for hybrid cloud and AI. Over the years he has had the opportunity to work on multiple cutting-edge IBM and EU projects, such as dynamic-precision accelerators and co-processors for POWER architecture, near-memory hardware accelerators for weather modeling & DNA sequencing/alignment, accelerators for the fintech industry in the cloud and cache-coherent accelerators for neural networks.
He was the leader of the internal IBM challenge for domain-specific acceleration on the cloud with disaggregated FPGAs. Currently, he is leading the efforts to develop advanced AI/ML techniques coupled with computational storage enablement in IBM FlashSystems and IBM FlashCore Modules for enhanced cybersecurity. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from ECE/NTUA, Greece, and a D.Eng. from CEID/Patras University, Greece. His research is disseminated in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications. He has also filed over ten patents and received one plateau invention award. He has served as a researcher on eight projects from the EU and three from ESA, and as a TPC member and reviewer in numerous international conferences and journals. He is a member of HiPEAC, IEEE, IEEE CAS, OpenPOWER, and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Georgios Flamis
Senior Engineering Manager – Edge AI systems, DLG/EP/EPBD/EPBD8, Renesas Design Center - Greece

Georgios over multiple years performs with sustained and consistent technical excellence in system / product design. With experience in embedded hardware and software, he has been positioned in critical roles for design wins in key customers’ products, including development of product requirements together with product management/marketing and system architecting. He has strong background in digital signal processing and machine learning technologies. He holds two international patents and number of research publications. He is also acting as Member of Technical Staff at Renesas CTO office.

Georgios Keramidas
Assistant Professor, Aristotle University / Consultant at Think Silicon, An Applied Materials Company

Georgios Keramidas received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras in 2008. Since 2019, he is an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Prior to his appointment as a faculty member, he worked for almost 11 years in industry as the Chief Scientific Officer of Think Silicon S.A. in which he participated in the design of the architecture of the company's multi-core GPUs. He was also responsible for managing funded projects and for managing the company's patent portfolio. Mr. Keramidas continues to work for the company as a technology and innovation consultant focusing on new products and on expanding the patent portfolio. He participated in more than 15 funded research projects, either as coordinator, technical coordinator, or as principal investigator. He is currently in charge of a privately funded project and leads a team of 4 PhD candidates and 10 graduate/postgraduate students. His research interests include design and modeling of low-power processors and memory systems, multi-core/multi- threaded processors, graphics and artificial intelligence accelerators, and compiler optimizations. He has co-published 110+ scientific papers in international conferences and journals, three book chapters and holds 16 patents (12+ patents are under evaluation). His work has received over 1500 citations (h- index: 18, i10-index: 30). He received a best paper award, a Technology Transfer award and an “Outstanding reviewer.” Mr. Keramidas has been co-program chair of 4 international conferences (FPL'21, ISVLSI'21, ARC 2018, ARC 2023) and is a regular member of the Technical Committee of several conferences (DATE, FPL, ISVLSI, ARC, SAMOS, CITS, CCCI, ISQED). He is a regular expert and innovation consultant in the European Union in EIC (European Innovation Council) programs, a regular evaluator in magazines related to his subject and a member of the European Network of Excellence HiPEAC

Manolis Frantzeskakis
CEO Argosemi

Dr Manolis Frantzeskakis has a multi-decade experience in the wireless communications and the semiconductor industries. He has served in various technical, managerial and executive roles. He has been instrumental on the development and launching of the first Fixed Wireless Access products in Intracom Telecom, Greece. He has founded Hermes Technologies SA that made the world-first demonstration of Wi-Fi beamforming technology in 2003, a company that was merged with Athena Semiconductors SA in 2004 and subsequently acquired by Broadcom. In Broadcom, he has contributed to the development and productization of numerous RF IC products in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cellular, FM/DAB and NFC markets, among which the world’s first BLE IC that found its way to the market. Also, he pioneered in the development of innovative Digital PLL technology, providing an edge to many IC products in Broadcom.
He is the founding CEO of Argo Semiconductors SA, a company offering consulting services on RF subsystem prototyping and RF IC development, also developing and marketing active antenna technology for 5G sub-6GHz systems, an activity selected to be funded by the European Innovator Council (EIC) Accelerator fund in July 2024. Dr. Frantzeskakis holds a BS degree on Information Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras and a PhD degree on Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is the author of many academic journal and conference papers, as well as the inventor of more than ten patents.

Paraskevas Bakopoulos
Director of NVIDIA Greece

Paraskevas Bakopoulos leads the Photonic Systems group at NVIDIA Greece (formerly Mellanox Greece). Previously, he was a senior researcher at the National Technical University of Athens, where he worked on a wide range of photonics-enabled technologies for applications in HPC and datacenter networks, focusing primarily on high-speed optical interconnects and optical switching. He has published over 170 papers and holds more than 50 patents. He sits on the Photonics 21 Board of Stakeholders and has served as a TPC member for the OFC conference. He received a Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering (2003) and a PhD in Photonics (2010) from the National Technical University of Athens

Sotirios Beckos
Managing Director at QUBBER EYE Q

Experienced Technology Specialist with research interest and work field in the Automation Industry, specialized in Design of Control Systems, SCADA, HMIs, process automation and Industrial Inspection Systems. As a continuation of my concerns for finding new, innovative solutions in the field of Industry, I decided to establish QUBBER, a Technology Company founded in 2005. QUBBER specializes in the design and construction of integrated Machine Vision systems for in-line quality control of several products on production lines.
In our Company we seek the challenges, and we challenge the established ones! So, we created QUBBER EYEQ, an innovative holistic platform, which lies at the heart of our systems. The technological perfection of our inspection systems combined with high cost- benefit ratio and relationship of trust that we cultivate with our customers are very important to us
To ensure the quality of the products, to reduce the production costs and above all to protect your brand name, choose us!