Το 2ο Digital Agenda 19 Summit θα αναδείξει και θα συζητήσει τα ζητήματα της παγκόσμιας ατζέντας με ευρωπαϊκή και περιφερειακή οπτική: Την προσπάθεια για ένα καλύτερο και δικαιότερο διαδίκτυο, την ανθρώπινη πλευρά των δεδομένων, τη χρήση στης Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης στην καθημερινότητα και στα μέσα επικοινωνίας, τις τεχνικές σχεδιασμού και την ανάπτυξη εφαρμογών παγκοσμίου επιπέδου, την παράλληλη (Viral) επικοινωνία, όπως αυτή διαμορφώνεται από τα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, την επανάσταση που φέρνει η ηλιακή ενέργεια και τη σημασία της ανάπτυξης υποδομών 5G και broadband για τη διασυνδεσιμότητα συσκευών και Μέσων Μεταφοράς (IOT). 

Στόχος του Digital Agenda Cyprus είναι η καθιέρωσή του ως περιφερειακής σύναξης σημαντικών προσωπικοτήτων, που μαζί με τους νέους συζητούν και αναπτύσσουν το μέλλον της ανθρωπότητας σε περιφερειακό και ευρωπαϊκό επίπεδο. Παράλληλος εξίσου σημαντικός στόχος είναι η ανάδειξη της Λευκωσίας ως πανεπιστημιακό κέντρο γνώσης και συζήτησης της ψηφιακής ατζέντας. Για τον σκοπό αυτό έχουν ήδη προσκληθεί άνω των 50 σημαντικών ομιλητών. Από τώρα και μέχρι την ημέρα του συνεδρίου θα υπάρχουν τακτικές ανακοινώσεις για τους συμμετέχοντες, τη θεματολογία, αλλά και το πρόγραμμα. Stay tuned!
 
Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να επισκεφτείτε την ιστοσελίδα http://www.digitalagendacy.com/

Meet our 2019 Speakers

Daniel Bobroff – Keynote Speaker
Founder of ASOS Ventures

Daniel Bobroff is the founder and CEO of FashionTechinc and formerly the founder and Investment Director of ASOS Ventures, the online fashion company’s venture capital division. In over two decades of being an innovator, entrepreneur and investor he has pioneered advertising in video games, developed best-selling games, and become a leader in the world of retail and fashion technology.
Following his time with Young and Rubicam, Bobroff built Microtime to pioneer the concept of in-game advertising - starting an advertising medium that would develop into a billion-dollar market. He also established one of the first digital advertising agencies, in a time before domestic internet use, which created interactive campaigns around gaming for hundreds of brands.
Close contact to the gaming world led Bobroff to build and lead Deibus Studios, an international video game developer which became one of the top extreme sports game publishers with games on PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo achieving sales in excess of 50 million units. Daniel Bobroff has founded, invested in and led companies within a range of innovative technologies including virtual reality, mobile apps, e-commerce and ad-tech. At the World leading online fashion retailer ASOS, Bobroff created the company’s venture capital arm. He was charged with scouting and investing in the latest innovations within retail and fashion technology.
From wearables to 3D printing and the changing nature of consumers and the high street, almost every aspect of retail has broader implications. Daniel Bobroff considers the demand for personal, immediate, and unique experiences; how all retail businesses have become tech businesses; and the importance of a startup culture and developing a new talent category.

Delphine Remy-Boutang
Former Head of Social Media at IBM, Digital Trend expert

Delphine Remy-Boutang is Founder of The Bureau, a social media strategy agency based in Paris and London. She previously worked at IBM in a number of roles including both Marketing Director and Communications Director for EMEA, after which she became world-wide Social Media Director.
Delphine co-ordinated IBM group’s transition to social media globally. For four years she executed the social media strategy inside a world-wide group of 470,000 employees. She identified market trends and developed new means of social media monitoring by defining rating and performance criteria specific to IBM.
 In 2012, Delphine left IBM to found The Bureau, an organisation specialised in social media strategy for enterprises. The aim is to work with organisations to focus on the evolution of new models of client, partner, and employee participation: a social business model.
 Delphine is involved in the representation of women in the professional world and is a member of the association 'For Women in Media'. She has also participated for the past 4 years in the Women’s Forum, a large annual event dedicated to the promotion of women in the finance industry. In 2013 she created the first Digital Woman Day, an event dedicated to entrepreneurship, digital, and innovation. In 2016, the fourth edition of this event took place in Paris on 10 March 2016.

Anastasia Sideri
Communications Director, Central and Eastern Europe The Coca‑Cola Company

Anastasia Sideri holds a degree in Chemical Engineering, and brings with her 32 years of professional experience in the Marketing, Strategic Communications & Public Affairs fields. She started her career with Procter and Gambleand held a series of senior positions in large greek and multinational companies, including FAGE, Boutari, DIAGEO, DHL and the Athens International Airport
 She joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2002 and is currently providing Communications leadership in 26 countries in Central and Southeast Europe. She is a founding member of the Hellenic Network of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Hellenic Communications network and served as Board member in the Hellenic Advertisers Association. She is  currently the President of the Women in Business (WIB) Committee of American Chamber of Commerce in Greece and Board member in various charitable organizations. She is an advocate of lifelong learning, is NLP trained, speaks 6 languages and is very active in areas related to Effective communications, Crisis communications,  CSR,  Volunteerism, Ethical leadership, Accountable Marketing, Growth mindset and Women and Youth empowerment . She is a speaker in fora and conferences around the globe in all areas above and in 2018 became a Tedx Talker at the Agricultural University of Athens. She is a mother of two children, 23 and 21 years old,  and lives with her husband in Athens Greece.

​Ken Hughes
World’s leading Consumer & Shopper Behaviouralist CEO Glacier Consulting

Ken Hughes is now acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading authorities on consumer and shopper behaviour, internationally renowned for helping his largely blue-chip client base to understand the future of consumerism. With over 18 years’ experience as CEO of a consumer insight agency, he blends his understanding of consumer & cyber psychology, digital anthropology, behavioural economics and retail futurology to explore the needs of the new consumer and predict the changes to come. Ken advises some of the biggest brands in the world on customer experience, omnichannel strategy, shopper marketing, retail trends, the millennial and Gen Z shopper and the peer-to-peer economy. As an accomplished author, TED speaker, part-time university professor and actor, his performances are not only insightful and thought-provoking, but are infamous for their sheer energy, entertainment and passion, not to mention his generous Irish wit. As a behaviouralist and life strategist, he is also passionate about change, success, personal development and motivation, which he brings to life in his work with high performance athletes and executives all over the world. ​Every year, Ken shares his thought-disrupting insight with tens of thousands of delegates globally, as one of the most popular keynote speakers booked on the international conference circuit relating to the future of consumerism. Regularly voted best speaker at events to which he is invited to speak, he believes in engaging and delighting event attendees at every opportunity.

Andreas Ekström
Award winning journalist, author and digital futurist       ​

Andreas Ekström is an award winning Swedish journalist, author and digital futurist. His topics reach across issues of digitalization, media, politics and culture. Ekström has been a keynote speaker at conferences all over the world and often serves as a digital thought partner for leaders and boards of directors. Ekström is also an active reporter and often uses journalistic methods and principles in his work. With a solid background in stage and tv production, Ekström is an experienced moderator and facilitator, able to craft high quality content and drive discussions. He is also a senior staff writer and columnist at Sydsvenskan, a daily morning paper in Malmö, Sweden. Ekström, an author of seven books, wrote a bestselling book about Google and has since been a keynote speaker, consultant and commentator on all things digital around the world. Andreas Ekström gained his biggest international audience through TED. His TED talk, recorded in Oslo, Norway, has reached over a million views to date. His passion is to educate for digital equality. He hopes to see a world in which wealth is shared – not only financially, but also in terms of knowledge and influence.

Cleopatra Kitti
Founder of the Mediterranean Growth Initiative

Cleopatra is the founder of the Mediterranean Growth Initiative the only real time data analysis platform for the economies of the Mediterranean championing regional trade and market opportunity for investors and policy makers; a certified independent Director and Non-Executive director of Eurobank Cyprus (financial services); Louis Plc (regional travel and tourism); INSEAD’s  ambassador to Cyprus for its Independent Directors Network focusing building capacity and sharing knowledge on good governance; member of the international advisory board, International Crisis Group, the international NGO working to prevent war and shape peace.

Harris Georgiades
Minister of Finance, Cyprus  ​

Harris Georgiades was born in 1972 in Nicosia. He was appointed as Minister of Finance of the Republic of Cyprus on 3rd April 2013 and was reappointed on 1st March 2018. He had the leading role in the implementation and successful conclusion of the reform and consolidation program for the Cyprus economy after the financial crisis of 2012-2013. He participates in the Eurogroup and the ECOFIN. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the period 2014-2015 and is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, the European Investment Bank and the European Stability Mechanism. He was selected by POLITICO as one of the 28 most-influential Europeans for 2016. He is a member of the Young Leaders for Europe community of the World Economic Forum. Prior to his appointment as Minister he was a Member of the House of Representatives with the Democratic Rally Party (2011-2013). He also served as Press Spokesman and as member of the Executive of the Democratic Rally. He studied International Relations and Economics (BA, MA, 1992-96) at the University of Reading, UK and was a post-graduate researcher at the Institute of European and International Studies, University of Reading (1996-98). 

George Nounesis
Director & Chairman of the Board of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (Tesla Greece)      ​

George Nounesis is the Director & Chairman of the Board of the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos” for a four-year term (2017-2021), an institution that is associated with Tesla Greece.  Dr. Nounesis studied Physics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He obtained his PhD at the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Minnesota.  He completed a three-year Postdoctoral training at the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Executive Education Program on “Innovation for Economic Development”at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  He is currently the Director of the Biomolecular Physics Laboratory at Demokritos. Prior to returning to Greece he held Research Staff appointments at the Center for Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and at the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory. He has spent sabbatical leaves at the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal at CNRS and the Chemistry Department of the University of Bordeaux I as an Invited Professor.  His research is mainly focused on structural and thermodynamic studies of nano-structured soft materials as well as biomolecules, primarily proteins.  For his work he has received awards and distinctionsfrom the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, the Empirikion Foundation, the United States Department of the Navy and the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.  He serves as an Expert Reviewer of several National and International Research Funding Organizations in the European Commission, the USA (NSF), Poland, Turkey, Belgium and Greece.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Network security expert and former WikiLeaks spokesperson in Germany    ​

A network security expert by trade, Domscheit-Berg is an advocate for transparency and freedom of speech by heart, deeply caring for equal access to knowledge and information in a globalized world. In 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its FP Top 100 Global Thinkers. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, born in 1978, helped build the WikiLeaks platform from late 2007 to September 2010, and acted as its spokesperson under the pseudonym Daniel Schmitt. He quit WikiLeaks over disputes about its strategic orientation, lack of transparency and management style. Domscheit-Berg wrote a book about his experiences "Inside WikiLeaks“, which was published in early 2011, was translated into 23 languages and was one source for the subsequent Hollywood movie "The Fifth Estate".
 Before WikiLeaks, Domscheit-Berg worked for various fortune 500 companies, mainly building enterprise-scale wireless and wired networks for the automotive and transport industries. Domscheit-Berg today is involved with various internet projects relacted to privacy and anonymity, and furthering the decentralization of the Internet's infrastructure, Running a small innovation lab in Brandenburg's countryside, he passionately teaches kids about electronics and technology, and grows vegetables in a networked garden. In 2015, he will be working on bringing the open fiber broadband revolution to Germany. He has presented and debated on future chances as well as risks in a digitized and networked world in a multitude of both national and international conferences and fora, spanning a broad range from universities via commercial venues to the World Economic Forum, and is regularly present in national and international media on said topics.

David Clarke
FBCS, Chief Technology Officer The Trust Bridge        ​

​David has been recognized as one of the top 10 influencers by Thompson Reuter top 30 most influential thought-leaders and thinkers on social media, in risk management, compliance and regtech in the UK. David is a highly experienced Chief Information Security Officer/Cyber Security & GDPR Management Consultant with a deep knowledge of Global project delivery and operational leadership. He operates across FTSE (Financial Times Stock Exchange) 100, SME (small to medium enterprise) and start-ups within Financial Services, FinTech, Telecoms, Technology and Utilities sectors developing strong coherent cyber security, GDPR data protection and privacy strategies. David created a Global Infrastructure for  the world’s largest private trading network, trading $ 3 trillion a day, and has managed Multiple Global Security Operations Centres.

Prof. Kathleen Richardson
Professor of ethics of culture of robots and AI at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK    

Kathleen Richardson is professor of ethics of culture of robots and AI at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. She has a PhD in social anthropology from the university of Cambridge and her fieldwork explored the making of robots and AI at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Since then she has gone on to study the development of therapeutic robots for children with autism, sex robots and automation in the workplace. She is an international speaker on the ethics of robots and AI. Richardson is author of An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines (2015) and Challenging Sociality; An Anthropology of Autism, Attachment and Robots (2018). She is series editor of The Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI (Palgrave). ​She is also founder of the Campaign Against Sex Robots.   

Nikolaos Mavridis
Founder and director of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) 

​Nikolaos Mavridis, PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is an Academic and Consultant specializing in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Founder and director of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML), he has served as faculty at numerous institutions, including New York University (NYU) AD and Poly, among others. Before his PhD, he was awarded an M.Sc. from UCLA, and a M.Eng. from the Aristotle University, all with Suma Cum Laude. He has received significant media attention, such as coverage of IRML projects from media of >20 countries, including the BBC, Agence France-Presse etc. He is the author of >80 peer-reviewed academic publications, and has served as vice-chair of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society, bid preparer and TC member that brought the World Robot Olympiad to Abu Dhabi, founding chair of the IEEE UAE Robotics and Automation Society, and mentor in The Next Generation Initiative. Nikolaos has also completed further PD courses from the MIT Sloan School of Business, and courses in International Relations from LSE, as well as courses in Social Entrepreneurship from Berkeley HAAS. Furthermore, he is a board member at several companies, and has been an invited keynote speaker at more than 50 venues worldwide, including the Singularity University summit, a TEDx Speaker four times, including Athens and Geneva, as well as a speaker at the World Forum for Democracy in Strasbourg. He has also served as Judge for the Dubai Prime Minister's Office "Drones for Good" and "Robotics and AI for Good" international competitions, and is a mentor for the MIT Enterprise Forum, and a member of the MIT Educational Council.

Yiorgos Lakkotrypis
Minister of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism

Before assuming office as Minister of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism in March 2013, Yiorgos Lakkotrypis was Managing Director for Microsoft Cyprus and Malta, and subsequently Public Sector Director at Microsoft Central & Eastern Europe. A Fulbright scholar, Lakkotrypis also holds a Mathematics and Computer Science (BSc) degree from the University of Keele and completed his MBA at the University of Colorado.