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Innovate in Greece by SEV & Endeavor Greece

Mapping the world of artificial intelligence, a discussion with Eve Psalti

Eve Psalti and Marco Veremis discuss artificial intelligence, its challenges, opportunities and threats.

Eve Psalti is Senior Engineering Director of Azure AI at Microsoft USA and explains how in an ever-changing world, lifelong learning is becoming a necessity.

She practices reskilling every week to be able, as she explains, to keep up with the rapid and constant changes that are happening in the field of AI.

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Greece is a resilient country, but so is its diaspora. As the United States, the United Kingdom, and other tech powerhouses boast their tech mastery, Greece’s diaspora quietly but decisively reshapes the narrative. Moreover, the concentration of diaspora-founded companies predominantly aligns with the most established tech hubs globally. Read more at therecursive.

Furnished rental startup Blueground with $560M in revenue, raised a Series D $45M funding. The valuation was reportedly $750 million after raising a $140 million Series C in September 2021. The company valuation is estimated to have exceeded the unicorn threshold.

CollegeLink has announced a new round of funding of 400,000 euros.The funds will be used to further develop its innovative product, which is expected to significantly increase the ease and reliability of selecting executives from companies across Europe.

The Institute for Language and Speech Processing of Athena Research & Innovation Center has recently introduced Meltemi, the first Greek Large Language Model (LLM). Meltemi is built on top of Mistral-7B and has been trained on a corpus of high-quality Greek texts.

Startup executives and research teams were welcomed at the premises of BARBA STATHIS, as part of the Business Day event organised by SEV, with the aim of directly linking its member companies with the innovation ecosystem.

Dimitris Papalexopoulos, President of SEV, and George Papadimitriou, Partner and CESA Accounts & Markets Leader EY Greece, discussed the findings of the survey on the pulse of entrepreneurship and the challenges facing Greek manufacturing implemented by EY in collaboration with SEV, in the framework of the Delphi Economic Forum 2024.

Google and SEV join forces to launch an AI training program designed to equip Greek businesses and their employees with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in the age of AI. This Google program is part of the recently released "AI skilling initiative in Greece" and covers a wide range of AI-related topics such as intro to machine learning, cloud computing and data analysis, boost your productivity with AI and more. Find out more in.

Aristos Doxiadis, Partner with BigPi and Vice President of ΕΣΕΤΕΚ discusses how Greece can change its productive model by laying focus of policy interventions in specific sectors of the industry and the services market during a specific period of time.

Marco Veremis and Kostas Mallios discuss in this fireside chat whether losing full control is important for entrepreneurial growth, how the concept of diversity can change entrepreneurship in Greece, and which markets should businesses that want to take the big step towards their growth target?

An investment proposal submitted by Atlas Robotics to Enterprise Greece foresees the creation of a manufacturing factory for robotic technology in northwestern Greece, with a budget of 91 million euros. The ambitious project, which claims to be included in the regime of strategic investments, if implemented, will provide for the implementation of a factory manufacturing robotic systems and a research and development unit at Karteri in the municipality of Igoumenitsa.

VIANEX Group announced a strategic partnership with two Greek genetics companies, iDNA Genomics and iDNA Laboratories, on a medical and commercial level respectively, which are active in the field of Medical Precision and Genomic Analysis (DNA Test), aiming at personalized health care. Through this partnership, the Group expands its activities in the field of prevention and promotes innovation in the health sector through products that have been identified as pioneering and help both in the prevention of serious and treatment of chronic diseases.

Giannis Grammatikos serves as the Head of Sales and Operations at KYKLOS GROUP, a leading player in producing chemical flocculating products for various industries, leveraging the recovery of hazardous waste. Gianni's professional origins start in Athens as an executive in a successful Greek startup before deciding to move away from all the startup fame and run a unique installation of industrial symbiosis in the periphery. We met with Giannis and discussed his work at KYKLOS Group and his professional story. Here's what he told us.

Hellenic Federation of Enterprises - SEV is organizing a business day with Coca Cola HBC on April 25. Company’s executives will meet and discuss with Greek startups and scaleups at the company’s premises. To learn more about the Business Days initiative click here.

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