More than 210 scientific papers are being presented in Athens this week as the Greeks in AI 2026 Symposium brings togeth...

More than 210 scientific papers are being presented in Athens this week as the Greeks in AI 2026 Symposium brings together Greek AI researchers and professionals from across the world. The three-day event runs July 15 to 17 at the Eugenides Foundation Conference Center and covers machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, AI in healthcare, and AI for science. Speakers include researchers from some of the world's top institutions. Among those presenting are Serge Belongie from the University of Copenhagen and ELLIS, Constantine Caramanis from UT Austin, Lydia Kavraki from Rice University, Michalis Vazirgiannis from MBZUAI and École Polytechnique, André Martins from IST and ELLIS NLP, and Leontios Hadjileontiadis from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The opening day includes a dedicated doctoral symposium with lightning talks, one-on-one mentorship from senior researchers in both academia and industry, and informal office hours for career and research questions. Workshops on causality, NeuroAI, OpenAI models, and AI-industry collaboration are also running on day one. A new fellowship was announced this year through the Bodossaki Foundation, supporting one PhD candidate enrolled at a Greek university or research center to carry out a research visit at a leading institution abroad. The organizers say the event's core goal is to fight brain drain by building stronger local opportunities for collaboration between academia and industry, and to establish Greece as a serious hub of AI excellence on the global stage. The full schedule is available at greeksin.ai. #GreeksInAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Greece