What do birthdays have to do with technology?Anyone and anything born: a human, a technology, an idea, reminds us of the beginning of a life cycle.What is the future of AI in scientific research (ChatGPT- Large Language models), and why should it matter to all?Is there a future for engineering, scie

Gerasimos Papaleventis (Vice President - Treasury, Head of Controlling and Monitoring in FIMBank plc, Malta) discusses and helps us detangle the implications of the current banks’ crises to see how they could affect the start-up and technology sectors:how startup-focused banks affect the innovation

Professor Ioannis Brilakis, the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK), discusses how AI in infrastructure transforms the future of the Built Environment:· making roads safer and greener,· robotics and automation science and technology,· game

Why is the socio-cultural safety mentality important to avoid needless accidents when we have available technologies?Why is the design of safety procedures important, even if we employ the latest cutting-edge technologies available?Why are socio-cultural safety mentality and the design, implementati

Michael Dritsas, CEO of ‘Elevate Greece’, the Hellenic Republic’s national start-up platform and in-depth information resource on the Greek start-up Ecosystem, is the Head of the Cabinet of the Deputy Minister for Development and Investments under Research and Innovation. Mr Dritsas discusses:boosti

Why do we meet national and international competition in the world economy around start-ups?How did we get to the point that the old economy no longer serves the new one? And what are the reasons such a trend was set?Would the innovation approach toward science, engineering and technology serve rese

The Deputy Minister of Development and Investments of the Hellenic Republic, under the Research and Innovation portfolio, Christos Dimas (PhD), discusses:· How "Elevate Greece" links start-ups with investors to accelerate nationally or internationally· Changing the mentality of academia toward innov

What is the interplay between neuroscience, leadership, innovation, human capital and talent?Is foresight a concrete procedure for organisations, or is it also transferrable to individuals?Is upskilling and retraining enough when we transform the economy through novel technologies whose core are inn

With Dr Kyriaki (Kiki) Sonidou, a GP (General Practitioner), a specialist in Cardiology and Diabetes, and President of the Hellenic Medical Society in the U.K., LSE and Harvard University Global Health delivery and systems), we discuss:if we are close to the end of the pandemic (or is it too soon to

Professor Dimitris Drikakis (Vice President for Global Partnerships, Executive Director for Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Defence and Security Research Institute President) discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI):and Computational Science become predictive technolo

With Dr Constantine Stratakis (Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Chief Scientific Officer of ELPEN, SA), we discuss how precision medicine:becomes a tool by AI that can

Welcoming you into the 4th season of the Global Greek Influence podcast, you are re-introduced to what binds together:· international Greeks who talk about technology through research, innovation, the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and (yes) history,· to define and address our current and fu

This is our first new year’s episode and the first one in Greek! We keep our usual technology and around-technology format. My first guest is Dr Dimitris Kontziampasis, whom you first met in January 2020 at the episode “A Greek, young academic living and working abroad”.Our episodes in English will

As engineers, scientists, technologists, researchers in STEM and other researchers, we seek originality in science and its potential applications. As people, we fit into a role we choose. Christmas is a season we mostly reconnect with our people, also tend to look inwards and seek answers. How can w

"The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology"  is about i) re-inventing their research field and bringing transparency to the new market and economy, ii) creating an environment where researchers can also thrive as individuals based on their talents and human approach, iii) enjoy

With Tyrone Pitsis (Professor of Strategy and Technology, Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Management, Durham University, U.K.), we discuss:The necessity of collaborations (alliance) in entrepreneurship.Design(erly) thinking in strategic formulation.Does foresight help us predict

"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)" is about bringing together engineering knowledge, human senses, and product quality, also improving operational instabilities in advanced automobility (fuel cells), "connected and autonomous" vehicles (CAVs) and susta

Dr Vasilis Gregoriou (CEO of Advent Technologies in the US, PhD in Physical Chemistry from Duke University in the US, Director and Chairman of the Board at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)) discusses- in what Advent Technologies owes its technological #leadership worldwide,- the fact

"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 1: Innovation in travel futures" is about the current, future and #hybrid technologies (internal combustion #engines, #fuelcells, #batteries) also multimodal travelling and mobility-as-a-service in smart cities travel, perceived #experience quality in

Making decisions at a personal, professional also collective level, especially in times of crisis, is a process we tend to avoid, or we foresee the uncertainties related to them. In this special episode, Professor Koundouri and Professor Psychogios answer to:how can we make better and faster decisio

In the past years, the scientific and research communities have been put in this awkward position to apologise for non-experts' spread of misinformationincluding that scientists are corrupt because their facts do not align with what has been widely disseminated.Either anonymously through social medi

With Dr Vassilis Inglezakis (PhD, Chemical Engineer, Reader in Chemical Engineering, and Director of Research at the University of Strathclyde, the U.K.), we discuss the case of Lunar and Martian camps for the planets also deep space exploration:the available hydrogen production systems (fuel cells'

Are we working smarter, not harder, in the era of AI? In the age of artificial intelligence, businesses and organisations benefit from making informed decisions based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.What happens to those hard-skilled scientists and engineers, including researchers? H

Professor Phoebe Koundouri (Athens University of Economics and Business- Greece; Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)) speaks to the Global Greek Influence podcast on "Systems thinking of decision making for sustainable development". We discuss:·