Birthdays of humans, technologies, ideas and politics
03/26/2023
Birthdays of humans, technologies, ideas and politics
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
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Financing the tech start up ecosystem: The SVB case
03/19/2023
Financing the tech start up ecosystem: The SVB case
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
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AI in infrastructures: Transforming the future of the Built Environment
03/12/2023
AI in infrastructures: Transforming the future of the Built Environment
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
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The case of culture in safety
03/05/2023
The case of culture in safety
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
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The Revolution and Evolution of Elevating Greece
02/26/2023
The Revolution and Evolution of Elevating Greece
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
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Is Innovation serving research or world challenges?
02/19/2023
Is Innovation serving research or world challenges?
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
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The future of Research and Innovation investment and development
02/12/2023
The future of Research and Innovation investment and development
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
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The benefits of foresight in an innovative economy
02/05/2023
The benefits of foresight in an innovative economy
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
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Talking Medicine and Forefront Healthcare
01/29/2023
Talking Medicine and Forefront Healthcare
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
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The AI Age of Predictions
01/22/2023
The AI Age of Predictions
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
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Precision medicine and “circular” healthcare
01/15/2023
Precision medicine and “circular” healthcare
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
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Redefining technology
01/08/2023
Redefining technology
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
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Bonus: The first 2023 episode- Το πρώτο επεισόδιο για το 2023
01/01/2023
Bonus: The first 2023 episode- Το πρώτο επεισόδιο για το 2023
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
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A Christmas for curious minds: bonus episode
12/25/2022
A Christmas for curious minds: bonus episode
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
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The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology
12/18/2022
The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology
"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
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Strategical innovation and leadership in the cyber-physical age
12/11/2022
Strategical innovation and leadership in the cyber-physical age
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
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Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
12/04/2022
Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)
"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
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The arrival of next-generation energy
11/27/2022
The arrival of next-generation energy
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
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Advanced automobility and transportation Part 1- Innovation in travel futures
11/20/2022
Advanced automobility and transportation Part 1- Innovation in travel futures
"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
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Decision making in crisis times
11/13/2022
Decision making in crisis times
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
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Forging scientific communication for technological progress and democracy
11/06/2022
Forging scientific communication for technological progress and democracy
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
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For all mankind: lunar and deep space exploration- the chemical engineering perspective
10/30/2022
For all mankind: lunar and deep space exploration- the chemical engineering perspective
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'
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Working smarter, not harder in the era of AI?
10/23/2022
Working smarter, not harder in the era of AI?
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
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Systems thinking of decision making for sustainable development
10/16/2022
Systems thinking of decision making for sustainable development
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:·
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