Dr Karkaletsis is the Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications at NCSR Demokritos, and a member of the High Level Advisory Committee on AI to the Greek Prime Minister. Also member of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics and the Expert Group on AI Incidents at OECD.AI. Previously Member of the National Council for Research and Innovation (ESETEK) and Head of the Software & Knowledge Engineering Lab (SKEL The AI Lab) at IIT. Coordinator, scientific and technical manager of many European and national projects and organiser of numerous scientific international conferences, workshops and summer schools. For more than 10 years he was responsible for the Institute’s educational activities, and initiated joint PhD scholarships programmes with several Universities abroad. He launched the Masters programmes for NCSR Demokritos in collaboration with Greek Universities (MSc in Data Science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence), and set up the initial educational programme for primary and secondary schools visiting the research centre. His research interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, content analysis, big data management, knowledge representation, human-machine interaction.

Alexandra Mitsotaki is co-founder & president of the World Human Forum, a global citizen initiative which has its symbolic base in Delphi, launching international initiatives from important sites such as Delos, Aristotle’s Lyceum in Athens and Eleusis. In 1998 she founded ActionAid Hellas, the Greek affiliate of ActionAid, the international organisation against poverty and injustice. For the last 10 years she was in charge of the Hellenic Cultural Centre in Paris of which she is now vice-chair. Reacting to the financial crisis in Greece, in 2014 she co-founded Action Finance Initiative, the first microcredit organisation in Greece. She is a member of the High-Level Roundtable of the New European Bauhaus, an initiative of the European Commission aiming to connect the European Green Deal to our living spaces. Her interdisciplinary experience over the past years has made her a profound supporter of the importance of a holistic approach to tackle the big challenges of our time.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis was first sworn in as Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic July 2019 and was re-elected in June 2023. President of Nea Demokratia since January 2016, he managed to modernize his party. As Minister of Administrative Reform and e-Government from June 2013 until January 2015, he spearheaded comprehensive national reforms by implementing a functional reorganization of institutions, structures and processes. A member of the Parliament since 2004, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has participated in the Committee for Constitutional Amendment, the Committee for Trade and the Committee for National Defense and the Environment Committee. He was also an active member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Before entering politics, he worked for ten years in the private sector as a financial analyst with Chase Investment Bank, a consultant with McKinsey and Company and finally as CEO of NBG Venture Capital at the National Bank of Greece. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Social Studies, summa cum laude, from Harvard University, and earned an MA in International Relations from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.