The 8th Mobile Connected World Conference, held on Wednesday 30 May 2018 at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, was a great success, with the general title “Mobility: from Smart to Intelligent”.
The Mobile Connected World Conference was again attended by executives from the Telecom and IT market, manufacturers of mobile devices, technological equipment and wireless infrastructure, business software development companies, financial institutions, technology investors, web and app developers, members of the academic community and representatives of start-up entrepreneurship.
The conference was opened by Vasiliki Gogou from the office of the President of EETT and Kostas Haniotis, President of SEKEE.
The conference analysed the following four sections:
Session 1: Transforming the User Experience
Session 2: Mobility makes business go ’round
Session 3: Next-Gen Mobile Ecosystem
Session 4: Smart Cities, Intelligent Societies!
Moreover, in the context of the conference, the In*vent ICT programme was presented in a parallel session, which is an initiative of the innovation and entrepreneurship node EPI.noo of EPISY/NTUA and the organization Industry Disruptors Game Changers, designed and implemented with the assistance of the Association of Mobile Telephony Companies, designed to develop start-up entrepreneurship and a new generation of technological development, with the creation of new and sustainable businesses. The presentation was given by the Project Manager of InventICT, Evangelos Siokas, and the parallel session was moderated by Mr. Yannis Kalogirou, Professor of NTUA, and member of the InventICT Scientific Board. Teams graduating from the first cycle of the programme also spoke, and there was a discussion on the role of cooperation between universities and research centres and businesses in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the ICT sector.
At the same time, a series of thematic workshops presented by specialized speakers and professionals in the field covered specialized aspects of App Development, Mobile Marketing, etc., offering a useful experience to the participants.
As every year, this year’s event was the Mobile & Connected Awards, organized with the help of MyPhone.gr, the largest Greek forum for mobile devices in Greece, and aim to reward the best mobile devices of the year, as well as the best applications, mobile business and IoT implementations.
LIEE NTUA participates as a partner organization in the new Erasmus+ program for energy communities titled EU-NETS, starting from the beginning of 2022. EU-NETS deals with the emerging issue of Energy Communities, with the aim of developing a new training path for executives and professionals who will work to create, develop and manage these new entities, which will play an important role in energy and climate. In order to make the transition to a sustainable economy and create a real climate policy, it is vital to make the energy system fully sustainable. This transition is also a great opportunity to achieve the goal of energy democracy. The Energy Community is a community of users (private, public or mixed) located in a specific area, in which end users (citizens, businesses, public administration, etc.), market players (utilities, etc.) , designers, planners and policy makers actively work together to develop high levels of “smart” energy supply, optimizing the use of renewable sources and technological innovation in distributed generation and enabling implementation efficiency measures to reap economic benefits. sustainability and energy security. The creation and management of these communities will require the development of new professionals who in the coming years will be responsible for guiding the design, development, implementation and management of energy programs for the whole community and will guide the Community’s goal of reducing community-wide greenhouse gas emissions.
The list of partner organizations from abroad includes ASSISTAL, EnergyLab, and the University of Coruna. More information will be announced soon.
Members of the NTUA Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA Associate Professor Angelos Tsakanikas, Dr. Evangelos Siokas and Georgios Siokas published a scientific article entitled “Implementing smart city strategies in Greece: appetite for success” in the scientific journal Cities. For more information about the article click here*.
For citation as a bibliography:
Siokas, G., Tsakanikas, A. and Siokas, E., 2020. Implementing smart city strategies in Greece: Appetite for success. Cities, 108, p.102938.
*Free access until 25 November 2020
Singularity University Greece Summit 2021
The Technology Transfer Office (GMT) and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit (MOKE) NTUA, in collaboration with the Lambraki Foundation, give the opportunity exclusively to members of the Polytechnic community to attend the Singularity University Greece Summit free of charge. The event will take place on November 22 and 23, 2021 and will be broadcast live in the multimedia amphitheater of NTUA. This is a very interesting event, which deals with the cutting edge of technology and how developments related to emerging technologies can create opportunities for economic growth with a significant positive impact on society. The theme of this year’s event is “Reimagine” and includes a series of interesting speeches by energy-leading speakers. The Lambraki Foundation, which has been active for the last 29 years in the field of education and lifelong learning as a non-profit organization, mediates for the free offer to selected members of the academic and educational community live stream for students and members of the academic community.
All protective measures for the pandemic will be observed. The use of a mask by all attendees is mandatory throughout the event. Vaccination or disease certificates or negative rapid test 24h or PCR test 72h of all attendees will be checked.
Programme https://su.gr/summit-program/
The Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics of NTUA has undertaken the preparation of the study for the creation of an Innovation Area in the framework of the reconstruction plan of Northern Evia.
The study aims to develop a roadmap for upgrading the region’s innovation potential. It will utilize and contribute to all the individual thematic studies of the project, while it will analyze in greater depth: a) The dynamics of the local productive ecosystem in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship and b) the development of a roadmap to upgrade the capacity of its productive actors area.
The final goal of the study is to propose specific projects and actions that can be financed by the existing financial tools for the wider upgrade of the area, within the framework and the overall plan that will be formed.