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Since graduating from the University of Warwick (UK) with a BSc in Computer Science, Kostas has been thinking of ways to make computers “amaze” their users in ways that are both intelligent and creative.
Kostas’s first venture was an automated forex trading system, the first of its kind, which grew to 10,000 users within 10 months of operations, with trading volumes of £1.4 billion during Q1.
Kostas exited this business and ventured in the mobile phone games industry, being one of the first app developers on the iPhone platform through his company, GreatApps. Creator of blockbuster iSteam (3 million downloads), Kostas can be credited with a number of innovations in the field of mobile gaming, including TapForce (patent pending).

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Dimosthenis Kaponis is the founder and managing director of Cosmical Technology Ltd. and a Ph.D candidate at Imperial College London where he also got his M.Eng in Information Systems Engineering. At Imperial, he worked as a Research Associate in the Intelligent Systems and Networks group, during which time he worked on two European IST research projects, architecting an electronic contract-based trust mechanism in workflow management systems. Prior to founding Cosmical Technology in 2005, he worked as a consultant and contractor for a number of companies in the United Kingdom and Greece, specialising on software architecture, software engineering, distributed systems, security and algorithms.

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Andreas oversees the growth and strategy of VisionMobile. He has been working on the mobile industry since 2000, helping take the very first smartphones to market. Since then he’s worked with the top brand names in the mobile industry including Telefonica, AT&T, Telenor, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, MTS, Nokia, Sony, RIM, HTC, Qualcomm, Ericsson and Microsoft. Over the last five years, Andreas has grown VisionMobile into the leading, most respected research firm on telco economics and developer economics, with a client base and reputation that outrivals companies many times the size.

In his academic life, Andreas is an Adjunct Professor at Lund University, Sweden, where he teaches the Mobile Industry Dynamics Course, and a Visiting Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business where he teaches Entrepreneurship. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Image & Video Compression from the University of Bristol, UK.

Prior to founding VisionMobile, Andreas spent 3 years at Orange’s Research & Innovation division, including serving as a technology lead for the Orange-Microsoft relationship. His interests include understanding the economics behind mobile industry disruption and visualising industry trends.

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Marina started her legal career as a trainee solicitor with Clifford Chance in 1998. She qualified into the Maritime and International Trade Group in March 2000. Her areas of expertise include maritime dispute resolution (including charterparty, bills of lading and building contract disputes), commodities and international trade, mergers and acquisitions, advice on corporate structures and legal due diligence of companies, corporate governance, joint venture and shareholder agreements and cross-border acquisitions.
She is currently General Counsel of Electronic Shipping Solutions, an eDocs Services provider which enables international trade participants to better manage and transact the documents required for operations, legal, compliance and customs purposes. She also advises Assos Capital Limited, an independent real estate private equity firm specializing in South-East Europe.
She obtained a 2:1 in her bachelor degree in Government and Law from the London School of Economics and completed the Legal Practice Course with Distinction. In 1997, she obtained an LLM in Maritime Law from University College London with Distinction and was awarded the Derby/Bryce Prize in Law for obtaining the highest marks in the Faculty of Laws across the University of London. Marina is admitted to practice as a Solicitor in England and Wales and is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

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Ms Teresa Farmaki, 30, has received a BSc in Economics from the National and Capidistrian University of Athens and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York with particular focus in Entrepreneurship and Finance. She also studied one MBA semester at London Business School, where she supported Imperial College postgraduate students to complete commercialization studies on their innovation ideas.
Teresa was Head of Private Equity at Piraeus Bank in Athens, where she evaluated a wide spectrum of venture capital and private equity investments in terms of size and maturity. In the beginning of 2009 she launched the 30M Piraeus-TANEO venture capital fund, which is now run by a team of three.
Previously, she worked in investment banking at UBS Investment Bank in Mergers & Acquisitions in London and in Power and Renewable Energy in New York. She started her professional career in 2000 and has worked in several positions in asset management and consulting.

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Panayotis Vryonis started his career as a software developer in the mid '90s. Since then he has co-founded a company providing on-line travel services, he has lead the OgilvyOne Athens Development team in it's early steps, he has participated, and in many cases lead, the development and implementation of a winning social media strategy for a political party, worked for the Greek Prime Minister's office, lead Asset Ogilvy PR's 360 Digital Influence team and held a position on the Board of Directors of one of the largest (cap.) companies of the Athens Stock Exchange. An active advocate of Open Source Software, Panayotis was one of the founding members of the Hellenic Linux Users Group in 1998 and served multiple times on the Group's board. He is one of the first Greek bloggers and the first greek podcaster. His greek blog aggregator, called "monitor", played a key role in the early stages of the Greek blogosphere. In 2012, he founded RL8.co, that provides "digital community relations" services for organisations and companies