PROGRAMME
FRIDAY | APRIL 4, 2014
08:00 - 09:00Accreditation and Coffee
09:00 - 10:30OPENING SESSION
Chair
Sia KOSSIONI
Journalist
Opening
Vasso KOLLIA
Secretary General for Gender Equality, Ministry of Interior, Greece
Welcome Speeches
Antonis SAMARAS
Prime Minister of Greece
Neelie KROES
Vice President of the European Commission Responsible for the Digital Agenda for Europe - (video message)
Konstantinos GKIOULEKAS
Deputy Minister of Education, Greece
Ioannis PANAGIOTOPOULOS
General Secretary of Mass Media, Greece
Eva FABRY
Director, European Centre for Women and Technology - ECWT
Virginija LANGBAKK
Director, European Institute for Gender Equality - EIGE
10:30 - 11:30 Women & Girls Go Digital - WGGDG for increasing the female talent in Digital Jobs
Vasso KOLLIA
Secretary General for Gender Equality, Greece
Introduction of the Initiative: "Women & Girls Go Digital"
Panagiotis KANELLOPOULOS
Secretary General for Youth, Ministry of Education, Greece
Youth Dimension of the Initiative
Yannis SIRROS
Director General, Federation of Hellenic Information Technology & Communications Enterprises (SEPE)
ICT Market Dimension of the Initiative
Pantelis NIKOLAIDIS
Initiative Coordinator
Presentation of the Initiative's Action Plan
11:30 - 12:00Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:30Bringing more women into digital sector
Chair
Marietta GRAMMENOU
DG Connect
Sasha BEZUHANOVA
Director Bulgarian Centre of Women & Technology, Chair of ECWT's High-level Advisory Committee
Theodoros ABATZOGLOU
President, Manpower Employment Organisation
Effie BASDRA
President, State Scholarships Foundation,
National Contact for Erasmus+
Alexa JOYCE
Senior Corporate Development Manager & e-Skills Project Director, European Schoolnet
Christina KARAITIDI
Information Officer, Representation of the European Commission in Greece
13:30 - 14:30Lunch - Coffee
14:30 - 18:00Knowledge Shots for Women in ICT*
Facilitators
Olga STAVROPOULOU
Chair of Entrepreneurship Alliance of European Centre for Women and Technology, President of MILITOS S.A.
Dimitris RAFTOPOULOS
Chair of Finances & EU Projects Working Group of European Centre for Women and Technology, Chief Executive Manager of knowl Social Enterprise for Education and Lifelong Learning
Keynote Speaker
Buke CUHADAR
Vice-President, Global Entrepreneurship Week
Speakers
Marica LAMBROU
CEO SingularLogic
Danny GOORIS
Senior Manager EMEA, Oracle Academy
Matina HATZIPAVLOU
Human Resources Lead, Microsoft Hellas
Antonis TSIBOUKIS
CEO, CISCO Systems HELLAS
Venetia KOUSSIA
Director, Manpower Group Hellas
Ioannis VOUTSINAS
CEO, National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications & Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP)
Anastasia MANOU
President, Sector of Women Managers and Entrepreneurs (TOGME), Hellenic Management Association
Stavrianna KOFTEROS
Special Entrepreneurship & RDI Adviser & Deputy Spokesperson at Democratic Rally (Cyprus)
Dimitris KALAVROS-GOUSIOU
Founder of Found.ation
Ioannis GAROFALAKIS
Head, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department - University of Patras
Dimitris ASKOUNIS
Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, N.T.U.A.
Aggeliki ARAPOGIANNIS
Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications
Dionisis KOLOKOTSAS
Google Public Policy Manager
Spyridoula DRAKOPOULOU
Agency Relationship Manager, Google
Nantia KATSANOU
Team Europe, Representation of European Commission in Greece
*Speakers' order will be finalised depending on their presentations in order to ensure complementarily and having the one topic leading into the other.
18:00 - 18:15Announcement of the European ADA Awards 2014
Cheryl MILLER, Founder Digital Leadership Institute
18:15 - 19:00Exhibition - Cocktail
Exhibition area for Pledge Participants, Startups, Success Stories, Best Practice and Entrepreneurs