Review of the SMART4ALL Special Session and pitching event on the 6th SEEDA-CECNSM 2021
A successful specialsession and the first SMART4ALL pitching event were held on 24thSeptember in the context of the 6th SEEDA-CECNSM 2021, which was jointly organized by the Department of Electrical & ComputerEngineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece and the Departments of Informatics &Telecommunications and Accounting & Finance, University of Ioannina and technically co-sponsored by the IEEEComputational Intelligence Society.
The online event,which was attended by almost 40 people from different countries and coordinatedby SMART4ALL technical manager, Mr. Christos Antonopoulos, opened with an inspiring keynote speech byMr. Nikolaos Lambrogeorgos, Senior Account Manager of the Public Sectorin Greece at Cisco Hellas S.A, who, among else, introduced the CiscoInternational Center for Digital Transformation and Digital Skills (DT&S) in his speech entitled “Advancing Innovationthrough digital transformation acceleration and promotion of digital skills”.
During the morningsession, which was open to all attendees with free registration, 7 of thefunded experiments of the first round of SMART4ALL Open Calls (EmbDevOps KTE,APIARY and EDIoT FTTEs, FlexCLEC, RADIUS, ReAsssure and TONI-AI) werepresented, while SMART4ALL Task Forces representatives Prof. Cornelia Weltzienand assistant professor Tanya Politi, offered insightful comments on theDigitized Agriculture and Digitized Environment verticals respectively.
On the second part ofthe special session, the first SMART4ALL pitching event for selected fundedprojects was held as a contest among 5 PAEs (APIARY, EDIoT, FlexCLEC, RADIUS, TONI-AI)who made brief targeted presentations to be evaluated by a board of fourevaluators: Mr. Nikitas Georgiadis, Sales Account manager at Cisco, Mr. Miguel Raposo entrepreneur and investor, Mr. Konstantinos Karvounakis, InvestmentAssociate at Metavallon.vc and Mr. Georgios Keramidas, Assistant professor in Computer Architecture,technical manager of SMART4ALL and CSO at Think Silicon S.A.. TONI-AI CTTE,represented by Marko Petkovic, data scientist at 5MICT, gained the firstplace in the pitching and the award, a.k.a. a CCNA voucher offered by Cisco.
All the presentations from the first part of the special session have been uploaded to SMART4ALL YouTube channel.
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