{"id":20223,"date":"2025-06-19T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/?p=20223"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T11:42:03","slug":"ai-as-an-accelerator-of-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/2025\/06\/19\/ai-as-an-accelerator-of-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharos presentation at the Conference \u201cArtificial Intelligence as an Accelerator of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector and Businesses\u201d | 20\/06\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stefanos Kollias, Professor Emeritus NTUA, Chairman of the Board of Directors at the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET), operating under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance, is the Coordinator of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pharos AI Factory<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> project, and will participate at the conference: \u201c<\/span><b>Artificial Intelligence as an Accelerator of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector and Businesses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Date &amp; Time:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Friday, June 20, 2025 | 09:30 \u2013 14:30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Venue:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Regional Council Hall, Region of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference aims to provide a dynamic platform for dialogue and collaboration amongst key stakeholders, highlighting how Artificial Intelligence can enhance transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness in the public sector. At the same time, it opens up new pathways for innovation and internationalization for SMEs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be presented by S.Kollias alongside with the opportunities arising for accessing HPC DAEDALUS and models and services for SMEs\u00a0 in the vertical sectors of Health, Language and Culture and Sustainability will be presented at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the <\/span><b>Round Table #1 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><b>10:35 \u2013 11:20<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">):<\/span><b> National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence: Vision, Policies, and Actions for SMEs<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Speakers:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dimitris Papastergiou, Minister of Digital Governance<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theofilos Mylonas, President of the Hellenic Association of IT &amp; Communications Enterprises (SEPE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Konstantinos Makedos, President of the Engineers and Public Works Contractors Fund (TMEDE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stefanos Kollias, Chairman of the BoD, GRNET (EDYTE), Professor Emeritus, NTUA<\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Moderator:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Fanis Ougkrinis | Chief Operating Officer, The Opinion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event is co-organized by the Region of Central Macedonia\u2019s Deputy Regional Office for Digital Governance and the Hellenic Association of Information Technology and Communications Enterprises (SEPE), under the auspices of the Ministry of Digital Governance.\u00a0 The event is supported by the Alexandria Innovation Zone and the Northern Greece Business Administration Association.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Kollias, Professor Emeritus NTUA, Chairman of the Board of Directors at the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET), operating under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance, is the Coordinator of the Pharos AI Factory project, and will participate at the conference: \u201cArtificial Intelligence as an Accelerator of Digital Transformation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,355],"tags":[381,934,520,349,374,863,369],"class_list":["post-20223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-en","category-news-en","tag-ai-en","tag-ai-factory-pharos","tag-daedalus","tag-grnet-en","tag-hpc-en-2","tag-pharos-en","tag--en-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20228,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions\/20228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}