In our quest to bring Greek entrepreneurs and technologists together, there’s never been a more opportune time. We have been organizing networking events across Europe and the US, from Athens to Silicon Valley. Today, location has become irrelevant – we all are equally close to each other, and our community shall follow suit.
This is our first event bringing the global Greeks in Tech community together.
An all-star line-up of Greek founders from across the globe will be sharing their stories and vision for the future.
If you are a Greek, loving startups and working in tech, tune in and come join us to chat with old friends and make new ones, no matter where you are!
Date: Sunday, April 26
Time: 8pm Athens / 6pm London / 1pm New York / 10am San Francisco
Registration: Free and open for everyone
RSVP also on LinkedIn to see attendee resumes and network: www.linkedin.com/events/6656271602717638656/
Agenda
– Intro by hosts / A new era of opportunity for Greeks in Tech
– {Limassol} Panos Siozos, founder, Learnworlds (learnworlds.com). Learnworlds helps you create and sell online courses from your own website. Its 40-people fully-remote team across Cyprus and Greece currently serves more than 1500 online academies worldwide.
– {Thessaloniki} Nick Papanotas, founder, Geekbot (geekbot.com). Geekbot helps teams run asynchronous stand-ups over Slack; a bootstrapped startup, it empowers thousands of customers to perform remotely, including some of the biggest names out there.
– {Athens} Costa Tsaousis, founder, Netdata (netdata.cloud). Netdata delivers the next generation of distributed server monitoring. Its open source tool counts 46k Github stars and 2.5m users; the company has raised $21m from Bain and Marathon.
– {Berlin} Eleftherios Diakomichalis, cofounder, Radicle (radicle.xyz). Radicle is developing a secure peer-to-peer code collaboration platform without intermediaries, i.e. a decentralized alternative to Github.
– {New York} Nicky Goulimis, cofounder, Nova Credit (novacredit.com). Nova Credit enables immigrants to access capital to realize their potential, and has raised $70m in total from investors such as Index Ventures and General Catalyst.
– {Chicago} Steven Galanis, founder, Cameo (cameo.com). Cameo, a marketplace where fans can book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite people, has raised $65m to date from the likes of Lightspeed and Kleiner Perkins.
– {Chicago} George Bousis, founder, Raise (raise.com). Raise enables third-party sellers to sell new or used gift cards on a fixed-price online marketplace; the company has, well, raised $147m from the likes of Accel, Bessemer and NEA.
– {San Francisco} Constantinos Venetsanopoulos, founder, Arrikto (arrikto.com). Arrikto is building decentralized storage for the cloud-native world, and is a core contributor to Kubeflow, working together with the likes of Google, Microsoft, Cisco and IBM.
– Outro / Keep the conversation going
Further reading
– The ultimate guide on how to sell online courses by Learnworlds: www.learnworlds.com/how-to-sell-online-courses/
– Why Zapier replaced its standups with a (Geekbot) robot: zapier.com/blog/asynchronous-standups-geekbot/
– Redefining monitoring with Netdata, and how it came to be: blog.netdata.cloud/posts/redefining-monitoring-netdata/
– Radicle, towards decentralized code collaboration: radicle.xyz/towards-decentralized-code-collaboration.html
– Cameo and modern celebrity: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/cameo-and-meaning-modern-celebrity/607096/
– Nova Credit expands credit reports across borders: techcrunch.com/2020/02/12/nova-credit-banks-50m-to-expand-its-service-sourcing-credit-reports-across-borders/
– Arrikto empowers Kubeflow, providing cloud-native ML for everyone: medium.com/kubeflow/kubeflow-1-0-cloud-native-ml-for-everyone-a3950202751
Speakers bios
– Panos Siozos: www.linkedin.com/in/siozos/
– Nick Papanotas: www.linkedin.com/in/papanotas/
– Costa Tsaousis: www.linkedin.com/in/costatsaousis/
– Eleftherios Diakomichalis: www.linkedin.com/in/eleftheriosd/
– Nicky Goulimis: www.linkedin.com/in/nickygoulimis/
– Steven Galanis: www.linkedin.com/in/stevengalanis/
– George Bousis: www.linkedin.com/in/gbousis/
– Constantinos Venetsanopoulos: www.linkedin.com/in/cvenets/