Global Greek Influence

Join us as we unravel diplomacy and regional dynamics surrounding the prolonged detention of mayor-elect Dionysios #Beleri and the Greeks of North Epirus, with incredible guests: MEP Nikos Papandreou, legal expert Orestis Omran from DLA Piper, and the esteemed Dr. Kleanthis Kyriakidis from AUE! Get ready for a power-packed discussion surrounding:

the rule of law in EU accession,

the specific goals and objectives of the parties involved in navigating the Beleri arrest and expropriation of Northern Epirotes property,

overcoming the challenges in diplomatic engagement

and many more.

Do you want to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and policy actions related to the transition toward a hydrogen economy?

Do you want to stay informed about the latest developments, policies, and incentives that shape the future hydrogen economy?

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Join us as we explore the global sensation that hydrogen brings to the future economy, with major powers and countries placing their bets on this extraordinary element and its technologies.

We look into:

• an introduction of Green Hydrogen as a Versatile and Sustainable Energy Source

In the full episode you will also find out about:

• Major Powers and Countries Betting on Green Hydrogen
• Green Hydrogen from Salt water: Cutting Edge Reseach and Innovation

Buckle up and prepare to be amazed by the potential of green hydrogen to transform our world.

In this episode, we explore the importance of knowledge transfer in driving innovation and economic growth from academia to industry and businesses. We investigate the challenges and barriers that research institutions, universities, and industries face in successfully transferring knowledge.

The main points of discussion for creating a conducive environment for effective knowledge transfer include

• Barriers to Successful Knowledge Transfer
• Reevaluating Knowledge Transfer in Academia
• Addressing the Lack of Data
• The Problem with Incentives
• Learning from Successful Examples

In this episode, we explore the concept of the Metaverse and its potential to revolutionise the future of work.

We delve into the origins of the Metaverse, its impact on collaboration, the emergence of new work roles, and the creation of virtual work environments.

We also discuss use cases of the Metaverse in the workplace, such as simulating co-presence and virtual learning.

Embracing the metaverse may present challenges, but the transformative benefits outweigh the initial hurdles, giving businesses a competitive edge in the technology-driven future.

• What is so groundbreaking about the Metaverse?
• How canself-employed benefit from Metaverse?
• Does Metaverse cost more to a business than its benefits?

A double episode about:

• advancing and developing renewable energy technologies,
• optimising resource management and the concept of a circular economy,
• machine learning playing a key role,
• identifying recycling opportunities, and designing closed-loop systems,
• utilising 3D printing for resource efficiency and customized design.

Featuring Professor Christos Maravelias (Princeton University, U.S.), Professor Konstantinos Kakosimos (Texas A&M University, Qatar), Professor Greg Stephanopoulos (MIT, U.S.) and Dr Steve Nitodas (Stony Brooks University, U.S.).

We will be back with you in two Sundays, on 20 August 2023.

In this episode, we dig into innovation and explore the factors contributing to the European Innovation Strategy.

• Scientific, engineering, and technological research vs business objectives.
• What holds back the European Union from becoming the leader of transformative technologies across the globe?
• Does the EU Innovation Strategy address how to make the most of its well-developed research infrastructure?
• Is the EU a fast adopter of innovation?

What are the EU Space Blueprint (Strategy):

• organisations and their goals,
• vision,
• partnerships?

In this episode I explore the pillars of the EU Space Blueprint, how Europe outlines its future course in space.

We explore the significant role of transport in the EU and its importance for economic growth:

• making transport more sustainable, efficient, and environmentally friendly,
• the most innovative future technologies and systems such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based systems, 3D printing,
• smart and sustainable mobility strategies and incentives,
• the European Regional and Development Fund (ERDF) and the Cohesion Fund,
• connected and autonomous mobility, and
• the amalgamation of innovative policies and advanced scientific and engineering technologies funded through decades of research and development schemes.

Research and future challenges in the early 20th century shaped the engineering disciplines as we know them.

Today, we are at the crossroads of changing the economy because of our future challenges and the emerging technologies developed or at the stage of conception.

The revamped sciences and engineering fields are creating new research areas that unofficially merge to form synthesis research. This could lead to reshuffling the academic disciplines and professions, making them new, to create seemingly multidisciplinary fields but in truth produce synthesis research.

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In this podcast, technology, research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurship are the focus of talks and discussions, all elements of today’s world that can provide leaps to humanity.

Yet, we see that progress is not evenly happening across the globe. We see many poor regions and countries where people do not have access to education, and conflicts often take place in many of them.

Conflicts prohibit social progress and without social coherence, technological, educational and political progress is at stake. So, one might ask:

• does poverty give birth to conflict and lack of education, or

• is conflict responsible for poverty and a non-existing educational system or

• does poor education give rise to poverty and create conflict?

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Most doctorates and researchers can not secure an academic position, or they might find a career in the industry out of their scope or professional vision.

Start-ups can become a creative space for science, engineering and technology researchers and an opportunity to develop their careers.

Researchers, businesses and investors who get involved in business accelerators, also those creating those programmes, might ask themselves:

• What makes a business accelerator programme successful for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs becoming stable in the market?
• Should actors, stakeholders and accelerator programme developers pay more attention to business development, infrastructure, network (including mentors), or financial support?
• How could the transformation of mentoring bind all aspects of business accelerators together and deliver their purposes and those of the businesses to be "accelerated"?

Here is my viewpoint on transforming mentoring in business accelerators as key to the programmes' success for all.

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We explore the atmospheric carbon removal through:

• why air carbon removal technologies can help where reforestation is not possible and how,
• how Direct Air Capture (DAC) works,
• why the cost of Direct Air Capture (DAC) is still high,
• what bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (or else BECCS) technology is,
• where we are at now if we implement every possible carbon dioxide removal strategy and technology.

Stay tuned for next Sunday's episode examining an overlooked and least expected approach for achieving equity, health, prosperity and security.

In this episode we go shortly through some questions that really address the big question; that of “Are zero emissions, zero?”:

• Are net zero and carbon neutral the same? 
• What are the characteristics of an effective net zero emissions target?
• Why is reducing real emissions preferable to achieving net zero emissions?
• What steps can we take to reduce our carbon emissions?
• Is implementing a net zero emissions target an effective approach towards addressing climate change?
• Is there a global effort to achieve net-zero emissions?
• How can we guarantee that commitments are translated into action?
• Can we expect to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 as planned?

Mimicking tissues and organs and fish dynamics, the forces of nature with simplicity and without simplification, maximising current technologies for more affordable offshore wind farms where population density is high and there is a shortage of available land, producing plant-based biofuels non-chemically are some of the top learning moments at the Global Greek Influence podcast.

Researchers may speak with modesty, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of their work. This does not mean that their solutions are not beneficial; they are not businessmen or marketers.

They produce patents that do not reach us because some industries might not want to invest in new processes and products as they prefer incremental improvements to their existing products and not real innovation.

What researchers need is an equitable approach by funding bodies, technologies businesses andindustries. That is the definition of symbiosis, between humans and nature, between the present and future.

#renewableenergy #healthcare #biofuels

• How are Space exploration and Sustainable Goals interlinked?
• Is Astromining an extension of Geopolitics or the future of ground-breaking technologies?
• What does the Outer Space Treaty deal with?
• How do national, international and financial actors shape celestial bodies mining?
• The roles of NASA and SpaceX, China and the US.

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Με τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, ειδικό στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά αλλά και Έλληνα του εξωτερικού, ολοκληρώνουμε τη συζήτηση μας:

• Ποιό το μέλλον της συμμετοχής των Ελλήνων του εξωτερικού σε επόμενες εκλογές;
• Πως αντιλαμβάνονται τα πολιτικά κόμματα τους πολίτες και εκλογείς;
• Πως καθορίζουν οι αντιλήψεις μας, τις επιλογές μας;

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How does business affect the future of technology and politics?

Where do research talents fit in the business that shapes the future of science, engineering and technology?

Does investing in research talents bring solutions to the business and technology?

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Με τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, ειδικό στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά αλλά και Έλληνα του εξωτερικού, συζητάμε για τη σημασία της εκλογικής συμμετοχής των Ελλήνων της διασποράς, αν αφορούν οι εθνικές εκλογές στους Έλληνες της διασποράς (παγκόσμιους Έλληνες), ποια τα ποιοτικά χαρακτηριστικά τους ως εκλογείς και η σύγκριση τους στην εκλογική συμπεριφορά με αυτή των Τούρκων αποδήμων για τις προεδρικές εκλογές.

Μείνετε συντονισμένοι για το 2ο μέρος της συζήτησης με τον Δρ Απόστολο Πιστόλα, την επόμενη Κυριακή, οπότε ολοκληρώνουμε τη συζήτηση μας σε σχέση με το μέλλον της συμμετοχής των Ελλήνων του εξωτερικού σε επόμενες εκλογές.

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Professor Christos Maravelias, the Anderson Family Professor in Energy and the Environment of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University (US) speaks to the Global Geek Influence podcast about:

-      transitioning toward a #sustainable industry and products in the next decade,

-      making more objective and informed decisions in producing biofuels,

-      machine learning transforming the chemicalindustry and #AI the chemical engineering education and research,

-      advantageous methods to store concentrating solar power,

-      what we know about integrating direct air #carbon capture,

-      correlating membrane materials with the process design for sustainable operations.

Would Christos choose the same PhD field and an academic career if he were now 20 years old?

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What makes our future better and wiser?

You can find out how technology, science and engineering research help in the innovation and growth of our societies through your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future. In this last part, we cover quantum computing, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, future digital education, chemical engineering and new disciplines from the point of view of Global Greek Experts.

You can always catch up if you missed the first part of your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future to listen to the transformations of AI, medicine, business, space and transportation in smart cities. 

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The first part of your guide from 1 to 10 of a hybrid future covering:

AI, medicine, business, space exploration and exploitation, transportation and smart cities, quantum computing on cybersecurity and drug discovery, future food needs, energy and the UN blue economy, digital-future-global education, chemical engineering- new disciplines- the Universe, from the point of view of Global Greek Experts.

Stay tuned for the second part, next Sunday, 30 April 2023.

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• What are the five trends in the growing movement of remote work?
• What are the five scenarios of the future hybrid approach, remote and in-person work?
• What tools could guarantee improved productivity of remote work business operations?
• What is the impact of remote work on business  operations?
• Why remote work flexibility becomes an important consideration for both employee retention and recruitment?
• Why does the remote work trend continue in the industry?
• Why shouldn't be employers trapped by the engagement factor in remote work?
• What should employers do to maximise the harnessing of their employees potential especially in remote working?

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The least approached answers of 5+1 questions for renewables and emissions reduction you might listen to elsewhere as custom-made to various sectors narratives:

1. Why do we want to reduce emissions?
2. Who benefits from reducing emissions?
3. Why would the industries and economic actors be interested in reducing emissions?
4. What strategies could industrial actors follow to reduce emissions?
5. How can we reduce emissions?

What is the future of renewables in transportation?

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Dr Spyros Kasapis, a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center and working on Machine Learning Applications for Heliophysics speaks about:

• space weather,
• upcoming space missions and space communications,
• studying abroad,
• his vision of space exploration, its international competition and emerging space technologies, and
• some reflection on his career so far and his PhD experience.

Spyros did his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in the US. He has a Master of Science in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor (US), where he also finished his PhD.

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What do birthdays have to do with technology?

Anyone and anything born: a human, a technology, an idea, reminds us of the beginning of a life cycle.

• What is the future of AI in scientific research (ChatGPT- Large Language models), and why should it matter to all?
• Is there a future for engineering, science and technology researchers' innovation in politics? 
• Why, when innovation is born, should be co-developed and implemented with the active participation of engineering, science and technology researchers in politics?

The day a human, a technology, or a political action is born signifies a great promise. But it is all of us who determine their present and future.

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Gerasimos Papaleventis (Vice President - Treasury, Head of Controlling and Monitoring in FIMBank plc, Malta) discusses and helps us detangle the implications of the current banks’ crises to see how they could affect the start-up and technology sectors:

• how startup-focused banks affect the innovation ecosystem globally (US, Israel, the Gulf countries),
• upcoming vulnerabilities to the US banking system and the US market crisis in the next six months,
• what start-ups and venture capitals should do to safeguard their deposits,
• why (or not) crypto-currency could become a backup system to centralised banking,
• SVB vs Credit Suisse.

Gerasimos is a Banker and an Economist with almost 25 years of experience and progressive responsibility in financial and banking services. He holds a Master II degree in Banking and Insurance Science from Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (Paris XIII).

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Professor Ioannis Brilakis, the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK), discusses how AI in infrastructure transforms the future of the Built Environment:

· making roads safer and greener,

· robotics and automation science and technology,

· game technologies in construction plant safety operations,

· 3D mobile mapping and digital twins for infrastructure,

· moving forward with the digitalisation of industrial operations,

· minimise risk and increase safety,

· why and how research projects should transform.

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• Why is the socio-cultural safety mentality important to avoid needless accidents when we have available technologies?

• Why is the design of safety procedures important, even if we employ the latest cutting-edge technologies available?

• Why are socio-cultural safety mentality and the design, implementation and practice of safety procedures communicating vessels?

• The three Es: Engineering, Enforcement and Education.

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What is the interplay between neuroscience, leadership, innovation, human capital and talent?

Is foresight a concrete procedure for organisations, or is it also transferrable to individuals?

Is upskilling and retraining enough when we transform the economy through novel technologies whose core are innovative science and engineering?

Or are we missing deepening novelty through the personalised foresight for PhD candidates and holders in Science, Engineering and Technology to diffuse innovation?

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With Dr Kyriaki (Kiki) Sonidou, a GP (General Practitioner), a specialist in Cardiology and Diabetes, and President of the Hellenic Medical Society in the U.K., LSE and Harvard University Global Health delivery and systems), we discuss:

• if we are close to the end of the pandemic (or is it too soon to tell) and the new variants,
• the triple threat of COVID-19, flu, RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus),
• the present crisis in primary health care, lessons from the pandemic period to best design future health care systems and how a global recession could affect them,
• if vaccine hesitancy can be a major threat to the next pandemic,
• whom to trust with too much information on medical matters.

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Professor Dimitris Drikakis (Vice President for Global Partnerships, Executive Director for Research and Innovation at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Defence and Security Research Institute President) discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI):

• and Computational Science become predictive technologies,
• impacts on innovation,
• accelerates the energy sector,
• calls for re-approaching the value and purpose of the human mind.

Professor Drikakis received twice the William Penney Fellowship Award by the UK’s AWE Plc (Atomic Weapons Establishment Government ministry) in recognition of his contributions to compressible fluid dynamics and computational science and the Innovator of the Year Award (2014) by the UK’s Innovation Institute for a new generation Carbon Capture Nanotechnology with a major to reducing atmospheric pollution. The US Air Force (USAF) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research have recently granted Professor Drikakis a new award for high-speed flows and acoustics advanced computational methods in Machine Learning (ML). 

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With Dr Constantine Stratakis (Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Chief Scientific Officer of ELPEN, SA), we discuss how precision medicine:

• becomes a tool by AI that can be used for prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment,
• predicts diseases before they happen,

and transforming innovative research into products and services within the “circular” healthcare economy.

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Welcoming you into the 4th season of the Global Greek Influence podcast, you are re-introduced to what binds together:

· international Greeks who talk about technology through research, innovation, the economy, geopolitics, entrepreneurship and (yes) history,

· to define and address our current and future challenges on earth and (possibly) in space in a technology podcast.

One could say that redefining technology is going back to the roots of philosophy or simply being well-informed about all present and future trends of different sectors and their synergies, which determine and define technology.

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As engineers, scientists, technologists, researchers in STEM and other researchers, we seek originality in science and its potential applications. As people, we fit into a role we choose. Christmas is a season we mostly reconnect with our people, also tend to look inwards and seek answers. How can we explain the new by studying the old?

In this episode with Marios Koutsoukos (PhD candidate soon to become a doctor of philosophy in the History of Religions in the Late Antiquity at the University of Liverpool, U.K.), we attempt to detangle our present conceptions, our connection to the past, ours and that of our ancestors, as the story of societies and cultures before us. 

How is our perception of a theorem, an idea, or religion a definitive parameter that allows us to deviate from spirituality, a theory, a solution to a problem, a view of the world, and see ourselves for who we are?

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"The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology"  is about i) re-inventing their research field and bringing transparency to the new market and economy, ii) creating an environment where researchers can also thrive as individuals based on their talents and human approach, iii) enjoying more every moment and step without worrying too much or striving for perfection.

I am talking to Dr Vassilis Katos, a Professor of  Cybersecurity and Head of the Computer Emergency Response Team at  Bournemouth University (BU-CERT) in the U.K., Dr Kostas  Stylidis CEO and Co-Founder of Intended Future, an Associate Professor at University West and part-time associate researcher at the Chalmers  University of Technology in Sweden, Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, William Clay Ford  Professor of Technology, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan University, Ann Arbor in the U.S. and Dr Constantine Stratakis, Chief Scientific Officer, ELPEN, Athens, Greece- Director (Res. A'), Human Genetics & Precision Medicine at Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Greece.

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With Tyrone Pitsis (Professor of Strategy and Technology, Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Management, Durham University, U.K.), we discuss:

• The necessity of collaborations (alliance) in entrepreneurship.
• Design(erly) thinking in strategic formulation.
• Does foresight help us predict the future?
• What makes a project critical (to the eyes of the beholder),
• Redesigning leadership and organisations in the cyber-physical age.
• Are the challenges of the cyber-physical age the same globally?
• Is strategic foresight imperative to strategic thinking and design thinking?

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"Advanced automobility and transportation- Part 2: Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)" is about bringing together engineering knowledge, human senses, and product quality, also improving operational instabilities in advanced automobility (fuel cells), "connected and autonomous" vehicles (CAVs) and sustainable transport cybersecurity.

I am talking to Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, William Clay Ford Professor of Technology, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan University, Ann Arbor in the U.S., Dr Alexandros Nikitas from the Huddersfield Business School and Director of the Future Mobility Lab at the University of Huddersfield in the U.K., Dr Kostas Stylidis CEO and Co-Founder of Intended Future, an Associate Professor at University West and part-time associate researcher at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Dr Vassilis Katos, a Professor of Cybersecurity and Head of the Computer Emergency Response Team at Bournemouth University (BU-CERT) in the U.K. also leading the University's team of the flagship ECHO pilot, part of the European network of Cybersecurity centres and competence Hub for innovation and Operations (more than 160 partners).

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Another special episode to subscribers only on "The value of researchers in science, engineering and technology" is on 18 December 2022. With special guests who speak about the transparency research brings to the new market and economy, the process of transition of an established researcher shifting to a new area in research, supporting and nurturing professional growth of doctoral students in and for an ambiguous and uncertain future and more. Until next Sunday.

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In the past years, the scientific and research communities have been put in this awkward position to apologise for non-experts' spread of misinformation

including that scientists are corrupt because their facts do not align with what has been widely disseminated.

Either anonymously through social media or well-established show hosts selectively invite a single guest to promote a specific direction agenda rather than asking a panel of experts to allow their audience to draw conclusions.

Is it miscommunication, selective, or partially presented information to serve individuals' personal experiences and backgrounds, and what they are more willing to accept as relatable to them?

In this solo episode, I untangle the labyrinth of the social media role where anyone can use science for entertainment, sensationalism to boost self-worth and confidence blurred with professional recognition vs the accurate messages of science and how to promote the critical ability needed by the public to separate facts from interpretations not only in the field of science communication also for forging democracy.

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