Speakers
Sylvia Klimaki
Hostess
Sylvia V. Klimaki works at Skai TV in Athens. She produces, scripts and presents a taped, one-hour show (www.stinpraxi.gr) that has as ultimate goal to restore faith and to encourage Greek society to move forward. She is also the anchor of the daily morning news. Before, she worked as a reporter at The National Herald of NYC. She also worked as a production assistant at Mediakite – a documentary and news production agency in New York. Prior she worked at CNN in London UK as a production assistant for the Business Traveller Show. She received her MA in Chinese Studies and Business in 2009 from Harvard University. She holds a BSc in Management Science and Technology from AUEB. She studied Mandarin at Fudan University Shanghai, Sisu University Shanghai and Beijing Language and Culture University.George "Skoumas" Papanikolaou
Designer/Photographer/Director
George Skoumas Papanikolaou was born in Ioannina in 1987. From his childhood he would explore artistic sectors like music and drawing through self-taught experimentation. He graduated from high-school in Arta and he started his studies in the Department of Telematics in Epirus. Simultaneously, he got involved with photography and in general with multimedia. During his travels all over Europe he collected experiences and pictures. After buying his first DSLR camera he started experimenting photography and video. In 2011 he began recording his first no-budget action short-film, which despite the low initial expectations of creating a short trailer, evolved into a completed movie. Except photography and film-making, he enjoys the creation of short satiric productions practicing his humor. He collaborates with the Comedy Lab, maintains his own personal blog, sharing experiences and pieces of advice, and is developing plans for his next big production.
Urania Gazelli
Fashion Designer
Urania Gazelli is the creative name chosen by Greek designer Rania Giourmetaki for her bags label. The name was inspired by her much beloved late grandmother. With a background as an industrial designer, she has deep understanding of precise, high quality workmanship and aesthetics which is evident in each bag. Inspired by feminine sense of practicality, her design philosophy meets futurism with classicism. Her plexiglass handcrafted clutch bags are created in her homeland of Greece and are made using fine materials and finished with the brand's signature gold sign plated inside the bag. While her approach is playful and modern, it is always grounded in careful combinations and techniques, giving each piece the feeling of luxury and elegance.Petroula Karagianni
Educator
Born 30 years ago in Athens and raised here, Petroula graduated from AUEB in 2005 and straight after moved to Rotterdam, The Netherlands to work in the global leadership team of AIESEC. When Rotterdam started to become too familiar, she moved to Zurich, Switzerland to work in the Banking industry, in the Finance and Strategy areas. That is when she decided to have a break and redefine the way she saw reality shaping around and ahead of her. Determined to follow her passion for Education, she quit her job, went on a soul-search and after a few months started her Masters on Educational Leadership, she started blogging her ideas around Education and started working with a few organizations that support entrepreneurs in Greece, that provide funds for education in the developing world and that offer cultural immersion programs. After 7 years living abroad, she decided to come back to Greece in January 2012, where she started working with AUEB in the area of Research and Academic Affairs project management. She loves traveling, as she has already been in 37 countries and she believes in the power that each one of us has to make our dreams our reality.Sotiris Lymperopoulos
Food Scouter
After a degree in economics, a master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, a project in econometrics at Sony Europe , a successful business in the fashion industry and 3 years of uninterrupted trip to the mountains and seas Sotiris Lymperopoulos decided that the city does not suit him . He left behind his old life and settled permanently in a small village in Messinia ,Raches. There he decided to try to live without money. He spent a lot of time collecting greens and herbs in the mountains of the area and found that there is a large number of edible plants never reach the markets of major cities. With zero capital, a basket and a knife knocked on the door of the best restaurants in Athens and tried to convince them that gastronomy in Greece should not be the lobster but the chicory. Began assuming management of wild food for estiatorio Milos.And while everyone else snubbed his service he decided to take the greens and go to Paris. There he met some of the most famous chefs in Europe who have shown much interest in his work and confirmed that his idea has future. Turning back he had decided to build a brand name based in the concept of wild food. Thus in 2011 Radiki was born.Eleonora Viviani
Web Designer
In 2002, after graduating in Industrial Design at IED School of Design in Milan, she collaborated with Luca Trazzi Studio, designing home appliances. She then worked for two years at Gino Finizio – Design&Management, mainly dealing with transportation design, research and web design. Fascinated by the internet world, she decided to gain experience in a web agency and she worked as a web designer for companies such as Fontana Arte, Cyrus Company, Segis, among others. In 2006 she moved to MTV Italy, designed the community of mtv.it and restyling of the Italian website of Nickelodeon. It was there where she encountered those who would become the founders of Stereomood. In June 2008 she moved to The Walt Disney Company in Italy. She has created the website Dyou.it, a new Disney teen magazine. In March 2011, she resigned to devote herself to Stereomood, which has now become, two years after its launch, a worldwide sensation. She is the CEO of the company and responsible of the image of the site. She travels, cooks and listens to music for inspiration.Swap Not Shop Team
Clothing Exchange Movement
Sandra-Odette Kypriotaki, Thalia Geladaki and Viviana Miliaresi shared a love for feel-good vibes, DIY and clothes. Speaking of the latter, in fact they had too many, some of which they no longer wore. This is the reason why almost four years ago, they decided to host a feel-good DIY clothing exchange party among friends and acquaintances to give clothes a second (and a third, and a fourth) chance. Sandra's hyperactivity and love for noise and humans, Thalia's immense treasure hunting sprees in decadent shops and flea markets as well as jewellery making, and Viviana's strong sense of justice along with the view that objects should change hands, contributed to what quickly became a small anti-consumerism movement known as ‘Swap Not Shop!'. Apart from stuffed wardrobes, they also share similar backgrounds in fashion and communications, a strong human-centric perspective and the belief that days should be ceased and things we disagree with should be changed.Konstantinos Vamvakaris
Performer
Konstantinos Vamvakaris is 16 years old and is one of the youngest amateur Karagiozis performers in Greece. Shadow theatre impressed him from the first performance he attended when he was 3. He got involved with this form of art since he was 5. He spent the years after, next to great Karagiozis performers and learned from them the secrets of shadow theatre. When he was 11, he got his first shadow stage and gave the first performance during a cultural event in his school. Since then, he has performed in his school, Kallidromos village, Tinos island and Attika. His higlight is his participation in a "Greek Shadow Theatre" happening, during the closing ceremony of the Special Olympics in Kallimarmaro stadium, in July 2011, along with other young performers. He also took part in 16th Athenian Karagiozis Fesival of Strefi's Hill in 2012. He considers the Shadow Theatre an important element of Greek culture that should be preserved. He keeps alive the figure of Karagiozis, the cynical folk hero of the Greeks. His favorite quote, said by Evgenios Spatharis, is "Karagiozis is the Greek himself, with the strengths and the weaknesses of a person who carried at his back the suffering of his country".Elena Lamprou, Dora Thanopoulou
"Logou Paignion" Performance
"We first met as members in AIESEC, where we worked during the first years of our student's lifes. AIESEC's educational nature offered us a first glimpse into the magical field of learning and training. Somewhere between Erasmus program and our last exams in AUEB, we both came to realize the common inclination and interest that we had in Education."Logou Paignion consists of musicians, actors and actresses, educators and animators, with the aim of realizing educational programs in schools. The educational programs are designed by Panayiotis Tsirides, who has years of experience in the fields of music education and children's literature. The backbone of all programs lies in interacting with arts through games and their main characteristic is the active participation of the students, who are divided in groups. Music, dancing, theater, literature and visual arts serve as tools in order to strongly motivate and help express every single child. All the above contribute to the development of linguistic capacity, by which we don't just mean the written or spoken word, but the whole mental and cultural package that society is supposed to provide to its youth, so that they are then able to become cultivated, creative citizens.
