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Ioannou vardaka
Ermoupolis, syros, Notio Aigaio, 84100
Greece

Ioli & Mary

Dancers

Two young girls, Ioli Spiliopoulou and Mary Pasadaki deal with the human limitations, the flesh and the soul, through the choreography "Here and beyond." Ioli Spiliopoulou was born in 1994, undergraduate student of the School of Philology of Aristotle University Thessalonikis and a student of Rallou Manou Professional School of dance in the second year. She is dancing since the age of 3.5 and has got the diplomas of Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and Imperial Society of Teachers of dancing (ISTD). Member of the “Cast”, a dance theatrical group (since 2015). Participation in seaveral performances and dance festivals over the years. Maria Pasadaki was born in 1997, undergraduate student of History and Archaeology Faculty of athens and a student of Rallou Manou Professional School of dance in the second year. She is dancing the last 16 years. She has participated in several performances .

Kill Emil & Stiko

Dj/Producers

Kill Emil is a Hip Hop-Downtempo producer and Beatmaker from Greece. He laces hip hop-based beats with his own upbeat rhythms to go above and beyond typical looped downtempo sounds. His sound and his warm instrumentals border on other worldliness has matured immensely while always staying head noddingly fresh. His most impressive releases to date have been his “Salvation” LP which dropped back in September, and the “Lights & Shadows” LP from 2014, which solidified his esoteric and earthy sound . Shared the stage with : Bonobo,Guts,Quantic and His Combo Barbaro,Ondatropica,Chinese Man,Gramatik,Dub Pistols,Looptroop Rockers,Barry Ashworth,Andy Smith,The Herbalizer and many more. Stiko is Dj/Producer from Greece and a member of the Antilopes crew. Started his career in music at 2012 and within a short period he has managed to spin at some of the best places around! He shared the stage with great artists like L'Entourloop, Panda Dub, Frenic, Kill Emil and Billa Qause. In 201

Antonis Kotzias

Visual Effects Supervisor / 3D Animator

Antonis Kotzias is Visual Effects Supervisor / 3D Animator and also emmy nominated, multi award winner designer and VFX supervisor. A graduate from London University and Glasgow School of Arts, he has worked as studio CG Supervisor at Pinewood Studios(London), senior 3D artist at Animal Logic(Sydney), and senior 3D artist at Digital Animation Studio in Glasgow. Owner & founder of Yafka , an Emmy nominated multi award-winning Visual Effects, 3D Animation, Motion Graphics, and Design facility. Yafka’s main clients are based in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, China, Germany, and Holland. Among other projects, Yafka is currently working for two major Hollywood productions.

George Achillias

Digital creator of ecosystems and marketplaces.

George Achillias has more than 15 years experience in harnessing technology and design as elements of a business strategy within an innovation ecosystem tailored to the unique needs of different organisations or industry. He has defined and delivered the global strategy and the innovation roadmap for FTSE250 companies and led digital transformation projects around the world. He specialises in creating digital ecosystems and marketplaces. His motto is: “Bold in the concepts, conservative in the details”.

John Noussis

Digital Product Designer

John Noussis is a digital product designer focusing on technology companies. He studied in the Department of Products and Systems Design Engineering in Syros where his passion for innovation, technology and design thinking led him to specialize on digital product design, focusing on creating functional and engaging user experiences. He has worked as a product designer at Moo, Transifex and Pollfish, while also as a UI/UX designer at the creative studio Holy.

Kalliopi Dasyra

Astrophysical

Dr Kalliopi Dasyra obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Physics in 2002 and her Master’s Degree in Astrophysics in 2003 from the University of Crete, Greece. She carried out her PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany. In 2006, in the United States, she started her first postgraduate research contract, at the California Institute of Technology. She then held postgraduate research associate positions at a couple of institutes in France, at the Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique and at the Observatory of Paris, as well as at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is among the few researchers who have been awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship twice.

Mairi Sakellariadou

Professor of Theoretical Physics in King’s College London (UK)

Mairi Sakellariadou is Professor of Theoretical Physics in King’s College London (UK). Mairi obtained a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Athens and graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MSc in Theoretical Astrophysics. Since completing a PhD in Theoretical Physics at Tufts University, she has held research positions.Mairi’s field of research is theoretical physics and cosmology with emphasis on the physics of the early universe. Mairi is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), the GEO600, the eLISA consortium, the Einstein Telescope Science team, the MoEDAL experiment at CERN, the EUCLID consortium and the Virgo Ego Scientific Forum. She is President of the Hellenic Society on Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology, Chairperson of the Gravitational Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) and member of the LSC Council.

Maria Dereka

Teacher

Maria Dereka is a teacher in special education. Her postgraduate studies concern Diploma in Continuing Education (University of Dundee, 1991), Master in Special Education (University of Sheffield, 1991) and PhD in Special Education (University of Sheffield, 2000). She has been working as special teacher in mainstream and special schools in Greece, as Director in SENCO (KEDDY in Greek), as a lecturer in College of Pedagogical and Technical Science in Athens and since January 2015 she is working as a School Councellor in Special Education in the islands of Aegean Sea.

Parvy Palmou

Psychologist

Parvy Palmou B.Sc. M.A. received her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Indianapolis. Her interest in Philosophy and Existentialism led her to do further training in Gestalt Therapy (Gestalt Institute of San Francisco). Currently she presents workshops and self-awareness groups in Greece and Europe. She is particularly focused on Youth Work in cooperation with Hellenic Youth Participation. In 2013 she created the Synthetic Method Self-Awareness “Ψ-Architecture”. She is a regular columnist in newspapers, magazines and websites with several publications. She is also a member of the Transgender Support Association and the European Association of Gestalt Therapy.

Sissi Rada

Muzician

Sissi Rada (Sissi Makropoulou) was born in Athens, lives and works in Berlin. She began playing the harp at the age of 11 and completed her master studies in Europe in 2016 (Bachelor in Music/ Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Master in solistic music/ Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Master in Orchestra/ Universität der Künste Berlin). In 2007 she won the second prize at the 5 th dutch harp competition in Utrecht. She has collaborated with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, Matthias Pintscher, the Athens State Orchestra as a soloist and the Greek National Opera.

Thomas Mersinias

Clinical Psychologist

Thomas Mersinias is a Clinical Psychologist and lives in Thessaloniki. He works as a private Psychologist – Psychotherapist and specializes in Anxiety Disorders with a clinical experience about over 800 patients. He teaches in Seminars of Forensic Psychology & Criminology in several educational organizations since 2012. He has authored a book on our social and sexual identity, which will be published in 2017. Also, he loves traveling with his motorcycle and playing with his dog, and he always shares his spare time between them.

Tonia Mitroudi

Fashion Designer

Tonia was born in Salonica where she lived until she turned 17 years old. She then pursued a Bachelor Degree in Advertising in Athens Greece and continued her studies in Milan at the Istituto Marangoni as a fashion designer. Her studies where extended in Spain at the Istituto Europeo di Design, where she mastered image making, Fashion styling, cinematography and chromatology. Tonia’s professional experience was formed in various magazines as a fashion editor L’officiel, L’officiel Homme, Olive among others. She then designed her own fashion brand. Nidodileda was created by Tonia, 3.5 years ago. It started as an idea and was finally implemented after maturing in her own mind. The brand’s core lies in designing handmade clothes, using high quality fabrics and manufacturers, and striving to create a bohemian, free-spirited, and feminine community. And as Tonia believes «Nidodileda in not only a clothing brand. It’s a philosophy, an idea which makes you feel free…»