Theme: Reboot "Intersecting Reality"

Reboot [noun/to:'bu:t/]: The process of restarting a system to create an alternative, improved assumption of reality.
A function that we experience everyday with implementations in nature, human societies, individuals and science.
Automatic or forced, reboot requires the realization of the possible end of a situation, the existence of will, and the need for change.
To succeed, it needs an intersection. Intersection such as innovation and conversion, interception and redefinition.
This year, TEDxUniversityofMacedonia is here for the seventh consecutive year with new ideas that worth spreading.
12 speeches and 4 performances come to give new perspectives to the way we perceive and live reality.
Any move to exit from stagnation can lead to the creation of new directions and Ideas. Let us all join in this new attempt to restart our system.

NOESIS - Thessaloniki Science Center & Technology Museum
40°33'51.5"N 22°59'45.1"E
Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 57001
Greece

Anastasia Karliafti

Stand up comedian

Born in Patras in 1997, she studies Journalism at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She works as a copywriter, but this text is not the best example of her job. She discovered the magic of comedy in high school and has since distinguished it from other arts. She started doing stand-up comedy in 2016, taking part in the city's openmic and roast battles, without standing out at any of these. She does a lot of volunteering, mainly because she has not found an employer to pay for it. Admires Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Hannah Gadsby.

Anedafika Alkistis Metta, Sofia Apostolidou, Ifigenia Kanakidou

Dancers

This choreography was the result of the desire of three women to discover novel sounds and represent them through their dance and movement. The distinct hearing of Couleur Locale which experiments with the Mediterranean music focusing on the promotion of the traditional Cretan sound by implementing world, rock and jazz style features was what captured our interest. We occupied with the study of the songs “Foinikia and “Foinikia Intro”. Kinesiologically we have been inspired from the great contradictions in life something that led us to new body shapes, rhythmic grooming and alteration of some elements found in traditional dances under a more contemporary look through our personal movement. Music: Couleur Locale - Finika Intro Couleur Locale- Foinikia Choreography - Performance: Sophia Apostolidoy, Iphigeneia Kanakidou, Alkistes Metts Costumes: Eve Kurelia, Helen Sampre.

Bjorn Alexandridis, Marios Podaras

Musicians

Bjorn Alpha holds a Μaster’s degree in music technology. Ηe has won an award for original music composition in animated videos and he is known for his music composition and production for commercial and international releases through his solo project. The composer Marios Podaras holds a Bachelor’s Degree in classical and traditional music.He has done music composition and production of commercials and has composed music for sold out musical shows in London. Despite their different cultural background, these two combine instrumental and electronic music. In 2010, they started an ambient, psychedelic music project, called “Deep in Mind”. Since then, they have remained active with releases from labels across the globe, including Germany, Mexico and India. They have also composed music for full-length films whilst taking part in international festivals with great artists of their genre by their side. Their newest album “Autumn to Spring”, has received glowing reviews.

Konstantinos Reppas

Associate Consultant, Capgemini Invent UK

Born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. He graduated from the International Baccaulaureate at Anatolia’s College and he continued his studies at the American University, Washington DC, where he studied the field of Ιnternational Ρelations and Πolitical Εconomy. He also studied at the Bocconi University at Milan, Italy, and he graduated with a degree in Ιnternational Economy and Business Administration. At the age of 23, he had worked as a consultant for Greece at the UN headquarters in New York, where he had dealt with issues of the UN Committee on Economic and Administrative Affairs and the Security Council. The last 3 years he has held the position of the Development Director of the educational organization Afixis where he was responsible for the promotion and development of the organization in Greece and abroad. He now works as a business consultant on corporate strategy and technology at a London-based company.

Kostis Zafeirakis

Journalist and presenter

Saturday born. Vegetarian since childhood. Pretty much a journalist. I present the TV show “Apopse kanis bam” on ERT3. From time to time I get up on stage, with my own comedic. My new storytelling performance: “Krouaziera” and before that “Agelades kai Diafotismos”. I’ve gained a lot of experience in everything-Greece, being a vivere pericolosamente traveller - presenter, for “Exodus”, “Oksigono”, “I love GR” shows on ERT3 and SKAI. I’ve written countless scripts for travel documentaries, for example “Ellada Α - Ω”- COSMOTE TV. Editor-in-chief and presenter of “reservoir doc”, a political - cultural documentary series about Thessaloniki- TV100. I like to stroll around the cities of the world, observing. I write travel and other stories for websites and magazines. I create scripts for series- for example “Ena milo tin imera”- ERT. I also insist that “I pio megali ora einai tora” a song by Akis Panos is also a solid phrase- chant, for even better days and nights.

Lefteris Chaloulakos

Managing Director

Eleftherios Chaloulakos was born in 19th of May 1972. Graduating from Solvay’s Business School and having received his first Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Brussels University (ULB) he undertook a second postgraduate degree in Food Science (MSc) at the Agricultural University of Athens. Having worked for one year at the Own Stocks Trading Company (1999-2000), from 2000 and for a three-year period he was recruited as a marketer for General Mills. His 16-year career in Mondelez began in 2003 where he served as a Marketing Manager for the company’s Greek department. In 2005 he was promoted for the position of Southern Europe’s Marketing Manager in Barcelona from where he returned back in Greece in 2007 as a Managing Director. In 2014 he moves to Zurich to deliver his duties as Category Director of Southern Europe. He is currently working on the development of his own business in Madrid, a museum of illusions.

Maximilian Jabs

Founder of Biking Borders

Having seen educational inequality first hand while volunteering in Vietnam, he decided to do something about it after graduating from University. Eager to make a difference in the world he founded the Social Project “Biking Borders” and cycled 15.000 km to build a school in Guatemala. His mission is to strive for collaboration. To show that their story has the power to change a thousand others and create a connection beyond countries, cultures and languages. A humane one. That lies in all of us.

Nick Ziogas

Director

Nikos Ziogas was born in 1986 in Florina, Greece. He has worked as a director of photography in many film and television productions. He has, recently, directed the short film Spring (2018, 10'), which premiered at the 21st Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, and has also been accepted at International festivals abroad. He took part in several projects about humans living on the margin of life. Homeless, refugees, immigrants. The last years, he has filmed mostly the -still ongoing- refugee crisis during the Syrian war, following people trying to find their new life. Nikos Ziogas is based in Athens, travelling around the world filming stories of people that need to be said, trying to make Earth a better place through stories and images. He is also directing two feature-length US-produced documentaries to be completed in 2019 and recently completed a follow-up work with Walk With Me filmed in Peru and Chile.

Panos Konstantopoulos

Infographic Designer

Panos Kostantopoulos was born in 1972. He studied graphic design in Athens. He started his career as a designer for the “Epsilon” magazine of “Kiriakatiki Eleutherotipia” newspaper. In 2002 in the EBGE competition he was awarded for his charts in “Eleutherotipia” and for his design for the literary magazine “Vivliothiki”. In 2008, 2009 and 2012 he has been awarded for his charts in “Kathimerini” newspaper by the European Newspaper Awards in Vienna, and in 2018 by the Botsis Foundation for his overall presence in press designing infographics. From 2008 until 2015 he was responsible for the designs in the design and maps department of “Kathimerini” newspaper. He has also worked at ETHNOS, at the Athens News Agency, at ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) designing infographics for the central newscast, and at other news sites. He is the head of grammabooks publishing, member of the greekinfographics team, and he directs the gr design magazine.

Sofia Moutidou

Actress

Γεννήθηκε το 1972 στη Γερμανία από γονείς μετανάστες. Σπούδασε Νομική στο A.Π.Θ. και υποκριτική στην ανώτερη σχολή δραματικής τέχνης του θεάτρου Εμπρός. Aπό το 2000 εργάζεται ως ηθοποιός. Επίσης, γράφει τις δικές της stand up παραστάσεις που έχουν τη μορφή one woman show. Διδάσκει σε δραματικές σχολές υποκριτική καθώς, επίσης, οργανώνει σεμινάρια με θέμα την κωμωδία. Tα τελευταία τρία χρόνια έχει κανάλι στο YouTube, στο οποίο μπορεί και εκφράζεται πάνω σε διάφορα θέματα που την αποασχολούν, είτε με άξονα το χιούμορ είτε την πολιτική τοποθέτηση σε τρέχοντα ζητήματα της πολιτικής και κοινωνικής ζωής της χώρας.

Stavroula Bargiota

Psychiatrist

Stavroula Bargiota was born in 1984 in Larisa. She studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and was specialised in Psychiatry-Psychotherapy. She has also attained her MSc in Primary Health Care as well as her PhD in Psychiatry. She has worked at the South London and Maudsley Hospital in London, for a while, where she was trained in diagnosing people with high chances of developing psychosis using the CAARMS assessment method. She currently works as a psychiatrist-psychotherapist at Thessaloniki at her own health center. At the same time she is working as a scientific partner of the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki actively involved in postgraduate researches and the training of Medicine Students and specialised psychiatrists. Her research interests extend from early intervention in psychosis to pharmacology, durability to bipolar disorder etc. Her scientific articles have been published in Greek and International journals.

Stefanos Kamperis

Social Innovator

Born in 1981 in Thessaloniki. Electronic Engineering graduate with postgraduate studies in Innovation and Product Development of Engineering Department of University of Brighton, England. He has worked for several years as an executive and later on as a research and Development Manager in several Greek industries, he has also worked as a Consultant for Japanese construction and trading companies. For almost a decade, he has been living in a small village in Kroussia. Founding member and former chairman of OMNES organization in Kilkis. Founding member and chairman of the cooperative enterprise staramaki.

Stelios Parliaros

Pastry Cheff

Stelios Parliaros was born in Constantinople. After graduating the gymnasium (lower secondary school) he moves to Athens to study. Discovering confectionery he decides to dedicate himself to it. He studies pastry making at Ecole le nôtre at Paris, at Ritz hotel’s Escoffier school, at Lyon’s Varlohna school and at the renowned Fauchon patisserie. At 1982 he establishes his own pastry shop shifting Greece’s conventional confectionery. He teaches in seminars professional and amature pastry chefs. He has also participated in exhibitions combining the art of pastry making together with fine arts, such as sculpture. Although his studies continue to be French oriented he keeps himself informed about global confectionery, something that has led him in combining techniques and ingredients without ever excluding the Greek products. Celebrating a 40 year career at the field of pastry making he is about to publish a new book commemorating all those 40 “sweet” years and not only.

Tasos Georgantzis

Architect

Tasos Georgantzis was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece. He graduated from Anatolia’s College in 1999. He studied in the Universities of Liverpool, City and UCL, in London. After his return in Greece in 2005, he had been working in construction and design companies until 2009 when he and Konstantinos Floros established Urban Soul Project, a design studio which is specialized in architecture, interior design and product design, as well. Urban Soul Project has been awarded with 5 international awards, such as German Design Award, a ‘Design Award Hotel’, Interior Design Magazine’s ‘Best of the Year’ Award, BigSee Awards and International Hotel and Property Awards.

Tasos Eros Batsioulas

Photographer

Tasos Eros Batsoulias was born in 1990 in Thessaloniki, where he still lives. After studying Computer Engineering for one year, he quitted Politecnico di Torino for photography and he returned back to Greece. In 2013, he got a BA in photography from the University of Lancashire. Since then, he has been working as a photographer, mostly as an advertising and fashion photographer. In 2009, he provided Marco Abundo’s book, called “Reset”, with some of his photographs. In 2013, he participated as a photographer in a project, called “Open your eyes”. This project, which was organized by two students of the City College, University of Sheffield, attempted to raise awareness for cancer. “Discover Romania” was a project that took place in 2015. Being organized by AIESEC, its principal objective was to promote tourism in Bucharest. “Short meetings” is a show on YouTube, created by Tasos, where he talks about every day and existential problems with the people next door.

Thomas Tsoulias

Co-Founder and the Executive Director of Afixis

Thomas Tsoulias is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of Afixis, an educational non-profit organisation aiming at transforming education. A licensed attorney with the Athens Bar Association, he has graduated from Anatolia College and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law School, and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy and Management at King’s College London. Thomas has been pursuing the fields of gamification and education since 2012 with the designing of Protagoras Moot Court and the Model Hellenic Parliament simulation, both flagship programs of Afixis, which introduced a complete set of gamification elements to high school and University extracurricular activities in a unique manner at a national level. His research interests focus on redesigning education along incentive-based principles, increasing the efficiency of learning and making it fun and accessible to everyone in the process.

Zoe Katsigianni

Infographic Designer

Zoi Katsigianni was born in Volos and studied at the Department of Graphic Design at the School of Graphic Arts and Artistic Studies of the Athenian National Technical University.. From 1987 and for the next 24 years she would work at the “Eleutheros Tipos” newspaper atelier. In the beginning, she was involved in designing the newspapers’ pages and setting up its inserts and magazines. Later on, she has occupied with the front page of the newspaper, staying in charge for 15 years. Since 2006 she is mainly designing infographics. She has designed corporate and commercial graphic products for Greek companies. She was, also, involved in both publishing and designing newspapers. For her designs that were published in Eleutheros Tipos she has been distinguished by EBGE, in the European Newspaper Awards for a total of 14 designs, and from the Botsis Institution for her overall presence in the press designing infographics. She is a member of Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers.

Zoe Zeniodis

Conductor

Zoe Zeniodis works both as a conductor and pianist in the United States, Asia and Europe. Back in America she has collaborated with the Bogota Philarmonic Orchestra together with Stephen Hough and Lise de la Salle, the New England Symphonic Ensemble (Carnegie Hall), the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra, the Broward Symphony Orchestra, the Alhambra Orchestra, as well as the Florida Grand Opera for a number of years. She has been selected by Dalas Opera House as a member of the Institute of Women Conductors and has been the first woman to ever conduct the Southwest Opera of New Mexico. She has conducted, inter alia, in Europe and Asia the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, the South Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, the National Symphonic Orchestra HBC (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) and Camerata and has also cooperated with the Narional Greek Opera and Stegi – Onassis Foundation.