Theme: Turning Points • Κομβικά σημεία

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Όλοι έχουμε χαράξει μία κάποια πορεία ως τώρα. Όσο συγκεντρωμένοι κι αν ήμασταν στον στόχο και στον προορισμό, οι περισσότεροι καταλήξαμε λίγο παραπέρα από εκεί που -όταν ξεκινούσαμε- ονειρευόμασταν να φτάσουμε.

Κοιτάζοντας προς τα πίσω μπορούμε να δούμε καθαρά τις στροφές στις οποίες ξωκείλαμε, τα μέρη που σίγουρα δε θα ξαναπηγαίναμε ποτέ, τους ανθρώπους που από τύχη πέσαμε πάνω τους κι εκείνους που παρακάμψαμε, τις χειρότερες αναμνήσεις στα μέρη που προσπαθούσαμε να πάμε από καιρό, επιτυχίες που δεν απολαύσαμε, αποτυχίες που μας βρήκαν εκεί που δεν το περιμέναμε.

Στον υπαρξιακό μας χάρτη, το σημείο που τελικά βρεθήκαμε απέχει πολύ από το σημείο που θέλαμε να φτάσουμε. Η απόσταση που μας χωρίζει από αυτό είναι χειροπιαστή, και για αρκετούς δυσβάσταχτη. Πολλές φορές ξεχνάμε το σημείο που καθόρισε την πορεία μας. Κι εκεί πια τα πράγματα δυσκολεύουν. Είναι οι ευκαιρίες που δε μας δόθηκαν, ή αυτές που αρπάξαμε; Οι επιλογές που κάναμε ή αυτές που απορρίψαμε; Οι καταστάσεις που περάσαμε, ή εκείνες που παρακάμψαμε;

Μήπως όλα αυτά είναι το ίδιο πράγμα; Τα εμπόδια δεν βρίσκονται στο δρόμο μας. Τα εμπόδια είναι ο δρόμος μας και οι επιλογές μας τα κάνουν ευκαιρίες. Κι ίσως, αντί να προσπαθούμε να τα ξεπεράσουμε, να πρέπει τα φωτίσουμε αυτές τις επιλογές. Να ανατρέξουμε στις στιγμές που κληθήκαμε να πάρουμε την κρίσιμη απόφαση, να τις εκτιμήσουμε και να συνειδητοποιήσουμε πως είναι ο λόγος που βρισκόμαστε εδώ σήμερα.

Γιατί τελικά, στη ζωή το μόνο που μπορούμε να ελέγξουμε είναι η αντίδρασή μας σε ό,τι αυτή μας φέρει. Είναι οι επιλογές στα κομβικά σημεία, και φέτος στο TEDxChania θα τα δούμε ένα προς ένα.

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Palio Teloneio, Katehaki Sq. 8, Chania 731 32, Greece | Παλιό Τελωνείο, Πλ. Κατεχάκη 8, Χανιά 731 32, Ελλάδα
Chania, Chania, 73132
Greece

Athina Antonopoulou

Athina Antonopoulou is General Manager of Hotel Units. She has a total work experience of 20 years in the field of hospitality. She has worked in Santorini, Mykonos, Skiathos, Alonissos, as well as on the island of Mauritius abroad, in 5* luxury hotel chains, such as Katikies, Radisson, Santikos Collection and LUX*. She has studied a Master in Hospitality Management at the University of Madrid, while she has an M.Sc. in Food Science and Technology from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She speaks English, French, Spanish and German. She has trained a multitude of multi-cultural executives in the hotels where she worked on areas such as: Hospitality Management & Operations, Hotel Revenues & Profitability, Service Excellence, Reputation Management, Quality Assurance, Sustainability & CSR.

Athina Tsagkaraki

Athina Tsagaraki was born in Athens, grew up in Karditsa, studied in Thessaloniki and completed the cycle, returning to Athens for the last seven years. Writing is the way she expresses herself better than anything else, even though she started talking very early (and hasn't stopped since). After graduating from the Thessaloniki Film School, she moved from article writing, to theater and film criticism, to end up in 2020 getting her first official job as a screenwriter in the series "Don't Start Murmuring". In the last five years, in addition to being a friend, loyal follower and right hand of Mary Synatsaki, Athina sees all her dreams - even those she didn't even know she had - come true. And somehow, she manages to keep alive the vision of little Athina, who wanted to become a hybrid between Eleni Menegaki and Aliki Vougiouklakis when she grows up.

Doretta Papadimitriou

She was born in Athens on October 15, 1979, where she spent her childhood years. After finishing school she started studying at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In parallel with her studies at the university, she also started studying acting at Vassilis Diamantopoulos' Iasmos School of Drama. During her teenage years until the age of 22, she was a champion in rhythmic gymnastics and athletics. During her sports career, she represented the National Team until 2002, with participation in European championships, while she was named Balkan Champion with the Junior National Team in 1992.

Elia Psillakis

Elia Psillakis is a Professor in Water Chemistry at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete. She was featured in the Power List 2021 of the magazine “The Analytical Scientist” as one of the Top 100 most influential people in analytical science and has received a Fulbright Award as a visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology, USA. She is Editor-in-Chief of “Advances in Sample Preparation” (Elsevier) and Head of the Sample Preparation Network of the European Chemical Society-Division of Analytical Chemistry. She is the Founder|CEO of ExtraTECH Analytical Solutions, a Spin-Off Company of TUCrete. From 2014-2016 she served as Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs and Research and TUCrete.

Eugenia Stathakopoulou

Ms. Stathakopoulou Eugenia is a Psychoanalyst member of the Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ Lacanien and executive of the Anti-Narcotics Agency from 2005. She has studied Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Community Psychiatry and Management of Health and Social Care Units. She has also been head of the Prevention Department of OKANA as well of the Funding and Program Department of the same organization. She has been working on mental health de-assimilation structures but also in structures for de-addiction from the beginning of her career. The last semester she is a 24-hour project manager in a homeless structure primarily concerned of harm reduction for users of psychoactive substances in the center of Athens.

Fivos Tsaravopoulos

Fivos Tsaravopoulos is Co-Founder and President of the Social Cooperative Enterprise "Paths of Greece" and is a Board member at the World Trails Network. Through Paths of Greece, he works on developing hiking destinations all over Greece and abroad (China, Japan and Albania). He has also worked in Cameroon, and has spent many days hiking in Nepal (Annapurna Circuit), Iceland (Laugavegurinn), Georgia (Svaneti) and elsewhere. He believes that through the paths we draw knowledge from the past, in order to walk steadily towards a better future.

Georgios Iatrou

Georgios is a baritone and creator. He sings important roles of the operatic repertoire such as Figaro in Barbiere di Siviglia, Orfeo by Monteverdi, Marcello in La Bohème, Valentin in Faust, Eugene Onegin, Prometheus by C.Orff in Opera Houses like Oper Köln, Greek National Opera, Irish National Opera, Grand Theater Avignon, Aalto Theater Essen, Theater Massenet, Dortmund Theater and oper Bonn and has worked with directors such as Graham Vick, Laurent Pelly, Lotte De Beer, D.Hilsdorf and Julian Chavaz and conductors a.o. Giacomo Sagripanti, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Manlio Benzi, Matteo Beltrami, Tomáš Netopil, Sébastien Rouland. He did numerous world premiers a.o. world premiers like Anna Nicole by M.A.Turnage, Prometheus Unbound by F.Scwenk, Anthony´s death by H.Goyos. He has won multiple awards in singing competitions in Italy, Germany, Holland and Luxemburg. He has also studied Molecular Biology and Genetics. He has created the drag persona Nina Naï as an extension of himself or an alter ego. Nina has been performing for four years in clubs, stages and- during the "Plague"- online in different drag festivals. Her project DRAUMA participated at the international competition Goodmesh concours and achieved 3rd Prize. In summer 21’ she sang the first ever live drag art song recital under the title “It’s a sin” with the exceptional pianist and conductor Yorgos Ziavras at the Festival Junger Künstler in Bayreuth. In spring 22´ Nina did her theatre debut with Bijoux de Kant in “Autumn” by K.Hatzopoulos. In early 2023 she will star in the contemporary opera “Strella” based on the film by G.Koutras. She is also the creator of Drag and Opera Festival (online). Nina co-created the Haus of Karma a drag haus based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Georgios aims to merge worlds that seem impossible to meet like lyric singing and drag performance.

Ioanna Triantafyllidou

Ioanna Triantafyllidou was born and raised in Thessaloniki. She is a graduate of the State Theater of Northern Greece and the Psychology department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 2007 she has been professionally active as an actress in plays, television series and films in Greece and the United States of America. In 2021, for the first time, she took on the duties of screenwriter for the short film "Nexting", directed by Karina Logothetis, which has already been screened and awarded at international festivals inside and outside Greece.

Itzi artz

Itzi was born in Athens in 1999,from a very young age showed intrest in illustration and painting, Nowdays she studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts and at the same time works with comics and illustrations. From 2021 until today she maintains an e-shop with her own commercial products ,while on Instagram page publishes her own personal work. This year, April 2021, her first self-published comic “PANIC ATTACK” was released at Comicdom Con Athens. Finally, from 2019 until today, she has been teaching art to children and teenagers and also has volunteered through art and teaching at the smile of a child(a non profret organisation that protects children) and KETHEA in action (Women's prison of Eleonas).

Kimon Gkologkinas

Kimon Gkologkinas was born in Thessaloniki where he lives until today. During his studies at the School of Civil Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki he was a volunteer in many projects concerned about public space rethinking and the techniques of natural building and bioclimatic architecture. At that time, he became also the co-founder of the film group Pame Krema, and directed two short films. His passion about storytelling as well as his restless personality led him to founding the ‘’Artpeckers’’ brand in 2016. Even since, every day is a life lesson.

Marios Giannakou

Marios Giannakou (born March 28, 1992) is an ultra-distance athlete and explorer. He has excelled in ultra-distance races around the world including the 150 km race in the Arctic and the world's longest desert ultramarathon of 270 km in the Al Marmoum desert. He is a motivational speaker, motivating people to change habits and lifestyles. He has spoken at the popular TEDx speaker conference, the World Antibullying Conference and numerous other talks. He is one of 14 people in the world to finish the 150 km Arctic race in February 2018 and one of 18 athletes to finish the 270 km desert race. He holds the age record in the world's longest desert ultramarathon in December 2018 and in February 2020 he completed the 250km race in the Central American jungle. In addition, he holds the age record in the most historic 100 mile race in Greece and the second oldest in Europe of the ROUT CLASSIC 100 MILES race. In March 2022, he participated in the 500 km race in the Arctic Lapland Arctic Ultra which he completed after 8 days of continuous effort together with the American athlete Russ Reinbolt. In October 2020, Eleftheria Tossiu, the first person with paraplegia to conquer the highest peak of the Balkans, climbed to the top of Olympus, an event that was covered by the international media. He is also involved in painting, poetry and writing, while he is a columnist for the Alternative Action website and iRun magazine.

Marios Mitrakis

Marios Mitrakis is a primary education teacher in Greece. He also studied Music Technology and Acoustics and has a Master in Creative Writing. He plays the drums and sings. In 2022 he decided to start a Google Form where people can share their stories anonymously. Marios is sharing these stories on his Instagram feed.

Nikos Avouris

Nikos Avouris is a professor at the University of Patras and dean of the Polytechnic School. He has a 40-year career in teaching and research in computer science and computer technology. His main research interest is Human-Computer Interaction and the design of interactive systems. He teaches courses such as "Databases", "Programming with Python", "Internet Programming", and "Interactive Technologies" at the Polytechnic School of the University of Patras. He has authored books on a variety of computer and IT topics and has published extensively in the research field of interactive technologies. He has worked as a researcher and engineer in Greece, England and Italy.

Petros Damianos

He studied Mathematics and has a MSc in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. He is: • the Headmaster of the Primary School, Gymnasium, Lyceum and Public Vocational Institute in the Avlonas Prison for Young Offenders (APYO) • Member of the SC of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights • Chairperson of the Hellenic Branch of the European Prison Education Association (EPEA-HELLAS) He was: • an elected member of the SC of ΚΕΘΕΑ (Therapy Centre for Dependent Individuals) • member of the SC of EPANODOS (Legal Entity of Private Law for the Social Reintegration of ex-Prisoners) • Regional Counselor of Atttica's Northern Sector, authorized in Social Welfare • Member of the SC of the European Prison Education Association (EPEA), responsible for Southern Europe For his activity and contribution to Prison Education, he was honoured by the Academy of Athens.

Vasilis Kopsacheilis

He is Political Scientist specialized on Foreign Policy and Geostrategy. Long experienced across the MENA region and he has particular interest on political risks in the Commodity and Deep Technology sectors. In 2013 he coined the term of “Geo-entrepreneurship” as key parameter in Geostrategic analysis. The new notion intends to differentiate broader multinational business activity from the inspired entrepreneurial activity that shapes international political order. Author and frequent media contributor.