DIGITAL AGENDA

SHAPING THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE

WHAT IS DIGITAL AGENDA CY?

Nicosia, Cyprus, being an international service centre, is becoming a regional education hub with 6 Universities, 30K students, from more than 120 countries. Living in changing times we gather A-class technology speakers and policymakers to discuss about the future of humanity in regional
and European perspective.

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OUR GOAL IS

∙ Endorse the student/ youth community to discuss and speak about the future
∙ Rise the Global agenda in local perspective
∙ Establishing Nicosia as a creative hub in the world digital agenda
∙ Presenting A – class speakers in topics that have never been discussed in our region

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Meet our 2020 Speakers

Ken Hughes is now acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading authorities on consumer, shopper and cyber shopper behaviour. He is internationally renowned for helping his largely blue-chip client base to understand the physical, digital and future consumer.

Jacqueline Kassteen has 20 years of marketing experience in international education, student travel, publishing, lead generation, retail, and financial services.
Kassteen is known as a “top industry analyst” with extensive breadth and depth of knowledge in international education and marketing.

Asif is Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at adidas, prior to which he was the Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging for The Telegraph Media Group. He was previously the Head of Diversity and Inclusiveness for EY Financial Services and the Head of the Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Unit for the City of London Police.

Lady Kinvara Balfour advises companies big and small (Jimmy Choo, Richemont, Smythson, UBS, Evian, Coutts to name a few) on what is cool out there in the zeitgeist. She understands the worlds of tech, fashion and popular culture and the psychology that drives them.

On 1 December 2019, Ms. Kyriakides became the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety.
In the area of health, she is leading the Commission’s work on Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, to help improve cancer prevention and care and is in charge of developing a new Pharmaceutical Strategy to ensure that Europe has enough affordable medicines to meet its needs.

Mr. Polemitis has two decades of experience in higher education, private equity, and software development. He has a deep understanding of global higher education, having served as a CEO, investor, board member, instructor and technology developer in the field. He has been a principal or advisor for a broad range of corporate financings in the United States, Europe, Latin America and India, ranging from multi-billion dollar industrial buyouts to early stage venture capital. He has also led the development of high-scale cloud-based technology platforms in multiple industries.

Kyriacos Kokkinos is the Deputy Minister to the President for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, since March 1st 2020.
He previously served as the Chief Scientist for Research & Innovation of the Republic of Cyprus, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Research & Innovation Foundation and Member of the National Board of Research & Innovation.

Prof Leonidas A. Phylactou received his Bachelor’s degree in Medical Biochemistry with honours from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1992 and his PhD in Molecular Genetics/Gene Therapy from the same University in 1995 in collaboration with the University of Connecticut Health Center, USA. Upon completion of his studies, he moved to Oxford University as a post-doctoral scientist where he led a research team on the use of catalytic RNAs as tools for gene therapy in the brain and muscle. Upon returning to Cyprus in 1998 he was employed at The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) where he established a research team to investigate and develop novel ways to study gene function and exploit gene therapy approaches.

Before assuming office as the CEO of Cyta in January 2019, Mr Neocleous main work experience comes from three large multi-national companies (Goldman Sachs, Ericsson and MTN). His time as a Senior Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs (London and New York), introduced him to the corporate financial world at the highest level. His time in Ericsson Cyprus allowed him to make a smooth transition from technology to business while at the same time adjusting to the Cyprus business environment.

Michalis Persianis has been Corporate Affairs Director at Bank of Cyprus since 2015.
Michalis worked as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones from 2011 to 2014, and as Chief Editor for Finance at Kathimerini newspaper (Cyprus edition) from 2009 to 2014. From 2005 to 2009 he was Head of Research (Presidential campaign) and Parliamentary staffer (European Parliament) for Mr Ioannis Kasoulides.

Marina Economidou was born in Nicosia in 1985. She is the editor in chief of Kathimerini newspaper and since 2014 is the political editor and columnist of Kathimerini. She holds a master degree in political communication from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Cyprus, a diploma of French literature and language from the University of Paris 4 Sorbonne. She speaks English and French.

After her studies in Marketing in London, she started her career in the family petroleum company Petrolina Hellas in Greece. In 1985 she retuned to Cyprus and founded DELEMA, one of the largest and most creative communication agencies in Cyprus, affiliated with MCCANN Worldgroup, the largest and most effective communication network in the world. She is the president of FED (Self-Regulation association) and SDEK (communication agencies association). She also served as vice-president of the European Association of Young Entrepreneurs YES for Europe.

Demetris Demetriou was born in Nicosia in 1981. He studied Electrical and Computer Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) at the University of Patras in Greece. He holds an MBA in Business Administration from the University of Cyprus.
He served as a Vice-President of the Youth Organisation (NEDISY) of the Democratic Rally in Cyprus (DISY) from 2009 to 2011. He has also been the President of the Organisation of Young Scientists (ONE) of DISY from 2013 to 2017. Since July of 2018 he is the spokesperson of DISY. In 2016 he has been elected as Member of the Parliament in Cyprus with DISY for the area of Nicosia.

Christoforos Charalambous has been working for more than two decades in universities where he has held researcher and faculty positions. Relatively recently he has undertaken a top management position at Frederick University, one of the largest universities in Cyprus.
Dr Charalambous holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Department of Computation at the University of Manchester where he ranked as the top graduate, and a Master’s degree with specialization in artificial intelligence from the same university. He obtained his Doctorate from Brunel University in London where his research, funded by Unilever Research Laboratories, concentrated in the field of optimization of complex systems.

Professor Dr. Kostas Gouliamos, Rector of the European University Cyprus, elected
Ordinary Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2018). He pursued an academic career in Canada and Greece. He is Honorary Professor at Lanzhou City University, Nanyang Normal University and Wuhan Business University in China. He was Member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the European Social Survey (ESS): an innovative research project that won Europe’s top science award, the Descartes Prize.

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Meet our 2019 Speakers

The 2nd Digital Agenda 19 summit will highlight and delve into issues on the world agenda while adopting European and regional perspectives. Topics include the effort towards a better and fairer internet, the human side of data analytics, the use of Artificial Intelligence in everyday life and the media, design techniques and development of applications at the global level, viral communication and how it evolves through social media, the revolution that gives way to solar energy, as well as the importance of the development of 5G infrastructure and broadband that will facilitate the interconnectivity
of the Internet of Things (IoT).
The goal of Digital Agenda Cyprus is to become an established meeting point for prominent figures and young people who come together to discuss and develop a future of mankind at the regional and European levels. An equally important aim is to draw attention to Nicosia as a university knowledge centre where discussion on the digital agenda takes place.
In line with these goals, over 50 prominent speakers have been invited. From now until the day of the conference, there will be frequent announcements and updates regarding participants, topics, and the conference schedule. Stay tuned!