Dr Sofia Tsekeridou
Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou (F) is currently a Senior Research and Innovation Manager - Expert at the Research and Innovation Development Dept. of INTRASOFT International, heading the Security and Safety Lab. She previously held the position of Associate Professor at Athens Information Technology (AIT) heading the Multimedia, Knowledge and Web Technologies research group. She has acquired an Electrical and Computer Engineering Diploma and a PhD in Computer Science, both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Dr. Tsekeridou has more than 20 years' experience in research, development & innovation activities, as Senior Researcher, Senior Project and/or Technical Coordinator as well as Senior Technical Architect and Leader of research and software development teams, in more than 50 national, industrial and EU-funded research and development projects in the areas of multimedia processing/AI, e-learning, data analytics/ data mining, information security/ cybersecurity, information retrieval/search engines/recommender systems and knowledge engineering/data science in diverse application domains (public safety and security, e-health, learning, tourism, digital libraries, media, entertainment/gaming, etc.). This work resulted to the in-house development of relevant assets: i) the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) stack of tools, ii) the UNIFY-DATA distributed and federated platform, iii) the distributed CTI Information Sharing platform, iv) Toolboxes for cyber risk assessment and multi-stakeholder research initiatives impact assessment, etc. She has published more than 100 papers at international scientific journals and conferences and has contributed to the TV Anytime and W3C standardization bodies. She is currently involved in the IEEE P2145 Working Group on Blockchain Governance, and its sub-group on interoperability, and represents INTRASOFT in the DRIC Defkalion Greek Cluster in Climate Change and Environmental Risks Impact to Resilience. She has served as a reviewer to many international scientific conferences and journals, as an evaluator to EU-funded and national projects and proposals, as organizing chair, tutorial speaker, and TPC member in many conferences. Dr. Tsekeridou is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. She is an active validated member of Europol’s Data Protection Experts Network and has received personnel security clearance in 2019 from the National Ministry of Defence at EU SECRET and NATO SECRET level.
Sessions in which Dr Sofia Tsekeridou participates
Croke Park Conference Centre - Canal Café
Workshop
Angela-Maria Despotopoulou, Netcompany-Intrasoft (Speaker)
Dr Levente Buttyán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Speaker)
Erol Gelenbe, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Acadeny of Sciences(IITIS-PAN) (Speaker)
Dr Sofia Tsekeridou, Netcompany-Intrasoft (Speaker)
Sascha Hackel, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (Speaker)
Miltiadis Siavvas, Information Technologies Institute of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH/ITI) (Speaker)
Pedro Jorge Viana de Bragança Menezes, Kaspersky (Speaker)
Andras Vilmos, Safepay Systems (Speaker)
Croke Park Conference Centre - Canal Café
Workshop
Angela-Maria Despotopoulou, Netcompany-Intrasoft (Speaker)
Dr Sofia Tsekeridou, Netcompany-Intrasoft (Speaker)
Erol Gelenbe, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Acadeny of Sciences(IITIS-PAN) (Speaker)
Dr Levente Buttyán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Speaker)
Miltiadis Siavvas, Information Technologies Institute of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH/ITI) (Keynote speaker)
Andras Vilmos, Safepay Systems (Speaker)
Sascha Hackel, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (Speaker)
Pedro Jorge Viana de Bragança Menezes, Kaspersky (Speaker)
Sessions in which Dr Sofia Tsekeridou attends
Croke Park Conference Centre - Davin Suite
Ms Sonja Sulzmaier, Navispace GmbH (Moderator)
Mr Christian Stammel, Wearable Technologies Group (Moderator)
Mr Thomas Waldmann, Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG (Judge)
Mr Alessandro Maloberti, STMicroelectronics (Judge)
James East, WURTH (Judge)
Mark Hughes, EBV Elektronik (Judge)
Taryn Andersen, Investor Relations Director - Telegraph Hill Venture Capital (Judge)
Mr Alan Murphy, Smart Dublin (Judge)
Mr Nadav Nachshon, Gorilla Link (Contestant)
Alexander Jürgens, Apocrat (Contestant)
Tom Timothy, Ovon (Contestant)
Riccardo De Filippo, GloballD (Simon Grey) (Contestant)
Pau Feliu, Maccion (Contestant)
Kevin Quillien, R3-IoT (Contestant)
Ramón Serra (Participant)
Croke Park Conference Centre - Hogan Mezzanine 2
Panel
Vincenzo Lomonaco, University of Pisa (Speaker)
Ovidiu Vermesan, SINTEF (Speaker)
Mr Valerio Frascolla, Intel Deutschland GmbH (Speaker)
Croke Park Conference Centre - Hogan Foyer & Suite
Alison Gilliland, Dublin City Council (Speaker)