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By half past six on a Tuesday evening, the chairs are filling with people who still have their work backpacks on, laptops half-open, Slack notifications pinging as they settle in for one of Athens's longest-running monthly AI gatherings.\n\nMindstone's April meetup follows a rhythm the regulars already know. There will be talks -- sometimes a deep technical walkthrough of a model architecture, sometimes a live demo where something breaks and the room collectively troubleshoots, sometimes an open discussion where the format loosens and people argue about inference costs or whether the latest open-source release actually changes anything. The exact agenda lands closer to the date. What stays consistent is the room itself: a working ed-tech company's headquarters in central Athens, borrowed for the evening and filled with people who spend their days inside neural networks, training pipelines, and product backlogs.\n\nThe crowd here is not uniform. You will find ML engineers who want to talk about quantization techniques sitting next to startup founders who want to understand what is actually feasible to build on a seed budget. Data scientists from Greek enterprises rub shoulders with freelance developers who picked up PyTorch six months ago and are trying to figure out what to do with it. The conversations between talks are often where the real density lives -- someone sketching a system diagram on a napkin, two people discovering they have been independently working on similar retrieval-augmented pipelines, a quick exchange of GitHub handles.\n\nIf you work with AI daily and want a room where you can speak in acronyms without explaining them, this is that room. If you are earlier in the journey -- maybe you have completed some courses, built a side project, and want to see what practitioners in Athens are actually shipping -- this is equally your room. The community has been growing month over month as the city's AI ecosystem expands, and the meetup reflects that gradient of experience without gatekeeping it.\n\nThere is no entrance fee. You register through the Mindstone platform to claim your spot, and spots do fill as the community has scaled. Epignosis provides the space, which means the infrastructure is solid -- good wifi, a proper screen, enough power outlets for the laptop-dependent crowd.\n\nThe evening tends to wind down organically. After the scheduled content wraps, clusters of people drift toward continued conversation, sometimes spilling out to nearby streets where the restaurant and bar density makes extending the night easy. Bring a charger. Your phone battery will not survive the networking.", "fullDescriptionEn": "The elevator opens onto an open-plan office floor where someone has already started rearranging desks to face a projector screen. Epignosis headquarters smells like fresh coffee and the particular ozone tang of too many laptops running in one room. By half past six on a Tuesday evening, the chairs are filling with people who still have their work backpacks on, laptops half-open, Slack notifications pinging as they settle in for one of Athens's longest-running monthly AI gatherings.\n\nMindstone's April meetup follows a rhythm the regulars already know. There will be talks -- sometimes a deep technical walkthrough of a model architecture, sometimes a live demo where something breaks and the room collectively troubleshoots, sometimes an open discussion where the format loosens and people argue about inference costs or whether the latest open-source release actually changes anything. The exact agenda lands closer to the date. What stays consistent is the room itself: a working ed-tech company's headquarters in central Athens, borrowed for the evening and filled with people who spend their days inside neural networks, training pipelines, and product backlogs.\n\nThe crowd here is not uniform. You will find ML engineers who want to talk about quantization techniques sitting next to startup founders who want to understand what is actually feasible to build on a seed budget. Data scientists from Greek enterprises rub shoulders with freelance developers who picked up PyTorch six months ago and are trying to figure out what to do with it. The conversations between talks are often where the real density lives -- someone sketching a system diagram on a napkin, two people discovering they have been independently working on similar retrieval-augmented pipelines, a quick exchange of GitHub handles.\n\nIf you work with AI daily and want a room where you can speak in acronyms without explaining them, this is that room. If you are earlier in the journey -- maybe you have completed some courses, built a side project, and want to see what practitioners in Athens are actually shipping -- this is equally your room. The community has been growing month over month as the city's AI ecosystem expands, and the meetup reflects that gradient of experience without gatekeeping it.\n\nThere is no entrance fee. You register through the Mindstone platform to claim your spot, and spots do fill as the community has scaled. Epignosis provides the space, which means the infrastructure is solid -- good wifi, a proper screen, enough power outlets for the laptop-dependent crowd.\n\nThe evening tends to wind down organically. After the scheduled content wraps, clusters of people drift toward continued conversation, sometimes spilling out to nearby streets where the restaurant and bar density makes extending the night easy. Bring a charger. 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The exact agenda lands closer to the date. What stays consistent is the room itself: a working ed-tech company's headquarters in central Athens, borrowed for the evening and filled with people who spend their days inside neural networks, training pipelines, and product backlogs.\n\nThe crowd here is not uniform. You will find ML engineers who want to talk about quantization techniques sitting next to startup founders who want to understand what is actually feasible to build on a seed budget. Data scientists from Greek enterprises rub shoulders with freelance developers who picked up PyTorch six months ago and are trying to figure out what to do with it. The conversations between talks are often where the real density lives -- someone sketching a system diagram on a napkin, two people discovering they have been independently working on similar retrieval-augmented pipelines, a quick exchange of GitHub handles.\n\nIf you work with AI daily and want a room where you can speak in acronyms without explaining them, this is that room. If you are earlier in the journey -- maybe you have completed some courses, built a side project, and want to see what practitioners in Athens are actually shipping -- this is equally your room. The community has been growing month over month as the city's AI ecosystem expands, and the meetup reflects that gradient of experience without gatekeeping it.\n\nThere is no entrance fee. You register through the Mindstone platform to claim your spot, and spots do fill as the community has scaled. 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Part of global Devoxx family. Covers Java, Cloud, AI/ML, Security, Architecture. Community-driven.", "fullDescription": "The marble-and-glass foyer of the Athens Concert Hall -- Megaron Mousikis -- fills with the sound of footsteps and badge scanners on the morning of April 23. Developers stream through the doors into a building designed for orchestras and now, for three days, repurposed for code. Devoxx Greece brings the global Devoxx conference family to the cultural district of Kolonaki, and the venue's multiple halls allow parallel tracks to run simultaneously across Java, Cloud, AI and machine learning, Security, and Architecture.\n\nYou pick up your badge and face the first real decision of the day: which track to follow. The program is built through a Call for Papers process, which means the sessions come from practitioners who submitted, were reviewed, and were selected -- not from sponsors who paid for a slot. This community-driven curation runs through the DNA of every Devoxx edition, from the original in Belgium to the events in the UK, France, Morocco, and Poland. The Greek edition carries the same editorial standards into a Mediterranean setting.\n\nMegaron Mousikis is one of Athens's architectural landmarks, a brutalist concert complex on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue at the edge of Kolonaki. The acoustics built for symphonies serve technical talks well: presenters do not fight the room, and code projected on screen remains legible from the back rows. Between sessions, the building's corridors and outdoor terraces offer space to decompress, compare notes, and argue about whether the talk on microservices actually addressed the hard parts.\n\nThe three-day format allows a rhythm that single-day events cannot. Day one, you orient -- scanning sessions, finding your cohort, calibrating the depth of content. Day two, you go deep, staying in one track or deliberately cross-pollinating between two. Day three, you consolidate, revisiting speakers, following up on hallway conversations, collecting the references and repository links that will matter when you are back at your desk on Monday.\n\nThe Devoxx audience skews toward working developers and architects -- people who ship software and need to make technology choices with consequences. The AI/ML track sits alongside Java and Cloud, which reflects how machine learning has moved from a specialty to an integrated concern in mainstream software engineering.\n\nIf you build software professionally and want three days of dense, peer-reviewed technical content delivered in a top-tier venue, Devoxx Greece earns its place on your calendar. If you are looking for high-level trend overviews or executive-oriented programming, the granularity here will feel too deep.\n\nLate April in Athens is warm without the summer intensity. The walk from Megaron to Syntagma Square takes fifteen minutes through tree-lined streets, and the evening light lasts long enough for post-conference dinners to start on outdoor terraces.", "fullDescriptionEn": "The marble-and-glass foyer of the Athens Concert Hall -- Megaron Mousikis -- fills with the sound of footsteps and badge scanners on the morning of April 23. Developers stream through the doors into a building designed for orchestras and now, for three days, repurposed for code. Devoxx Greece brings the global Devoxx conference family to the cultural district of Kolonaki, and the venue's multiple halls allow parallel tracks to run simultaneously across Java, Cloud, AI and machine learning, Security, and Architecture.\n\nYou pick up your badge and face the first real decision of the day: which track to follow. The program is built through a Call for Papers process, which means the sessions come from practitioners who submitted, were reviewed, and were selected -- not from sponsors who paid for a slot. This community-driven curation runs through the DNA of every Devoxx edition, from the original in Belgium to the events in the UK, France, Morocco, and Poland. The Greek edition carries the same editorial standards into a Mediterranean setting.\n\nMegaron Mousikis is one of Athens's architectural landmarks, a brutalist concert complex on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue at the edge of Kolonaki. The acoustics built for symphonies serve technical talks well: presenters do not fight the room, and code projected on screen remains legible from the back rows. Between sessions, the building's corridors and outdoor terraces offer space to decompress, compare notes, and argue about whether the talk on microservices actually addressed the hard parts.\n\nThe three-day format allows a rhythm that single-day events cannot. Day one, you orient -- scanning sessions, finding your cohort, calibrating the depth of content. Day two, you go deep, staying in one track or deliberately cross-pollinating between two. Day three, you consolidate, revisiting speakers, following up on hallway conversations, collecting the references and repository links that will matter when you are back at your desk on Monday.\n\nThe Devoxx audience skews toward working developers and architects -- people who ship software and need to make technology choices with consequences. The AI/ML track sits alongside Java and Cloud, which reflects how machine learning has moved from a specialty to an integrated concern in mainstream software engineering.\n\nIf you build software professionally and want three days of dense, peer-reviewed technical content delivered in a top-tier venue, Devoxx Greece earns its place on your calendar. If you are looking for high-level trend overviews or executive-oriented programming, the granularity here will feel too deep.\n\nLate April in Athens is warm without the summer intensity. The walk from Megaron to Syntagma Square takes fifteen minutes through tree-lined streets, and the evening light lasts long enough for post-conference dinners to start on outdoor terraces.", "fullDescriptionGr": "The marble-and-glass foyer of the Athens Concert Hall -- Megaron Mousikis -- fills with the sound of footsteps and badge scanners on the morning of April 23. Developers stream through the doors into a building designed for orchestras and now, for three days, repurposed for code. Devoxx Greece brings the global Devoxx conference family to the cultural district of Kolonaki, and the venue's multiple halls allow parallel tracks to run simultaneously across Java, Cloud, AI and machine learning, Security, and Architecture.\n\nYou pick up your badge and face the first real decision of the day: which track to follow. The program is built through a Call for Papers process, which means the sessions come from practitioners who submitted, were reviewed, and were selected -- not from sponsors who paid for a slot. This community-driven curation runs through the DNA of every Devoxx edition, from the original in Belgium to the events in the UK, France, Morocco, and Poland. The Greek edition carries the same editorial standards into a Mediterranean setting.\n\nMegaron Mousikis is one of Athens's architectural landmarks, a brutalist concert complex on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue at the edge of Kolonaki. The acoustics built for symphonies serve technical talks well: presenters do not fight the room, and code projected on screen remains legible from the back rows. Between sessions, the building's corridors and outdoor terraces offer space to decompress, compare notes, and argue about whether the talk on microservices actually addressed the hard parts.\n\nThe three-day format allows a rhythm that single-day events cannot. Day one, you orient -- scanning sessions, finding your cohort, calibrating the depth of content. Day two, you go deep, staying in one track or deliberately cross-pollinating between two. Day three, you consolidate, revisiting speakers, following up on hallway conversations, collecting the references and repository links that will matter when you are back at your desk on Monday.\n\nThe Devoxx audience skews toward working developers and architects -- people who ship software and need to make technology choices with consequences. The AI/ML track sits alongside Java and Cloud, which reflects how machine learning has moved from a specialty to an integrated concern in mainstream software engineering.\n\nIf you build software professionally and want three days of dense, peer-reviewed technical content delivered in a world-class venue, Devoxx Greece earns its place on your calendar. If you are looking for high-level trend overviews or executive-oriented programming, the granularity here will feel too deep.\n\nLate April in Athens is warm without the summer intensity. The walk from Megaron to Syntagma Square takes fifteen minutes through tree-lined streets, and the evening light lasts long enough for post-conference dinners to start on outdoor terraces.", "hasNativeGreek": false, "startDate": "2026-04-23", "endDate": "2026-04-25", "type": "tech", "genres": [ "AI", "Tech" ], "tags": [], "venue": { "name": "Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών", "address": "Vassilissis Sofias Avenue & Kokkali 1, Athens 115 21", "neighborhood": "Ilisia", "coordinates": { "lat": 37.975, "lon": 23.757 }, "capacity": null }, "price": { "type": "with-ticket", "amount": 25, "currency": "EUR", "range": "€15-80" }, "url": "https://devoxx.gr/", "ticketUrl": "https://devoxx.gr/", "source": "devoxx.gr", "createdAt": "2026-02-20 16:12:10", "updatedAt": "2026-04-15 12:14:03", "language": "en", "imageSource": "not_found", "permanentCollection": false, "locationStatus": "verified_athens" }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "EducationEvent", "id": "751e22533893151e", "title": "Athens SEO 2026", "description": "Technical SEO + AI in search. Europe-facing.", "fullDescription": "Concrete, glass, and the faint residual geometry of runways -- The Ellinikon Experience Centre sits on the site of the former Athens International Airport, now in the middle of one of Europe's largest urban redevelopment projects on the southern coast. On May 22-23, this venue hosts Athens SEO 2026, a conference built at the intersection of technical search engine optimization and the AI systems that are rewriting how search works.\n\nYou arrive at a venue that embodies transformation -- a decommissioned airport becoming a mixed-use district -- to discuss a field undergoing its own fundamental shift. The conference addresses the technical mechanics of search visibility in an era when AI-generated answers, large language model integrations, and shifting crawl behaviors are changing the rules that SEO practitioners have relied on for a decade. The content is Europe-facing, drawing speakers and attendees who work across markets with different languages, regulations, and search behaviors.\n\nThe sessions go deep into the plumbing: structured data, crawl budget optimization, log file analysis, Core Web Vitals, and the emerging question of how to maintain visibility when search engines increasingly synthesize answers rather than serve links. The AI thread runs through the program not as a separate track but as an integrated concern -- because for anyone working in search today, the AI layer is no longer optional context.\n\nThe Ellinikon Experience Centre provides a modern, purpose-built event space that reflects the ambition of the surrounding development project. Located in the southern Athens suburb of Ellinikon, the venue is accessible via the tram line that runs along the coast or by car from the city center. The coastal location means breaks between sessions come with glimpses of the Saronic Gulf, and the late-May weather makes outdoor networking areas genuinely usable.\n\nThe two-day format allows the program to layer foundational technical sessions on day one with more advanced and speculative content on day two. The European orientation of the conference means the case studies reflect the complexity of multi-market, multi-language SEO -- not just the English-language, US-centric perspective that dominates many search conferences.\n\nIf you work in technical SEO and need to understand how AI is reshaping search infrastructure, ranking systems, and content discovery, this conference addresses your professional reality directly. If your interest in SEO is primarily content strategy or brand marketing without a technical foundation, the depth of the sessions will outpace you.\n\nThe Ellinikon site carries a particular atmosphere in late May -- open sky, sea air, and the visible evidence of a coastline being reimagined. Between sessions, the scale of the surrounding construction project serves as an unintentional metaphor for the industry under discussion: familiar ground, fundamentally restructured.", "fullDescriptionEn": "Concrete, glass, and the faint residual geometry of runways -- The Ellinikon Experience Centre sits on the site of the former Athens International Airport, now in the middle of one of Europe's largest urban redevelopment projects on the southern coast. On May 22-23, this venue hosts Athens SEO 2026, a conference built at the intersection of technical search engine optimization and the AI systems that are rewriting how search works.\n\nYou arrive at a venue that embodies transformation -- a decommissioned airport becoming a mixed-use district -- to discuss a field undergoing its own fundamental shift. The conference addresses the technical mechanics of search visibility in an era when AI-generated answers, large language model integrations, and shifting crawl behaviors are changing the rules that SEO practitioners have relied on for a decade. The content is Europe-facing, drawing speakers and attendees who work across markets with different languages, regulations, and search behaviors.\n\nThe sessions go deep into the plumbing: structured data, crawl budget optimization, log file analysis, Core Web Vitals, and the emerging question of how to maintain visibility when search engines increasingly synthesize answers rather than serve links. The AI thread runs through the program not as a separate track but as an integrated concern -- because for anyone working in search today, the AI layer is no longer optional context.\n\nThe Ellinikon Experience Centre provides a modern, purpose-built event space that reflects the ambition of the surrounding development project. Located in the southern Athens suburb of Ellinikon, the venue is accessible via the tram line that runs along the coast or by car from the city center. The coastal location means breaks between sessions come with glimpses of the Saronic Gulf, and the late-May weather makes outdoor networking areas genuinely usable.\n\nThe two-day format allows the program to layer foundational technical sessions on day one with more advanced and speculative content on day two. The European orientation of the conference means the case studies reflect the complexity of multi-market, multi-language SEO -- not just the English-language, US-centric perspective that dominates many search conferences.\n\nIf you work in technical SEO and need to understand how AI is reshaping search infrastructure, ranking systems, and content discovery, this conference addresses your professional reality directly. If your interest in SEO is primarily content strategy or brand marketing without a technical foundation, the depth of the sessions will outpace you.\n\nThe Ellinikon site carries a particular atmosphere in late May -- open sky, sea air, and the visible evidence of a coastline being reimagined. Between sessions, the scale of the surrounding construction project serves as an unintentional metaphor for the industry under discussion: familiar ground, fundamentally restructured.", "fullDescriptionGr": "Concrete, glass, and the faint residual geometry of runways -- The Ellinikon Experience Centre sits on the site of the former Athens International Airport, now in the middle of one of Europe's largest urban redevelopment projects on the southern coast. 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The content is Europe-facing, drawing speakers and attendees who work across markets with different languages, regulations, and search behaviors.\n\nThe sessions go deep into the plumbing: structured data, crawl budget optimization, log file analysis, Core Web Vitals, and the emerging question of how to maintain visibility when search engines increasingly synthesize answers rather than serve links. The AI thread runs through the program not as a separate track but as an integrated concern -- because for anyone working in search today, the AI layer is no longer optional context.\n\nThe Ellinikon Experience Centre provides a modern, purpose-built event space that reflects the ambition of the surrounding development project. Located in the southern Athens suburb of Ellinikon, the venue is accessible via the tram line that runs along the coast or by car from the city center. 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Research + industry + networking. Greek AI researchers from MIT, Stanford, and top European institutions meet the local ecosystem.", "fullDescription": "The Eugenides Foundation Conference Centre stands on Syngrou Avenue at number 387, in Paleo Faliro, where the long coastal road meets the sea. A science education institution with a planetarium dome visible from the street, it hosts Greeks in AI from July 15 through 17 -- the flagship symposium that brings the Greek AI diaspora home to meet the local ecosystem.\n\nYou walk into a room where researchers from MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and INRIA sit alongside engineers and founders building AI companies in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras. The gathering operates at the junction of academic research and industry application, and the particular texture of the event comes from this collision: rigorous technical presentations followed by conversations about commercialization, talent pipelines, and how to build lasting bridges between Greek researchers abroad and institutions at home.\n\nThe diaspora element gives the conference its distinctive character. Greek AI researchers hold positions at some of the world's leading laboratories and universities. Many left Greece during the years when academic funding contracted and industry opportunities were scarce. The country's AI ecosystem has since grown substantially, and Greeks in AI creates the physical space for reunion and reassessment -- for people to see what has changed, what has been built, and where collaboration can take root.\n\nThe three-day program spans research talks, industry panels, and structured networking sessions. The research presentations reflect the breadth of where Greek AI talent has landed: computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, robotics, and the mathematical foundations that underpin them. The industry sessions ground this in the practical: startup formation, investment climate, partnerships between Greek universities and international labs.\n\nThe Eugenides Foundation itself shapes the experience. The conference facilities overlook the sea, and the institution's identity as a center for science education lends a seriousness of purpose to the proceedings. The planetarium dome next door is a reminder that this is a place built for making complex knowledge accessible -- an ethos that aligns with a conference designed to connect dispersed expertise with local opportunity.\n\nThe event is free to attend, which reflects its mission: this is not a commercial conference but a community gathering with institutional support. The absence of a ticket price lowers the barrier for students, early-career researchers, and local practitioners who might otherwise be priced out.\n\nIf you are a Greek AI researcher or practitioner -- whether based in Athens or abroad -- and you want to reconnect with the community building the country's AI future, this is the annual gathering point. If you have no connection to the Greek AI ecosystem and are looking for a general-purpose AI conference, the diaspora focus will feel peripheral to your interests.\n\nMid-July in Athens is hot. The sea breeze at Paleo Faliro offers some relief, and the walk along the coastal promenade from the Eugenides Foundation toward the marina provides the kind of evening decompression that conference centers in landlocked cities cannot replicate.", "fullDescriptionEn": "The Eugenides Foundation Conference Centre stands on Syngrou Avenue at number 387, in Paleo Faliro, where the long coastal road meets the sea. A science education institution with a planetarium dome visible from the street, it hosts Greeks in AI from July 15 through 17 -- the flagship symposium that brings the Greek AI diaspora home to meet the local ecosystem.\n\nYou walk into a room where researchers from MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and INRIA sit alongside engineers and founders building AI companies in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras. The gathering operates at the junction of academic research and industry application, and the particular texture of the event comes from this collision: rigorous technical presentations followed by conversations about commercialization, talent pipelines, and how to build lasting bridges between Greek researchers abroad and institutions at home.\n\nThe diaspora element gives the conference its distinctive character. Greek AI researchers hold positions at some of the world's leading laboratories and universities. Many left Greece during the years when academic funding contracted and industry opportunities were scarce. The country's AI ecosystem has since grown substantially, and Greeks in AI creates the physical space for reunion and reassessment -- for people to see what has changed, what has been built, and where collaboration can take root.\n\nThe three-day program spans research talks, industry panels, and structured networking sessions. The research presentations reflect the breadth of where Greek AI talent has landed: computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, robotics, and the mathematical foundations that underpin them. The industry sessions ground this in the practical: startup formation, investment climate, partnerships between Greek universities and international labs.\n\nThe Eugenides Foundation itself shapes the experience. The conference facilities overlook the sea, and the institution's identity as a center for science education lends a seriousness of purpose to the proceedings. The planetarium dome next door is a reminder that this is a place built for making complex knowledge accessible -- an ethos that aligns with a conference designed to connect dispersed expertise with local opportunity.\n\nThe event is free to attend, which reflects its mission: this is not a commercial conference but a community gathering with institutional support. The absence of a ticket price lowers the barrier for students, early-career researchers, and local practitioners who might otherwise be priced out.\n\nIf you are a Greek AI researcher or practitioner -- whether based in Athens or abroad -- and you want to reconnect with the community building the country's AI future, this is the annual gathering point. If you have no connection to the Greek AI ecosystem and are looking for a general-purpose AI conference, the diaspora focus will feel peripheral to your interests.\n\nMid-July in Athens is hot. The sea breeze at Paleo Faliro offers some relief, and the walk along the coastal promenade from the Eugenides Foundation toward the marina provides the kind of evening decompression that conference centers in landlocked cities cannot replicate.", "fullDescriptionGr": "The Eugenides Foundation Conference Centre stands on Syngrou Avenue at number 387, in Paleo Faliro, where the long coastal road meets the sea. A science education institution with a planetarium dome visible from the street, it hosts Greeks in AI from July 15 through 17 -- the flagship symposium that brings the Greek AI diaspora home to meet the local ecosystem.\n\nYou walk into a room where researchers from MIT, Stanford, Oxford, and INRIA sit alongside engineers and founders building AI companies in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras. The gathering operates at the junction of academic research and industry application, and the particular texture of the event comes from this collision: rigorous technical presentations followed by conversations about commercialization, talent pipelines, and how to build lasting bridges between Greek researchers abroad and institutions at home.\n\nThe diaspora element gives the conference its distinctive character. Greek AI researchers hold positions at some of the world's leading laboratories and universities. Many left Greece during the years when academic funding contracted and industry opportunities were scarce. The country's AI ecosystem has since grown substantially, and Greeks in AI creates the physical space for reunion and reassessment -- for people to see what has changed, what has been built, and where collaboration can take root.\n\nThe three-day program spans research talks, industry panels, and structured networking sessions. The research presentations reflect the breadth of where Greek AI talent has landed: computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, robotics, and the mathematical foundations that underpin them. The industry sessions ground this in the practical: startup formation, investment climate, partnerships between Greek universities and international labs.\n\nThe Eugenides Foundation itself shapes the experience. The conference facilities overlook the sea, and the institution's identity as a center for science education lends a seriousness of purpose to the proceedings. The planetarium dome next door is a reminder that this is a place built for making complex knowledge accessible -- an ethos that aligns with a conference designed to connect dispersed expertise with local opportunity.\n\nThe event is free to attend, which reflects its mission: this is not a commercial conference but a community gathering with institutional support. The absence of a ticket price lowers the barrier for students, early-career researchers, and local practitioners who might otherwise be priced out.\n\nIf you are a Greek AI researcher or practitioner -- whether based in Athens or abroad -- and you want to reconnect with the community building the country's AI future, this is the annual gathering point. 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