As of today, 6 years ago: My last day at Agroknow

It was Friday, May 6th 2016 - as of today, only six years ago. 

My last day at Agroknow, as I had decided to make a big step and move to a new corporate environment. I went to the office as usually, with some farewell treats for my colleagues; it has been more than 5 years since I started working for Agroknow and usually spent more time with colleagues than with my family. Numerous working days, trips abroad, good and bad times, beers and drinks, celebrations and valuable experience.

A sweet farewell to my colleagues

Agroknow has been a huge school for me. I was introduced to the concept of project management, starting with some relatively small Leonardo da Vinci ones, resource management, team & time management, and provided me with the opportunity to dive into information and knowledge management (which I really loved): digital repositories, metadata, technical interoperability, Knowledge Organization Systems like ontologies and controlled vocabularies. 

I learned a lot (and in the end even became an advocate) of Open Access and Open Data, working on facilitating access to research publications and data, 

During my time at Agroknow, I also had the opportunity to compose project deliverables with hundreds of pages, travel thousands of miles reaching even the golden status of Star Alliance, visiting dozens of countries in the EU and even further, met interesting people, took hundreds of photos and created a valuable network. I was invited to dive into Business Development, read relevant books, identified opportunities for collaborations and actually worked for various high-profile organizations outside Greece (as a scientific associate / contractor), like the UN FAO (multiple times!), the University of Alcala (Spain), the Open Data Institute (UK), ICARDA (Jordan) and IFOAM (EU), to name a few.

Temporary working station at Agroknow during my last day

Last but not least - and probably the most important, was that I was invited (and actually encouraged) to apply my love for social media and blogging from a personal level to the company level. I soon became fully responsible for Agroknow blog (covering a wide variety of topics like collaborations, participation in events, interviews with key partners etc.), manager of its social media channels on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and I even started an unofficial Instagram profile, which became pretty popular among colleagues (all my posts were deleted since then, as Agroknow obviously decided to use a different approach, more "corporate" compared to my informal one). I was responsible for being the "voice" of Agroknow without any kind of censorship, the messenger of the company's key messages to the world.

Why was this specifically important? Because it was a key feature that my future employer - NEUROPUBLIC - was looking for. They needed someone to help them with social media, but also with agricultural experience so that the company's smart farming work would be properly communicated. And it was just one of the qualities I got from my Agroknow times.

So I spent my last working day at Agroknow finalizing a deliverable, handing over some ongoing tasks and greeting colleagues. By the end of the day, the charger of my laptop failed so I exhausted the laptop's battery, left the office keys (after more than 5 years) and left the office for the last time, carrying all the good memories and experiences with me.

Handing over the office keys was an emotional moment

Leaving Agroknow was one of the hardest decisions I ever made.

Monday May 9th was my first day at NEUROPUBLIC

Updates on the use of NEUROPUBLIC's social media

One of the first tasks I was assigned to when I joined NEUROPUBLIC back in 2016 was to take over its social media accounts; back then, the company had two almost inactive accounts on Facebook and LinkedIn, respectively. 

I came from Agroknow, where I was responsible (among others) for its social media on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram - and it was commonly admitted that I did a pretty good job. Frequent updates, interesting news, good use of handles and hashtags and attractive visuals was a part of the magic.

So I had the experience, know-how and all the good will to replicate my approach in the case of NEUROPUBLIC. The context was slightly different (information systems and smart farming in this case) and the responsibility was higher (being responsible for the social media presence of a company of 100+ employees) but I rolled up my sleeves and started working on it.

Rolling up my sleeves

The first thing I did was to define the areas of interest. Then to find out who the major players were and what reliable sources of relevant content I could use. I started following collaborators, projects and other stakeholders of NEUROPUBLIC, with a segment of them following us back.

I am especially proud of NEUROPUBLIC's Twitter account. Twitter is the platform I love the most, because of its really fast feed, option to add visuals to an otherwise boring text and the substantial use of hashtags. Plus, I love the strict character limitation of each tweet, which makes everyone think twice before posting a long text.

Have I mentioned that I am especially proud of @NEUROPUBLIC 's Twitter account, which I set up from scratch some years ago? ✨

Thank you @tweepsmap for the useful stats! 🙏#NEUROPUBLIC #Twitter #SocialMedia #OrganicGrowth #Tweepsmap pic.twitter.com/DrGeSb5xGZ

— V. Protonotarios (@vprot) October 22, 2021

Right now, NEUROPUBLIC's Twitter account has more than 1,200 real followers, all of them organic (i.e. we used no budget for paid posts, Twitter campaigns etc. yet). At the same time, the company's LinkedIn page has reached 2,800 followers, making it our most popular social media channel. We used LinkedIn for posting paid job postings, and we noticed a slight increase in the number of followers after each posting.

In both channels, the majority of the content is published in English.

Using Facebook for business purposes  & the competitive advantage of LinkedIn and Twitter

On the other hand, NEUROPUBLIC's Facebook page has about 1,600 followers. And we had some paid campaigns running in the past, which increased our reach and brought in some new followers. One might expect more from the more popular social media platform - I didn't. 

First, our Facebook content is exclusively available in Greek. No matter what the status of the company is in Greece, the audience is much smaller compared to the global one. The vast majority of our projects are EU-funded ones, our larger networks are global and NEUROPUBLIC's gaiasense smart farming system gets a lot of attention from international bodies. Automatic translation of posts has been available for quite a long time now, but it is not the same.

Second, our main audience does not use Facebook for professional purposes. I knew it before - LinkedIn and Twitter are much more appropriate for such purposes. If you asked me, I would say that most companies use Twitter and LinkedIn (in this order) for interacting for professional purposes, while for professionals / individuals LinkedIn is #1. 

And you know why? Because a company cannot interact using a LinkedIn company page! You can surely post things but you cannot like a specific post as a company unless (a) it comes in your feed through a notification based on the just three hashtags you define in the page, or (b) the post explicitly mentions your company page using a tag.

 

As a result, if you want to be active on social media, respond, like other posts etc., then Twitter is your valuable tool. And this is what I am doing with NEUROPUBLIC's accounts.

On the other hand, as an individual you can use Twitter and LinkedIn for interacting with posts of others with no problem. And this is what I am doing with my personal accounts.

Take home messages

We post almost equally on all three channels, with small revisions in some cases. Thanks to the faster pace of Twitter, I am able to post more frequently there and this is really important in the case of our EU (and Greek) projects that I need to communicate every now and then. 

On the other hand, we keep a slower pace on Facebook and LinkedIn, in order to provide our followers with more time to go through each post before going to the next one. This is not a problem, as we usually need some time to curate new posts (longer ones compared to the short tweets!) and make them as effective as possible.

In all cases, we do not pay much attention to the analytics and metrics of each channel. We still enjoy a degree of freedom in this sense, so we post things we like, when we like (or have the time to do so). We are not "selling" stuff through our social media - we just raise awareness about the company and its work, so we are not stressed (yet) about KPIs. And this is what I love the most.

So if I were to summarize, I would suggest a K.I.S.S. approach (Keep It Stupid Simple), putting the focus on quality content and not on KPIs. In this way, we manage to establish a constantly growing community of followers on social media while at the same time having fun.

Participation in the BEYOND 4.0 International Expo

I was excited to be part of the team to represent NEUROPUBLIC at the Beyond 4.0 International Expo. The event took place between 14-16 of October 2021 at Thessaloniki, Greece. The team was great, consisting of people from our Marketing, Sales, Software Development and Technical departments, covering all different dimensions of the company's services.

Compared to the Thessaloniki International Fair, in which I also participated one month earlier, the visitors seems to be more focused / targeted and close to the theme of BEYOND (while in TIF visitors were mostly a generic audience - probable due to the generic character of the Fair). 

The schedule was packed as BEYOND was open to the public between 10.00-20.00, leaving us only a limited time for sightseeing and other activities. On top of that, the weather during BEYOND was awful (ranging from light rain to heavy thunderstorms), so it was a good things that all Stands were indoors. The bad weather was probably the main factor that prevented potential visitors from visiting the Expo, but still there was quite a crowd on Friday and Saturday - and this indicates the importance of the event.

View of the cloudy and rainy area outside the BEYOND 4.0 Expo

The exhibitors fell under two main categories: Innovative (and some not so innovative) companies working on digital solutions mostly for the public sector (Regions, Local Governments etc.) and the Public Sector itself (ranging from Municipalities to Regions), showcasing the digital transformation steps that they have implemented so far.

We (as NEUROPUBLIC) had the opportunity to present our digital services for the public sector, both through a dedicated presentation at the central stage of the Pavilion and through direct communication with potential stakeholders who approached our Stand. At the same time, we had the opportunity to see the offerings of the competition and see how we compare with them.

Our Stand was impressive: large, bright and conveniently located at the center of the Pavilion, right next to the central stage. It was full of useful material, like leaflets and other printed material, videos playing on three different large monitors and many of my colleagues available to discuss with visitors of our Stand. Plus, two lovely promoters were always available to hand out informational material to the visitors.

I don't know if it was due to my academic background. but most of the discussions I had during the Expo was with Professors, Researchers and students from various Universities. I enjoyed learning about their projects and outcomes, their work and collaborations, no matter if they came from the Earth Observation, IoT or any other domain. I also had the opportunity to visit their Stands and see their work.

Big thanks to my colleagues from our Northern Greece office, who helped a lot with lots of things, from our transportation to the smooth operation of our Stand!

InnoWise Scale Competition - Lessons learnt

Just before summer, NEUROPUBLIC was invited to participate as one of the solution providers for the agriculture Use Case of the InnoWise Scale Competition on Water Scarcity (you can find a nice description of the competition on the REVOLVE website - the Communication partner of the Competition and did a really nice job!).

It was an international event that aimed to attract innovative companies to help SanLucar, a fruit and vegetables company based in Spain, address the water scarcity and salinity issues it faces in its apricot orchards at the area of Murcia, Spain.

Participation in the InnoWise Scale Competition

I was assigned this task and so I started working on it during the summer. There were several online meetings during this period:

• Between the organizers of the event (EIT-Food), the problem holder (SanLucar) and the solution providers (mostly companies offering various types of smart and digital farming services), explaining various aspects of the process and defining the key issues faced by SanLucar, 
• 1-1 meetings of each company with SanLucar to discuss the details of a potential collaboration, 
• Training sessions on better designing and delivering the pitch for the final day
• Numerous sessions of each company with its mentor; we were lucky enough to have Andrea Cruciani from Agricolus with us who shared ideas, insights and tips for improving our pitch.

In the meantime, I started working on the slides (visual) and my speech (audio), as the pitch would be pre-recorded using Loom allowing the concurrent recording of webcam and desktop (the slides) video feed. I had to present the context, our gaiasense smart farming system and our envisaged solution in just 4 minutes - and this seemed way too short to me.

The slides were eventually transformed and the pitch became more focused and lean (with slides and text being left out in the final version) with valuable contributions from both our mentor and our Water Resources Management expert, Dimitris.

The Judgement Day

The big day came and all solution providers completed their pitches, allowing the jury to decide on the most suitable solutions for the specific issue, with the help of SanLucar's representative for selecting the most appropriate one for the big prize and the demo of the solution in the orchards of SanLucar.

The competition was really hard and unfortunately and despite our efforts, our proposal was not among the ones awarded. But was the result that bad? 

Well, I was hoping for the big prize, that would allow us to set up another gaiasense installation in Spain (following up on the ones taking place in the context of the LIFE GAIA Sense project) and set up a potential commercial collaboration with SanLucar, a large international company, with significant perspectives.

Even the 2nd and 3rd prize would bring some (even small) financial benefit to gaiasense, financing parts of its development - technological or scientific. But what would matter most to me, due to my personal involvement and investment in both time and effort, would be the acknowledgement that what I was working on made a difference and was even slightly better compared to the competition.

Conclusions

To be honest, I hoped (and believed) that our proposal would make it in the Top-3. But for various reasons, this didn't happen.

In the end, our participation in the InnoWise Scale competition was yet another valuable lesson. What did we get from it? More than one could think:

Valuable experience from our participation in a different kind of international competition;

The selection / acknowledgement of NEUROPUBLIC by the organizers as one valuable solution provider, featured in various social media posts;

The presentation of gaiasense to a different audience abroad;

The excellent communication we had with Andrea Cruciani, our mentor and CEO of Agricolus, who is working in a similar field as our gaiasense smart farming system;

The identification of important competitors activated in Mediterranean countries.

Last but not least, we established connections with the EIT-Food team, especially with Carmen and Evgenia - which I hope that will may be useful in the near future.

So I am keeping all these as precious outcomes of our participation in the InnoWise Scale competition and will try to make the best use of them in the future.

My take on the Thessaloniki International Fair 2021

After a year of hiatus due to the COVID-19 restrictions, Thessaloniki International Fair 2021 took place as a physical event between 11-19 of September 2021 - and I was excited to participate after a long time stuck at the office.

This year, again due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the Fair was not that International as its previous iterations - plus, the attendance was pretty low, due to the fact that the Fair was open only to those already vaccinated and / or those who had already recovered from COVID-19. The security measures at the entrances were pretty tight, so these measures were actually enforced.

While in the previous versions of the TIF, NEUROPUBLIC had a stand inside one of the Pavilions, this year the company had an impressive external Stand right after the main entrance of the Fair. The main components of NEUROPUBLIC's Stand were the following:

• Two external and one internal large monitors were used for the playback of corporate videos and related material, 
• Two smartphones were available for visitors to try the new gaiasense mobile app 
• Lots of printed material like NEUROPUBLIC's corporate profile, the new gaiasense booklet and threefold leaflet, plus my favorite gaiasense pens (they turned out to be pretty popular!)
• A fully functional telemetric agrometeorological station of gaiasense was installed in the nearby flower bed and transmitted data measurements to one of the screens

Plus, there were two promoters giving out helium-filled gaiasense balloons to kids and leaflets to visitors.

I missed the great opening of the event (not a bad thing, for various reasons) as I joined my colleagues after the 3rd day. Everything was already set up so I only had to make sure that everything was working smoothly, relaxing music was playing all the time, our WiFi hotspot was on - as was our valuable air-condition.

I had the opportunity to discuss about the gaiasense smart farming system and mobile app to various visitors, including farmers, researchers and other technology providers seeking opportunities for collaboration. In addition, I organized project-thematic days at the Stand, featuring our PoliRural, SmartPeach and SmartOliveGrove projects. Each day we had a poster or rollup and leaflets of each project, and this went better than I expected, as the visiting producers were more than I anticipated.

During my stay I had the opportunity to meet new colleagues working at NEUROPUBLIC's Thessaloniki office, like Kostas, Vaggelis and Matthew - all of them proved to be great guys and good match to the rest of the team. We set up everything in the morning and packed everything back (including the large monitors, the packs of printed materials and chairs/tables, among others) each evening, by the closing of the Fair.

In general, participation in such events is exhausting: You typically have to wake up pretty early, have breakfast, open the Stand and put everything in place, move around all the time restocking printed material, pencils, making sure to fix the mess of chairs and papers being out of place (and all over the place), talking to visitors, preparing cups of coffee and bags of promotional material, and try to find some time for a quick lunch break when the pace of the event is slow.

The day is over and we are about to start packing stuff for the day to come

However, this trip - as each trip inside Greece or abroad - was a refreshing change in the daily office routine. I like hotel life, I love wandering around a city and seeing new things, tasting new dishes and breathing fresh air. This is why I managed to reach my daily steps target during my stay - I had the energy to walk around even during late evening after a long and busy day at the Fair.

Getting to talk to potential customers is always a pleasure, but there is an awful lot of work to do back to the office so I am wrapping up and looking forward to the next trip.

Working from home: A short story

It was a rainy winter morning. So rainy that made me feel glad I did not have to drive to work under this heavy rain, through the more-than-usual heavy traffic. A rain, even a light one, increases my commuting time by at least 20 mins.

Sitting at the cozy sofa of my home, I switched on my laptop, started my secure corporate VPN connection and opened Skype. Using Remote Desktop I could have access to all my files and apps stored at my office desktop PC and my softphone app made sure that all my incoming calls would be forwarded to my home laptop.

It was just like working from the office but saving a 50 min drive and sitting more comfortably on my sofa. I quickly caught up with all pending emails and had an early morning update chat through Skype with my colleagues - some of them at the office, some of the working from home.

It was so quiet that I quickly finished an urgent article for a Greek newspaper and had a short break looking for news to use in our corporate and project social media accounts. This was something I can do - and even better - while listening to my favorite moody tracks on Spotify or YouTube.

Back to some important tasks: A dissemination report of one of our projects, for the social media of which we (I) am responsible, needed some in depth analysis of usage and outreach. I go into the analytics of each social media platform, export the data in spreadsheets (where applicable) and start filtering, merging and making use of data. I am surprised to see how each platform changes the way it presents the analytics and trying to figure out ways to address some obvious barriers (e.g. Facebook not allowing to go past a quarter of the year).

After progressing with the report, I need to switch to something easier, to help me clear my mind; I start working on the clipping of news related to the company, our projects and products, filling in some basic information in an online spreadsheet.

Time for a lunch break, and some time off the screen, to prepare for the rest of my working day.

A Skype call with the team on the updates and any pending task or issue, and the occasional webinar of the day, on topics of general (or even specific) interest, to catch up with the work of collaborators.

Stretching my legs shortly before the webinar, grabbing a cup of hot coffee and off we go. In the meantime I check my emails, making sure that all urgent ones are highlighted and the informational ones are quickly sorted out.

Time's up: Another Skype call with the team, to recap the day and plan things for tomorrow. Everything's sorted out and we are ready for a brand new day.

IPM Decisions Annual Meeting: A missed opportunity

Today I was supposed to fly from Athens to Paris, then get the train to Dijon, settle in my hotel room, grab something to eat and finalize my preparations for the IPM Decisions Annual Meeting. Instead, I am sitting at my living room, working from home almost since early March due to COVID-19.

Flights to Paris and back were early booked, transportation to and from Dijon was carefully planned...damn, I even planned my meals based on TripAdvisor and walks around Dijon (it would be my first time). But apart from the trip itself, it would be my first participation in a project meeting after a really long time.

The IPM Decisions project will create an online platform that is easy to use for the monitoring and management of pests. The platform will be available across the EU with DSS, data, tools and resources tailored to individual regions.

I miss traveling and I miss project meetings. Visiting new places and meeting new people. Walking around unknown roads and working on innovative ways to collaborate in order to fulfill a project's requirements.

I only wish that there will be another opportunity in the near future.

You can learn more about IPM Decisions on the CORDIS Portal.

Networking events redefined: The example of LIFE Cyclamen

Does your experience from a project's networking event include a typical (usually boring) set of presentations by the invited speakers followed by a Q&A session over a cup of coffee and slides of cake - all these taking place at a meeting room of a university or a hotel?

Well, we're talking about something totally different here!

The LIFE Cyclamen project team was kind enough to invite me to their networking event that took place on December 12, 2019 at Nicosia, Cyprus. I would be one of the just three speakers and was asked to present the LIFE GAIA Sense project. It was like a follow-up from our recent contact during the Greek LIFE Task Force Networking Workshop, earlier in 2019.

There were no time slots, no agenda (at least not published), no strict starting time; just lots of dissemination and buzz around the event. The event would take place in the evening, starting at 18.00.

I was intrigued.

As I expected the audience to be diverse (and more focused on the environment) I prepared a new set of slides for the occasion, providing many definitions as simply as possible and avoiding the typical, full-text slides presenting the project.


The event took place at 1010 Hall, a carefully designed gallery-style hall which also included a large room suitable for presentations. We were welcomed by a cocktail-style reception, where we had the opportunity to go through a high number of project (and organizations') posters and discuss with the participants over a glass of wine (or two!). I personally had the opportunity to meet about a dozen people from various relevant (to my case) organizations - mostly research and academic institutions, with whom we exchanged experiences and ideas for future collaborations.

The number of people kept increasing and we finally were invited to the main hall of the place, where a projector was setup and people were seated at bar-style stools. We, the presenters, were presenting while standing - I love this, because it allows me to move from left to right and get close to the projection, highlighting on the screen parts of what I am presenting. I loved the setup!

The event concluded with a nice finger food buffet, with various local dishes and lots of drinks (both highly appreciated). This definitely helped in creating a relaxed atmosphere, where people had the opportunity to talk to the speakers and get more information on their presentations.

I was excited to have another half a dozen of participants approaching me one after the other and asking about various aspects of the LIFE GAIA Sense project and the gaiasense smart farming system, exploring opportunities for collaboration in the context of the same (or even another) LIFE project. I talked with people from the public sector, private companies, NGOs, LIFE project beneficiaries etc. exchanging information about our organizations, our work and potential collaboration.

I admit I didn't have the time to grab something to eat, as people kept coming one after the other. I am a foodie but trust me, I didn't mind at all! We talked about crops not yet covered by smart farming, production issues common between Cyprus and Greece, work of common interest in different projects, ideas for participation in common events etc.

What I especially liked was the fact that even though the attendance was not really high, participants were really into it and their vast majority got engaged in relevant discussions before and after the presentations. And in the end, this is what matters.

Not your typical networking event I guess!

Huge thanks to the LIFE Cyclamen team for the excellent communication, organization and dissemination of the event and for making this trip one of the best in my 10 years of traveling all over Europe - all my participation details were taken care of. And of course for inviting me to this special event :-)

Networking workshop for Greek LIFE projects

In the context of the LIFE Project’s “Cyprus Capacity Building for LIFE – Cyclamen” delegation visit to Athens, the Greek LIFE Task Force organized a workshop on the networking of Greek LIFE projects. The event took place on Tuesday July 2 at the headquarters of the Green Fund at Villa Kazoulis.

I had the pleasure to participate in the Workshop on behalf of NEUROPUBLIC and present the LIFE GAIA Sense project, its objectives, the methodology it develops as well as the the progress it has made during its first year of operation.

LIFE GAIA Sense is a European project coordinated by NEUROPUBLIC, and co-funded by the LIFE Programme of the EC. The project is based on the gaiasense smart farming system and aims to present the way in which gaiasense contributes to the conservation of natural resources, to environmental protection and more generally, to circular economy models.

My presentation focused on gaiasense, with references to the system’s concept, its four dimensions, the role of technology, scientific results, data and human factor, as well as the benefits (environmental, financial etc.) resulting from its application.

After the end of the presentation I received a number of questions from the participants, who showed special interest in the approach followed by the project, as well as the gaiasense system. In addition, during the break, we discussed various opportunities for cooperation between LIFE GAIA Sense and other projects participating in the event, extending the system’s activity to new contexts and examining new potential applications.

I was impressed by the simplicity of the participants; it is something I also felt when meeting biodiversity researchers several years ago, when I participated in a BioVeL meeting. People seem to be more accessible and easy to approach compared to e.g. Horizon project partners - maybe I am mistaken.

This goes to the organizers of the meeting, who helped me feel comfortable among people I didn't know and a concept (the LIFE projects' ecosystem) that I was not familiar with.

I was also impressed by the venue; Villa Kazouli seems to have a long history and still looks fabulous.

Swedish Embassy’s workshop on sustainable agriculture

On Wednesday, June 19, the Embassy of Sweden in Athens, in collaboration with the University of Crete and the Consulate of Sweden in Heraklion, organized a Workshop on the sustainability of the agrifood sector, titled «Sustainable agriculture & food – our common future!» at the Chamber of Heraklion, Crete.

The aim of the Workshop was to highlight the challenges that the agrifood sector faces, including all stages from the field to the shelf, and the presentation of digital and technological solutions that contribute to addressing these challenges and to the sustainability of food production.

Credits: Embassy of Sweden/Orsia Fragkou

In this context, research and scientific outcomes were presented by institutions such as University of Crete and the Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, on modern methods related to food safety through laboratory analyzes, plant protection, fisheries and aquaculture, and sustainable food production.

I had the pleasure to represent NEUROPUBLIC in the event, as one of the invited speakers, along with my colleague Dionysis Pantazatos, Project Manager. My participation, in the context of the second session of the Workshop, focused on the gaiasense smart farming system . My presentation highlighted the main features of the system and focused on how gaiasense contributes to the economic, environmental and social sustainability.

Credits: Embassy of Sweden/Theodore Karakassis

The event was attended, among others, by members of the academic community, researchers, representatives of agri-food businesses and related research projects, and was introduced by the Swedish Ambassador to Greece Charlotte Sammelin, and the Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs of the University of Crete Giannis Karakasis.

I also had the opportunity to join the Embassy's pop-up event, which preceded the Workshop. It was an informal event, during which I got to meet and talk to the Embassy's staff - including but not limited to Patrik Svensson, Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission. Discussions took place over a cup of coffee and snacks and I learned a lot about the Embassy and its activities in Greece.

Special thanks to Sophia Keramida for the excellent communication and for organizing the event, as well as to all participants for contributing to the success of the event.