ESA Business School – Friday April 12 – 9am.
The undergoing revolution in technology and innovation driven by Big Data on the Web and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is running through the whole business spectrum. Organizations that will make the first move to build on this unprecedented opportunity will gain a substantial comparative advantage in operational and marketing level.
A talk by Michalis Vafopoulos
Leading scientist, activist and businessman in data technologies, Michalis is a leading expert in data science. He is involved at the head or as an expert to a series of research, business and policy projects.
He has worked as an expert for Eurostat and as a lead researcher for Greece in the Web Index, Open Data Barometer and International Budget Partnership projects. In 2010, initiated PublicSpending.net which interconnects and analyses more than 1.5 trillion euros of detailed global public expenditure.
In 2018, founded Linked Business private company for providing market intelligence services based on Big Data and AI. He serves as director of Open Data Institute – Athens node and MyData Hub Greece. He has written the book «Living with the Web» which presents both the social and technical aspects of the Web as an integrated part of everyday life.
From 2012 serves as a visiting professor of Web economics at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
