Spyridon Vantolas

Spyros Vantolas is the CEO of Hyperon. He has a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical University of Patras, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Technoeconomic Systems (MBA) from the National Technical University of Athens.

He has been involved in several large scale IT projects in the domains of Telecommunications, Social Services, News Media and Travel. His research interests include natural language processing, image recognition, digital management and presentation of cultural and travel related content, e‐learning platforms, travel applications. As I CEO of Hyperon and an IT Solutions Entrepreneur he is involved in the field of business applications, big data analysis, marketing management and coordination, product commercialization, travel related applications, dissemination and exploitation activities and project management. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Spyros has a wide range of entrepreneurial competences and personal traits, which is valuable for the smooth progress of projects. His techno‐economic background is critical for gaining an in‐depth knowledge of the market and deliver a viable business idea and plan at the end of the inception phase. His management and communication skills are always necessary for the coordination of the work team and the communication with the end‐user and collaborating third parties (academics, research institutions, industries etc). His willingness to success and deliver high quality results ensures the development of a successful project

Ilias Spais

Ilias Spais is a Senior IT Project Manager and researcher. He has received a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras in 2000, and a PhD degree in Analysis, Design and Development of Processes, Systems and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2006. His research activities were entitled as “Speech synthesis and recognition in Greek Language – Enhancements in pitch analysis”.

Ilias main research interests include natural language engineering, text-to-speech analysis in Greek language (pitch analysis), speech processing, text/document analysis, usability evaluation, intonation, spoken dialogue systems, universal accessibility (web accessibility), design-for-all, document-to-audio, speech acoustics and evaluation.

The last ten years he has been involved in several research projects in the context of the ICT framework serving as project manager, research associate and senior developer. More specifically, he has been involved in European and National R&D projects that are active in the domains of Factories of the Future, Social Media, Cloud computing, Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics, Model-Driven Software Engineering, Quality-Driven Software Engineering, Opinion mining, Sentiment Analysis, Spoken Dialogue Systems, Speech Prosody and Natural Language Processing.

Dionysios Giannoulis

Dionysios Giannoulis is a Senior Mobile and Service Developer. He has received the diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras in 2000. He has been involved in various mobile application projects/proof of concepts based on both iOS and Android platforms including Greek Telecommunication Company COSMOTE. During his 10 years of experience, he has been involved in various private and public sector funded projects as a Service Developer, integrating back‐end systems and developing middleware layers for exposing RESTful services to third‐party systems.