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• Jessie Voumvaki , Deputy Director, Economic Analysis Department, National Bank of Greece
• Tassos Haniotis, Director, Directorate Economic Analysis, Perspectives & Evaluations, European Commission
• Charalambos Kasimis, Secretary General, Ministry of Rural Development & Food, Greece
• Fotini Arambatzi, Head of Rural Development & Food, New Democracy party, Member of the Hellenic Parliament
• Athanasios Kizos, Professor Rural Geography, University of Aegean

• Christoforos Chatzopoulos, Head of Business Banking & Retail Lending, National Bank of Greece
• Alexandros Dimitrakopoulos, Regional Mandate Manager, European Investment Fund (EIF)
• Ioannis Haniotakis, Director of Agricultural Sector Operations Development, Piraeus Bank
• Panos Theodorou, Head of strategy & analysis sector, Small Business Segment General Division, Eurobank
• Maria Karathanassi, Assistant Manager, Small Business Banking Division, Alpha Bank
• Neoklis Stamkos, Head, microStars – microlending

• Caspar Veldkamp, Ambassador of the Netherlands to Greece
• Dimitrios Vlachos, Director of the Laboratory of Statistics & Quantitative Analysis Methods, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Department of Mechanical Engineering, AUTh
• Lucas Marxen, Associate Director, Research Analytics Agricultural Experiment Station, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
• Alexandros Kouris, Managing Director, Microbrewery of Cyclades at Tinos Island

• Peter Oudemans, Professor of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
• Geert Wilms, Director of Agricultural Innovation Brabant (LIB), ZLTO farmers organization Netherlands
• Thanos Balafoutis , Researcher, Center for Research and Technology Hellas & Institute for Bio-economy and Agri-technology (iBO)
• Aris Zamidis, CEO, TractorGPS
• Athanasios Tsaftaris, Academic Dean of Graduate Studies, Perrotis College-American Farm School

• Dimitrios Kouretas, Professor, Department of Biochemistry-Biotechnology, University of Thessaly
• Georgios Arsenos, Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Anagnostis Argyriou, Senior Scientist, Deputy Director Institute of Applied Biosciences – CERTH

• Jessie Voumvaki, Deputy Director, Economic Analysis Department, National Bank of Greece
• Geert Wilms, Director of Agricultural Innovation Brabant (LIB), ZLTO Farmers Organization Netherlands
• Augusta Vrachnou, Principal Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD)
• Ioanna Tavanidou, Manager Banking Medium Companies, National Bank of Greece
• Christos Meglas, President, Serres Chamber of Commerce
• Nikos Stamou, Investments Promotion Manager, Enterprise Greece

• Håkan Jönsson, Professor of Food Studies, Lund University Sweden
• Spyros Mamalis, President, Geotechnical Chamber of Greece
• Effie Lazaridou, Managing Director, Rutgers University Greece
• Philip Papadopoulos, Director Strategic Project Management Office, American Farm School

AgriBusiness Forum 2018

Here presenting the winners of the Hellenic Challenge 2018 seeking at taking the agri-food and bio-based economy in Greece into the future!

Photo material: at “Media” section | Video material: at scaleups page(s)

The Challenge is a pitching for the food & agtech scaleups being participants to the Masterclass, aiming at highlighting innovation and business value propositions to the delegates and the audience.

As a pre-opening event to the conference, the Challenge facilitates at bringing scaleups into the radar of decision – and opinion makers in the European and Greek agrifood value chain, moreover promoting top-3 of them being panelists to a session of the AgriBusiness Forum.

Evaluation by a designated jury.

Challenge closes with a networking reception with representatives from public and business sectors, local authorities, corporate, entrepreneurs, experts, academia, interlocutors.

Thank you for your interest to apply to the Masterclass. After having carefully read the criteria explicitly stated to the home page “About the Masterclass” and having accepted the Privacy Policy and the General Terms & Conditions listed here below, you are warmly welcomed to submit your application for participation to the workshop cycle of the event. Please note that applications are assessed and evaluated by an external Selection Committee so that no prior guarantee of participation can be provided to the applicants to the Masterclass. Applications closing date is October 6th 2018.

The AgriBusiness Forum Masterclass participants!

Here are presented the entrepreneurs in the agri-food and bio-based economy, further evaluation and decision of the selection committee.

The Selection Committee evaluates, assesses and selects the SMEs to participating to the Masterclass.

The Committee is consisted by representatives of the following AgriBusiness Forum partners which the decisions are made by majority:
1. A Business Association or Scientific Organization
2. American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece
3. An AgriBusiness Forum partner

Following criteria are considered upon evaluation and selection process of the Committee:

• Applicant’s core activities should be in the AgriFood value chain-business sectors and be founded less than 6 years ago.
• Applicants should be a bio-based innovative SME and have a Proof of Principle (tested idea or prototype).
• Applicants should, be in a good command of English, have strong multidisciplinary team and dedicate 4 days to the Masterclass, the Challenge and the Conference.
• Applicants have successfully submitted complete applications prior the expiration deadline. Only online applications are accepted.

Applicants not meeting above criteria are not eligible for participation. Successful applicants will be contacted and informed by the Committee respectively.

Masterclass Trainers are experts in the Agrifood Industry, representatives of Academia-Research and/or Business environment.