InHeritage Entrepreneurship workshop in Lavrion

In late September 2015, I had the chance to take part in an entrepreneurship workshop oriented towards young professionals form the domain of cultural management.  The inHeritage 3-day event targeted the development of new business ideas to take advantage of industrial heritage sites and facilities (e.g. industrial museums, old factories, traditional industrial sites and so on).

The event was happening in parallel in three locations, connected via teleconferencing: the Lavrion Industrial Park where I physically was, the  Athens Industrial Gas Museum and the Museum of Industrial Olive-Oil Production of Lesvos.

View of the old factory at Lavrion

Two things were really unforgettable from my visit:

1. The impressive Lavrion Industrial Park, reminding us the once vibrant "Compagnie Francaise des Mines du Laurium" a revolutionary lead-extracting factory established at around 1880 and operating for about 80 years.  The whole investment, which was significant for Greece at that times, provided the landscape for the first large stock-scandal that shook the country, known as "lavreotika".  A very good description of the "deal" and the forces that powered and lead it can be seen (in Greek) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNluMeJjTwI 

2. The gathering of young professionals (mainly architects and engineers), aiming at developing new, innovative business ideas for the exploiting of our industrial heritage.  In a world of cloud and mobile apps, working with real production sites of the past shows great interest for us - teaching and practicing entrepreneurship at the digital age.

With the team of young entrepreneurs and mentors in Lavrion inHeritage workshop

More about the InHeritage programme can be seen at: http://events.innovathens.gr/inheritage/

MCIS 2015 in Samos

9^th MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON
INFORMATION SYSTEMS – MCIS 2015

“Information Systems
in a changing economy and society”"

3-5 OCTOBER 2105,
SAMOS, GREECE

The  9^th Mediterranean
Conference on Information Systems was held in Samos on 3-5 October 2015,
organized by the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL) of the Department of
Information and Communication Systems Engineering, of the University of the
Aegean, under the auspices of Association of Information Systems (AIS).   The main theme of MCIS 2015 was “Information
Systems in a changing economy and society”, reflecting the critical role
Information Systems play for enterprises and administrations, in their effort to
accommodate radical economic and societal changes.  

MCIS 2015 was joined by academics and researchers,
from all over the world but also especially from the Mediterranean region, to reflect
on innovative research in information systems, from the point of view of a rapidly
changing world.  

Participants of the MCIS 2015 Conference in Samos

The conference proceedings can be found online at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/mcis2015/

With the Best Paper Award Winner, Adam Hayes (2nd from left), for the paper "Cryptocurrency Value Formation: An Empirical Analysis Leading to a Cost of Production Model for Valuing Bitcoin" 

Conference Chairs

Euripidis Loukis, Associate
Professor, University of the Aegean

Yannis Charalabidis, Assistant
Professor, University of Aegean

Program Committee Chairs

Spyros Kokolakis, Assistant Professor, University of Aegean sak@aegean.gr

Maria Karyda, Assistant Professor, University of Aegean  mka@aegean.gr

Doctoral Consortium Chair

Dimitrios Drosos, Lecturer, University of Aegean

Programme Committee

M. Amami, RMC, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

S. Arvanitis, University of Zurich

H. A. Ismail, German University in Cairo

M. Kajtazi, Örebro University

E. Kolkowska, Örebro University

A. Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

F. Lampathaki, National Technical University of Athens

G. Lekakos, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business

D. Lekas, Univ. of the Aegean

L. Mitrou, Univ. of the Aegean

A. Montalero, Politecnico di Torino

A. Polydoropoulou, Univ. of the Aegean

A. Pouloudi, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business

B. R. Schlichte, Aarhus University

P. Svejvig, Aarhus University

M. Themistocleous, University of Pireaus

C. L.  Tucci,  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne