Conference organisation, editorial work, evaluation for the European Commission, invited talks and awards. For a summary, see the Services section on the main page.
Conference and Workshop Organisation
Conference Co-Chair, IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart, the merged IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Government (EGOV), IFIP WG 8.5 Electronic Participation (ePart) and E-Democracy and Open Government (CeDEM) conferences:
2019, 2021, 2023
PhD Colloquium Co-Chair, IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019; Best Paper Award Co-Chair, IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2020
Workshop Co-Chair, International Workshop on Semantic Statistics (SemStats), co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC):
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Workshop Co-Chair, International Workshop on the Practice of the Open Web (PRACTI-O-WEB), co-located with ICWE 2017
Other workshops co-organised
"The Sustainable Implementation of Co-creation Principles and Outcomes", IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2022
"Multidimensional Data and Co-Creation: Benefits for government and industry", Delft, the Netherlands, 2018
"Theory and practice of linked open statistical data", 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2018), Delft, the Netherlands
"Methods and Tools for Publishing and Reusing Linked Open Statistical Data", dg.o 2017, New York, USA
"Hands-on workshop on Linked Open Statistical Data", New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS 2017), Brussels, Belgium
"Open Statistical Data: Potential and Challenges", IFIP EGOV-ePart 2016, Guimarães, Portugal
"Create, Expand, and Exploit Linked Open Statistical Data", IFIP EGOV-ePart 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece
Editorial Work
Co-editor, proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer:
2018, 2021, 2023, 2026
Independent expert, evaluation of proposals and monitoring of projects under Horizon Europe (REA, EuroHPC JU, HaDEA), 2022–2027
Program Committees and Reviewing
Program Committee: Research Track, 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019); World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2023)
Journal Reviewer: PLOS One; PLOS Digital Health; IEEE Intelligent Systems; Government Information Quarterly; Internet Research; Journal of Web Semantics; International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology; International Journal of Learning Technology
Invited Teaching and Talks
2026 – Lecturer on "AI Applications for Parliamentary Processes" in the course "Parliaments and Artificial Intelligence", School of Government, Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2026 – "Artificial Intelligence and its applications in the agri-food sector", Region of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki
2025 – "Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare", Scientific Symposium on Innovation, Efficiency and Resilience of Healthcare Organisations, Thessaloniki
2025 – "Bias and Fairness in AI Algorithms", 50th International Congress on Electrocardiology, Thessaloniki
2023 – "Artificial Intelligence in Medical Science: Developments and Challenges", 9th Symposium on Urogenital Oncology of Northern Greece
2018 – "Multidimensional Data and Co-Creation: Benefits for government and industry" workshop, Delft, the Netherlands
2017 – SONNETS Workshop on Emerging ICTs and Innovation Potential for the Public Sector, Athens
2017 – "Linked Statistical Data: challenges and tools", Eurostat ESS Workshop on dissemination of official statistics as open data, Malta
2016 – Linked data technologies, PwC, Brussels
2016 – "Introduction to Linked Open Data", #droidconGR16, Thessaloniki
2015 – "Developing a Browser for Linked Data Cubes", Eurostat workshop on the Data Cube Vocabulary, Luxembourg
2015 – Satellite workshop on linked statistics, New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS 2015), Brussels
2015 – "Open Data on the Web", Open Thessaloniki
Awards and Distinctions
2017 – Outstanding paper award nomination, IFIP EGOV-ePart 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 – Best Paper Award, SemStats 2016, co-located with ISWC 2016, Kobe, Japan
2016 – Outstanding paper award nomination, IFIP EGOV-ePart 2016, Guimarães, Portugal
2016 – Top 10 entry for the "Open Greek Legislation" application, 1st IT4gov Innovation Competition, Hellenic Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction