In the occasion of GDPR appliance in Greece, HAMAC in cooperation with GSEVEE organized a workshop targeting in related issues for the SMEs and the consumers, on Wednesday the 23rd of May 2018. G. Kavathas, GSEVEE Chairman, opened the event and D. Bimpas, IME-GSEVEE Scientific Partner, together with Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis, HAMAC General Manager, presented the outcomes of the research related to the appliance of the new regulation in Greece. Konstantinos Haniotis, HAMAC Chairman and Telenavis CEO, referred to the role of information technologies for the compliance.  

The 6th course of IDTiMA mini MBA: Innovation and Design Thinking in Mobile Applications and Services, a joint initiative of AUEB/Eltrun, Samsung, HAMAC and INNOVATHENS powered by Samsung. The course is being offered for free and is dedicated to students of excellence or graduates from Universities, Technical and Polytechnical Schools, who are unemployed and wish to acquire skills in digital business, emphasized in the constantly field of mobile applications and services. This course helps the participants in designing and development of new services and products based in mobile innovative technologies.  

HAMAC organized another workshop for the Marine 4.0 member companies trying to make a plan of the next steps to be followed: The agenda of the workshop was: 1.  Participation in exhibitions specialized in Shipping Industry. 2.  Portfolio of the products and services that HAMAC member companies offer for the Shipping Industry. 3.  Participation in Posidonia 2018 national exhibition Representatives from Metis Cyberspace Technologies, Danaos Management Systems, Vidabo, LevanteFerries, Hellas Digital, Softweb and Propulsion Analytics participated in the workshop    

In the occasion of “Women’s Day”, HAMAC in cooperation with IME-GSEVEE, presented the specific research (by Kapa-Research) about the relation of women with the updated technological tools in digital communication. A panel of 5 women in the first line of businesses shared their experience and difficulties they face in every day business and proposed possible solutions. Special thanks to them for their precious contribution Zefi Dimadama (Vice-Chairman PES Women(, Despoina Mitropoulou (General Manager GFOSS), Nancy Karanasiou (CTO Vidavo), Maria Boura (Strategic Director Ericcsson) and Nancy Routzouni (Information Systems Engineer, Advisor for Public Digital Policies at Ministry of Administrative Reconstruction)  

HAMAC organized for the 6th consecutive year the Greek participation in Mobile World Congress, the biggest event in Digital Communication. This year, our presence was upgraded, participating at the same time with a Greek Pavillion at the parallel event 4 Years From Now (4YFN), dedicated to startups. 35 companies presented their innovative products and services in both venues. Greece Scales Up! was our motto this year.  

Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis participated in Balkan and Black Sea Cluster (BBC ICT Cluster), a clusters initiative aiming in helping the BB area clusters in having access in funding via european funded projects or other initiatives for enhancing businesses between the cluster’s members.  

HAMAC, organized the thematic workshop “Technology Helps Economy: Shipping and Technology”, On Friday the 19th of Jaunary 2018 at INNOVATHENS powered by Samsung. In this workshop George Xiradakis, Propeller Club Chairman presented the latest updates in shipping and future synergies with the technological innovators while HAMAC member companies offering innovative technological solutions in the shipping industry presented their products and services. A constructive discussion followed, for the development of synergies in the shipping field. The companies that presented in the workshop were: Propulsion Analytics, Metis Cyberspace Technologies, comBox (by Protonyx Data Services), Vidavo, Nable Solutions  

National Awards in Client Services (Εθνικά Βραβεία Εξυπηρέτησης Πελατών)  

A workshop dedicated to games developers, trying to help them in solving major issues related to their business. Some of the basic FAQs that the games developers are trying to figure out: How do i fund a video game? What are the dangers in funding? How do I patent my idea? What is the target group in which my game will be applied? How do I feature in Play Store? How do I choose the best possible channel for promoting my game? At the workshop, speakers-experts from the field of gaming, games business and marketing participated trying to give solutions to all these questions. Christian Fonnesbech presented how Figuring out investors, publishers and partners Marili Mitropoulou presented Smarter Growth, Powered by Google’s Machine Learning Renia Papathanasiou, Prodromos Tsiavos and Iraklis Papatheodorou presented IPRGames: Stories of business and hope from the Game Industry in Greece Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis, George Markatatos represented HAMAC and presented its initiatives for the enhancement of the Game Industry in Greece.