The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the EuroHPC User Forum Coordination Group are hosting an online webinar on 4 November 2026, focusing on the EuroHPC AI Factories ecosystem and the opportunities it offers to researchers, start-ups, SMEs and industry. The session will provide an overview of the available access opportunities and support services for industry, SMEs…
PHAROS AI Factory Project, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, was recently featured in Athens Voice through an interview with Dr Stelios Karozis, researcher at NCSR “Demokritos” and Deputy Technical Coordinator of the PHAROS AI Factory Project. In the interview, Dr Karozis discusses the role and ambitions of the PHAROS AI Factory Project…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, coordinated by GRNET, will participate in the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), taking place from 5–13 September 2026, at the Thessaloniki International Exhibition & Congress Center (TIF-HELEXPO). The 2026 edition marks 100 years since the first Thessaloniki International Fair in 1926, with Japan as…
EuroHPC User Days 2026 will take place on 22-24 September 2026 in Dublin, Ireland, bringing together Europe’s High Performance Computing (HPC), Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) user communities to showcase innovation, exchange knowledge and strengthen collaboration across the European supercomputing ecosystem. Organised by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, together with the Irish Centre for High-End…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, participated in the Greeks in AI Symposium 2026, held on 15-17 July 2026 at the Eugenides Foundation in Athens. The annual symposium brought together Greek AI researchers, scientists and industry professionals from around the world to foster collaboration, exchange knowledge and strengthen Greece’s AI…
PHAROS AI Factory was featured at BEYOND 2026, the International Digital Technology & Innovation Exhibition, held from 17 to 19 June 2026 at the Metropolitan Expo in Athens, as part of GRNET’s participation in the Ministry of Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence pavilion. Throughout the three-day event, visitors had the opportunity to discover PHAROS and…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, is featured in a recent article published on Capital.gr by Dr Kyriakos Tolias, Director of the National Documentation Centre (EKT), exploring the strategic importance of digital knowledge infrastructures and Artificial Intelligence for strengthening the presence of the Greek language in the digital era. The…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, was featured on Star Channel’s television programme Star Tech, where Vassilis Katsouros, Director of the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) at the Athena Research Center, joined journalist Nefeli Agkyridou to discuss the evolution of Greek-language Artificial Intelligence, the development of open Large…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, was featured during the Growthfund Investor Summit 2026, organised by the Hellenic Growth Fund (Growthfund), and held on 22 June 2026 in Athens, Greece. The Summit brought together global investors, senior policymakers, sovereign wealth funds, business leaders and technology experts to discuss the strategic…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, contributed to the Agentic AI Conference 2026, held on 16 June 2026 and organised by Boussias Events, through the participation of Alexandros Nousias, AI Law, Governance & Ethics Lead at NCSR “Demokritos” and representative of PHAROS AI Factory, who joined the panel discussion “The…
GRNET, coordinator of PHAROS AI Factory, participated in the international conference “Artificial Intelligence: Consequences and Limits“, co-organised by the University of Piraeus and Purdue University, held on 28–29 May 2026 in Athens. The conference brought together distinguished leaders from academia, government, industry and international organisations to explore the opportunities, challenges and societal implications of Artificial…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, participated in the European Commission Expert Group on Cultural Heritage meeting, held on 9-10 June 2026 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting brought together representatives of European institutions, cultural heritage organisations, policymakers and experts to discuss emerging developments at the intersection of cultural heritage, digital…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, participated in the Digital Heritage Summit 2026, held on 25–29 May 2026 at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol. As part of the Summit, PHAROS took part in the “Twin it! Policy Roundtable: 3D and AI for Europe’s Culture and Heritage”, on 26…
NCSR Demokritos, a PHAROS AI Factory consortium member, organises The Lyceum Project 2026, a multidisciplinary initiative where philosophy meets AI. The event takes place on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20, 2026, at the Athens Conservatoire. This year’s gathering invites leading thinkers from academia, practitioners, policy makers, artists, and citizens to reflect on a…
PHAROS AI Factory will be presented at BEYOND 2026, the International Digital Technology & Innovation Exhibition, taking place June 17–19, 2026, at the Metropolitan Expo in Athens, Greece. The event serves as a key platform for technological advancements, fostering collaboration and highlighting groundbreaking innovations across Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, quantum technologies, and digital infrastructure. Find…
PHAROS AI Factory participated in the 4th Quo Vadis AI Conference, one of Greece’s most significant annual forums on the future of Artificial Intelligence, which took place on June 4th, 2026, in Athens. Held at the Divani Caravel Hotel under the auspices of the President of the Hellenic Republic, Konstantinos Tasoulas, the conference brought together…
GRNET, coordinator of PHAROS AI Factory, participated in the event “Supercomputers and Digital Sovereignty”, held on 27 May 2026 at the University of Western Macedonia’s ZEP Campus in Kozani, as part of an initiative by Digital World Summit Greece in collaboration with the University of Western Macedonia. The event focused on the latest European and…
PHAROS AI Factory, Greece’s national ecosystem for accelerating Artificial Intelligence innovation, was presented at Athens Music Week 2026, through the participation of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIT) of NCSR Demokritos in discussions on AI, innovation, copyright and the future of the music ecosystem. Dr Stelios Karozis, Affiliated Researcher at NCSR Demokritos and Deputy…
GRNET, coordinator of PHAROS AI Factory, participated in the conference “Artificial Intelligence in Engineering: Innovation and Applications for Western Macedonia”, organized by the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) / Department of Western Macedonia, held on 9 May 2026 in Kozani, under the auspices of the Ministry of Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence. Throughout the conference…
GRNET, coordinator of PHAROS AI Factory, participated in the Global Innovation Summit 2026, held on 6 May 2026 at Messe Basel, Switzerland. Organised by Eureka’s Swiss Chair, the Global Innovation Summit 2026 brought together nearly 1.000 participants from more than 50 countries, including representatives from research organisations, businesses, innovation agencies, and public authorities. The event…