I am an Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher at NCSR Demokritos (Greece) as well as co-founder, and CEO of SciFY, a multiply awarded not-for-profit Company on applying Artificial Intelligence to everyday life for the common good. I have more than 15 years of AI-related experience on EU-funded, but also industrial projects. I have more than 20 years of IT consulting and software engineering expertise in domains such as AI and Natural Language Processing, Data journalism, Bio-medical informatics, the Semantic Web and others. I am member of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) ] and a member of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL). I also contribute at a national policy-making level through the Sectorial Scientific Council on Data Policy and A.I. of the National Council for Research, Technology and Innovation since early 2021.Through NCSR Demokritos and SciFY, I have happily contributed to the digital and AI-transformation of organizations and groups, the tech empowerment of several start-ups. I have also strongly contributed to the democratization of AI knowledge, by co-organizing a number of international and national events on the research and application of ICT and AI. I have given more than 30 presentations and tutorials related to AI and its application, in a number of events and settings (science festivals, SciFY Academies, TedX, dedicated school events, scientific conferences, etc.).My domains of research and applied work include (among other things): Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics.