We participated as an invited research lab in the TechSaloniki 2022 event this year. Techsaloniki is an event taking place in our city, Thessaloniki that the last few years has been evolving into a technology hub. TechSaloniki is a gathering of tech companies and universities intending to outreach organizations as well as the tech professionals in the city to know each other. Each company gets a corner with a desk and its representatives are there to discuss the companies’ actions and everything else around technology, give dissemination material, provide information about studies, workplaces etc.

This year the ISLAB (http://islab.iee.ihu.gr/) which is part of the International Hellenic University (IHU) got the entrance corner. The director of our lab prof. Salampasis gave a talk about our lab with a special reference to our project DoSSIER (https://dossier-project.eu/). Many professionals, younger and more experienced were coming and asking about our actions and DoSSIER.

I also had the opportunity to move around and discuss at several corners with many other companies. We exchange opinions about the future technologies and how to meet them on time. I also didn’t lose the opportunity to disseminate DoSSIER and explain our goals and our collaboration. It was an awesome experience in which I met many people and understood the importance of the existence of a connection between research and industry. I hope to more similar events to learn new things and gain new experiences!