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9th Fintech Talks at the Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

9th Fintech Talks at the Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
05.12.2022 - 17.05

The Archimedes Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of NKUA hosted the 9th Fintech Talks, a part of the Greek Fintech Hub initiative, where Amazon presented its concept store ‘Amazon Go.’ Amazon Go is a chain of physical stores that use Just Walk Out technology to eliminate queuing at the checkout. This is made possible through the application of computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep learning technologies.

Mr Lefteris Chaniotakis, Snr Enterprise Account Manager of Amazon Web Services in Greece and Cyprus, gave a brief overview of the changes and trends in payments that are driving the innovation of the ecosystem, especially cloud computing.

Greek Fintech Hub is an initiative launched by the National Bank of Greece in collaboration with Endeavor Greece, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Athens University of Economics and Business, the Onassis Foundation, and the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels; it is also supported by Crowd Dialog Europe.

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The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which was inaugurated on May 3, 1837, was initially housed in a renovated Ottoman building on the northeastern side of the Acropolis. This building has since been restored and now functions as the University Museum. Originally named the "Othonian University," after Otto, the first king of Greece, it consisted of four academic departments and 52 students. As the first university of the newly established Greek state, as well as of the broader Balkan and Mediterranean region, it assumed an important socio-historical role, which was pivotal in the development of specific forms of knowledge and culture within the country.

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