Bio

http://www.vnikolopoulos.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Pm5iphoAAAAJ Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Ph.D. is an active Deep Tech entrepreneur, corporate executive, investor & mentor, applied researcher and passionate with technology futurology and Technology transfer. In the last 16 years, Vassilis has been working in applied research, technology transfer and innovation management procedures, focusing on the Big Data problems applied to Utilities and the Energy Sector (Smart Grids). He has also worked for years in applied energy behavioral science, data analytics, algorithms and the application of social networks to change human behaviors towards a more sustainable way of living, especially in corporate environments. He co-founded the Deep tech Intelen (an outcome of his PhD at NTUA), one of the most successful startups in the digital energy and utility analytics market, having some big utilities as clients (including Protergia, MYT). He was also one of the two National Climate champions (Greece) of the British Council, taking part in the Global Youth Forum on Climate Finance 2010 in Shanghai. Being an active entrepreneur, applied researcher and passionate with technology futurology, he has cooperated with more than 40 utilities in the USA and Europe, dealing with customer engagement, customer analytics, AI/ML, energy management and deployment of new business models and digital services. He is a guest lecturer in BlockChain at Nicosia University and in Entrepreneurship at Piraeus University, a reviewer at Elsevier and Blockchain technologies (Editorial Board @Frontiers) and serves also as a Scientific expert/Reviewer at the European Commission in H2020. He has global recognitions in top innovation and entrepreneurship contests (US Red herring, SVASE Silicon Valley, Siemens global smartgrid, OECD eco-innovation, CeBIT top cleantech, etc). He is a mentor at the StartupBootamp accelerator and one of the top-100 Global mentors at the Founder Institute (FI). He is the author of one book in Computer Networks, guest speaker in many conferences and futurology events (ie TedX, SAP Digital, Decentralized, PowerUP EIT, etc) and has more than 50 publications in conferences, journals and technology papers. He is a valedictorian Electrical Engineer from Dundee University, Scotland (with two Class medals and the IEE prize) with postgraduate studies at Imperial College, London School of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique (X) and a PhD from National Technical University of Athens. Also took various courses from HarvardX (Harvard University). QED