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Date

October 02, 2022
9:00 AM (UTC+3)

Venue

Facilities of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU)
Department of Nutrition & Dietetics
Tripitos area (2nd km Sitia – Palekastro)
Sitia, Kriti, 723 00
Greece

Event Description

Whether it is about living beings or inanimate objects, groundbreaking ideas, innovative businesses, works of art, scientific discoveries, emotions, fears, desires, travel or athletic performance, there is a critical point of creation – the result of hard work or spontaneous appearance – when something small becomes something essential. Birth as a conception, fact, origin and way of formation.

So when does something start? Under what circumstances and conditions? What exactly are the forces that determine the transformation and what are the motivations that guide it? Is birth always driven by a visible or invisible need? Is there room for the random or unnecessary? Are the seeds of harm or benefit included in the creation? Can anything be born without the need of something else being sacrificed? How close is the end at the beginning and to what extent does the beginning contain the ending? Our desire is to start a discussion on these issues that, even if it is not possible to lead to final answers, may shed even a little light on what constitutes our reality. Of course, the most urgent and commonplace question – or perhaps a question mark? – we always remain ourselves, our people and our role, our involuntary or voluntary influence but also the way we are influenced and of course the eternal and always unsolved mystery of our existence.

Event Program

Registration

09:00 – 10:00

Session One

10:00 – 12:00

Maria Mantzila is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Christina Kalliodi is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Stella Paschalidou is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Nena Galanidou is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Manolis Ladoukakis is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.

Coffee Break

Workshop: First aid demonstration

Anyone may suddenly be called on to provide first aid in an incident and a timely response and the knowledge of what to do is often what determines the difference between life and death.

This workshop covers cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED), choking on food or a foreign body and the resuscitation position for an unconscious person.

Session Two

12:30 – 14:00

Giorgos Galanakis is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Prodromos Nikiforidis is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Madlen Anipsitaki and Simon Riedler are two of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Polydefkis Papadopoulos is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.

Lunch Break

Workshop: The second life of materials

In our daily life, countless materials are used once and are then thrown in the waste. However, many of these materials can be given a second life. In this instance, there will be a demonstration of how simple beer or soft drink cans can become useful and how a lamp can be created from recyclable materials.

Session Three

15:00 – 16:30

John Protopapadakis is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Antonis Sapountzis is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Athina Polina Dova is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Iosif Beloukas is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.

Coffee Break

Workshop: Discovering my inner child and reconnecting with it…

Our inner child depicts the real and authentic self as expressed naturally (the creative child) or the one who knows difficulties and limitations (the hurt-dissatisfied child).

With this experiential workshop, we learn to breathe consciously in order to connect with our emotions. We learn to release our chronic physical tensions to work with the blocked emotions of the past which we discharge, and finally to reconnect with our body and our physical senses.

In short, the goal is to discover our inner child and try to help it grow up differently so that we stop being bound by memories, weaknesses and behaviours that reproduce to create many barriers in our lives.

Session Four

17:00 – 18:30

Panagiotis Koudas is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Efstratios Papanis is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Agni Mariakaki is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.
Yannis Kalogerakis is one of the TEDxSitia 2022 speakers.

Music Party

On decks: DJ Makis Arakliotis

Presenters

George Balothiaris and Gogo Verigou are the presenters of the TEDxSitia 2022.

George Balothiaris
Gogo Verigou

George Balothiaris and Gogo Verigou are Creative Directors of Xperience More, one of the leading Social Media Agencies in the country which incorporates more and more award-winning film projects, and creators of the biggest radio production in Greece, ‘Summer in the South’!

Useful information

Additionally to the speeches and the workshops and during the registration and the breaks all participants will be offered coffee, coockies and water while lunch including salad will be available during the lunch break. There will be drinks and nuts offered at the music party following the end of the event. All the above are included in the entrance fee.