Heraklion became a meeting point for distinguished scientists from Europe and around the world, exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) will remember, reason, and understand.

The summit focused on three central themes:

• Memory infrastructures for AI agents
• Enterprise ontologies as a trusted semantic foundation for Artificial Intelligence
• The future of data infrastructures for AI

The scientific coordination of the summit was led by Yannis Tzitzikas (Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Crete and Associate Researcher at FORTH).

Keynote Speakers

• Joseph Sifakis (Verimag, France)
• Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
• Yannis Ioannidis (University of Athens, Greece)

Invited Speakers

• Jeff Pan (University of Edinburgh, UK)
• Bo Zhao (Aalto University, Finland)
• Claudia d’Amato (University of Bari, Italy)
• Diego Collarana (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
• Arijit Khan (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Jui Shang-Ling
• Martin Doerr (FORTH)
• Ioannis Pitas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
• Nikolaos Vassiliadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
• George Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
• Grigoris Tsoumakas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
• Panos Vassiliadis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
• Georgios Paliouras (NCSR "Demokritos", Greece)
• Kostas Magkoutis (University of Crete and FORTH)
• Grigoris Tsagkatakis (University of Crete and FORTH)

The programme concluded with a panel discussion and an open debate, aiming to formulate a joint declaration on these important topics.

Related link: https://olympiasummit2026.synthesis-group.gr/