Introduction
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Thanasis Polychronakis
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CTO at INSIGHT REPLAY, a US Sports Startup
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Consulting startups on setting up their operations
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Founder of SKGTech NPO
What is SKGTech
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Thessaloniki's Tech Community
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Developers, Designers, Founders...
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We make it our job to connect everyone
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Founded Mar 2014
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Non Profit Organization
Thessaloniki Tech Communities
Community Actions
What are the actions and projects of the communities?
Community Actions
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Happens twice per year
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Unites and empowers the Creative community
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Raises the collective expertise
Community Actions
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Happens once per month
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Unites and empowers the Startup community
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Connects and educates founders
Community Actions
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Thessaloniki's Hackerspace
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~120 Square Meters
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40 people presentation setup
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Self Funded
Community Actions
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2014 Apr & Nov
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Ignited local communities
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Communities talk with each other
Community Actions
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2014 Nov
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Installed 400 client capacity WiFi
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Crowdfunded €1.000,00
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Installed Internet too!
Municipality WiFi
Community Actions
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14 International Speakers - 2 Tracks
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2nd happens at 20th May
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400 Attendees - 60€ ticket
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World Class Sponsors
The Business Side
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We do all that in our free time...
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Here's what we do professionally
Thessaloniki Tech Communities
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90% are professionals
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Nearly 0% unemployment
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World Class experience
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This is our talent pool
The Business Side
Scalable, Launched and Funded Startups
- Online booking via facebook
- $13m Raised
- Online training platform
- $4m Raised
- Visual commerce platform
- $300k Raised
- Casual games producer
- $500k Raised
- Simulation for electric designs
- $150k Raised + ΤΒΑ
The Business Side
The rest...
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Early stage and Stealth Startups
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Remote Workers / Freelancers
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Remote Teams
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Outsourced Operations in SKG
The Ecosystem
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Talent Pool / community
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Entrepreneurs
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Access to funds
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Infrastructure
We're on it 👍
It's ok...
Healthy Supply
Can do better
The Ecosystem
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High Speed Internet
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Tax System
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Physical Spaces
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Travel Connectivity
The Infrastructure?
The Space
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We have come so far...
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...the next step is a space for all the tech, startup and design communities to make it their home!
The Space
We have collectively put a lot of thought in this...
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Location needs to be at city center
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A spacious co-working space
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A cafeteria space
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Office space for companies
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Presentation theater for at least 100
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Bonus: The Lab, laser cutters, 3d printers, etc
To Summarise
We are hyper-active and self-sustained
We are innovators, we are the recipients of Policies and Actions towards innovation
Yet, nobody asked us if that's what we wanted
You can change that, be relevant
Thank you!
Thanasis Polychronakis
thanpolas@gmail.com
http://skgtech.io
http://devitconf.org
Questions?
Thanasis Polychronakis
thanpolas@gmail.com
http://skgtech.io
http://devitconf.org
SKGTech-mini
By thanpolas
SKGTech-mini
A mini presentation about SKGTech and Thessaloniki's tech space
