From AI experiments to operational products
What changes when AI moves beyond pilots into owned workflows, measurable outcomes, operating controls, and continuous improvement.
Kostas KarolemeasSpeaking
Practical talks about AI systems, product judgment, and the work of shipping.
I speak about the point where ambitious technology meets product and organizational reality: how teams build, govern, evaluate, and improve systems that people are expected to rely on.
Topics
Subjects I can make concrete for technical and leadership audiences.
Agentic AI platforms and control planes
How tools, models, context, permissions, evaluation, and observability come together when agents become long-lived systems.
Governance as a product discipline
Why trustworthy AI depends on practical product and engineering choices rather than policy documents alone.
Product leadership across technology waves
Lessons from visual computing, medical software, developer platforms, and AI about what changes—and what remains durable—in product work.
Featured appearances
Talks, panels, and working sessions across AI, product, and technology.
Selected appearances with recordings, slides, photos, and event information wherever those resources are publicly available.
24 November 2025 · Joint presentation and live demo
The Art of Agentic AI: Building Systems that Think, Act, and Deliver
4th GenAI Summit · Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
With Spyros Alvertis
A practical demonstration of Gaia as an AI co-development platform: how agentic systems can move from intent to coordinated action while keeping their work transparent, governable, and connected to measurable business outcomes.
16 June 2025 · Breakout session and live demos
Athens Unplugged: AI That Delivers, Not Just Promises
Microsoft AI Tour Athens · Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
With Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas and Petros Petrou
Three production-oriented AI stories from UBITECH, including Gaia and its conversational approach to building agentic applications. The session focused on systems designed to deliver tangible value across industry and public services—not AI demonstrations detached from operational reality.
29 January 2025 · Conference talk
The AI Advantage: Transforming Insurance from Onboarding to Claim Management
8th Insurance Tech Conference · Ethniki Asfalistiki Conference Center, Athens
A look at how Gaia and generative AI can support the insurance journey from customer onboarding through claims, combining more responsive experiences with practical operational transformation.
6–7 November 2024 · Conference presentation
Legal Review Process in the Cadastre: From Past to Present and the Future with Artificial Intelligence
Digital Governance and the Challenges of Artificial Intelligence · Divani Caravel Hotel, Athens
A case study of how Gaia can support the legal-review workflow in the Hellenic Cadastre, connecting institutional knowledge, document-intensive work, and responsible use of artificial intelligence.
Earlier talks and workshops
An archive from developer communities, classrooms, startups, and medical imaging.
These earlier appearances trace the technology communities and product problems that shaped my work. Links are included only where a public event page, deck, or recording is still available.
- 1 February 2023
Technical talk
Building Fast React/React Native Apps with a Low-Code Platform
TechConnect 2023 · AUEB Troias Building, Athens
A practical session on using a low-code platform to shorten the path from an application idea to working React and React Native products.
- 1 November 2022
Startup workshop
Startup Workshop: From Idea to Prototype and Launch
Tech and the City AUEB 2022 · Serafio City of Athens and online
Part of a four-workshop sequence on forming a team, finding an idea, building a prototype, and taking a new product to market.
- 18 December 2021
Scale-up panel
Fundraising and the Scale-Up Journey
Startup School · Online
A founder-focused conversation about financing, fundraising, and the lessons that emerge while moving a startup from its earliest stages toward scale.
- 14–15 March 2018
Two-day educator workshop
Allcancode: Application-Creation Workshop for Educators
Allcancode Workshops for Educators · English Barracks, Old Fortress, Corfu
With Vasiliki Dalakiari
A hands-on workshop helping educators explore application creation and computational thinking as tools for active learning in the classroom.
- 18 March 2017
Panel discussion
The 21st-Century IT Developer: What Does the Job Market Require?
Panorama of Entrepreneurship & Career Development · Megaron Athens International Conference Centre, Athens
A panel discussion about the technical skills, working habits, and broader product perspective expected of software developers in a changing employment market.
- 21 February 2017
Developer meetup talk
The Rise of Google Polymer
17th GreeceJS Meetup · InnovAthens, Athens
An introduction to Polymer and the then-emerging Web Components model for building reusable, interoperable user-interface elements for the web.
- 4 February 2017TEDx talk
TEDx talk
Technology: Passive Consumers or Active Creators?
TEDxKids@Ilissos · OTE Academy, Athens
An invitation for children to move from consuming technology to understanding, shaping, and creating with it—building curiosity and agency through programming.
- 19 October 2013
Developer meetup talk
Node.js Authentication Using Express, Passport and MongoDB
5th GreeceJS Meetup · CoLab Athens
A practical walkthrough of authentication in a Node.js application using Express, Passport, and MongoDB.
- 19 June 2013
Developer meetup talk
Writing a WordPress Plugin from Scratch
1st WordPress Greek Community Meetup · Found.ation, Athens
A ground-up introduction to the structure, hooks, and development workflow behind creating a WordPress plugin.
- 11 January 2012
Developer meetup talk
Node.js: A Pragmatic Approach
3rd GreeceJS Meetup · CoLab Workspace, Athens
An early, pragmatic introduction to server-side JavaScript with Node.js, focused on where it fit and how developers could begin using it effectively.
- 7–11 March 2008European Congress of Radiology
Scientific paper and poster presentation
A Research PACS System with Extensible by End-Users Image Processing and Scientific Visualization Capabilities
European Congress of Radiology 2008 · Austria Center Vienna, Vienna
Research on a PACS environment that allowed end users to extend medical-image processing and scientific-visualization workflows.
- 27–30 June 2007
Scientific conference presentation
A Research PACS System with Extensible by End-Users Image Processing and Scientific Visualization Capabilities
25th International EuroPACS Conference · Berlin, Germany
A presentation of research into an extensible PACS architecture that connected clinical image management with end-user image processing and visualization.
- 15–17 June 2006International RIS/PACS research
Scientific conference presentation
A RIS/PACS System with Integrated Advanced Image Processing Technology, Which Is Extensible by End-Users (in Java or Matlab)
24th International EuroPACS Conference · Trondheim, Norway
A presentation of an integrated RIS/PACS platform designed so that users could extend advanced image-processing capabilities in Java or Matlab.
Scientific publications
Research behind the medical-imaging chapter.
Selected journal papers and conference research outputs from collaborations around MRI analysis, scientific visualization, and extensible RIS/PACS systems.
A Research PACS System with Extensible by End-Users Image Processing and Scientific Visualization Capabilities
European Congress of Radiology, ECR 2008, scientific paper B-192. DOI: 10.1594/ecr2008/B-192.
Official paperLiver Hemosiderosis: Comparison of Three Methods for the Construction of Liver T2* Color Parametric Maps Using Data Obtained Directly from a Newly Designed Research PACS System
European Congress of Radiology, ECR 2008, scientific exhibit C-027. DOI: 10.1594/ecr2008/C-027.
Official exhibitA Research PACS System with Extensible by End-Users Image Processing and Scientific Visualization Capabilities
International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, volume 2, pages S306–S308.
Publication recordOptimization of the T2 Parametric Image Map Calculation in MRI Polymer Gel Dosimetry
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, volume 56, pages 249–252. DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/56/1/041.
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Speaker biography
Three decades of product and technology leadership.
Kostas Karolemeas is an AI product and technology leader with more than 30 years of experience across software engineering, architecture, product development, and company leadership. He has co-founded two software companies and has built products spanning visual computing, regulated medical imaging, developer platforms, and enterprise agentic AI. He currently leads product and technology work for Gaia at UBITECH.
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Adapted to the room and the decision in front of it.
A useful session should fit its audience. I can shape the same core material for executives, product and engineering teams, founders, students, or a mixed conference audience.
- Conference talks and keynotes
- Panels and roundtable discussions
- Company and leadership sessions
- Workshops, podcasts, and webinars
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