Panagiota Fatourou is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete, Greece and the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). She has been (twice) a visiting Professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto and the University of York in Canada, as well as at the University of Cyprus in Canada. She has worked as a postdoc at Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, and at the Computer Science Department of the University of Toronto, Canada, as well as, as a visited postdoc at Brown University, US. She has been a Marie-Curie Individual Fellow at Université Paris Cité. Her research interests focus on parallel and distributed computing, and on big data processing.

Panagiota Fatourou is currently serving as the Past Chair of the ACM Europe Council (and since July 2015, as an elected member of the Council). She has served as the editor of the Distributed Computing Column of the Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, and as the General Chair of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2013), the top conference in her field. She has served as a member-at-large of the steering committees of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) and the International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS). She has been the PC co-Chair of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016), and of the 19th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS’17), track “Distributed Computing and Communication Networks”. She has participated in the PC of more than 40 conferences. She has been an ACM Distinguished Speaker and a Featured ACM Member. She has been awarded an FSMP Distinguished Professor Fellowship from the Foundation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris. She is the recipient of a best paper award from the 27th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2022).

Panagiota Fatourou was the coordinator of TransForm - Theoretical Foundations of Transactional Memory, an EU-funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network (2008 - 2013), and the co-coordinator (together with Manolis Katevenis) of the GreenVM project (ARISTEIA Action of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning"). She was the Greek representative of the COST Action Euro-TM: Transactional Memories: Foundations, Algorithms, Tools, and Applications, and a member of the Management Committee of the COST Action EUGAIN: European Network For Gender Balance in Informatics. She has served at the advisory board of EC-funded project RESET: Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together. She has participated in many additional research and development projects.

Themis Palpanas is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Paris (UP), France, the director of the Data Intelligence Institute of Paris (diiP), the director of the Computer Science Department (LIPADE) of UP, and the director of the Data Intensive and Knowledge Oriented Systems (diNo) group. He is a world-leading expert on data series (a.k.a. time series) management, indexing, and analysis, with a high-record of peer-reviewed publications and a long list of national and international collaborations. He received the MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Toronto. He has previously held positions at the University of Trento and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, worked for the University of California, Riverside, and visited Microsoft Research and the IBM Almaden Research Center.

His research solutions have been implemented in world-leading commercial data management products and he is the author of 9 US patents, 3 of which are part of commercial products, and 2 French patents. He has received 3 Best Paper awards and the IBM SUR Award. He has supervised 7 postdocs, 18 PhD (4 on-going), 28 MSc and 4 BSc students.

He is a founding member of the Event Processing Technical Society, an Editor in Chief for the BDR, an Associate Editor for the TKDE, and IDA journals, as well as part of the Editorial Advisory Board of the IS Journal. He has served as General Chair for VLDB 2013, and is serving as an evaluator and reviewer for EU, NSERC, NWO, and QNRF. His research has been funded by the EU, the NSF (USA), IBM Research (USA), Facebook, HP Labs (USA), Telecom Italia (Italy), and the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy).

He has worked in the following European projects: OKKAM FP7 IP, KAP FP7 IP, eSecurity ISEC, WEBPROID ISEC, FAKECARE ISEC, and CDF4EM EIT ICT. He has collaborated extensively with national and international industrial partners, including Facebook and Safran, and active collaborations with the French Electricity Company (EDF) and the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).

Myron Tsatsarakis has received his BSc Degree in Computer Science and MSc Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, in 2019 and 2022 respectively, from the University of Crete.

He has acquired multi-cultural team-working experience by undertaking several user-interaction design projects, during his Erasmus Exchange period in Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

He has accumulated 18 months of professional experience in performance engineering and 6 months of research and teaching assistance experience in the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Currently, he is a Research Engineer at the Foundation of Research and Technology - Hellas.

His research interests include principles and programming of Concurrent Systems and performance concerns of Emerging Memory and Storage Technologies.

He earned his BSc in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics from the University of Thessaly in 2014, followed by an MSc in Computational Science from the department of Computer Science and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2017. In 2021, he completed his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Thessaly. He has extensive experience as a postdoctoral researcher, having worked at the Toronto Metropolitan University from August 2021 to July 2022. His work at TMU was partially funded by the Fields Institute. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. His research interests include distributed algorithms, concurrent data structures, and parallel computing.

He earned his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 2022 and is currently pursuing his MSc in Parallel and Distributed Systems. Throughout his MSc program, he has contributed as a teaching assistant for courses covering Data Structures and Principles of Distributed Computing. Currently, he holds a temporary position as a graduate student in Computer Science at the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas. In this role, he is engaged in the design, implementation, and experimental exploration of specific components within a recoverable data series index tailored for systems supporting non-volatile memory. His research interests revolve around the principles of parallel and distributed computing, programming of parallel and distributed systems, and overcoming performance challenges in applications handling big data through the utilization of Emerging Memory and Storage Technologies.