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For the first time ever, ISACA Athens, ITSMF Hellas and PMI Greece Chapter join forces in an educational event, providing actionable knowledge to empower you in your IT endeavours!

It is well known that effective governance over information and technology is critical to business success. ISACA’s COBIT Framework is an important driver of innovation and business transformation.

ISACA Athens Chapter President and Accredited Trainer Nikolaos Drakos will provide valuable insights on the framework, showcasing its use as a common denominator in the IT Service and Project Management processes.

ITIL 4 Framework is a holistic approach to Service Management, while ITSMF provides the ITIL 4 Certification Scheme and other Service Management Frameworks.

ITSMF Hellas Chair George Papoulias will present us how “Service Intelligence” provides a chance for ITSM to shine.

PMI Greece Chapter provides the ecosystem and framework for a leadership-focused project manager with a sense of mutual responsibility in a projectized contemporary Greek environment full of challenges.

PMI Greece Chapter’s President Zannina Anagnostopoulou will present the current methodologies and practices offered by PMI.

Last but not least, the esteemed IT practitioner Konstantinos Christodoulakis will share valuable insights on best practices for effective monitoring and controlling Project & Service delivery from end to end, using the abovementioned methodologies and frameworks. Through compelling case studies, the practitioner will delve into the challenges faced, outcomes achieved, lessons learned and provide valuable recommendations.

itSMF Hellas supports the 10th Information Security Conference
more information here

Following the annual Greek ITSM conference (i.e. www.seeitsmc.gr), itSMF Hellas organizes a workshop titled “Innovation Sprints” by Johann Botha.
The event takes place this Wednesday 11th of May at 6 pm, online via MS Teams.
Don’t miss it!

P.S.: The event is addressed to the participants of the 13th ITSM Conference

itSMF Hellas supports 9^th Information Security Conference | 17 February 2022

Enabling a Secure Future: Managing Risks in a Constantly Changing World.

Our annual IT Service Management Conference is just around the corner in its virtual format. The 2022 conference is dedicated to “ITSM Evolution: Empowering the Digital Future of Business”.

We will be hosting several international keynotes, which will be discussing the latest global ITSM trends mainly focused on the post covid world. Adaptability is now the new competitive advantage, which highlights the need for Lean, DevOps, and Value Stream Management, as well as for continuous improvement by embracing the principles of ITIL 4.

The new Board Members of the itSMF Hellas, elected on 22 November 2021, are:

1.  Chair – George Papoulias
2.  Vice Chair – Stamatis Passas
3.  Secretary – Michael Moraitis
4.  Treasurer – Krikor Maroukian
5.  Member – Gregory Charalabopoulos

The BoD selected its member Tassos Alefantos as Honorary Chair.

Oπe\n 2021 December mini conf is an annual technical conference that started in March 2019.

You can check Oπe\n’s Webpage and YouTube channel.

Oπe\n is supported by Greek Software and IT sector including Major IT Companies, Open IT Communities, Startups, Hubs and Research Centers and 24 Major Open Greek IT communities.

Its vision is to interconnect and foster the technology ecosystem in Greece, so that it helps it gain a prominent position evolving to a big draw for other companies in the area, while contributing to the reduction of brain drain.

The organizing committee have worked hard to make Oπe\n 2021 come true, building upon the success of 2019 and 2020.

This time, the topics will be:

1. Infrastructure (Security and Cloud) and
2. Applications (Data Visualization and 4th Industrial revolution (IoT)).

Oπe\n’ s December mini-conf 2021 will take place on 15.12.2021 online. Free registration to attend the conference is now available in Oπe\n’s web site.

The following speakers will present:

• Chris White, President NEC Laboratories America
• Diomidis Spinellis, Professor of SW Engineering, Technology Author, Programmer
• Dimitris Syrivelis, Datacenter Systems Engineering Division @ NVIDIA
• Katerina Skroumpelou, Senior Software Engineer at Nrwl

A panel will also take place, on how to revert brain drain in Greece, consisting of the following scientists:

• Professor Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, WINGS ICT Solutions
• Panagiotis Synetos, Code Wrangler – WooCommerce, Automattic
• Margarita Pantazi, Azure Cloud & AI Consultant at Microsoft
• Panagiotis Soulos, Information Security Officer, Intrum Hellas, (ISC)2
• Magy Kontou, Co-founder & Lead Product and UI/UX Designer at SimpleApps
• Matina Tsavli, Security Associate Manager @Accenture (facilitator)
• Antonis Kalipetis, Docker Captain, Senior Software Engineer  (facilitator)

We are also deploying a fun “virtual world” where you can network with other audience members, speakers, sponsors, etc