Yiannis Samiotakis, specializing in Digital Health projects and applications, has over 37 years of professional experience in senior and executive positions within private IT companies. He has been awarded the European IT Prize by the Information Technology European Awards for excellence in transforming computer science research results into innovative, commercially viable products. He has overseen the procurement and implementation of dozens of projects with a total budget of several million euros.
He currently serves as Vice President of the Hellenic Association of Health Informatics (HAHI) and is a member of the Steering Committee of HL7 Hellas. He has also served for several years as Vice President of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing – Greek Network.
He holds a degree in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University (USA).