A workshop on the dynamics of the Greek tourism product. We analyze international travel trends, present best practices, and discuss the value of strategic synergies. We’ll then focus on destination resilience, with digital innovation and sustainability principles as its core pillars.

Attendance only by invitation only.

Tech & Tastes is Techfuse’s parallel initiative, built around three core objectives.

First, to bring technology closer to Epirus’ gastronomy and hospitality, helping the two sectors evolve promoting their unique characteristics.

Second, to serve as a tool for putting Epirus in the spotlight, giving visitors and residents the opportunity to discover the region more deeply.

Third, to create synergies between restaurateurs, producers, and institutional bodies.

For four days, 11 restaurants in Epirus will offer a special tasting menu at a preferential price.

Additionally, a winery will welcome visitors for wine tastings and guided tours.

Book Your Table: https://techfuse.gr/en/tech-and-tastes/

Piano Performance: You are Bugs

Pavlos Antoniadis, Associate Professor in Music Communication and Technology Department of Music Studies, University of Ioannina Pavlos Antoniadis’ work 你們是蟲子 (You are Bugs) – Homage to Liu Cixin for piano, MPE controller, sensors and AI agents, was composed on the occasion of Luigi Nono’s centenary in 2024 and has been presented in Hamburg ArtSearch 2024, Berlin VOICES 2024, Boston ICMC 2025 and Beijing TENOR 2025. It reflects on problems of authorship, authenticity and authority in musical AI, namely the disturbing potential of human inferiority – the fact that we all are potentially “bugs” (with its multiple connotations), and we might have to accept a lower status in a new (or not so new) hierarchy. To do so, the work assumes an AI, as if alien, invasion of sorts, inspired by the “dark forest hypothesis”, term coined by the Chinese sci-fi author Liu Cixin as a response to the Fermi paradox. The musical score consists of a dense interactive video featuring borrowed cinematic materials of authoritarian figures conducting, instructing, ordering, insulting and abusing the performer; augmented interactive tablatures; music notation and video synths, projected in real-time, and driving a combination of improvised, comprovised and fixed musical materials. These include the author’s previous recordings of works by Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, Maurice Ravel, which are remixed through a combination of SOMAX2 and GesTCom, and live controlled through inertial sensors and an MPE controller. Thus, both human and machine are trained and constrained, and sparks of resistance are not missing.

Location: D. Hatzis Cultural Centre

Workshop dedicated to Startups, Small and Medium Enterprises as well as large companies on the funding products of the Hellenic Development Bank.

📍Cultural Center “D. Hatzis” – Exhibition Space

Presented by: Maria Sarantopoulou