WMF International Roadshow | Greece

2023 EDITION

  • DIGITAL TRAINING
    sessions
  • STARTUP competition
  • INNOVATION key driver
  • INSPIRATIONAL talks

The WMF International Roadshow in Greece for the third time

WMF - International Trade Fair and Festival on AI, Tech, and Digital - organized the biggest Italian Startup Competition and several educational and entertaining events that attract participants, creative thinkers, corporates, NPOs, leading players, and innovators from all over the world.

To further promote cooperation, spread digital innovative culture, boost entrepreneurship, and enhance the creation of a worldwide innovation ecosystem, WMF has designed the International Roadshow - a project composed of satellite events that aim at creating an international network where idea-sharing and cooperation merge to find cutting-edge solutions to global issues. 

In this framework, Thessaloniki (Greece) hosted for the third time a WMF International Roadshow event, created in collaboration with the Italian-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Thessaloniki. The local event took place at the Digital Transformation and Digital Skills Center (DT&S) - Cisco on the 16th of December.

Training sessions, a startup competition, artistic performances, and live shows will alternate in an event that will address major topics of the digital spectrum as well as societal needs and global goals. 

THE LOCATION

The WMF International Roadshow - Greece took place on the 16th of December at the Digital Transformation and Digital Skills Center (DT&S) - Cisco, 26is Οκτωβρίου 21, Thessaloniki 546 27.

The International Center for Digital Transformation and Digital Skills was established in June 2020 by Cisco in collaboration with the Municipality of Thessaloniki, the Ministry of Digital Governance and the Ministry of Development and Investments, under the auspices of the Office of the Prime Minister in Thessaloniki.

The Center is housed in the building of the Old Slaughterhouse, in the Western part of Thessaloniki, near the building that will host the new facilities of the Federation of Industries of Greece.

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Italian-Hellenic Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce

The Italian-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce of Thessaloniki (CCIE), founded in 1996, is a non-profit organization, recognized both by the Italian government and by the Hellenic one. Its main objective is to foster relationships and contacts between economic operators in Italy and Greece, promoting business relationships.

The Thessaloniki CCIE provides numerous services with high added value, linked to professional training, business internationalization, technology and innovation as well as youth entrepreneurship.

Thanks to the fact of being part of a network of over 80 Italian Chambers of Commerce in the world, in all these years and thanks to the coordination of all the institutional subjects of the system for the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, the CCIE has become a strong partner and reliable in the development of many national, European and international projects.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Thessaloniki

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Thessaloniki was established in 1918. Its operation began in 1919. The TCCI is the second Chamber in Greece in terms of size and its contribution to the development of the country until now is very important.

The history of the TCCI is closely related to that of the region: the establishment of the Thessaloniki International Fair, the modernization of the Thessaloniki Port Authority and of the Free Zone in it, the foundation of the Merchandise Stock Exchange of Thessaloniki, the operation of a middle Commercial School, the foundation of the Superior Industrial School of Thessaloniki (the current University of Macedonia).