Holder of BSc Business Administration with concentration in Management Information Systems, worked mainly in the IT and Training industry. From 2003 till 2013, I have been working as a Trainer/Manager of Training center mainly for professionals covering the areas of IT and Business Administration.

Since 2013, I am working in Agile Environments as a Scrum Master, Innovation facilitator and Agile Coach (multicultural environments of 150 employees) coaching, mentoring, providing agile trainings and workshops and managing innovation process and projects.

I am the founder of Cyprus Agile and Innovation community and already organized two successful Agile meetups in Limassol. I have participated in the Agile Summit in Greece on 2017 and 2018 and got invited to the Beyond Agile Israel 2018 in Tel Aviv as a speaker, and gave a TED style talk about Agile and Innovation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwixQ13wZk).

As a scrum master Demetris number one goal is to help cultivate championship culture. He has a great attitude. He's the prime example of an ideal assistant agile coach who can assimilate with the team and be accepted as "one of us" on the field. Developers respect his technical understanding and they also appreciate the insight he provides with his style of servant leadership. Through scrum practices, ceremonies, and using agile development frameworks.

He always looks to encourage and plays to the strengths of individuals on the team. With experience in billing technologies, quality assurance, and facilities management. One of his biggest strengths is being able to connect with people on a personal level to gaining trust. Demetris truly cares about what makes people tick and he knows how to use it as positive reinforcement motivation. I feel that team works is better when the team enjoys working together. Demetris is a scrum master with Shu-Ha-Ri way of thinking.

Shu - Follow the rule

Ha - Break the rule

Ri - Be the rule

Have mostly worked for AMDOCS, a world-wide leader in telecommunication software development, where I have developed technical, programming and managerial skills.

In the past my responsibilities were comprise managing teams as a Group Leader, driving progress toward project milestones, quality assurance and on-time delivery.

In the last years I am working as a Scrum Master, following all Agile ceremonies gaining lot of experience in various Agile methods and methodologies.

Panis has a multidisciplinary expertise in growth hacking, startups, disruption and tech. He has trained and mentored more than 300 young people in digital marketing, growth hacking, startup growth and digital media strategies. One of my primary goals is to inspire younger generations to become involved in startups, disruptive innovation and technology.

Currently, he is the founder and chief tech blogger at DisruptCyprus.com.

DisruptCyprus.com is a tech blog about Startups, Innovation, Disruption and Technology in Cyprus. RiseTech Media launched the blog in November 2015 and via growth hacking techniques we have grown rapidly to be one most visited startup & tech blog in Cyprus. The blog has since grown organically at a fast pace and gathered more than 11,000 social media followers, cumulative on all social media platforms.

In its track record, DisruptCyprus.com has organised and co-organised events with guests from Facebook, Google, Philip Research, AngelHack Hackathons, Greek and international Startup Experts with hundreds of people attending.

Life is short so enjoy it - Carpe Diem

Christina Neophytidou is a Project Officer at Remedica, working on a range of HR projects associated with recruitment & selection, training & development, performance management and workforce planing.

She has previously worked for Cyprus University of Technology, Deloitte and ARIS | A Really Inspiring Space, a startup accelerator.

She holds a BSc in Sociology from the University of Bath, and has two Master’s degrees in Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Resource Management from the University of Bath and the Cyprus International Institute of Management respectively.

Chrisoulla is currently a free-lance HR Consultant working on various ad hoc projects. She has over 10 years of HR experience with expertise in local and international Companies.

Originally from Australia, Chrisoulla completed her Bachelor of Business at University of Western Sydney, Australia before moving to Cyprus in 2003. Her career began in the food services industry in a large food chain restaurant that had recently been franchised in Cyprus. She was promoted to a Managerial position which allowed her to gain exposure in the daily operations of the business. This in turn allowed her to combine her passion and move towards Human Resources. Since 2006, she had started focusing more in this field and was able to expand her knowledge and experience by continuously self-developing herself in trainings and seminars. In 2008, Chrisoulla changed her career direction and moved into the financial services industry working for one of the top 10 fiduciary services Companies in Cyprus. Here she gained experience in restructuring performance appraisal systems based on KPI’s and designing and implementing policies and procedures for all employees. Soon after, she moved to one of the top 6 fiduciary companies in Cyprus where she was promoted to a Managerial position heading the International offices. In 2018, she decided to make a career change and work independently as a free –lance HR Consultant in order to assist Companies with their day to day HR needs allowing her to use her extensive knowledge and experience gained in the HR industry.