Michalis Vafopoulos
Founder & CEO at MyData Global Network
Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolMichalis Vafopoulos is a founder and CEO with over a decade of experience translating open data, AI and web science into market intelligence and public-sector transformation. He leads LinkedBusiness, an award-winning startup delivering B2B sales leads and KYC solutions from open data, while advising industry and coordinating the Greek MyData hub. His career bridges academia, government and NGOs—he holds a PhD in Web Science, has taught at multiple universities, and served on boards including the Hellenic Cadastre and the Open Technologies Alliance. Michalis combines rigorous econometrics training with hands-on data science and a track record of driving digital transformation and open-data projects under Horizon 2020. Notably, he authored a book connecting the social and technical dimensions of the Web and has repeatedly turned public-sector open data platforms into usable intelligence for journalists, citizens and entrepreneurs.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Master's degree Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Athens University of Economics and BusinessBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Hellenic Open UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Web science ICT4Development, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Web science ICT4Development at University of the Aegean
English
Github Skills (7)
economy5
describe4
rdf3
datasets3
statistics1
sparql1
explore1
Github contributions (5)
YourDataStories/ontology
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:24 PRs, 95 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years
datasetsdescriberdf
LinkedEcon/data-around-the-world
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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