Dr Panayiotis Philimis is the Founder and CEO of CyRIC, the Cyprus Research & Innovation Center (www.cyric.eu) developing disruptive products in BioTech, IoT, Robotics/Drones and AI. CyRIC, is the Business Innovation Center (BIC) of Cyprus, certified by the European BIC Network (www.ebn.eu). He is the founder of Gravity Ventures (www.gravity.ventures) an international deep tech Incubator that invests in a diversified portfolio of deep-tech startups and founder of the GRAVITY VC Fund (www.gravity.eu). Currently he is an Executive Board Member of European BIC Network (EBN), Vice President of CARIE Cyprus Association of Research and Innovation Enterprises and Member of the Cyprus Business Angels (CyBAN). He is an Angel Investor and Advisor to more than 20 startups. He has 25+ years’ experience in the design and development of disruptive high-tech products and managed several R&D and industry projects with budgets exceeding 200million Euro.