Georgios Loumos (gloumos@comic.com.gr) holds a Bachelor's degree from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Master's degree in Information Technologies from the University of Piraeus. His main scientific interests, as well as his undergraduate and graduate theses (2005 & 2006), focused on the techno-economic analysis of telecommunications networks in Greece. Through well-known diffusion models, such as Bass and Gompertz, he investigated possible correlations of the evolution of demand for PSTN & ISDN services compared to the rise of the then new ADSL technology. Currently, he is participating in a second postgraduate study program, with the subject of Management and Economics of Telecommunications Networks. Since 2007, he has worked at Accenture as an IT Consultant and since 2009 as an independent expert in the field of ICT in various private and publicly funded projects. He was also a scientific associate of the National Research and Technology Network (NRTN) from 2012 to 2015, where he participated in important research projects, such as: a) ECONET, b) ODS, c) Greenet, d) LDA, e) DOLFIN, f) CELAR, g) PRACE-4IP, h) Complete. In 2014, he co-founded the company "Content Management in Culture P.C." (Comic), which specializes in IT services in the field of culture and the creative industry. He participated in the design and implementation of the company's digital products, as well as in product management after their successful development. In the last three years, his research interests include data visualization, user experience (UX) design, data encryption, network complexity, gamification, and more. His particular passion is Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR) technology, where he explores the potential of these technologies in various business sectors, such as: industry, shipping, automotive, education, tourism and culture. He closely follows the largest R&D companies in this field, both for the development of hardware (AR & VR state-of-the-art headsets) and software. His main goal is to design and develop digital solutions based on these technologies, which will offer innovative tools to European SMEs for: a) presenting products and ideas in a different, direct and highly visual way and b) digitally transforming their production processes, so that they become more competitive on a global level.
