{"id":12232,"date":"2026-06-22T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12232"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:56:00","slug":"dimitris-papastergiou-at-pharos-ai-factory-we-build-ai-solutions-with-a-greek-touch-and-in-line-with-european-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12232","title":{"rendered":"Dimitris Papastergiou: At Pharos AI Factory, we build AI solutions with a Greek touch and in line with European standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">The vision for a <b>Greece<\/b> that will not be a mere spectator, but an active creator in the era of <b>Artificial Intelligence<\/b>, was presented by <b>Dimitris Papastergiou<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>minister Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou<\/b>, described the Pharos AI Factory\u2014which will serve as an open hub for Artificial Intelligence\u2014while speaking at Growthfund\u2019s Investor Summit 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just building a supercomputer. <b>We are building the country\u2019s capacity to develop, test, and implement Artificial Intelligence solutions with a Greek identity and in line with European standards<\/b>,\u201d he said, describing the structure of the Pharos AI Factory, which is being developed in Lavrio, with the country\u2019s first national supercomputer, \u201cDaedalus,\u201d at its core.<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. <b>Papastergiou<\/b> said, \u201c<b>Daedalus is just the beginning<\/b>,\u201d announcing that the ecosystem of education, access, and expertise\u2014which is being built on top of this infrastructure\u2014will expand to include new infrastructure currently being prepared by EDITE in Kozani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<b>Artificial Intelligence requires talent, and in Greece, it is abundant.<\/b> Data is needed\u2014specifically, the 22,000 open-source, high-quality datasets we recently made available on data.gov.gr, 22,000 open-access, high-quality datasets, as well as infrastructure,\u201d said Mr. <b>Papastergiou <\/b>, emphasizing the value of artificial intelligence for productivity, competitiveness, and the nation\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimitris Papastergiou presented his vision for a Greece that will not be a mere spectator, but an active creator in the age of Artificial Intelligence.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}