Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou is a Senior Research & Innovation Manager – Expert at the Research & Innovation Development Dept. of Netcompany. She holds an ECE Diploma and a PhD in Computer Science. She has more than 25 years’ experience in project/technical management and research, development and innovation primarily in multimodal data management, AI and security. She has published significantly at international scientific journals and conferences and has contributed to TV Anytime, W3C, IEEE and ETSI standardization bodies. Dr. Tsekeridou is a senior member of IEEE and an expert member of the FCT-INFRA sub-group of EC DG HOME CERIS expert group.