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Kelly Papadopoulou
COO, Pi-Tech | Girls Go STEM Alumna

Kelly Papadopoulou is the COO and a co-founder of Pi tech, a company developing XR and AI platforms for education, health, and training. She is from Greece and a fifth year Electrical and Computer Engineering student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 

As COO, Kelly manages delivery for Pi tech's projects, making sure they are delivered on time and at high quality. She coordinates the technical team, oversees logistics and project documentation, supports data protection and compliance, runs trainings and user support, and stays in close contact with partners to ensure implementations work perfectly in practice.

She was featured in the BBC Spotlight Campaign for EIT Health (May 2024) and received the “Best Presentation Award by a Young Scientist” at the global conference “Closed Cycles & The Circular Society: The Power of Ecological Engineering” (Chania, October 2023). Kelly also speaks regularly at Women in STEM events, as well as forums focused on sustainability, new technologies and  education, like the 5th European Education Summit.

Kelly, alongside her brothers, was included in the Forbes “30 Under 30” Greek list for 2026, in recognition of their innovation and contribution to the tech sector. 

Upcoming Sessions

Auditorium
Add to Calendar 2026-05-21 11:30:00 EIT RawMaterials Summit 2026: The Future Workforce: What Europe’s Next Generation Expects from the Materials Industry Europe’s raw materials sector faces a talent crisis, but the people who are the answer are not yet in the room, until now. For the first time at the EIT RawMaterials Summit, the stage spotlights the next generation. Young representatives from EIT RawMaterials-run education programmes, including the EIT Higher Education Initiative (HEI), Girls Go STEM, and the EIT-labeled master’s programmes, take the floor to deliver rapid-fire insights on what draws emerging talents to careers in the materials sector — and what drives them away. The insights they surface on skills gap, career paths and purpose and workplace culture are direct signals to future employers, educators and policymakers on what the sector must adapt to strengthen Europe’s talent pipelines. Rue Bara 175, 1070 Bruxelles, Belgium, The Egg, Auditorium RAW MATERIALS https://eitrmsummit.com/eit-rawmaterials-summit-2026/future-workforce-what-europes-next-generation-expects-materials Europe/Brussels public
The Future Workforce: What Europe’s Next Generation Expects from the Materials Industry
Moderated by
Dolores Volkert
PhD Candidate Technical Biocatalysis, TUHH
COO, Pi-Tech | Girls Go STEM Alumna
Partner & CEO, Sofi Filtration