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Taking AI to a new Market: SeriousMind at SEREXPO 2026

20 September 2026

Expos & Festivals

When we talk about Artificial Intelligence, it’s easy to get lost in academic theory and buzzwords. But at SeriousMind, our core philosophy has always been to take research out of…

From AUTH to SeriousMind: Why Science Must Touch the World

9 September 2026

Media & Public Appearances

Being featured in the new issue of WIE Magazine Greece is more than a personal milestone. It is an opportunity to share a story about research, entrepreneurship, and impact—and about…

Macedonian News: Artificial intelligence is changing vocational guidance.

8 September 2026

Media & Public Appearances

The way artificial intelligence and video games can transform personality assessment and contribute to career guidance and job placement was the central theme of SeriousMind’s participation in the 90th Thessaloniki…

Strategic Vision on Screen: Pavlos Mavromatis Discusses SeriousMind on TV100

8 September 2026

Media & Public Appearances

Behind every great tech startup is a bridge that connects deep scientific research to the real world. At SeriousMind, while our engineering team builds the AI and behavioral models driving…

SeriousMind at the 90th TIF-HELEXPO: AI, Personality, and the Future of Work

7 September 2026

Expos & Festivals

At the 90th TIF-HELEXPO in Thessaloniki, I had the opportunity to present SeriousMind to the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis; the Minister of Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis; the…

SeriousMind: Serious Games for Serious Decisions

1 September 2026

Products & Platforms

At SeriousMind, we believe games do more than entertain. They can reveal behaviour, measure skills, and create meaningful opportunities for personal and professional growth. Our mission is to develop AI-powered…

MindEscape in Academic Research: How a Serious Game Helps Predict Startup Success

23 July 2026

Media & Public Appearances

MindEscape has moved beyond HR and recruitment into a new frontier: venture capital. The AI-powered serious game developed by SeriousMind is now part of cutting-edge academic research that uses machine…

AI Is a Tool: SeriousMind and Recruitment with First Achieve

15 July 2026

Media & Public Appearances

I recently joined Vaia Papathanasiou and the First Achieve team for a conversation about how artificial intelligence is reshaping recruitment and HR. From the outside, it might have looked like…

Beyond HR: How MindEscape Is Powering Academic Research on Startup Sustainability

3 July 2026

Research & Scientific Publications

When we built MindEscape, our goal was clear: replace static personality questionnaires with immersive escape-room experiences that reveal how people actually think, plan, and behave under pressure. What we didn’t…

Representing Southeast Europe at MIT’s Universal AI Summit with SeriousMind

1 July 2026

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

We are honoured that SeriousMind was selected as one of the Top 10 startups by StartSmart South Eastern Europe to participate in the MIT Universal AI Summit at Athens College.…

AUTh Innovation Stories: How SeriousMind Turns Academic Research into Market-Ready AI

17 June 2026

Media & Public Appearances

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s Technology Transfer Office presented SeriousMind in the first episode of “AUTh Innovation Stories,” a series dedicated to university spinoffs that turn academic research into business…

Founders Arena: Why Thinking Big Is Not Optional

17 June 2026

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

Founders Arena by Envolve Entrepreneurship was one of those rare gatherings where competition fades and inspiration takes its place. On June 16, 2026, founders, investors, mentors, and members of Greece’s…

Developers Day: When Serious Games Print Your Personality Profile

14 June 2026

Expos & Festivals

Developers:Day by kariera.gr was a memorable opportunity for SeriousMind. Instead of speaking about the future of personality assessment in abstract terms, we gave developers and technology professionals something they could…

Panathēnea: SeriousMind, AI, and Building an Ecosystem that Thinks Big

30 May 2026

Expos & Festivals

Panathēnea is one of those events where ideas, innovation, and people genuinely come together. As the founder of SeriousMind and a PhD candidate in artificial intelligence, participating in Panathēnea meant…

SeriousMind at TEDxUoWM: Rethinking Behaviour Through Games and AI

29 May 2026

Talks & Workshops

At TEDxUoWM in Kozani, I had the opportunity to share how SeriousMind uses serious games and artificial intelligence to rethink the way we understand human behaviour. Instead of asking people…

SeriousMind x HQ Human: Human-Centred Insight at Scale

22 May 2026

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

A new milestone for SeriousMind is our collaboration with HQ Human / Human Performance Diagnostic. Together, we are exploring new ways to connect human insight, behaviour, and innovation through experiences…

SeriousMind at CYF Congress 2026: AI, Games, and the Future of Work

25 April 2026

Talks & Workshops

At CYF Congress 2026 – Create Your Future Congress in Thessaloniki, we presented SeriousMind as a future-of-work tool for assessing soft skills and teamwork through serious games. The two-day conference…

RealEscape: Team Building Through Immersive Horror

22 April 2026

Products & Platforms

In the abandoned asylum known as The Lethe, every decision matters. In RealEscape, teams face puzzles, narrative twists, and a high-pressure environment designed to test how they communicate, share information,…

From Digital Escape Rooms to AI: SeriousMind at SAEK ALFA Thessaloniki

8 April 2026

Talks & Workshops

SeriousMind recently had the opportunity to visit SAEK ALFA Thessaloniki and meet with students interested in artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation. We would like to thank Panagiotis Dimos, Academic…

The Future of AI & Startups: SeriousMind on DION TV’s “To Mellon”

4 March 2026

Media & Public Appearances

In a recent appearance on DION TV’s program “To Mellon” (The Future), SeriousMind co-founder Georgios Liapis—Forbes 30 Under 30 Greece 2026—discussed how artificial intelligence is reshaping both the startup landscape…

StartSmart SEE: Accelerating SeriousMind’s Play-to- Reveal Platform

1 March 2026

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

StartSmart South Eastern Europe has been an important part of SeriousMind’s journey from research-driven product development to a scalable deep-tech platform. In the programme’s startup listing, SeriousMind is presented as…

When AI Meets the Embrace: SeriousMind’s Collaboration with Tango Thessaloniki

10 February 2026

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

At SeriousMind, we believe that understanding human behavior shouldn’t be confined to traditional assessments—it should be an engaging, interactive experience. In early 2026, we took this philosophy to the dance…

AI Is a Tool: SeriousMind and Digital Wellbeing on ERT3’s MindZet

19 January 2026

Media & Public Appearances

On ERT3’s MindZet, a live programme focused on Gen Z, I shared an idea that has become a guiding principle in both my work and my life: “Artificial intelligence is…

Bringing SeriousMind to ANT1: How Games and AI Become HR Intelligence Tools

12 January 2026

Media & Public Appearances

In early 2026, SeriousMind appeared on ANT1 in the Vodafone Business programme “Η Επιχείρησή σου μπορεί”. The television segment offered an opportunity to show a national audience how artificial intelligence…

SeriousMind Featured by Workforce Daily News and HR PRO

12 December 2025

Media & Public Appearances

SeriousMind is grateful to Workforce Daily News and HR PRO for featuring our work in innovative HR talent assessment. The world of work is changing quickly. Organisations are looking for…

From Research to Startup: Guest Lecture at Mediterranean College Business School

12 November 2025

Talks & Workshops

At the Business School of Mediterranean College in Thessaloniki, we kicked off the semester’s guest lectures with a session that aimed to be as honest as it was inspiring. I…

NeuroEscape: AI-Powered ADHD Behaviour Detection Through Play

8 November 2025

Products & Platforms

NeuroEscape translates SeriousMind’s research into a practical product: an AI-powered serious game designed to support the assessment of behavioural patterns associated with ADHD. Set in a realistic kitchen environment, the…

MindEscape at WALK AUTH: From Accelerator Winner to Real-World Assessment Tool

5 November 2025

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

MindEscape’s journey from research prototype to market-ready product wasn’t a straight line—it was shaped by mentorship, feedback, and real-world validation through the WALK AUTh Innovation Accelerator program. As a spinoff…

Forbes 30 Under 30 Greece: How SeriousMind Reached the List

31 October 2025

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

In 2025, SeriousMind reached an important milestone when Georgios Liapes was recognised in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Greece list in the field of artificial intelligence. The recognition highlighted our…

MindEscape: Escape the Room, Discover Yourself

16 September 2025

Products & Platforms

MindEscape is SeriousMind’s flagship serious game, bringing research on digital escape rooms, personality modelling, and artificial intelligence into a playable product. Available on Steam, Google Play, and the App Store,…

A Personality Assessment System Using AI in a Game Environment

9 September 2025

Research & Scientific Publications

Our IEEE Transactions on Games paper, “Personality Assessment System Using Artificial Intelligence in a Game Environment,” brings together several years of research on digital escape rooms, personality modelling, artificial intelligence,…

MindEscape at the 89th TIF: Where Psychology Meets AI in a Digital Escape Room

8 September 2025

Expos & Festivals

MindEscape returned to the 89th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) with a new direction: using AI-powered escape rooms to assess personality and explore behaviors related to ADHD. Presented at booth 17,…

Reinforcement Learning Methods for Emulating Personality in a Game Environment

16 July 2025

Research & Scientific Publications

Our paper, “Reinforcement Learning Methods for Emulating Personality in a Game Environment,” published in Applied Sciences 15(14), extends our research on artificial intelligence, serious games, and personality modelling. The article…

When Neuroscience Meets MindEscape: A Classroom Moment at AUTH

22 April 2025

Talks & Workshops

Recently, I had the honour of presenting SeriousMind’s MindEscape in Ms. Christina Boutsouki’s class at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). What stood out most was not the presentation or…

GRBossible Start-Up Stories: How Serious Games Turn into SeriousMind

19 February 2025

Expos & Festivals

At GRBossible, we shared the story of how research in artificial intelligence and serious games evolved into SeriousMind. Speaking to aspiring founders and students, we explained how a digital escape-room…

Multi-Agent DRL for Personality Emulation: Building Virtual Teams with Traits

24 December 2024

Research & Scientific Publications

Traditional personality assessment relies heavily on self-report. Game-based AI assessment offers a more behavioural approach, but it creates a difficult research challenge: reliable models require labelled gameplay data, and collecting…

Smart NPCs with Personality in a Serious Game: Why Virtual Characters Need Traits Too

18 December 2024

Research & Scientific Publications

Non-player characters, or NPCs, in games are usually scripted entities. They follow predefined movement patterns, respond through fixed behaviours, and rarely adapt in ways that feel genuinely individual. In our…

MindEscape in Larissa: Partnering with Team Courses for Innovative Teacher Training

18 September 2024

Accelerators, Awards & Ecosystem Stories

SeriousMind is expanding MindEscape’s reach beyond corporate HR into education—through a new collaboration with Team Courses in Larissa, a leading provider of Erasmus+ training programs for teachers and educators across…

Serious Game for ADHD Diagnosis: From Conference Paper to NeuroEscape

28 June 2024

Research & Scientific Publications

Our paper, “Serious Game for ADHD Diagnosis,” presented at the 17th International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies in Budapest, proposed a different approach to ADHD assessment: an AI-powered serious…

When AI Predicts Sales and Makes Hiring Decisions: SeriousMind in Oikonomikos Tahydromos

29 March 2024

Media & Public Appearances

SeriousMind was featured in Oikonomikos Tahydromos, discussing how our AI solutions are helping Greek businesses optimize both their inventory and their hiring processes. The article explored two sides of our…

SeriousMind Featured in Forbes Greece and One Channel at Thessaloniki Innovation Zone

15 October 2023

Media & Public Appearances

We were honored to be interviewed by Fortune Greece magazine and the One Channel from Danezis Crew at the Thessaloniki Innovation Zone. This feature highlighted how SeriousMind is transforming personality…

MindEscape: A Virtual Escape Room That Helps Companies Make Smarter Hiring Decisions

14 September 2023

Media & Public Appearances

Athenea featured MindEscape as an innovative tool that helps companies make more informed hiring decisions through gamified personality assessment. The article explored how our platform transforms recruitment by replacing static…

From Escape Room to Employee Recruitment: MindEscape on Naftemporiki TV

19 July 2023

Media & Public Appearances

MindEscape was featured on Naftemporiki TV in a segment exploring how a university-born escape room game is transforming employee recruitment. The report traced our journey from an academic prototype to…

From Questionnaires to Escape Rooms: Modelling Personality in 3D Game Worlds

7 October 2022

Research & Scientific Publications

For dFor decades, personality assessment has often meant sitting down with a long questionnaire and ticking boxes about how you “usually feel” or “tend to behave.” Questionnaires can be useful,…

A Serious Escape Room Game for Personality Assessment: The Bridge from Paper to MindEscape

16 September 2021

Research & Scientific Publications

Beyond Traditional Questionnaires Personality assessment has traditionally relied on long self-report questionnaires. Although these tools can provide useful insights, they also depend on how individuals understand themselves, interpret each question,…

Escape Rooms as AI-Powered Team-Building Labs: Lessons from ECGBL 2021

16 September 2021

Research & Scientific Publications

When most people hear “escape room,” they think of a fun night solving puzzles with friends. In our work at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), we asked a different…

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