Yannis Paniaras

Yannis Paniaras

Bellevue, Washington, United States
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About

Yannis Paniaras is an accomplished principal director and designer with extensive…

Articles by Yannis

  • Generative AI and Design: The Disappearing Middle Ground

    Generative AI and Design: The Disappearing Middle Ground

    From time to time, I feel compelled to share thoughts that have been circulating in my mind. When an idea persists, it…

    6 Comments
  • Building Bridges: Reflections from Keqiao, China

    Building Bridges: Reflections from Keqiao, China

    I recently had the opportunity to visit Hangzhou in mainland China to attend the World Textile Information Network…

    1 Comment
  • Desire > Intention > Action

    Desire > Intention > Action

    A few months ago, I shared some personal reflections on how AI could cause also these two side effects: The first point…

    4 Comments
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Experience

  • Microsoft Graphic

    Microsoft

    United States

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    International

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    International

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    ethglobal.com

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    International

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    Hong Kong SAR & International

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    International

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    International

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    Seattle and Beijing

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    Beijing, China

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    Beijing, Helsinki, Oulu, London

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    Beijing, China

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    International

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    Beijing, Seattle

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    Beijing CN

Education

  • Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management Graphic

    Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

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    Digital transformation in marketing, content customization, customer journey, strategic use of storytelling.

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    Helsinki, FINLAND
    Aalto University

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    Activities and Societies: Multiple yearly courses and trainings: Manager Foundation Labs, Situational Leadership, Business Acumen Asia, Managing for Financial Success, Smart Hiring, Influencer.

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    Activities and Societies: EU-China Managers Association

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    www.polimoda.com

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    Activities and Societies: EU-China Managers Training Program

Licenses & Certifications

Publications

  • Putting a human face on cyberspace: designing avatars and the virtual worlds they live in

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    The Emergence of a New Design Medium.

    Who do you want to be today? As thousands of Internet users begin new lives as ‘avatars’ in virtual worlds, a new design industry is being born. SIGGRAPH 1996 had several panels, BOFs, exhibits, and discussions on VRML, character animation and multi user virtual communities. These forums introduced the medium we term “avatar cyberspace” to the SIGGRAPH community. Since SIGGRAPH, conferences such as Virtual Humans, Earth to Avatars 96, World Movers…

    The Emergence of a New Design Medium.

    Who do you want to be today? As thousands of Internet users begin new lives as ‘avatars’ in virtual worlds, a new design industry is being born. SIGGRAPH 1996 had several panels, BOFs, exhibits, and discussions on VRML, character animation and multi user virtual communities. These forums introduced the medium we term “avatar cyberspace” to the SIGGRAPH community. Since SIGGRAPH, conferences such as Virtual Humans, Earth to Avatars 96, World Movers, and VRML 97 began to fleshout some of the major issues in designing for avatar worlds.

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Patents

Projects

  • Board member - Metaverse Fashion Council

    Board member advising on strategy and vision for the Metaverse Fashion Council, and its DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).

    www.metaversefashioncouncil.org

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    Microsoft Hackthon 2015 Other Category Top1 Winner.

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  • ETH New York - Global Hackathon

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    I participated in ETH Global, New York’s premier blockchain hackathon.

    All over the world, hundreds of thousands of developers, users, hobbyists, creators, artists, and market makers spend their days and nights thinking, building, and talking about Ethereum because we are... excited. We're excited by the idea that Ethereum can change things. That Ethereum is a fulcrum we can use to change money, finance, the web, ownership, the way software works, and the way power is…

    I participated in ETH Global, New York’s premier blockchain hackathon.

    All over the world, hundreds of thousands of developers, users, hobbyists, creators, artists, and market makers spend their days and nights thinking, building, and talking about Ethereum because we are... excited. We're excited by the idea that Ethereum can change things. That Ethereum is a fulcrum we can use to change money, finance, the web, ownership, the way software works, and the way power is distributed.

    These are some observations to share with my network:

    1 Decentralization has accelerated the formation and operations of teams designing and building products and services with a speed that the corporate world can’t match.

    2 Subject Matter Experts at a very young age with confidence and vision are making decisions and forming partnerships, continuously expanding a new ecosystem that is already disrupting the legacy business world.

    3 Creation and development of products with super lean structures, often not even needing fiat-based capital at the beginning. This accelerates even further the expansion of the ecosystem.

    4 A decentralized culture that is re-inventing new models for economies, talent, and business.

  • Metaverse Fashion Council

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    Board member advising on strategy and vision for the Metaverse Fashion Council, and its DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization).

    www.metaversefashioncouncil.org

    See project

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Italian

    Professional working proficiency

  • Greek

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Elementary proficiency

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