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Film and music have never been closer. Panathēnea brings together the artists, thinkers, and creatives redefining the audiovisual world. Masterclasses, talks, workshops, live music, and screenings. A creative network built to help your practice grow. Panathēnea Festival, Athens 2026. Limited seats remain - secure yours now ➜ https://www.panathenea.org

We’re excited to welcome Mati Staniszewski to Panathēnea 2026! Mati Staniszewski is the Co-Founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the AI research and product company building audio tools for businesses, developers, and creators. The company’s two platforms span creative work for speech, music, and sound generation, as well as a platform for voice agents that listen, talk, and act. Before founding ElevenLabs, Mati worked at Palantir Technologies as a Deployment Strategist with Fortune 500 companies and governments, and at BlackRock, where he helped launch the Aladdin Wealth platform. Now, he’s bringing his journey and insights to Panathēnea 2026, and we couldn’t be more excited to have him on our stage. Tickets are now open. Link: https://lnkd.in/du7wbrrG

Welcoming Barry Jenkins to Panathēnea 2026! We’re proud to announce Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins as the very first speaker of the Panathēnea 2026 Arts launch. Barry Jenkins will join us on Stage, marking the beginning of a new chapter for Panathēnea as we expand the festival to celebrate creativity, storytelling, and culture alongside technology and innovation. Jenkins made his feature film debut with Medicine for Melancholy, hailed by The New York Times as one of the best films of 2009 and nominated for several Independent Spirit and Gotham Awards. In 2017, alongside playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Moonlight, which also won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Picture. His third feature, If Beale Street Could Talk, adapted from the novel by James Baldwin, received three Academy Award nominations and won Best Picture at the Independent Spirit Awards. His most recent film, Walt Disney Studios’ Mufasa: The Lion King, became one of the biggest global releases of 2024, surpassing $700M at the global box office. Beyond film, Jenkins is also an acclaimed producer through his company PASTEL, producing films such as Aftersun by Charlotte Wells and Eva Victor’s debut feature Sorry, Baby. In television, he served as showrunner and directed all ten episodes of the critically acclaimed adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which won the BAFTA for Best International Series and the Golden Globe for Best Limited Series, while earning multiple Emmy nominations. Jenkins also executive-produced HBO’s True Detective: Night Country. At Panathēnea 2026, Barry Jenkins will take the stage as part of our Arts program, sharing his journey, creative vision and perspective on storytelling. Arts tickets are now open. Link: https://lnkd.in/du7wbrrG

The original startup festival returns! Panathēnea comes back to Athens on 27–29 May 2026, gathering 10,000 founders, investors, creators and artists where ideas have always mattered. Top voices from Index, Sequoia, NVIDIA, OpenAI, unicorn founders, 3 tech stages, 2 art stages, 70+ city events, and 1:1 meetings. Get yours tickets ➜ https://www.panathenea.org

We’re excited to welcome Augustus Doricko to Panathēnea 2026! Augustus Doricko is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rainmaker Technology Corporation, a California-based technology company advancing the science of precipitation enhancement through advanced drones and next-generation radar systems. A Thiel Fellow and attendee of the University of California Berkeley, he leads Rainmaker’s mission to address global water scarcity and declining snowpack by enabling reliable, data-driven weather modification to support agriculture, ecosystems, and regional resilience. Now, he’s bringing his vision and insights on climate technology and innovation to Panathēnea 2026, and we couldn’t be more excited to have him on our stage. Tickets are now open. Link: https://lnkd.in/dkUnT8AA

We’re excited to welcome Madeline Lawrence to Panathēnea 2026! After founding a micro-fund fresh out of law school, Madeline spent several years rising through the ranks of European VC, eventually becoming the youngest female partner in Europe at a €150M fund, with viral pranks and a punchy critique of the industry along the way. She later made the jump to the operator side and is now CGO of Aikido Security, which recently reached unicorn status. Aikido Security, founded in Ghent, Belgium, builds developer-first security products with a vision for self-securing software. Its central platform secures code, cloud, and runtime, helping teams reduce risk without slowing down development. Today, Aikido is trusted by over 100,000 teams worldwide, including organizations like the Premier League, Revolut, SoundCloud, and Niantic. Now, she’s bringing her journey and insights across venture and operating to Panathēnea 2026, and we couldn’t be more excited to have her on our stage. Tickets are now open. Link: https://lnkd.in/dkUnT8AA