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Featured Speakers

This year's Clergy Laity Congress features impactful ministry panels and workshops designed to equip delegates with the tools, resources, and inspiration needed to strengthen parishes and foster thriving communities. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue, gaining valuable insights and practical strategies to enhance their local ministries. The Congress aims to empower participants with a renewed sense of purpose and vision, ensuring the ongoing growth and vitality of their parishes and the broader Orthodox Christian community. Throughout the week, there are a wide number of topics being addressed in both Ministry Panels and Workshops.

Yiannis Papakonstantinou

Yiannis Papakonstantinou

Yiannis Papakonstantinou

Biography

Yannis Papakonstantinou is a distinguished Engineer, working on Query Processing and GenAI, at Google Cloud. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, following many years of having been a UCSD regular faculty member. Previously he was an architect in query processing & ETL at Databricks, and for Amazon Web Services from 2016-2021. He was the CEO and Chief Scientist of Enosys Software (acquired by BEA systems), which built and commercialized an early Enterprise Information Integration platform for structured and semi-structured data. His R&D work has been mostly on query processing with focus on querying non-relational data. He has published over one hundred twenty research articles that have received over 21,000 citations.

At UCSD, Yannis regularly held the "Computing and the Universe" seminar series, engaging its audience on questions at the intersection of technological progress, philosophy, and religion. Yannis holds a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (1997).

47th Biennial
Clergy-Laity Congress
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America