Alexia Varka

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Alexandra Maria (or Alexia for short) is an engineer who always chases new experiences and challenges. After graduating as an Electrical and Computer engineer from the Democritus University of Thrace, she started her business career as a Telecommunication engineer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Living in a new country and mingling with people with different culture and mentality, helped her to broaden her horizons.

At the same time, she attended the Executive MBA program of International Hellenic University, where she gained a broad perspective of the business world. After two years abroad, she returned in Thessaloniki, where she started working as a Sales Expert in Cloud& M2M Technologies.

Her first touch with TEDx, was in 2012, with Katerina Vranas’ speech about stereotypes and she was determined never miss a TEDx Event again. Since then she was a TEDxSter, a Volunteer and this is her first year as a member of production team.