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=2021 SAAS Chapter=
Yiannis Laouris, a social, science and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and a systems engineer, is CEO of Future Worlds Center and several high-tech companies. He is Founding and/or Member of many Boards in domains that involve positive social change especially in the context of the socio-technical revolution in which we are immersed. He is one of the 12 authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto, and he promotes the application of digital technologies and Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) as tools to harness the collective intelligence and collective wisdom of people. His team develops systems to scale up participatory dialogic processes to engage asynchronously thousands of participants in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus accelerating institutional and societal change. He leads global projects, engaging thousands, to Re-inventing Democracy and Education in the Digital Era. He has published in neuroscience, applied systems science and peace, and in the neuroscience of learning; several books, over 100 scientific papers and honored with more than 12 distinguished awards.