Alexandros Pagidas

Current

Event Organizer at Change your reality
Consultant at Change your reality
Experiential Artist (Self-employed)

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Past

Independent Researcher (Self-employed)
Copywriter at Adel Saatchi & Saatchi

Education

The University of Reading
American College of Greece

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Alexandros Pagidas’s Summary

I'm a philosopher and entrepreneur involved in the web 2.0 world. I organize events where good things happen and consult fellow entrepreneurs.

Alexandros Pagidas’s Specialties:

Critical thinking and problem-solving. Organizing events. Consulting.

Alexandros Pagidas’s Experience

Event Organizer

Change your reality

(Events Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Events I've helped organize:

Weekend Apps 2: Open Social: http://opensocial.weekendapps.com

A 3-day event at Google with one mission: To create an Open Social application in 2.5 days: From idea to launch. Event sold out.

Startup Weekend Athens: http://athens.startupweekend.com

Hosted by Microsoft Innovation Center with the support of Microsoft Hellas. Event sold out. About 80 people showed up and built 10 startups in 54 hours. One startup won a chance to receive pre-seed funding of up to 20,000 EUR from GIVE Fund.

Weekend Apps: http://www.weekendapps.com

An event where people in the tech community got together spontaneously for three days and built facebook apps that could turn into businesses. Sixty people built about 10 apps.

Idea Contest 2.0: http://newtech.meetup.com/54

I've done a number of events under this organization, including:

Ideas Fighting for the Common Good

An event where teams brainstorm for web 2.0 solutions to humanitarian problems
Consultant

Change your reality

(Internet industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Web 2.0 and overall business strategy.
Experiential Artist

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Fine Art industry)

February 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

On February 2003, I came up with a novel form of art where the artwork is an experience facilitated by the artist; I named it experiential art. The artist gathers relevant information about the subject of experience (an individual or group) and then uses this information the same way a poet uses words to compose a poem of experience. You can find two experiential artworks presented in my main website changeyourreality.com just click on "Create". Individuals and organisations who are interested in commissioning an experiential artwork can submit their proposals through my main website.
Independent Researcher

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Research industry)

October 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 1 month)

My areas of research are the following:

- Why we value the things we do
- Human nature
- The nature of moral judgment (right and wrong)
- The nature of truth
- Happiness and the conditions under which we flourish

My investigation is broad and interdisciplinary across philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, biology and cognitive science.
Copywriter

Adel Saatchi & Saatchi

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2005 — April 2005 (2 months)

I had to come up with creative titles and descriptions for a range of products and events. I didn't need the job; I just decided to experiment with something new.
I confirmed my suspicion that when it comes to the advertising industry lying by exaggeration or understatement in differing versions of subtlety and insinuating connections between products and unrelated objects of value or desire in order to increase the value and desirability of the product is pretty much a standard practice in the promotion of products. This leads to a progressive, usually unconscious, densensitisation and alienation of core values like truth-telling to the individuals who work there. That was the main reason I quit only after a month, not to mention the fact that coming up with titles for detergents is far from fulfilling for any self-actualizing human being.

Alexandros Pagidas’s Education

The University of Reading

MA , Philosophy , 2002 — 2003

Graduated with Merit
Supervisor: Jonathan Dancy (dissertation on Metaphysics).

Activities and Societies:

Philosophy Society, Film Club.
American College of Greece

BA , Major: Philosophy, Minor: Sociology , 1997 — 2002

Graduated with High Distinction, 3.65 CI.

Activities and Societies:

Deans List, Basketball Club, Ballroom Dance Club, Hiking Club, Debating Club, Sociology Society, Philosophy Society, Deree College Choir.