We are happy to announce the new website of the ImproveMyCity platform. You can visit the site to:

• Get informed about the updated list of features, explaining also how they are used to facilitate the service model of ImproveMyCity (Report - Administer - Analyze)
• Interact with a fully functional Live Demo where anyone can have a “hands on” experience of the Reporting, Administration & Analytics services offered by the platform.
• Witness ImproveMyCity going global through a map that shows all active installations around the world and links to the original websites.
• Get a price for a number of additional tools and services that can leverage the ImproveMyCity experience for your town. All tools and services are outlined with their corresponding price and a package builder can help you to select the desired features, calculating the total price automatically.

Visit the website to find out more.

Every summer lots of concerts, theatrical plays and performances for adults and children as well as a variety of side events take place in Halkidiki in the context of the Kassandra Festival. 

In 2014, music, theater, culture and a unique exhibition with photos of the great Greek Melina Merkouri are the three elements that make up the 22nd Kassandra Festival. infalia is happy to have partnered with e-Halkidiki to enhance the experience of the year's Kassandra Festival's spectators with a mobile app.

FestKass is the official app for the 22nd Kassandra Festival. Through the app, you can browse the festival program, the side events and the exhibition, as well as the points of ticket sales, using your smartphone. The app works even with no Internet connection. Use it and start planning! Available for iPhone and android, Download and enjoy!

infalia recently participated in a Business Innovation Competition organized by the Anatolia School of Business and subsidized by John and Mary Papajohn. Our participation was selected among almost 150 submitted ideas and made it to the final with other 19 already established startups or ideas from groups of young entrepreneurs based in its innovation, the viability and growth potential of the proposed project and the team cohesion and communication skills.  

The finalists and winners were awarded during a special event that took place last Wednesday in the premises of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. We would like to thank the organizers for the whole initiative and procedure of the competition and congratulate the winners for the nice and out of the box ideas that we came across with. We strongly believe in the potential of such initiatives so as to make Thessaloniki an entrepreneurship and innovation hub and are very happy to have been part of it and received very valuable feedback. 

infalia was invited to participate in an industrial panel organized in the context of CAiSE 2014. Spiros Nikolopoulos, delivered a very intersting presentation on how to transform social media analytics research results to products and services addressed to the events' industry and smart cities' field. 

You may find the presentation slides here and also follow us on slideshare to stay updated with lots of interested content made by infalia:

CAiSE 2014 is the 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2014), held in Thessaloniki, Greece, June 16-20, 2014. The theme for this year's conference is "Information Systems Engineering in Times of Crisis"with the objective to provide a forum for the exchange of experience, research results, ideas and prototypes between the research community and industry, in the field of information systems engineering. To find more about the conference and the industrial panel click here.