Dimitrios Tektonidis holds a BSc in Software Engineering from the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sunderland for research in the area of Enterprise Application Integration. He currently works as a Visiting Lecturer at the International Hellenic University. He joined Altec Software as a Software Engineer in October 2000, and then was promoted to Director of the Research Programmes Division in June 2012 and worked until December 2016. He was the Director of the Research Programmes Division at UNISOFT A.E. from January 2017 to May 2018. He is the Founder of Creative Novel Technologies. Since 2000, he has participated in more than 25 EU and national-funded research projects as a technical, scientific, or project coordinator. His main fields of research are enterprise application integration (EAI), IS interoperability, service-oriented architectures (SOA), web services, semantic web, e-commerce, e-government, and enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, SCM). He has more than 40 publications, including journal papers and conference papers, and he is the author of more than 50 project deliverables and technical reports.