Dr. Evangelos Markakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1980. He holds a PhD in P2P Constellations in Broadband Networks from the department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering of the University of the Aegean in 2014. He has actively participated in no less than 20 EU FP5/FP6/FP7/Horizon2020 funded projects (IST/ICT/Health/ Security) and over 20 Greek funded research and Development projects.  His current research projects are H2020-FORTIKA (GA740690), H2020 – SMILE (GA740931) and H2020-SPHINX. Evangelos is the Dissemination Manager for the H2020 FORTIKA and in the past he has worked as the Technical Manager for the HORIZON 2020 DRS-19-2014 “EMYNOS”. He has more than 60 publications in international journals, conference, and workshop proceedings, in the above areas. He is the Chairman of the Pan-European Emergency Application Consortium paving the way for supporting Emergency Communication Application in all European Member States. He is a Senior Member in EENA a Member of IEEE and IEEE ComSoc, editor of the IET Book on “Cloud and Fog Computing in 5G Mobile Networks: Emerging Advances and Applications” and the Demonstrators Co-Chair for the IEEE SDN-NFV Conference.