Ioannis Prapas
Co-founder & CEO, manteo.ai
Ioannis Prapas is the co-founder and CEO of [manteo.ai] (https://manteo.ai), a cutting-edge AI assistant that makes Earth Observation insights accessible to all. He is currently completing a PhD at the Orion Lab (NTUA) and the University of Valencia, where he has developed novel deep learning models for Earth system science, with a focus on fire prediction.
Ioannis has led research projects funded by ESA and NASA and has presented at top-tier AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICCV) and geoscience journals (Nature Communications, AGU GRL).
With a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA and a joint MSc in Big Data across Brussels, Barcelona, and Berlin—and prior experience at CERN— he brings a rare blend of scientific depth and global perspective, driven by a mission to harness AI for planetary resilience.