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Speaking
Keynotes, panels, masterclasses and hands-on workshops — in English or Greek. Elena Dimopoulou is Greece’s first woman Unreal Engine Authorized Instructor at Epic Games (certified by Epic Games), part of the Epic Games education team, founder of Apnea Academy of Arts & Technology, new media artist and director, Women in Games Ambassador, and creator of award-winning real-time works.

Topics: Real-time art & Unreal Engine · AI in creative pipelines · MetaHumans & virtual humans · XR, digital twins & geospatial storytelling · Fortnite & UEFN · Women in games · From Fine Arts to Epic Games
Watch
Cesium Developer Conference · 2025 · full talk
Echoes of Eternity — A Cesium-Powered Interactive Experience
On Stage
Elena Dimopoulou speaks into a microphone on a panel at Digital Fashion Week x DigiFashion Forum, Taipei
Panel — Digital Fashion Week, Taipei
Elena Dimopoulou at the podium during her Fortnite Creative game design workshop at DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025
DevGAMM — Gdańsk
Elena Dimopoulou speaking on a panel with two fellow panelists at Digital Fashion Week x DigiFashion Forum, Taipei
Digital Fashion Week — Taipei
Elena Dimopoulou at a laptop and microphone during a live Unreal Engine session in the studio
Live from the studio — Unreal Engine
Elena Dimopoulou, in white, on a panel at Digital Fashion Week x DigiFashion Forum, Taipei, listening to a fellow panelist
Digital Fashion Week — Taipei
Elena Dimopoulou presenting at the podium in the Workshop Hall at DevGAMM Gdańsk, February 2025
DevGAMM — Gdańsk
Elena Dimopoulou presenting an Unreal Engine visual scripting workshop at a laptop, slides projected behind her
Unreal Engine workshop
Elena Dimopoulou demonstrating an interactive digital fashion display to visitors at Digital Fashion Week, Taipei
Digital Fashion Week — Taipei
Elena Dimopoulou (left) in conversation with the host during a Femme Fatale TV interview, streamed live from the studio
Femme Fatale TV — interview
Elena Dimopoulou (right) smiling in a selfie with two attendees at the Cesium Developer Conference, Philadelphia, 2025
Cesium Developer Conference
FutureGames guest speaker badge featuring a portrait of Elena DimopoulouPocket Gamer Connects London speaker badge, Jan 20-21, with a black-and-white headshot of Elena DimopoulouSpeaker badge for HIT Games Conference in Istanbul, 14 March, featuring a photo of Elena DimopoulouBlack-and-white portrait of Elena Dimopoulou on a 'Join me!' graphic for gamescom business week 2026 in Cologne
Selected Talks & Masterclasses
D.I.C.E. Athens
D.I.C.E. Athens · September 21–23, 2026
Roundtable Leader
IBC logo
IBC · Amsterdam · September 13, 2026
Future Shock: Are You Ready? — Ignite Stage
gamescom event stage in Cologne
gamescom dev · Cologne · August 25, 2026
Workshop — How to Optimise Hyper Realistic Digital Characters as Playable Characters and NPCs
Epic Women Creators Program
Epic Games · Women Creators Program · 2023
Team member — UEFN game “Sisters of Destiny”
Epic Educator Summit
Epic Secondary Educator Summit · October 12, 2024
Talk — Women Creators Program
Digital Fashion Week
Digital Fashion Week × DigiFashion Forum · Taipei · 2026
Panel — immersive tech, gaming & AI in fashion
Unreal Day save-the-date graphic for Belgrade with Unreal Engine, Epic Games, 3Lateral and SGA logos
Unreal Day · Belgrade · October 2, 2025
Masterclass: Advanced Tech Art with MetaHumans
Visitor in a VR headset inside a geodesic dome installation at Athens Digital Arts Festival
Athens Digital Arts Festival · 2025
Workshop: How to Make a Small Game in 60 Minutes
DevGAMM Gdańsk 2025 event highlights graphic
DevGAMM · Gdansk · 2025
Fortnite Creative & UEFN masterclass
Cesium Developer Conference
Cesium Developer Conference · 2025
Echoes of Eternity — Cesium for Unreal
Elena Dimopoulou, Games Ground 2025 speaker, in golden-hour light above a city skyline
Games Ground · Berlin · 2025
Speaker — mocap & Unreal session
Digitalist Symposium event card: Game Engines & Converging Media, with Elena Dimopoulou and Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, Athens
Digitalist Symposium · Athens
From Fine Arts to Epic Games
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DIGITALCONFEX · Amsterdam · 2024
Panel: Career Development & Education in Gaming and Animation
Unreal Fest
Unreal Fest · Seattle · 2024
MetaHumans & the Antikythera mechanism
For speaking & booking inquiries: contact@elenadimopoulou.com