Cyprus 4.0

Elena Tassy Kokkalou is HR manager at Ceranext Ceranext designs smart, tailor-made, communication solutions that provide cutting-edge operational advantages. Our bright team strives to invent, shape and customise solutions which ...

A large part of Slocombe’s tech clients are beginning to work remotely with developers. “I would say it’s more the cutting-edge technology companies that are working with remote ...

The scene: You applied for a job, gone for the interview, aced it, and congratulations are in order because now you have been offered the job! You hand in your ...

“What we now find is that a lot of developers abroad prefer to stay local and stay at home. What is your company offering me that I cannot get here ...

“For instance, if we are looking for a Full Stack Developer, as a minimum we generally seek candidates that have several years of demonstrable hand-on experience in building SaaS solutions ...

“Cyprus needs a concerted effort by all stakeholders, including ministries, regulators, the local industry and other actors in the economy. The success of this will eventually allow our country to ...

“Talented developers, senior developers have to be involved with more innovative things and stay on top of current technologies, because as a developer, if you’re doing the same thing ...

“Our main focus at the moment is to provide more benefits, and also create a relocation package so that we can bring people in from outside. So we offer as ...

Building an ecosystem for developers in Cyprus is a work in progress. With nearly 2,000 developer positions open at the time of writing, many Cyprus tech companies are always concerned about ...

There is a large and lively community of developers here in Cyprus. Connecting with them is easy, as it is an international and multilingual community. But Cyprus needs to forge ...

“If Cyprus is to be competitive in attracting international ICT companies, there must be a coordinated effort not only by the competent ministries’ departments and regulators, but also by the ...

Over the years, Cyprus companies have developed a strategy and an offer to bring developers to the island, Katerina Andreou tells the story Post 2012 and the bank collapse, we lost ...

“We need more skilled people, and that means we need to promote Cyprus more to developers abroad. They have to understand that, if they come to Cyprus, they will not ...

Andrew Rosenbaum is the Business Editor of the Cyprus Mail and Editor of Cyprus 4.0. The literature on human motivation is rife with platitudinous academic works – research invariably rhyming with solipsism – ...

Doros Aresti is Communications and Sustainability Officer at DP World Limassol. As part of the commercialisation of the Limassol port in 2016, DP World was awarded with a 25-year concession agreement ...

“In 2019, we participated in the science-based targets, which is an initiative of the Paris Climate Agreement. And we have committed to reducing absolute scope Scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 21 per ...

“We have had more conversations about ESG in recent months than we have had in the past few years. There is seriously growing interest in the subject, and not just ...

Kelly Christodoulou, a resident of Larnaca, is Senior ESG and Stewardship Consultant, Investments at AustralianSuper, one of that country’s largest pension funds with $200 billion (EUR 125 billion) in assets under ...

Marios Tannousis is Deputy Director General of Invest Cyprus, board member of CIFA, and a board member of EFAMA. He has many years of experience in financial services, including 12 years ...

Society, environment, employees, associates and products – the action and growth pillars. A series of actions compatible with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. At the forefront of Lidl Cyprus’ commitment ...

“Bank of Cyprus has already covered considerable distance in our ESG journey. We have an ‘A’ rating from MSCI, which is the global benchmark on ESG. The company has also ...

Ahead of regulatory requirements, for the better good for the entirety of Cyprus society. Can we do well as a business, while doing good as a member of society? Can ...

“Most clients would consider ESG investments only if such investments are expected to enhance returns. There are organisations, of course, that are willing to take on ESG investments even if ...

Richard Reast has been working in the advertising, marketing, and digital marketing industry for over 20 years. He’s a former business director at the international agency TBWA in London. He ...