Discover the sessions shaping the future of GenAI
From foundational breakthroughs to real-world applications — explore a curated experience tailored for every industry, role, and level of expertise
The following Summit agenda is tentative, especially as far as the exact time of the panels/demos/workshops goes.
However feel free to use it as a good indication of the content of the Summit.
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FOYER
09:00 - 10:00
Registration
STAVROS NIARCHOS HALL
10:00 - 10:40
The Human Equation – Education and Work in the GenAI Transition (EN)
Valerie Focke
GTM @ OpenAI, ex-Director EMEA @ Coursera
Nancy Zachariadou
Director of CSR, Piraeus Bank
Konstantinos Takos
Partner, Head of Workforce Transformation, PwC Greece
Amalia Konstantakopoulou
Co-Founder, The Tipping Point
MODERATOR
Thanassis Sofianos
Founder & CEO @ Relevance
10:40 - 11:30
View from the C-Suite:The future of leadership with GenAI (EN)
Bill Karnazes
CSO & GM Viohalco
Panagiotis Makryniotis
Managing Director, Lenovo Greece & Cyprus
Antonis Kotzamanidis
CEO Entersoftone
Harry Margaritis
Group Chief Operating Officer, EGM, Piraeus
MODERATOR
George Pallioudis
Managing Director, Financial Services Lead, Accenture
11:30 - 12:00
Break 1
12:00 - 12:40
Civil Protection and Safety (EN)
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
MODERATOR
Christos Tarantilis
EY Greece Partner, Head of Government and Public Sector
12:40 - 13:20
Data Management in the Age of GenAI (EN)
Damianos Hatziantoniou
Professor, AUEB
Shaig Abduragimov
Solutions Lead, Education & Countries, Open AI
George Nasoulis
General Manager / Group CDAO, Piraeus Bank
Katerina Glava
Partner, Engineering, AI & Data, Deloitte
MODERATOR
Orfeas Katsikis
Ex Data PM & Data Engineer @Genesis & @ Amazon
13:20 - 14:00
GenAI ROI, Investments, Expectations: The CEOs View (EN)
George Tsarouhas
CEO & Co-Founder, Dialectica
Andreas Papadakis
CEO Archeiothiki
Tey Bannerman
Fmr. McKinsey Partner & AI Innovation Leader
MODERATOR
Pavlos Konstas
Harvard Fellow
14:00 - 14:30
UBITECH Demo (EN)
Dimitris Papastergiou
Minister of Digital Governance of Greece
Dr. Dimitris Alexandrou
Co-Founder & Business Innovation Director, UBITECH
14:30 - 14:50
Kostas Karolemeas
Architect & Tech Lead, GAIA Platform, UBITECH
14:50 - 15:10
Eleven Labs Demo (EN)
Pietri Christof
Forward Deployed Engineering, Eleven Labs
15:15 - 16:00
Lunch Break
16:00 - 16:45
EU AI Act, Data Regulation (EN)
Sofia Argiti
Data & AI Solution Specialist, IBM Hellas
Giannis Krasonikolakis
Head of Applied Intelligence & Predictive Analytics, Grant Thornton
Petros Fragkiskos
Partner,Drakopoulos Law Firm
Spyros Tassis
Partner, Potamitis Vekris
Michalis Alexiou
Head of IT & Security, TUV Nord
MODERATOR
Dr, Antonios Karampatzos
Professor at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
16:45 - 17:15
GenAI in Finance, Banking and Investment (EN)
Krzysztof Zoldak
Head of Business - Greece @ EPAM Systems
George Panagiotou
VP Engineering, Plum Fintech
MODERATOR
Natalia Kritsali
Director of Digital & Analytics, McKinsey
17:30 - 18:15
Short Break
18:15 - 18:45
Fireside Chat (EN)
H.E. Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Prime Minister of Greece
Arthur Mensch
Co-Founder & CEO,Mistral AI
MODERATOR
Niko Efstathiou
Chief Editor @ WIRED
18:45 - 19:30
TBD: Entrepreneurship & Investment Panel
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
MODERATOR
TBD
TBD
19.30-19.45
Closing Remarks
ALTERNATIVE STAGE
10:00 - 10:20
Keynote “Thinking Fast and Slow: Conversational Agents That Think, Plan, and Grow With Us (EN)
Konstantina Christakopoulou
Senior Research Engineer, Google Deepmind
10:20 - 10:40
How do you transform into an Agentic Enterprise? (EN)
Elias Vyzas
EY Greece Partner, Head of Consulting
10:40 - 11:00
TBD
TBD
TBD
11:00 - 11:20
Forging Corporate Superpowers: The Agent-Human OS (EN)
MIchalis Petychakis
CTO, DIalectica
11:20 - 11:35
Presentation by UiPath (EN)
TBD
TBD
11:30 - 12:00
Break 1
12.00 - 12.20
CEO Fireside Chat (EN)
Andreas Athanassopoulos
CEO, Olympia Group
Elena Pittarokoili
Stanford, Human Data @Open AI
12:20 - 12:40
From Risk to Resilience: Embedding Governance in the AI Lifecycle (EN)
Kimon Drakopoulos
Executive Advisor, AI and Innovation, PwC Greece & Associate Professor Data Sciences and Operations (USC)
12:40 - 13:00
Kaizen Presentation (EN)
TBD
TBD
13:00 - 13:20
Hybrid AI for Device Ecosystems (EN)
Tassos Markas
Director Innovation & Incubation, Lenovo
13:20 - 13:40
TBD
TBD
TBD
13:40 - 14:00
Access Any Model, Anywhere: The Future of Multi-Model AI with IBM (EN)
Stavros Stavrinoudakis
Analytics Business Unit Director, PERFORMANCE
14:00 - 14:20
PCG/AWS (EN)
TBD
TBD
14:20 - 14:40
Reinventing Operations with GenAI (EN)
Eleftheria Despoinara
Data & AI Director, I&D Lead, Accenture
14:40 - 15:20
GenAI in Operations & Manufacturing (EN)
Fotis Foukalas
Technology Director, Cogninn
George Riskas
Head of Digital, Philip Morris International
Kostas Varsamos
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Ai by DNA
Nikos Stathakis
Data & AI Director, Steelmet
MODERATOR
Athanasios Spanos
Partner, Head of Operations and AI, PwC
15:20 - 16:00
Lunch Break
16:00 - 16:30
From Memory to Algorithm: Greece and the reinvention of destinations through GenAI (EN)
Barry Rogers
Director, Destination Strategy, TOPOSOPHY
MODERATOR
Dimitrios Georgiou
16:30 - 16:50
Helvia.ai Presentation (EN)
Dr. Stavros Vassos
Co-Founder & CEO, Helvia.ai
16:50 - 17:10
Sovereign AI (EN)
Dr. George Passalis
Data & AI Managing Director, Athens CoE Lead, Accenture
17:10 - 17:30
AI agent governance and observability. How to Bring trust and control to every AI agent, in action (EN)
Panos Chronopoulos
Data and AI Sales Specialist, IBM Hellas
17:30 - 18:15
Short Break
18:15 - 19:00
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
19:00 - 19:45
The evolution of the Legal profession with GenAI (EN)
Sofrini Sideri
Your legal partners
Christina Grigoriadou
Moussas & Partners Law Firm
Panos Karachalios
Founder & Product, LAWGIC
Michalis Rikakis
CEO Dikaio.ai & Decode.gr
MODERATOR
TBD
TBD
19.30-19.45
Closing Remarks
BOOK CASTLE
10:00 - 10:20
Reason and conquer: How AI agents automate the web (EN)
Maxim Stykow
AI Engineering Lead, PhD in Mathematics, TNG
Alexander zur Bonsen
Senior Consultant, TNG Technology Consulting
10:20 - 10:40
Covariance (EN)
Covariance Representative
Covariance
10:40 - 11:00
Kaizen (EN)
Kaizen Representative
Kaizen
11:00 - 11:20
Agentic AI for Claims FNOL in Financial Services (EN)
Antonio Di Marzo
EPAM
11.30 - 12.00
Break 1
12:00 - 12:20
SOPHI: GenAI applications Powering the HP Store Experience (EN)
Sotirios Dimopoulos
Head of NLP & Recommender Systems – Sales & Channel Analytics
12:20 - 12:40
Guarding the Generators: Automated Red Teaming for Safer AI (EN)
Marios Lioutas
Senior Data & AI Consultant, D ONE
12:40 - 13:10
EU AI Act by Design: Solid Ground for Smart Systems (EN)
Petros Fragkiskos
Partner,Drakopoulos Law Firm
Giannis Krasonikolakis
Head of Applied Intelligence & Predictive Analytics, Grant Thornton
MODERATOR
Vassiliki Koniakou
Law & Technology Expert, Drakopoulos Law Firm
13:10 - 13:30
Demo (EN)
Maria Papoutsi
Senior Managing Associate, KBVL Law Firm
Stefanos Tentolouris
Deloitte Partner, Tax & Legal
13:30 - 13:50
ENTERSOFT Presentation (EN)
Giannis Salichos
CTO Entersoftone
13:50 - 14:10
From Potential to Profit: A Journey Towards AI-Driven Growth (EN)
Dimitris Karystinos
Data & AI Manager, Uni Systems
14:10 - 14:30
AI & Real Estate
Theodoros Makridakis
Data Scientist, ReDataset
Dimitris Papadakis
Product & Innovation Manager, ReDataset
14:30 - 14:50
Palantir Demo for Foundry (EN)
Sandy Papadimitriou
Deployment Strategist, Palantir
Theo Vardavoukas
Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
14:50 - 15:10
wiserwork-Your meetings, but wiser (EN)
Vicky Pechlivani
GenAI Instructor & Capacity Builder, 100mentors
Yiorgos Nikoletakis
CEO, 100mentors
15.20 - 16.00
Lunch Break
16:00 - 16:25
TBD
TBD
TBD
16:25 - 16:45
The Art of Agentic AI: Building Systems that Think, Act, and Deliver (EN)
Spyros Alvertis
Experience Architect, UBITECH
16:45 - 17:05
Sophea AI Demo (EN)
Themistoklis Nikolis
Head of AI, Sophea AI
17:05 - 17:45
Developing Humans & Human Resources in the era of GenAI (EN)
Chrysa Benou
Senior HR Business Partner, Uni Systems
Damianos Chatziantoniou
Professor, Athens University of Economics & Business
17:30 - 18:15
Short Break
18.15 - 19.30
TBD
TBD
TBD
19.30-19.45
Closing Remarks
LIGHTHOUSE
10:00 - 10:30
Panel hosted by Panathenea: Meet your Younger Self Founders (EN)
Panos Mantas
Co-Founder & CEO at Coinbux
Kostas Ketselidis
Co-Founder @ Uplodio
Melina Mai
VC at Big Pi Ventures
MODERATOR
Lefteris Katsiadakis
Co-founder, CEO Panathēnea
10:30 - 11:10
Engineering the Future of AI by Endeavor (EN)
Petros Mandalis
CTO @ Proxyfood
Panos Stravopodis
Founder Elyos
11:10 - 11:30
Keynote: "A2A, MCP, AP2, & AgentOps (EN)
Dr Sokratis Kartakis
Generative AI Global Blackbelt, EMEA & APAC @ Google
11:30 - 12:00
Break 1
12:00 - 12:30
LLMs made in Greece (EN)
Representative from Kiefer
Kiefer
Oumi Representative
Oumi
Sokratis Sofianopoulos
Researcher, Athena & CEO, layer42labs
MODERATOR
Vassilis Katsouros
Research Director at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing @ "Athena" Research and Innovation Center
12:30 - 12:50
Fireside Chat: Non-Techies Building Tech - the Investor Side (EN)
Lars Rasmussen
Investor, Florent VC, Panathenea, CoFounder of Google Maps
12:50 - 13:30
GenAI, Mobility & Sustainability (EN)
Martin Roemheld
E- Mobility Expert
Petros Fortsakis
COO @ Oseven
Georgios Plevris
Dimitris Triantafyllopoulos
CEO of Hellenic Hydrogen
MODERATOR
Mariza Fotiou
ex-VP Digital Product Management @ BP | Founder @ CIQ Limited
13:30 - 14:10
Data Centers and Sustainability (EN)
Nikos Tsafos (TBD)
Deputy Minister of Energy, Hellenic Republic
Vassilis Karkatzounis
General Secretary for Data & AI
Kiefer Representative
Kiefer
Dimitris Kouklakis
Senior Vice President Cluster Europe for Process Technology, TÜV NORD Hellas
Charis Amourgis
End User Sales Manager, Public & Private Sector, Greece & Cyprus @ HP Inc.
MODERATOR
TBD
TBD
15.20 - 16.00
Lunch Break
17.50 - 18.15
Short Break
19.30-19.45
Closing Remarks
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