The (draft) program of the Entrepreneur Week Greece

1. Entrepreneur Week Greece
Athens
February 23rd – 25th
Venue:
Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Akadimias 7, GR10671, Athens
Entrepreneur Week Greece is organized under the Auspices of:
Ministry of Development, Competitivess and Maritime
Ministry of Education, Life‐Long Learning & Religious Affairs
Entrepreneur Week Greece is sponsored by
National Bank of Greece
Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry
GKFX
American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
City Unity College
Virtual Trip Group
Galaxy Events & Catering
Helic Inc.
Entrepreneur Week Greece is organized under the umbrella of:
YES – European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs
Hellenic Entrepreneurship Club
Program
Thursday February 23rd – Pre Conference Event
10:00 – 13:00 “Hellenic Angels”
Hellenic Start-up Association - www.hellenicstartups.gr
Entrepreneur Week - www.entrepreneurweek.net

2. Workshop on Launching the First Business Angels Network in
Greece
10:00 – 10:30 Dimitris Tsigos, Greece
President, Hellenic Start‐up Association
“Presenting the vision for Hellenic Angels”
10:30 – 12:00 Paulo Andrez, Portugal
Vice President, EBAN – The European Trade
Association of Business Angels, Seed Funds and
other early stage market players
Board Member, Federação Nacional de Associações
de Business Angels, Portugal
12:00 – 13:00 Pitching Session
Start‐up Pitching sessions in front of the Hellenic
Angels founding members and Business Angels from
the Entrepreneur Week International delegations
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Thursday February 23 – The Entrepreneur Week Greece
Conference
14:00 – 15:00 Opening Speeches
Constantine Michalos, Greece
President, Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Anna Diamantopoulou, Greece(*)
Minister
Ministry of Education, Life‐long Learning and
Religious Affairs
Yanos Gramatidis, Greece(*)
Hellenic Start-up Association - www.hellenicstartups.gr
Entrepreneur Week - www.entrepreneurweek.net

3. President
American‐Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
Dimitris Tsigos, Greece
President, Hellenic Start‐up Association
Gary Whitehill, United States
Founder, Entrepreneur Week
15:00 – 16:00 Panel: “Culture, Tourism and Symbolic Capital:
Creating an industry of global leadership for Greece”
Moderator: Nikos Ververidis, Greece
16:00 – 16:15 Break
16:15 – 17:15 Panel: “The Greek Crisis: Eurozone endgame or the
birth‐giving event of the World's largest economy?”
Moderator: Athanasios Papandropoulos, Greece
Honorary President, Association of European
Journalists
Aristos Doxiadis, Greece(*)
Maria Papanastasiou, Greece
17:15 – 17:30 Break
17:30 – 18:30 Panel: “Maritime Uncovered: Towards boosting a
dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem around the
industry international leaders”
Moderator: Fotis Talantzis, Greece
18:30 – 18:45 Break
18:45 – 19:45 Panel: “Gastronomy: An industry of global leadership
for Greece and its relation to Symbolic Capital &
Regional Development”
Hellenic Start-up Association - www.hellenicstartups.gr
Entrepreneur Week - www.entrepreneurweek.net

4. Moderator: Panos Zamanis, Greece
Costas Tsingas, Greece (*)
Georgios Kolliopoulos, Greece(*)
Founder & CEO
Speiron Company
Maria Vlachou, Greece
Founder & CEO
Fereikos – Helix / Fereikos – Gefsis
Zoe Nowak, Greece
Director
Cretan Quality Agreement
20:00 – 21:00 Panel: “Politics and Entrepreneurship – Politicians and
Entrepreneurs”
Moderator: Dimitris Tsigos, Greece
Dimitrios Bourantas, Greece
Professor at Athens University of Economics &
Business
Friday February 24th – The Entrepreneur Week Greece
Conference
9:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 11:00 Opening
Michalis Chrisochoidis, Greece(*)
Minister
Ministry of Development, Competitiveness &
Maritime
Hellenic Start-up Association - www.hellenicstartups.gr
Entrepreneur Week - www.entrepreneurweek.net

5. Andreas Athanasopoulos, Greece
General Director for Retail Banking
National Bank of Greece
Stelios Stavridis, Greece
President
Hellenic Entrepreneurship Club
Nikolas G. Sarlis, Greece
General Manager
GKFX
11:00 – 12:00 Panel: “High‐tech industry in Greece: Success stories,
role models and the way forward”
Moderator: Spiros Kapetanakis
Yorgos Koutsoyannopoulos, Greece
Founder & CEO, Helic Inc.
President, Hellenic Semiconductor Industry
Assocation
12:00 – 12:15 Break
12:15 – 13:15 Panel: “Energy: When Geopolitics and Geoeconomics
meet a strategy for sustainable development”
Moderator: Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Greece
13:15 – 13:30 Break
13:30 – 14:30 “The Battle for Athens Center: Turning a crime zone to
a field of creativity”
Moderator: Stavros Messinis, Greece
Christos Spirtzis, Greece
President, Technical Chamber of Greece
14:30 – 15:30 Lunch
Hellenic Start-up Association - www.hellenicstartups.gr
Entrepreneur Week - www.entrepreneurweek.net

6.
15:30 – 16:30 Panel: “Media Industry: A collapsing market or an
exciting opportunity?”
Moderator: Areti Georgili, Greece
Sergio Fernández de Córdova, United States
Co‐Founder at Fuel Outdoor Holdings, Global
Entrepreneurs Council at United Nations
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:45 “Education, University and Entrepreneurship: From
creativity to start‐up accelerators”
Moderator: Pavlos Stampoulides, Greece
Faye Orfanou, Greece
Secretary Special for EU Funds
Ministry of Education
Gregory Yovanof, Greece
Associate Dean at Athens
Information Technology
17:45 – 18:00 Break
18:00 – 19:00 “Government and Entrepreneurship: Can the State
play any role? Fiscal policies/taxation, subsidies and
bankruptcy law”
Moderator: Georgios Papadopoulos, Greece
Omar Al‐Madhi, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Assistant Deputy Governor ‐ Research, Analysis &
Councils at Saudi Arabian General Investment
Authority | SAGIA
Alex Mitchell, United Kingdom
Hellenic Start-up Association - www.hellenicstartups.gr
Entrepreneur Week - www.entrepreneurweek.net

7. Head of Influencer Relations at the Institute of
Directors
Vice President at YES – European Confederation of
Young Entrepreneurs
Ksenia Khoruzhnikova, Russian Federation
G‐20Y Summit IOC Founder/Chair
19:00 – 19:15 Break
19:15 – 20:15 Units of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Moderator: Fanis Koutouvelis, Greece
Workshop on inspiring entrepreneurial spirit at the
Greek Education & Research system
Key Note Speech:
Johan Van den Bossche, Belgium
Saturday February 25th – Post Conference Event
12:00 – 15:00 B2B Meetings between Greek entrepreneurs and
members of delegations from US, Russia, UK, Saudi
Arabia, Spain, Hungary and Serbia
Hellenic Start-up Association - www.hellenicstartups.gr
Entrepreneur Week - www.entrepreneurweek.net