{"id":263694,"date":"2026-04-22T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=263694"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:01:35","slug":"agenda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/gc-summit-greece-2026\/agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\n<p><strong>9.00am-9.40am Registration and welcome breakfast<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>9.40am-9.45am Opening remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Katie Martin, event content &amp; research manager, Legal 500<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>9.45am-10.35am <\/strong><strong>Strategic investments in Greece \u2013 emerging real estate investment models, in association with Thesis Law Firm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A focused discussion on the evolving landscape of strategic investment in Greece, exploring how new real estate models are reshaping opportunities across development, infrastructure, hospitality, tourism, and mixed-use assets. In association with Thesis Law Firm, the session will examine the legal and financial factors driving investor interest in the Greek market.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Kloy Tsiaga, founding &amp; managing partner, Thesis Law Firm (Athens, Greece)<\/li>\n<li>Marios Bouloukos, counsel, Thesis Law Firm (Athens, Greece)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>10.35am-11.25am <\/strong><strong class=\"selection-contrast\">The exposed GC &#8211; personal liability, criminal risk and where the line is<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><span class=\"selection-contrast\">The role has expanded. The accountability has followed. GCs are now signing off on sustainability reports, sanctions risk assessments and AI governance frameworks &#8211; areas where personal exposure is real and the legal boundaries are still being drawn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ewa-rteLine\"><span class=\"selection-contrast\">This session is for anyone who has sat across from a board and wondered exactly where their responsibility ends. We will talk about where Greek law actually places the GC when things go wrong, what the regulator looks for first, and the decisions that have put legal leaders on the wrong side of a line they thought they understood.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Evy Kyttari, legal director,\u00a0 Athenian Brewery<\/li>\n<li>Maria Stamatopoulou, general counsel, Siemens AE<\/li>\n<li>Dionysios Pantazis, general counsel, South East Europe, Huawei Technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>11.25am-11.45am Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>11.45am-12.35am The rise of bio-manufacturing hubs in southeast Europe &amp; Greece, in association with ALG Manousakis Law Firm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greece is increasingly recognised not merely as a Mediterranean gateway but as a strategically positioned R&amp;D and manufacturing hub for the global life sciences sector, supercharged by the integration of Artificial Intelligence. This session examines why multinational pharmaceutical companies are redirecting investment from traditional offshoring destinations in Asia toward stable, near-shore European jurisdictions &#8211; and why Greece and the broader southeastern European region with its burgeoning AI ecosystem and &#8220;Intelligent Manufacturing&#8221; capabilities, deserve a prominent place in that conversation. Drawing on recent legislative developments, including generous R&amp;D super-deductions, patent box regimes, and streamlined licensing frameworks for strategic investments, the presentation will map the legal and regulatory landscape that General Counsels need to understand when advising boards on facility siting, supply chain resilience, and ESG-aligned capital deployment. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating Greece as a jurisdiction of choice for life sciences investment and for structuring projects that capture available incentives while managing AI-specific regulatory and IP risks risk.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Panagiotis Polychronopoulos, senior associate, ALG Manousakis Law Firm<\/li>\n<li>Chara Grigoriadou, associate, ALG Manousakis Law Firm<\/li>\n<li>Evi Mathiou, legal, compliance &amp; quality associate director, Novo Nordisk<\/li>\n<li>Eleana Nikolopoulou, director, legal and compliance, Lavipharm<\/li>\n<li>Polyxeni Kyriopoulou, head of legal, Elpen Pharmaceutical Co.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>12.35pm-1.25pm\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Greece in the Crossfire &#8211; Managing Geopolitical Risk When Your Business Is Caught in the Middle<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Greece sits at one of the most commercially exposed positions in Europe. Its shipping industry moves cargo through some of the world&#8217;s most sanctioned corridors. Its energy sector is still unwinding dependencies built over decades. Its banks maintain correspondent relationships that regulators in Washington and Brussels are watching closely. And its companies operate across a region &#8211; the Balkans, the Middle East, North Africa where the rules change faster than any compliance framework can keep up with.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">For GCs, geopolitical risk has stopped being a macro conversation and become a daily operational one. Sanctions exposure, export controls, foreign investment screening, and the legal consequences of being on the wrong side of an ally&#8217;s enforcement action are now live questions in contract review, in board reporting and in conversations with regulators that nobody anticipated having three years ago.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">This session will explore how legal leaders in exposed sectors are building frameworks that are robust enough to manage genuine risk without paralysing commercial decisions, and what happens when they get it wrong.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Sofia Michelaki, chief legal &amp; governance officer, DESFA<\/li>\n<li>Katerina Mangana, legal affairs director, ION<\/li>\n<li>Christina Koliatsi, group chief legal counsel, Growthfund<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>1.25pm-2.25pm Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.25pm-2.45pm <\/strong><strong>What does the CEO actually want from their general counsel?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Not the version that appears in a job description &#8211; the real answer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ewa-rteLine\">What does it mean to be trusted at board level, and what does it look like when that trust breaks down? When does legal leadership add genuine commercial value, and when does it create friction? How do the best CEO-CLO relationships actually get built, and what separates a general counsel who is truly heard from one who is merely present?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ewa-rteLine\">This fireside brings together two legal leaders at different stages of their careers for a candid conversation about the relationship that defines the in-house role and what it takes to earn authority at the top table, what the next generation of GCs need to understand that their predecessors learned the hard way, and what Greek corporate culture still needs to change.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Alexios Andriopoulos, head of legal &amp; compliance, Welcome Pickups<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Nancy Verra, chief legal regulatory &amp; compliance officer, OPAP S.A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2.45pm-3.05pm The autonomous enterprise: what general counsel must govern next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Agentic AI changes the security landscape in companies, as a new market is forming alongside it and will be shaped by those who build now. The big thing that defines Agentic AI is this notion that the models can do things unprompted in parallel, at a rapid pace. As regards cybersecurity, the same capabilities that make AI valuable are also the ones most likely to cause harm. The keynote speech will focus on AI governance and the economics of Cybersecurity and AI in corporate ecosystems, as a strategic work of reimagining what organizations will become.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Kostas Argyropoulos, group general counsel, SPACE HELLAS GROUP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3.05pm-3.10pm Closing remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.10pm-4.10pm Networking session<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9.00am-9.40am Registration and welcome breakfast 9.40am-9.45am Opening remarks Katie Martin, event content &amp; research manager, Legal 500 9.45am-10.35am Strategic investments in Greece \u2013 emerging real estate investment models, in association with Thesis Law Firm A focused discussion on the evolving landscape of strategic investment in Greece, exploring how new real estate models are reshaping opportunities &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/gc-summit-greece-2026\/agenda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agenda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71440,"featured_media":0,"parent":263636,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-263694","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269872,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263694\/revisions\/269872"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}