"Can Private Equity, Venture Capital and Startups be one of the Solutions to the Problematic Greek Economy"

First Day: 21st of June 2012 Private Equity

Conference Opening Panayotopoulos Litsa Partner Boston Hamilton Executive Search Services and Treasurer & President of Innovation and Education Committee American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Round Table I - Discussion: "Can Private Equity, Venture Capital and Startups be one of the Solutions to the Problematic Greek Economy?" Pilitsis Loukas Head of VC-PE Group Piraeus Bank, CEO Piraeus Equity Advisors Koulis Nicos Head Private Equity of Eurobank Equities Papadopoulos Giannis Co-founder and CEO Attica Ventures Athanasopoulos Dimitrios Group Managing Director, Axia Ventures Group Ltd Goudinakos Stratos Chief Risk Officer, ATE Insurance Coordinator

Panel I - 1st Part "Greek Companies Competing in the Global Arena. Dynamics, Challenges and Opportunities!" Koutsoyannopoulos Giorgos, Ph.D Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of HELIC Persidis Andreas, Ph.D CEO of Biovista Sanchez-P. Jorge-A., Ph.D Director, Strategy and Development of Corallia Clusters Initiative Kiritsis Constantine, Ph.D Entrepreneur Coordinator

Brief Presentation of "Social Media & Entrepreneurship in Greece" Gogos Roberta Product Design, Marketing, Gnostix Charami Despoina Online Marketing, Gnostix

Panel II - 2nd Part "Greek Companies Competing in the Global Arena. Dynamics, Challenges and Opportunities!" Papadopoulos Panos Founder & VP of BugSense Theoharakis Vasilis Ph.D Chairman of the Board of Nanophos Veremis Marcos President and Founder of Upstream Tsigos Dimitris Founder & CEO of Virtual Trip Coordinator

Second Day: 22nd of June 2012 StartUps

Conference Opening Spirtounias Elias Executive Director, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce Round Table II - Discussion: "Applying International Successful Methods in the Greek Startups Market" Mallios Kostas Vice President at Intellectual Ventures Pilitsis Loukas Fund Manager of PJ Tech Catalyst Krokidis Xenophon, Ph.D Founding Partner of I&GS Capital Papaioannou Dimitris, Ph.D Country Manager Greece & Cyprus at US Market Access Center Skrekas Nick, Ph.D Author, Economic Analyst and International Lawyer Coordinator

Panel I "Greek Startups and Entrepreneurship" Nikolopoulos Vassilis, Ph.D CEO and Co-Founder, Intelen Ballas Alexis Co-Founder, Fashinating Ltd. Drandakis Nikos Founder of TaxiBeat Constantinou Andreas, Ph.D Managing Director of VisionMobile Coordinator

Panel II "Which countries are the most appropriate ones to set up a Startup?" Palandjian Onic General Manager, Europa Aluminum Systems Kokoni Zoe Director, International Business Services Division, Eurofast Taxand, Cyprus   Rizopoulos Yannis Journalist of Pathfinder Coordinator

"Understanding disruption in the mobile industry" Presentation of Andreas Constantinou, Ph.D Managing Director of VisionMobile

Panel III "Greek Startups and Entrepreneurship in the Mobile Arena" Manglis Aggelos President and Managing Director of Atlantis Consulting Kikidis John Chairman and CEO of Eyelead Software Nikolaidis John Co-Founder of Niobium Labs Ltd Voulgaris George, Ph.D coLab Igniter Director Kolovou Vicki Entrepreneur Coordinator

Conference Opening: Panayotopoulos Litsa

"Can Private Equity, Venture Capital and Startups
be one of the Solutions to the Problematic Greek Economy?"

Coordinator: Goudinakos Stratos

Participation to the Round Table Discussion:

• Pilitsis Loukas
• "Private equity has always been opportunistic" Koulis Nicos
• Papadopoulos Giannis
• Athanasopoulos Dimitrios

"Greek Companies Competing in the Global Arena.
Dynamics, Challenges and Opportunities!"

Coordinator: Kiritsis Constantine, Ph.D

• "What is the microeconomic development model that will expedite Greece's exit from the macroeconomic slump it has fallen into?" Koutsoyannopoulos Giorgos, Ph.D
• "Biovista: Leading the emergence of a new sector in the life sciences and healthcare industry" Persidis Andreas, Ph.D
• Sanchez-P. Jorge-A., Ph.D

"Social Media & Entrepreneurship in Greece"

Brief Presentation of Gogos Roberta and Charami Despoina

"Greek Companies Competing in the Global Arena.
Dynamics, Challenges and Opportunities!"

Coordinator: Tsigos Dimitris

• "Is a laptop with Internet connection all you need?" Papadopoulos Panos
• "NanoMaterials Made in Lavrion?" Theoharakis Vasilis Ph.D
• "Building an international technology company in Greece" Veremis Marcos

Conference Opening: Spirtounias Elias

"Applying International Successful Methods in the Greek Startups Market"

Coordinator: Skrekas Nick, Ph.D

Participation to the Round Table Discussion:

• Mallios Kostas
• Pilitsis Loukas
• "Innovative Private Equity Investment in the Making of Global Market Leaders" Krokidis Xenophon, Ph.D
• "Global expansion with base Silicon Valley" Papaioannou Dimitris, Ph.D

"Greek Startups and Entrepreneurship"

Coordinator: Constantinou Andreas, Ph.D

• "CleanTech Investments: Fundraising and entrepreneurial strategies in the Smart Grid sector by Intelen" Nikolopoulos Vassilis, Ph.D
• "Innovating in Greece. Is it possible? A Fashinating case study" Ballas Alexis
• "Going from 0 to 1" Drandakis Nikos

"Which countries are the most appropriate ones to set up a Startup?"

Coordinator: Rizopoulos Yannis

• "Small country BIG BUSINESS" Palandjian Onic
• "The appropriate place for a startup to setup and how to move forward" Kokoni Zoe

"Understanding disruption in the mobile industry"

Presentation of Andreas Constantinou, Ph.D

"Greek Startups and Entrepreneurship in the Mobile Arena"

Coordinator: Kolovou Vicki

• Manglis Aggelos
• "Enabling Leading 3D Mobile Game Development" Kikidis John
• "Turning weakness to strength: The future of Mobile Marketing" Nikolaidis John
• "Creating Value from Day one: Trends in the Entrepreneurship Industry" Voulgaris George, Ph.D