// Gen AI Leadership Forum 2025

Agenda October 14–15, 2025

Check out the keynotes, product demos, and panels from the Gen AI Leadership Forum 2025 — two days of strategy, governance, and agentic AI, all on demand.

▸ Dates
Oct 14–15, 2025
▸ Venue
Benaki Museum
▸ Location
Athens, Greece
09:0009:45 EEST
Registration
09:4510:00 EEST
Kick Off

Welcome to the Gen AI Leadership Forum 2025! In this energizing opening session, George Nikolaropoulos and Ioannis Papikas set the stage for an exciting journey — where leaders, innovators, and changemakers unite to shape how AI will redefine the future of business.

10:0010:40 EEST
Reshaping Strategic Leadership in the Age of AI
[Panel] The Boardroom & AI: Rethinking Corporate Strategy

AI is no longer just a tool — it is a strategic force redefining how organizations create value. This session brings together leading Greek board members, CEOs, and AI strategists to explore how corporate governance must evolve in the face of rapid AI transformation: how boards can lead responsibly, align AI with long-term goals, and ensure their companies remain competitive and ethical in a fast-changing world.

10:4511:15 EEST
Reshaping Strategic Leadership in the Age of AI
[Keynote] From Buzzword to Business Case: Strategic AI Product Management

Too often, AI enters product roadmaps as a checkbox for innovation rather than a driver of meaningful value. This session reframes AI adoption through the lens of product management strategy: starting from business cases, grounding in discovery, and measuring outcomes. Participants gain a toolkit to critically evaluate AI's role in their strategy and lead AI discussions with clarity and confidence.

11:2012:00 EEST
Coffee Break
12:0012:15 EEST
ClearSkies™ TDIR: Redefining Cyber Resilience with Generative & Agentic AI

In the era of AI-driven cyberattacks, organizations must evolve beyond traditional defense. ClearSkies™ TDIR combines holistic telemetry, Generative AI augmentation, and Agentic AI autonomy to detect earlier, respond faster, and adapt continuously — transforming Security Operations into an AI-orchestrated resilience engine that keeps teams secure, compliant, and resilient.

12:2012:35 EEST
Integrating AI into Core Systems & Strategic Infrastructure
AI-Powered Operations at the Edge: Transforming Remote Industrial and Maritime Assets

Manufacturing plants, offshore platforms, and vessels generate critical operational data but often lack reliable connectivity for cloud AI. This session explores how deploying intelligent systems directly at remote locations enables immediate decision support, reduces costs, and maintains continuity — turning isolated assets into autonomous, intelligent operations.

12:4012:55 EEST
Integrating AI into Core Systems & Strategic Infrastructure
From Experimentation to Impact: AI as a Business Transformation Contributor

AI is transforming the financial services landscape, and NBG is actively investing in building strong AI capabilities. This session unpacks the bank's strategic vision for AI — from enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency to strengthening risk management and innovation capacity.

13:0013:40 EEST
Reshaping Strategic Leadership in the Age of AI
[Panel] From Strategy to Execution: AI's Role in Business Transformation

AI has moved from experimentation to becoming a core enabler of business transformation. This session explores how Greek enterprises translate AI strategies into tangible outcomes — reshaping operations, customer experience, and decision-making — and how leaders bridge the gap between ambition and implementation while building sustainable, data-driven cultures.

13:4514:30 EEST
Coffee Break
14:3015:00 EEST
Reshaping Strategic Leadership in the Age of AI
[Keynote] Operationalizing Intelligence: Your AI Roadmap from Pilot to Pervasive Impact

AI is a strategic imperative, yet most organizations struggle to go beyond experimentation. This session moves past the hype to building a real-world, actionable AI adoption roadmap — through business alignment, capability assessment, data readiness, model integration, and continuous improvement — so leaders can move from isolated use cases to AI-enabled workflows that deliver measurable ROI.

15:0515:35 EEST
GEN AI vs AGENTIC AI: From Tools to Autonomous Systems
[Keynote] Redefining the Workflow: Agentic AI in Science & Engineering

The rise of agentic AI marks a turning point in science and engineering — moving beyond passive data analysis to active hypothesis generation, real-time experimentation, and adaptive problem-solving. This keynote by Simon See explores how self-directed AI agents are reshaping discovery itself, unlocking new frontiers in scientific reasoning while keeping innovation sustainable, responsible, and human-centered.

15:4016:20 EEST
Coffee Break
16:2017:00 EEST
Ethical AI & Governance: Building Trusted Intelligence at Scale
[Panel] Governance by Design: Building AI Oversight into the Org Chart

As organizations embed AI into critical systems, a fundamental question arises: who owns AI accountability? This panel addresses the shift from ad-hoc oversight to a deliberate, organization-wide governance framework where responsibility for ethical, safe, and transparent AI is clearly distributed — and explores how leading enterprises design cross-functional governance structures that scale with complexity and risk.

17:0517:45 EEST
Integrating AI into Core Systems & Strategic Infrastructure
[Panel] AI in Enterprise IT & Cloud: Overcoming Legacy System Challenges

Many enterprises face significant challenges integrating AI into legacy IT environments. This session explores practical strategies for modernizing outdated infrastructure, transitioning to AI-powered cloud architectures, and strengthening cybersecurity resilience — unpacking the technical and organizational levers that turn legacy systems into AI-ready foundations.

17:5018:00 EEST
Event Closure — Day One
09:3010:15 EEST
Registration
10:1510:30 EEST
Kick-Off

As we open the second day of the Forum, George Nikolaropoulos and Despina Kitsou set the stage for a program focused on moving from vision to execution — emphasizing practical applications, leadership imperatives, and the pathways for organizations to translate AI potential into measurable impact.

10:3010:45 EEST
Keynote by Ministry of Digital Governance
10:4511:25 EEST
Ethical AI & Governance: Building Trusted Intelligence at Scale
[Panel] Regulation in Motion — Navigating the EU AI Act & Global Compliance Standards

The EU AI Act ushers in a new regulatory paradigm — classifying AI by risk level, imposing obligations on high-risk applications, and introducing penalties for non-compliance. This panel unites legal experts, compliance officers, executives, and policymakers to unpack the practical implications of current and upcoming AI regulation, and how forward-looking enterprises design governance that aligns with evolving standards while preserving innovation.

11:3012:00 EEST
GEN AI vs AGENTIC AI: From Tools to Autonomous Systems
[Panel] CEO Playbook: Turning Agentic AI into Competitive Advantage

As the next wave of AI shifts from supportive tools to self-directed agents, leaders enter a new era of opportunity — and accountability. This panel unites trailblazing CEOs and strategic thinkers to explore how Agentic AI is revolutionizing enterprise value, competitive positioning, and scalable growth — embedding AI not just as a feature, but as a foundation.

12:1013:10 EEST
Coffee Break
13:1013:25 EEST
Smarter Training, Stronger Business: Driving ROI with AI and TalentLMS

Growth depends on talent — but in a world where skills expire quickly, traditional training no longer keeps up. This session explores how AI-enabled learning platforms like TalentLMS personalize learning paths, reduce training time, and provide actionable insights that drive performance, turning learning into a competitive advantage.

13:3013:45 EEST
Integrating AI into Core Systems & Strategic Infrastructure
Compliance at Scale: Leveraging AI for Risk and Regulation

In a world of rapidly evolving regulations, compliance has become one of the most resource-intensive challenges for business. This session shows — through a live demonstration — how AI helps legal and compliance teams manage complexity, reduce risk, and cut the cost of research and contract review, empowering leaders to make faster, safer decisions at scale.

13:5014:05 EEST
Integrating AI into Core Systems & Strategic Infrastructure
Low-code Application Development in the Era of AI

Bottlenecks in application development, legacy complexity, and limited software talent are common roadblocks to innovation. In this live session, Comsys CEO Vassilis Galakos demonstrates how enterprises design, build, and deploy secure, cloud-optimized business applications at speed using Jaggle — an AI-powered application generation platform — accelerating delivery without compromising standards.

14:1014:40 EEST
GEN AI vs AGENTIC AI: From Tools to Autonomous Systems
[Panel] The CTO's Opportunity: Engineering for Intelligent Autonomy

As AI systems evolve from assistive to autonomous, CTOs are at the forefront of an enterprise redesign. This panel explores how technology leaders architect intelligent, adaptive platforms that support continuous learning, decision-making, and scalable autonomy — and how they align architecture, data, and ops to deliver enterprise-grade intelligence.

14:5015:30 EEST
Coffee Break
15:3016:00 EEST
ROI-Driven AI: Making Every Innovation Count
[Panel] AI Mergers & Acquisitions: The C-Suite Playbook

As AI reshapes industries, M&A involving AI-driven companies is accelerating. This session gives C-level executives a strategic framework for navigating AI-related M&A — covering valuation strategies, due diligence, integration challenges, and regulatory considerations — so leaders can assess AI-driven opportunities and make informed acquisition decisions that drive long-term value.

16:1016:40 EEST
Hiring & Upskilling for AI-Driven Growth
[Panel] Developing AI Leadership: Upskilling for the C-Suite

AI is reshaping the foundation of how businesses operate, demanding a new kind of leadership at the top. This panel explores what it means to lead with intelligence — and how senior executives develop the mindset, fluency, and capabilities needed to drive AI impact at scale, from agentic systems and responsible governance to collaborating with technical teams.

16:5017:00 EEST
Event Closure — Day Two