Registrations & Coffee

Opening Remarks by Souzana Theodoridou

How to Make a Big Company Feel Small Again?
Panos Tsiantoulas, Chief People Officer, OTE Group |How can large organizations reclaim the agility, speed, and entrepreneurial mindset of smaller companies without losing the strengths that come with scale?

Live Case Study: The Brilliant Jerk Dilemma - Fire, Fix or Promote?
with Anastasia Anastasopoulou, Chief People Officer, Accenture Greece and Vassilis Adamidis, Group Head of HR Greece/Cyprus/Albania Nestle
When your highest performer becomes your biggest cultural liability, what matters more: results, behavior, or the courage to make a difficult call?

Bite-Size Training: Leadership Under Pressure
Dimitris Papadimitriou, Co-Founder & Principal Trainer, Business Pathways |A practical, high-impact training experience exploring how leaders can recognize their behavioral patterns, manage their reactions, and make better decisions when pressure rises.

What Happens When Companies Have to Defend How - and Why - They Pay People Differently?
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As pay transparency challenges long-established compensation practices, how prepared are organizations to explain, justify, and defend their pay decisions?

Coffee Break

25.000+ Gen Z Has Spoken: Is Management Listening? + GenHub Data Drop
Speakers TBC |New research findings from 25.000 answers put Gen Z expectations under the microscope, challenging what employers think they know about attracting, managing, and retaining the next generation.

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Session description to be finalized once the topic is confirmed.

Culture & Growth: Shared Vision, Divided Authority Among CEO & HR Director?
Speakers TBC |When business growth demands cultural change, who really shapes the organization’s direction, and what happens when the CEO and HR Director disagree?

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Lunch Break & Networking

Eliminating Employer Risk: How to Identify and Mitigate Compliance Risks in the Digital Age
Vasilis Prassas, Chief Commercial Officer, EPSILONNET Group |From regulatory complexity to digital transformation, discover how businesses can proactively identify compliance risks, protect their organizations, and turn compliance into a strategic advantage.

Debate: Who Owns Innovation - HR or the Business?
Speakers TBC |If innovation is everyone's responsibility, why does ownership remain so unclear, and should HR lead the transformation or challenge the business to own it?

Dear HR Director, Would Your CEO and CFO Call You a Business Leader?
Achillia Kontou, HR Director, Ayvens | An uncomfortable but necessary reality check on whether HR truly speaks the language of business, influences financial decisions, and earns its seat at the leadership table.

Hiring 2030: What Do You Hire for When Jobs Keep Changing in the AI Era?
Maria Gonidi | Vice President, People & Culture Europe Functions, The Coca-Cola Company | When AI keeps redefining jobs faster than companies can fill them, what should organizations actually hire for: skills, potential, adaptability, or something entirely different?

Closing Remarks