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Panagiotis Zikos
CEO & Managing Director, Otis Greece and Cyprus
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Alex Costopoulos
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Amb. Ioannis Vrailas
Permanent Representative of Greece to the EU
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Amb. Angelos Pangratis (ret.)
Former EU Ambassador
Bill Ritcey-Donohue
Vice President of National Security,
Govini
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Maria Loi
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Tilemachos Moraitis
Government & Corporate Affairs
Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Baltics and
Ukraine, Microsoft
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Katerina Stathopoulou
Governor, The International
Propeller Club Port of Piraeus
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Konstantinos Michanetzis
Founder & CEO
Sylipsis Corporation
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CEO, Stevia Hellas Cooperative
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Chair of SDSN Black Sea
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Vice Admiral Vasilios Martzoukos
Vice President of ELISME
IMPACTS OF
DATA DRIVEN
SOLUTIONS
EXPLIANED
BILL RITCEY-DONOHUE
VICE PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL
SECURITY, GOVINI
George Sifakis:
What, and how does data science and the optimization of it help to solve critical issues across
society?
Bill Ritcey- Donohue:
Well, thank you very much, George. I have to say being here in [Greece] the cradle of Western
civilization is humbling. And to be asked that question of how do you make decisions? Well, the
Greeks have been trying to philosophize that for thousands of years. So first of all, I would say, it's
already been mentioned several times, but we take a little bit of a different approach. I like to
think, what you measure you can manage and make decisions on. We say, in God we trust, all
others, bring your data.
So what we try to do is take the objective, the goal, the outcome that is trying to be decided, and
get clean data. So, the fact of the matter is we are overwhelmed with data. You can go on in your
pocket right now and have more data than we've ever had in history in just your little hand, what
do you do with the data? How do you make it relevant to what you are trying to decide, and then
give yourselves an iterative approach to it? You're never going to be right the first time. With data
it’s not a game show. If you get the right answer, it's improving, it's getting better, then It's
measuring that improvement. We call it in the military an OODA loop- Observe, Orient, Decide, and
Act. So understand where you are, orient to what your goal is, decide, act, and then do it again and
repeat. The quicker you can do that, and the more agile you are, as we learned in the last panel, the
better you'll get. And when you keep measuring that and sharing that with others so they can do
the same thing we start to see a chain reaction of improvements being made.
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ESTABLISHING
AN SDG
OBSERVATORY
GRIGORIS ZAROTIADIS:
DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL SCIENCES, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY
The SDSN is the Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the United Nations,
which is responsible for the worldwide promotion of the SDGs and the way they are
organized. It is organized in national and regional chapters in nodes. One of these
chapters, which is responsible for the whole Black Sea region, is located at Aristotle
University. This chapter reveals the importance of Greece and FAI having such an
important and prestigious contributing initiative hosted in FAI. In the frame of SDSN and
the Black Sea, one of the activities that we realized is of great importance is the study
conducted on the feasibility of creating an observatory for SDGs in the Black Sea. This
was done with the support of the Black Sea economic cooperation and funding from BIS.
Now, let me say just a few words about the idea we have on the content, goals, and
activities that can be realized with an observatory in the Black Sea. First of all, to have a
successful implementation of the SDGs in the time span the whole world community
has defined in 2015, we need to have continuous observation, and reporting on the
progress we are making in different areas of the world. And this is the main activity that
will be realized in the frame of a Black Sea Observatory. The Observatory is important for
the realization of the SDGs in terms of socioeconomic aspects, but also in terms of
environmental aspects. Besides the main activity of the observatory, which will be
reporting SDG Progress there are two other additional activities that are very important.
One is the awareness raising and the realization of specifically focused seminars and
workshops for staff in both the public and private stakeholders from the region to
strengthen their ability to contribute to the SDGs. The third activity, which is also very
important based on the reports and the studies we have done; is we want to create a
consulting service provided not only for the public but also for the private sector. Let me
give you an example of what it could mean. For instance, the observatory could support
private and public entities in raising funds to support the SDGs. So, at Aristotle University
we are in an effort right now to mobilize the necessary funding and support to start this
great Observatory.
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Health For A Better World
Dr. Rod
Hochman,
President of
Providence
GREECE'S BLUE
ECONOMY TAPS
INTO OTHER
EMERGING
SECTORS
D R . M A R Y P A P A S C H I N O P O U L O U
C O R P O R A T E D I P L O M A T , A U T H O R ,
L E C T U R E R , F A C I L I T A T O R
I certainly won’t bore our audience with statistics, but I think that it's important to mention certain
numbers because as Patra said, what we cannot measure, is what we do not know. So I'm very
grateful to talk actually, about how Greece is faring worldwide and on an EU level. And this has to
do with the blue economy. So just for all of us to remember Greece belongs among the big five in
the European Union when it comes down to the gross percentage of added value and the blue
economy. And it's among the big three when it comes down to employment, related to the blue
economy. So I think that these two parameters show us very clearly where we stand with 350,000
jobs that are related to the blue economy and a percentage of 5%, of GDP related to blue growth,
perhaps for you to get, a comparison. I was looking at US figures and the US ocean economy has 2.3
million jobs related to the ocean economy and just about 2% of the US’s GDP is linked to the blue
economy. So if you just compare and you understand what we're comparing, you will see how
significant the blue economy is for us now. It is not just that we have certain sectors that are
dominating the Greek economy and it is, first of all, coastal tourism which again, for us is a big issue.
And then we have, of course, maritime transport. I don't have to tell anybody that with 20% of the
global fleet, that we, Greece, are the global leader in shipping. Then as a third sector dominating
the great blue economy, we have the so-called living resources. If you have a look at the numbers
again, you will see that there is quite an imbalance there. So it's about 75% of the jobs that are
hanging together with coastal tourism, and about 15 to 16% to maritime transport and the rest, to
living resources. So, this is a strength, but it's also a kind of a challenge for the future. We should
definitely look towards a Greek economy that is more orientated toward emerging sectors.
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The New Dynamics
of The European
Green Deal
IOANNIS VRAILAS
DEPUTY HEAD OF THE EU DELEGATION TO THE
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
Amb. Ioannis Vrailas:
One flagship project that I want to particularly emphasize is the European
Green deal. It's a radical transformation of our economies and energy mix.
It's a combination of policies aiming at tackling climate change by
ensuring that this transition will be fair and just, leaving no one behind.
The member states of the EU the council agreed recently to fit 55
legislative packages. I don't want to bore you with all the various
institutions that come into play in the decision-making in Brussels, but we
hope that we can reach a final agreement with the European Parliament
before 2023. This European Green Deal has several dealings. The first one
is of course the environmental dimension and the need for urgent action.
The Paris agreement and the SDGs have set the guiding framework at the
global level. NDU has undertaken a leading role in this effort by first
declaring its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, it is true that we
account for a small part of the global emissions, but we hope that the
ambitious standards that we have set for ourselves will act as a normative
power will lead by example, especially with regard to the United States
and to China. The second one is the geopolitical aspect and the external
dimension of climate action. The green deal influences the used political
and trade relations in its neighborhood, but also beyond dependence on
fossil fuels which affects long stand dynamics with traditional gas and oil
suppliers.
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The New Dynamics of
The European Green
Deal continued...
Amb. Ioannis Vrailas:
The recent Russian aggression in Ukraine has only accelerated the
process that was already on track with the EU now aiming at eradicating
its dependence on Russian fossil fuels, as soon as possible through its
ambitious Repair EU plan. We also have new trade instruments such as
the carbon adjustment border mechanism, which will reshape trade
dynamics with the countries. It's definitely an issue that requires special
attention in order to avoid carbon leakage. And of course, there's a
possibility of cooperation of cooperating with several countries in our
region, not least in the Middle East and North Africa and Greece. Greece
because of its geographic location is extremely well placed to, and in fact,
it's already playing an important role with several interesting projects,
well underway. The third reading of this dimension of societal
acceptance, which is key to the success of our endeavor and the pathway
towards net zero emissions will require hard work and will inevitably put
pressure on vulnerable citizens and regions in transition.
The ongoing energy crisis coming on top of the recent COVID D 19
pandemic has also demonstrated that there's discrepancies between the
member states in that every EU member state has a different starting
point in terms of the mix as well as the GDP. So, what we're trying to do in
the EU is to agree on an effective collective response that will mitigate the
impact of a problem affecting the level playing field of the single market.
These are drawbacks that exist. We're aware of them. They will be
recurrent in the future. We hope we'll do everything we can so that they
do not derail the whole effort. Only teamwork and collective action are
the answer to the problem.
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HOLISTIC EDUCATION, IN A TECHNOLOGICAL
WORLD
P E G G Y P E L O N I S : P R E S I D E N T , A C S
A T H E N S
It takes holistic education, educating the mind,
the body, and the soul. And what do I mean by
that? It's really important today, and as we
talked about earlier, that change is happening
at a very rapid pace. Technology is advancing
quickly, and artificial intelligence is entering
our lives. Change is a constant in our lives. We
were called on to respond to change just
recently with COVID. The children in the world
looked to the adults for the answers, and the
adults had no answers. The adults looked to
the authorities for the answers, and the
authorities had no answers because this
change took us by surprise. Change is going to
continue, and it's happening on multiple levels
continuously.
What's happening in the world of education is the global economy is creating higher
levels of competition. Requiring higher levels of expertise, requiring people who know
themselves better, who understand the world better, who are able to manage
themselves, be self-directed, be more independent and knowledgeable at the same
time. This means that we have to train young people at a higher level of mental
complexity earlier. Of course, this places a lot of psychological stress on students, but
people are very resilient, and young people are very resilient.
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HOLISTIC EDUCATION, IN A
TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD,
CONTINUED...
We want to be able to teach them not only to respond and cope with change, as we
did with the pandemic. We want to teach them to be able to navigate change and
most importantly, to shape change, to initiate change so that we don't, and they don't
become victims of change. How do we do this? First of all, of course, academics are
very important. Not just math, not just science, not just technology, but the classics.
Philosophy, literature, music, and art, these are things that teach us how to think
critically. We need to know how to synthesize information. We need to know how to
make decisions about things, and we need to make decisions through an ethical lens
if we have any hope of improving life and living on the planet. So when we talk about
educating kids holistically, we talk about providing the skills and the knowledge so
that they can succeed in a very competitive world, but we're also talking about
creating conscious, responsible citizens. People who will take that knowledge and skill
and turn it into action in the world. That means being able to cultivate compassion,
being able to cultivate psychological muscle, so that they can turn all of these things
into positive action to improve life and living on the planet.
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THE NEW
CURRENCY OF
THE FUTURE
Konstantinos Michanetzis:
Founder at Sylipsis
Corporation
Now skills are the new currency of the
future, and it's the expression of the
industry to try and cope with the fastchanging
things that happen in
education. Education and skills are
two things that come together but
also contradict a little bit. Skills are
against the traditional educational
systems we have seen, and they
expressed the need for the industry to
bring more and more at a faster pace.
That's why now we are speaking about degrees and skills, and even Google announced a
few months ago that they will be hiring people without degrees based on skills. The
reason they do this is not because they don't like degrees, but because they are trying to
cover the high demand for skills in the marketplace that the pace of universities cannot.
We are in this era now where people will need to upscale all the time, and this will
become even more demanding as efficient/artificial intelligence comes in and it'll start
taking jobs from our people. We will need to switch careers and switch skills to move in
another direction. So, yes, right now, we have marketplaces for skills.
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THE NEW CURRENCY OF THE FUTURE,
CONTINUED...
These were available for many years before the pandemic appeared, but they mostly
focused on specific industries. The IT industry and the digital art industry were mostly
utilizing this in marketplaces, then the pandemic happened, and this was a huge
shift. Companies had to change the way they work. They had to work with remote
workers, they had to learn tools, and they had to learn how to manage remote
workers. This is a big difference. It's not about learning the tools, having tools, or
having infrastructure. What changed with the pandemic is the understanding of
management. Companies felt safe. Now they can outsource production to people
remotely, and they can do the job equally as well as they used to do, some even
better than before having teams in offices. They could reduce facilities and expenses,
workers were happier because they were not commuting, and they could work from
home. And this changed the whole concept. Now that we have this idea that we
understand how to manage remote teams globally, a great door has opened.
Now, a great door opens and companies can start outsourcing not only digital skills.
We see a new marketplace appearing in the in the industry. And before we had only
marketplaces, for it and digital arts. Now we see marketplaces for legal services. We
see marketplaces for dental, for medical services, or we see marketplaces for
shipping services. And it's not only about our sourcing, but getting access to skills.
And this is I think, where it's going, how skills are going to change the way we
operate as businesses and as individuals.
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MAKING TECHNOLOGY
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TILEMACHOS MORAITIS:
GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS MANAGER AT MICROSOFT
GREECE, CYPRUS, MALTA, BALTICS & UKRAINE
If you ask the ministry of digital transformation in Ukraine, "What was the key point that
turned the wave around in Ukraine and allowed them to confront attacks from Russia,
not only the kinetic attacks but also the immense cyber attacks." That was the point
that they understood, and they turned to big tech companies such as Microsoft and
were able to deploy very modern tools to continue their operations. One month into the
war, I was receiving emails because, in my role, I cover Ukraine. I was receiving emails
asking me, "What is the status of the Ukrainian government? Are they operational?" And
yes, they were. Until now, they have managed to be operational because they use the
modern digital tools available to continue their work. Of course, they also used these
tools to confront immense cyber attacks from Russia. These were unprecedented times
in terms of cyber security. Now, I would like to turn this discussion to a more normal
environment and context, because in Ukraine, there's a war, and it's a bit extreme.
There's also the aspect of business and what businesses are doing in terms of
confronting these challenges. And again, I would say that digital technology here offers
the best solutions. And why is that? Because in a world that we live in where various
resources are becoming more scarce, technology is the only solution that can scale up.
You can work longer, and you can work harder, but there is a ceiling on that. Technology
is the best scalable solution, and I would like to give you examples of what Microsoft is
doing to confront the affirmation challenges. I would like to focus on what we're doing
to prevent the climate crisis, the environmental crisis. We work on two levels in that
front, first internally, where we announced very ambitious goals to become zero waste,
carbon negative, and water positive by 2030. Even more by 2050, Microsoft is aiming to
remove all historic emissions that have been produced since day one of our operations.
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MAKING TECHNOLOGY
SCALABLE, CONTINUED...
Tilemachos Moraitis:
You can understand how important that is.
Another example, we recently announced
that our data center in Sweden is operating
and running on 100% renewable energy. We
are producing zero waste by either recycling
or repurposing materials removed from our
infrastructure. Now on an external level,
what we do is provide the tools to
organizations and people that have
embarked or are continuing their
sustainability journey to have success on it.
We think that the most important aspect in
this, and I would also refer to the quote from
Dr. Papaschinopoulou who said that you
cannot measure what you don't know. It's
exactly what the digital tools are providing;
knowledge data about what we are doing
ILEMACHOS MORAITIS:
GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATE
AFFAIRS MANAGER AT MICROSOFT
GREECE, CYPRUS, MALTA, BALTICS &
UKRAINE
and what the measures we are taking result
in, so that we improve our actions in
tackling these problems. In closing, I would
say that overall digital technology is not
about only business growth. It's about
preserving and protecting fundamental
human rights and needs.
THE FUNDAMENTALS
OF RE-SKILLING
ALEX COSTOPOULOS:
OWNER, FORESIGHT STRATEGY &
COMMUNICATIONS;
We have to find a way to work together. To
collectively synthesize and regenerate the
discussion. I agree we have to think from the
beginning about all the things that we think
we know. We are talking about re-skilling,
and yet we, although it sounds tremendously
arrogant and please don't take it that way;
acting as leaders in certain fields, we need to
be re-skilled and rethink how we are working
together.
I think the media is doing a large job, but the media is us. The narrative that we
create, it's what goes to the media. The media asks us about things, and I think most
of the time. We stick to buzzwords. We stick to what's easy. We stick to what won't
create problems with our friends, whether in politics or business or what will keep us
safe. But it's a period, in my opinion, that is not about keeping us safe but about
making sure that it will be safer for our kids to pursue their dreams; to find what they
love. I'm sure if we ask a hundred students whether they think their CV is more
important than falling in love, they will tell you the CV, but it's that idea of being able
to fall in love, to live your life, to find what you wanna spend your life doing every day.
I think it's those fundamentals that we need to go back to; to work together. This is
how the media or the broader communications industry will portray our stories, and
maybe we can change something
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GREECE'S GREAT HIGHWAY
GREEK VICE ADMIRAL VASILIOS
MARTZOUKOS
We should approach the sea as a great highway
where travel and traffic are much easier and
cheaper than by land. When we are talking about
a sea power, we are talking about a force
multiplier directly connected to wealth, wellbeing,
opportunities, progress, influence, middle
class, and democracy; all these things are directly
connected. Historically, it's not possible for a
maritime power to have, for a long time at least, a
dictatorship.
It's impossible because the internal society is organized in such a way that makes it
impossible to happen. Now Thucydides, or Thoukydídis in Greek, has very much
analytically described the benefits of being a state maritime power. Admiral Alfred
Thayer Mahan, the most important American strategist of the 19th century, set the
necessary conditions for a state to turn into a maritime power. The state has, has to
have access to critical sea roots. Second is to have a coastline, which must be suitable
for literal activities. It must have a defensible harbor linked to the interior. A proper
national character of each people and mainly people who tend to trade, and last but not
least, a governmental attitude and process that affects the outlook of that state as a
Naval power abroad. So Greece satisfies all these criteria, this is why it has a long
tradition as a maritime power, and all the statistics today agree that Greece continues
to be a great maritime power.
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GREECE'S GREAT HIGHWAY
CONTINUED...
What is needed now is a holistic maritime vision and policy in order to maximize these
benefits. This kind of vision would see Greece as a maritime economic center of the
Eastern Mediterranean, a transportation and energy hub, a sustaining and further
improving shipping, leisure and tourism 12 months per year, fishing and fisheries,
strategic development, improving maritime services, exploiting undersea
hydrocarbons, and develop renewable energy. So, in conclusion, I would say that a
maritime strategy should focus on six main sectors. First is transport, which is shipping,
domestic navigation, ports, terminals, and shipbuilding. Services, which are brokers,
agents, bankers, inspections, financing, insurance, pilots, maritime law rescue, and ship
supply. Third is resource exploitation, fishing, hydrocarbons, etc. The public sector,
which includes the Navy, Coast Guard, training, education, governance, hydrographic
institutions, etc. Leisure and tourism, meaning cruising, leisure activities, yachting, and
marinas. And last is research, oceanography and oceanology institutes, maritime
academies, etc. So besides all these formation benefits, we could additionally have
more benefits like keeping and increasing the populations on the Greek islands. That is
very important. Also, this kind of maritime strategy will limit the Turkish expansion
policy. More Greeks will occupy maritime professions, and last but not least young
Greeks, scientists, and technicians will not flee abroad since they will have jobs here.
Thank you.
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Editor's Note
Dear Ideagen Global Friends and Colleagues,
On September 8, 2022 Ideagen TV released the Ideagen Global Impact
Summit. We are also preparing for an #Epic 17 Days of Sustainability
in October as Ideagen Global continues to maximize our efforts with a
relentless commitment to convene the world's greatest minds from the
world's leading companies, NGOs, and the public sector to address the
world's most vexing issues. In 2022, Ideagen TV content will again
reach over 100 Million People across the planet with our ubiquitous
content distribution, including inspiring interviews and custom
programming to create awareness and Global Partnerships to Achieve
the Goals.
2022 is already an incredibly impactful year with high-impact
hybrid/live events across the planet, including Athens, Greece, New
York, and many other global destinations! Join the movement at
IdeagenGlobal.com for all of the latest updates.
Sincerely,
GEORGE SIFAKIS
GEORGE SIFAKIS
Editor-in-Chief & CEO
Ideagen Global
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COOPER HENDERSON
Lead Publication Editor
DANIEL KERNS
Co-Editor and Chief of Staff
WILL MARTIN
Co-Editor and Senior Fellow
Pictured Top to Bottom
Microsoft's Tilemachos Moraitis
ACS Athens's Peggy Pelonis
Amb. Angelos Pangratis (ret.)
Top Left: Ideagen's Global Impact Summit