We’re thrilled to announce that Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, might be becoming a member of us at our upcoming StrictlyVC occasion in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night time, May 8, on the beautiful Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
For those that may not be accustomed to his background, Mitsotakis brings a captivating mix of experiences to the desk. Before coming into politics, he labored at each McKinsey and Chase Investment Bank, giving him firsthand expertise within the enterprise world that many operators all through the startup ecosystem can respect. The youngest of 4 youngsters, he additionally has some Silicon Valley-esque tutorial credentials — he headed to Harvard, then to Stanford for a grasp’s diploma in worldwide relations, and eventually nabbed an MBA at Harvard Business School — and says his schooling has lengthy formed his imaginative and prescient for Greece’s future.
Mitsotakis has additionally been championing Greece’s tech transformation for a few years. In reality, after navigating the nation by way of the pandemic, he has doubled down on positioning Athens as an rising tech hub, lately introducing initiatives to draw worldwide expertise, together with tax incentives and reforms aimed toward slicing bureaucratic crimson tape for brand new companies.
The prime minister comes from a political household — his father was prime minister and his sister was mayor of Athens — however he has carved out his personal popularity as a reformer targeted on modernizing the Greek financial system. His administration has been significantly eager about how tech will help diversify famend conventional Greek strengths like delivery and tourism.
StrictlyVC occasions are constrained by design to provide attendees a novel alternative for traders, founders, and ecosystem builders to have interaction straight with energy gamers just like the prime minister, so if you wish to ask about his authorities’s imaginative and prescient for Greece’s tech future, and the way the nation matches into the broader European innovation panorama, this could possibly be your probability.
You can take a look at extra particulars right here to be taught extra concerning the agenda and different audio system (you may as well purchase tickets whereas they’re nonetheless out there). Registration is now open for what guarantees to be a enjoyable night, stuffed with illuminating discussions, and this chat — with certainly one of Europe’s most fascinating political leaders in Greece’s rising expertise narrative — is unquestionably one you received’t wish to miss. Register in your StrictlyVC Greece ticket right here.
