Litsa Panayotopoulos and Peggy Pelonis

Growing Up With AI
By Business Partners | Sep-Oct, 2026

Learning Curve

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming woven into day-to-day life across demographics, and children are no exception. Business Partners reached out to Litsa Panayotopoulos and Peggy Pelonis—respectively the Chair and Vice Chair of AmCham Greece’s Education, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Committee—to discuss the integration and role of AI in children’s education and what students, teachers, and schools…

AmCham Greece AI Task Force

From Knowledge to Action: Introducing the AmCham Greece AI Task Force
By Business Partners | Sep-Oct, 2026

DEPLOYING INTELLIGENCE

Launched in September 2026, the new AI Task Force aims to leverage the Chamber’s considerable knowhow and transatlantic network to drive responsible adoption and successful operationalization of AI across the Greek business ecosystem and particularly among SMEs. The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce has announced the official launch of its AI Task Force, a forward-looking initiative…

Katerina Sardi

Greece’s Return to Offshore Exploration: A Strategic Opportunity for Energy Security
By Dr. Katerina Sardi, Managing Director Greece, Energean | Business Partners, Sep-Oct, 2026

Powering The Future

In April 2027, Greece will take an important step toward shaping its future energy landscape with the drilling of the Asopus-1 exploration well in Block 2, in the northwestern Ionian Sea. This will be the first offshore exploration well drilled in Greek waters since 1981, marking the return of a sector that has remained dormant…

George Pechlivanoglou

Reading Both Map and Data: A More Agile Approach to Energy Infrastructure
By Dr.-Ing. George Pechlivanoglou, Deputy CEO for Innovation and Strategic Intelligence, Eunice Energy Group; Chairman and CEO, Joltie | Business Partners, Sep-Oct, 2026

Powering The Future

Succeeding in today’s shifting energy landscape requires a holistic approach that uses advanced mapping and analytics insights to optimize upstream resources, interconnections, and offshore development, making data and geopolitics central to investment, resilience, and longterm value. Geopolitics, artificial intelligence, and data-center competitiveness are reshaping energy-investment criteria. Energy infrastructure can no longer be evaluated solely by…

Thessaloniki Tax Forum Chronicles

Thessaloniki Tax Forum Chronicles
By Business Partners | Sep-Oct, 2026

Tax Talk

The conversations sparked at the 14th Thessaloniki Tax Forum extend well beyond the conference hall. Across both the public and private sectors, tax and financial management are being reshaped by a powerful combination of increased transparency, technological capability, regulatory change, and rising expectations for certainty and accountability. For governments, this means moving toward more reliable…

Petros Constantinidis

The Trust Power™ Revolution
By Petros Constantinidis, President, Publicom Group | Business Partners, Sep-Oct, 2026

LEADERSHIP

We have entered a new leadership era. In a distrusting world where people have stopped listening and believing, reputation alone is no longer enough. The new leadership currency is trust. It influences whether employees follow you, customers choose you, and investors back you. Ultimately, it dictates whether partners stay with you and whether stakeholders believe…

The Cost of Complexity

The Cost of Complexity: When Regulation Becomes a Business Risk
By Alexandra Loli, Ph.D., Publisher and Editor-in-Chief | Business Partners, Sep-Oct, 2026

Thought Leaders

Complexity rarely arrives all at once. Complexity accumulates. A new directive. An additional reporting requirement. Another layer of compliance. A new framework designed to respond to a new risk, followed by national provisions, sector-specific rules, technical guidance, and evolving interpretations. Each element may have a legitimate purpose, but together they can create a business environment…

George Stroumboulis

Curiosity, Interesting Ideas, and Agile Entrepreneurship
By Business Partners | Sep-Oct, 2026

AmCham Greece in the USA

George Stroumboulis, CEO and Co-Founder of Ideoli Group, Inc., talks to Business Partners about growing into entrepreneurship, the thrill of interesting ideas, and Greece’s growing potential as a business and investment destination. How did growing up in a Greek immigrant family shape your outlook and set you on a path to entrepreneurship? My parents taught…