When: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 | 18:00 – 20:00

Where: ACG Events Hall

Organized by:
The American College of Greece and The Association of S.A. and Entrepreneurship

About the event

The American College of Greece (ACG) and the Association of S.A. and Entrepreneurship, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of its establishment in Greece, are organizing an event to be held on 31 May 2022 at the premises of ACG.

The event, under the title “From Smyrna to Greece” aims to:

• underline the success of the Greek business community in Smyrna and present the significance, for the local, multi-ethnic, community, of The American Collegiate Institute (ACI) for Girls, as AGG was called at the time.
• illustrate the success story of both the ACG and of the Association of S.A. and Entrepreneurship, one of the founders of the University of Piraeus, and their contribution to the economic and educational development of Greece.

Schedule

18:00 | Opening Remarks

Simos Anastasopoulos, President, The Association of SA and Limited Liability Companies
Claudia Carydis, Vice President Public Affairs, The American College of Greece

18:15 | Education & Entrepreneurship in Smyrna

• Chair: Simos Anastasopoulos, President, The Association of SA and Limited Liability Companies
• Smyrna before the catastrophe: A Spatial Planning Approach, Achilleas Chatzikonstantinou, Geographer, historian & writer
• The American Collegiate Institute for Girls in Smyrna, Haris Daskalothanasis, Executive Director of Outreach, The American College of Greece
• Greek Entrepreneurship in Smyrna: Charalampos Tsardanidis, Professor, University of Aegean, Director, Institute of International Financial Relations

19:00 | Break

19:15 | Continuity & Progress in Greece

• Chair: Konstantinos Filis, Director of the ACG Institute of Global Affairs, Associate Professor of International Relations, Deree – ACG
• The miracle of recovery, Kostas Kostis, Professor, University of Athens
• The American College of Greece in Greece: 100 years in support of entrepreneurship through education, Annie Triantafyllou, Professor of Economics, Dean, School of Business and Economics, Interim Executive Dean, Deree – ACG
• From SA & Limited Liabilities Companies Association to SA & Entrepreneurship Association: 1922 – 2022, Ioanna Anastasopoulou, Lawyer, Legal Advisor of The Association of SA and Limited Liability Companies

The event will be held in Greek. You are kindly requested to register.