{"id":89219,"date":"2025-10-01T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalsustain.org\/?p=89219"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:04:39","slug":"drakopoulos-participated-in-the-8th-annual-international-bar-association-european-start-up-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/drakopoulos-participated-in-the-8th-annual-international-bar-association-european-start-up-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAKOPOULOS: Participated in the 8th Annual International Bar Association European Start-up Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; We were happy to take part in the 8th Annual <a class=\"pwHwmXBqmofSClxsctVkNQQzvNIASaSVkFYLg \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/international-bar-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">International Bar Association<\/a> European Start-up Conference, held in Cascais, Portugal, on 24\u201325 September 2025, a key event that brought together leading professionals from the worlds of innovation, investment and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>Our managing partner, <a id=\"ember196\" class=\"ember-view\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/panagiotisdrakopoulos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Panagiotis Drakopoulos<\/a>, attended alongside partner <a id=\"ember197\" class=\"ember-view\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/petros-fragkiskos-42870229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petros Fragkiskos<\/a>, who had the opportunity to moderate the insightful panel discussion, &#8216;Empowering Startups: EU and national support strategies for market growth and innovation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The panel explored how Europe can transform its world-class research ecosystem into scalable ventures while competing with the US and Asia in the DeepTech race and tackling the associated structural and financial hurdles. The speakers highlighted key challenges related to EU funding, regulatory frameworks, investment dynamics and geopolitical influences, providing practical insights into what is needed for Europe to take the lead.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank <a id=\"ember198\" class=\"ember-view\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karim-maizar-006610a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karim Maizar<\/a>, co-moderator and partner at Kellerhals Carrard, as well as the speakers &#8211; <a id=\"ember199\" class=\"ember-view\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/veronica-costa-orvalho-b6a8812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veronica Costa Orvalho<\/a>, Founder and CEO of Didimo and Ambassador of the European Innovation Council, <a id=\"ember200\" class=\"ember-view\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jfs-6b76118\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jo\u00e3o Fonseca Santos<\/a>, Head of European Investment Bank Group Office and <a id=\"ember201\" class=\"ember-view\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/arthur-jordao\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur Jord\u00e3o<\/a>, Executive Director of Europe Startup Nations Alliance, &#8211; for sharing their valuable insights.<\/p>\n<p>At DRAKOPOULOS , we \u00a0are \u00a0committed \u00a0\u00a0to \u00a0supporting \u00a0the \u00a0startup \u00a0and \u00a0innovation ecosystem \u00a0across Europe and \u00a0beyond as well as leveraging \u00a0our expertise in \u00a0DeepTech, AI, and regulatory \u00a0frameworks \u00a0to provide strategic \u00a0legal guidance and empower \u00a0the next generation of entrepreneurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; We were happy to take part in the 8th Annual International Bar Association European Start-up Conference, held in Cascais, Portugal, on 24\u201325 September 2025, a key event that brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":89190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esg-sustainability-2","category-events-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89220,"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89219\/revisions\/89220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globalsustain.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}