Readiness for the EU AI Act across Europe – next steps and use cases for organisations

Petros Fragkiskos is Partner at Drakopoulos, advising on and shaping investments and sophisticated transactions across a wide range of business activities, including M&A Tech, real estate and property investment, construction, project development, start-ups, and innovative technology. He advises clients at every stage, from conception and planning through implementation and day-to-day operation, up to divestment and exit. Petros provides legal advice to private equity firms and venture capital funds, covering establishment, entity structuring, day-to-day operations, and investment activity. He also specializes in the intersection of law and technology, helping companies navigate evolving regulation and adopt new technologies responsibly and strategically, including advising on technology regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act and NIS II for cybersecurity, and delivering end-to-end solutions in partnership with multinational technology experts to help shape organisational governance. He is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Law Firms, representing over 185 of Greece's leading firms, and served as Vice President for three years. He also represents Greece as a Council Member of the International Bar Association's European Regional Forum. Petros graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and holds an M.St. from the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Athens Bar Association, the Hellenic-Dutch Association of Commerce & Industry's AI Committee, and the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) Technology and Digital Transformation Committee.

Albert Agustinoy also has a strong background in intellectual property-related matters, having participated as legal advisor in many commercial cases and disputes relating to technological agreements (including outsourcing and software licensing contracts, and cooperation agreements for technology development), ecommerce, personal data protection, domain names, image rights, and industrial and intellectual property. He is associations and committees liaison officer of the International Bar Association's Technology Law Committee. He is on the list of panelists for domain-name dispute resolution of the World Organization of Intellectual Property, the National Arbitration Forum and the Spanish High Council of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Shipping. He lectures on intellectual property and new technologies on many graduate courses, including the Master in Information Technology, Social Networks and Intellectual Property at ESADE Business & Law School in Barcelona. He regularly speaks at Spanish and international conferences on online gambling, new technologies law and intellectual property. He writes legal articles in Spanish and international journals.