Digital World Summit Greece 2024 — In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary

The 3-Line Summary

On 28 May 2024, at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece's national IGF held its first summit under a new name — Digital World Summit Greece 2024 — on 'Shaping the future of A.I.'.
Round tables on balancing AI innovation with regulation, cybersecurity and citizen safety, and Europe's digital future fed a policy-recommendations report sent to national and international bodies.
It marks a rare NRI rebrand: the grassroots IGF Greece reborn as a ministerial-level, AI-focused summit, still counted as Greece's IGF on the UN roster.

Welcome — this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Digital World Summit Greece 2024 draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.

Conference at a Glance (from official records)

Item	Detail
Official name	Digital World Summit Greece 2024
Dates	28 May 2024 (10:00–16:30) (dig.watch lists 18 May 2024, but both the government (National Coalition for Digital Skills) notice and the official site's retrospective give 28 May; 18 May appears to be an error)
Venue	National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens; hybrid format
Theme	'Shaping the future of A.I.' — the governance of artificial intelligence
Speakers	22 (22 speakers listed on the official site, including Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou and Prof. Lilian Mitrou)
Host	Organised by the non-profit civil company Digital Dialogues (Ψηφιακοί Διάλογοι), under the auspices of the UN, the Ministry of Digital Governance and the City of Athens
Outcome	A policy-recommendations report shared with national and international policymaking bodies; the official site posts a 2024 report and accounts

(See the source list at the end of this article.)

Discussion Digest — from the Session Records

Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.

1. AI Innovation versus Regulation — Finding the Balance

Sessions: Round table 'AI: Balance between innovation & regulation' (12:00–13:00)

Held just as the EU AI Act was adopted, the debate focused on implementing regulation without stifling innovation in the Greek context [2][1]
Information-law scholar Prof. Lilian Mitrou joined government and industry speakers [2][1]

2. Cybersecurity and Citizen Safety in the AI Era

Sessions: Round table 'Cybersecurity, Citizen Safety & Artificial Intelligence' (13:15–14:30)

Examined how AI reshapes both attack and defence, framed around citizen safety [2][1]
A lightning talk by Digital Governance Minister Papastergiou set out the government's priorities [2][1]

3. Europe's Digital Future — Where Greece Stands

Sessions: Round table 'Europe's digital future' (15:30–16:30)

Positioned Greece within European digital policy on the eve of the 2024 European Parliament elections [1]
The summit was designed to turn 'dialogue between recognised experts' into recommendations for national and international policymakers (translated from the Greek notice) [1]

4. From IGF to Summit — An NRI Rebranding Experiment

Sessions: The summit's positioning

IGF Greece, born in 2021 as a free university-hosted forum, re-emerged as a ministerial-level summit under the Digital World Summit Greece banner [3][4]
Run by the non-profit Digital Dialogues, it remains 'Greece IGF' within the UN's NRI network [3][4]

Three-Minute Short Talk — Your Questions Answered

Q. Did the forum change its name?

A. Yes. IGF Greece, launched in 2021, relaunched in 2024 as the Digital World Summit Greece — still Greece's national IGF within the UN's NRI network.

Q. What was discussed?

A. AI, wall to wall: balancing innovation and regulation right after the EU AI Act passed, cybersecurity and citizen safety, and Europe's digital future — distilled into a policy report.

Q. Why care?

A. It shows a national IGF rebranding itself to reach ministers and mainstream audiences — a playbook other countries' IGF communities are quietly studying.

What Is Greece IGF? (for first-time readers)

Greece IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.

Why It Matters to You

What was discussed here becomes the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years. The principles confirmed at the 2024 meeting are the foundation of the "next rules" for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.