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What’s Next in Youth Entrepreneurship

As communities and countries increasingly encourage entrepreneurs who create jobs, youth remain as a largely untapped source for large-scale economic growth. Youth unemployment remains a global challenge and accelerating entrepreneurship among millennials would be a large step in the right direction. This session will explore education, mentoring and acceleration programs to foster entrepreneurship among this younger demographic.

How do we inspire youth entrepreneurship? How can we mentor youth in business? How can we accelerate youth-owned businesses to scale and become sustainable?

What’s Next in Global Data Sharing

Government data on new and young businesses is an important resource for ecosystem leaders as they can reveal patterns in terms of job churn, economic mobility and more. Our goal as GEN is to find, unlock, and promote the next generation of government data that policymakers can use to foster entrepreneurship, develop new tools and create jobs. Open data from governments is also a crucial resource, serving as fuel for entrepreneurship, innovation, scientific discovery, and other public benefits. This session will explore examples of free public data infrastructures that can be tapped to generate new ideas and build new businesses.

How can we access free public data? How can entrepreneurs take advantage of available data from Government to build sustainable innovations?

What’s Next in Startup Accelerators

Over the past several years there has been an explosion of accelerator programs to help rapidly scale new startups – and the debate continues on whether we are in the midst of an ‘accelerator bubble’. While there is minimal data available to definitively answer that question, there are promising models emerging that offer insights into key catalyzer ingredients in accelerators and similar programs. This session will examine the rapid growth in startup accelerators, spotlight examples of successful programs and identify new approaches to compile data that can help refine the model and help entrepreneurs grow.

What is the state of the Accelerators in Kenya? Which are the successful Programs? How can we increase their impact in the rapid growth of Kenyan startups?

What’s Next in Early Stage Investing

Early-stage investors play an important role in helping entrepreneurs unleash their ideas and reach their full potential. A timely infusion of capital can be the difference between failure and success—helping young companies start and scale while driving innovation and economic growth. This session will explore issues such as trends in angel investing, the rapid rise of crowdfunding, cross-border impact investing, policies to promote early stage investment and more.

How can we promote early stage investing in Kenya?

What’s Next in Attracting Global Talent

It is widely understood that investors bet more on the founder team than the idea. In a world of porous borders, facilitating collisions of talent and ideas now depends on creating the right environment for promising entrepreneurs and capital to settle. This session will explore the impact of various approaches such as startup visas to attract high-skilled talent, adding entrepreneurs-in-residence, supporting creative entrepreneurs and more.

How can we as a nation support the inflow of investors to invest in ?

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What’s Next in Creating an Entrepreneurial Mindset

As entrepreneurship is gaining popularity across generations, the prevalence of entrepreneurship education is spreading beyond campuses and in classrooms. Experiential education programs are helping foster an entrepreneurial mindset rooted in creativity, adaptability, persistence, communication, leadership, and strategic thinking. This session will explore trends in experiential education and how such programs can be evaluated.

If experiential learning is one of the key methodologies of building an entrepreneurial mind, how can we adapt our education system in Kenya to include experiential learning?

What’s Next in Ecosystem Metrics & Mapping

With the proliferation of resources available to entrepreneurs, there is a growing need for better diagnostic tools to detect weak and strong points in any given ecosystem – as well as for effective methods to assess the impact of any particular intervention in a given ecosystem. Efforts to map ecosystems at the local, national and even global levels are a critical first step but decision makers from all backgrounds – entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, practitioners and more – need more and better data to guide their actions. This session will review innovative ecosystem mapping efforts already underway while discussing approaches to better measure startup ecosystems.

What is the state of the startup Ecosystem in Kenya and how can we improve this?

What’s Next in Entrepreneurial Cities

As entrepreneurs are enhancing the quality and performance of metropolitan areas, mayors have been some of the quickest policymakers to seek ways to make them important allies in improving their cities. This session will explore the complex connections between entrepreneurs, funders, mentors, educators, customers, partners, government, academic researchers and startups while highlighting the successes of a growing number of cities empowering local entrepreneurs.

Thinking of the impact in Kenya?

GEC 2016 will take place in an unexpected city where “The Business of Next” is a way of thinking that has radically changed a whole community. Medellín—a burgeoning startup hub that has been called by some the most innovative city in the world—promises to build on the successes of previous years.

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GEC Medellín: The Business of Next | GEC 2016 During the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Medellín, Colombia, this March, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and policymakers from 160 countries will gather together to share ideas and best practices – and have a lot of fun in the “City of Eternal Spring.”The GEC not only focuses on th…