NOTIONAL STRAW-MAN AGENDA TOPICS
The Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013 Kuala Lumpur will bring together entrepreneurs, leading business people, high-level government officials, incubators to focus on the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. What factors encourage entrepreneurship? How can governments foster the right atmosphere? What is the role of the business community?
We envisage lively, dynamic discussions in a setting conducive to sharing, collaboration, and networking. Multiple talks, panels, and conversations will inspire and energize.
Emerging trends in the startup scene, with special focus on Asia:
- Fostering a Green Economy
- Products for the emerging Asian middle class
- Low-cost, scalable solutions for the "bottom billion"
- Co-Islamic finance and financial inclusion
- The "maker" movement
- Start-ups and job creation
- CSR and sustainability
Creating tomorrow's game changers:
- Business Not As Usual: Learning from the Risk Takers
- Building Great Companies
- Pitch Bootcamp and Competition
- Investing in Tech Start-ups
- The Emerging Market and Start-ups – SE Asia and MENA
- Social Entrepreneurship and Transformation
Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem:
Governments, investors, corporations, academics, foundations, and entrepreneurs themselves all play an important role.
- Beyond Silicon Valley: Startup ecosystems around the world
- Follow the Money: Strengthening the start-up investment climate
- Learning from Policy Success: How governments have successfully fostered thriving startup communities
- Community building: The role that meet-ups, incubators, and other tools have in bringing a startup scene together
- The entrepreneurial university
- Big Business & Start-ups: Supporting each other
- Mapping start-up ecosystems
In addition, GES 2013 will feature the following additional activities:
- Startup Academy workshops
- Founder/Mentor matchmaking sessions and networking opportunities
- Insider's Roundtable on Malaysia and ASEAN
- Young Entrepreneurs Forum, including finalists from the Global Innovation through Science and Technology's (GIST) Tech-I competition.
- International Entrepreneurs Showcase and Expo
- Policy Roundtable for senior policymakers to discuss fostering high growth entrepreneurship
- University Sessions
