Official Opening

I session – Entrepreneurship Education Today and Tomorrow

• Revolutionizing Entrepreneurship Education: Adapting to a Rapidly Evolving World!

This speech will explore the critical importance of experiential learning in entrepreneurship education. Attendees will learn about the benefits of experimenting, adapting, and collaborating, and how these practices can help entrepreneurs succeed in a rapidly evolving business landscape. By embracing vulnerability and taking risks, we can equip the next generation of entrepreneurs with the skills they need to thrive in an uncertain world. Jorim Holtey-Weber.

• EIA’s impact on students’ psychological capital

Coffee break

II session – The Future of Entrepreneurship Education Panel Session

It’s a challenge to teach entrepreneurship theory in universities and business schools, as the world changes in seconds. How to build bridges to the theory-practice gap and grow the mindset of an entrepreneur?

Panel discussion of the future education methods will be moderated by Gerda Noormägi, CEO of EIA

Lunch

III session – Latest Studies and Practices on Innovative Entrepreneurship Education

• Engaging Online Learners

What matters in online learning? What has to change to engage learners across geographies and time zones? What unique challenges exist across asynchronous, synchronous, and hybrid learning? Hear Angela Lee’s practical tips and tools in this session. 

• The Essence of Experience in Experiential Entrepreneurship education

Entrepreneurship education today is no longer a question of if it can be taught or should be taught (questions that were prevalent in the last decade or so). It is more on how it should be taught. There is a growing and almost convergent global consensus that entrepreneurship education should be experiential. But what is Experience – or the essence of Experience that we plan in experiential entrepreneurship education? I think the answer here lies in diversity of experience as well as complexity of experience. This talk will try and delve into understanding this essence so that we may go on and design/weave/build even better experiential learning modules for tomorrow. There will be examples of different experiences, simulations, observations and learnings that I have made throughout the years teaching Entrepreneurship across various faculties – Business, Science, Engineering, Humanities etc. Rajiv Vaid Basaiawmoit. 

• The evolution of social innovation education: A Georgia Tech case-study

In this presentation, we’ll discuss what we learned from running a social innovation competition at Georgia Tech, called Ideas to Serve. We’ll describe its evolution from a stand-alone heropreneur, student-centered approach to a course-based, equitable, partner-centered collaboration. Learn how you can prepare students to be effective and empathetic social entrepreneurs by purposefully elevating community-based organizations as co-educators. Dori Pap and Susan Davis. 

IV session – Case Studies on Using Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Methods

• The Importance of the Facilitator in Entrepreneurship Simulation: Maximizing the Student Learning Experience

The perceived effectiveness of serious game pedagogy for students has been demonstrated earlier. Yet, the emphasis has often been on the technics, serious game itself, its content, and aims. Much less emphasis has been given to the role of the teacher; as if anyone could run a serious game and the learning outcome would be the same. Our study demonstrates that a nexus, “facilitator-serious game”, seems to be central to the production of positive learning outcomes in serious game-based pedagogy. Indeed, the role of the facilitator seems to be as important as the game itself for the increase in the entrepreneurial motivation and aspirations of students, rather than merely providing fun and entertaining teaching session for them. Yosra Boughattas and Erno Tornikoski. 

• Gig Lab: practical training for freelancers

The Conestoga Gig Lab helps individuals monetize their professional skills by launching a freelance business over the course of 15 weeks. Self-directed careers are more popular than ever and demand for freelancers is high as companies seek to build flexible capacity to fuel growth. The Gig Lab has been designed to address the nuances and specific needs of freelancers while developing the skills, mindsets and tools to flourish in the professional Gig Economy. Rose Mastnak

V session – This is How we Do It: 

Operationalizing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In this session Zoe Hunter, Managing Director at the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking will provide practical resources for operationalizing diversity, equity, and inclusion within an entrepreneurship center. The presentation will provide practiced strategies, honest failures, and measurements of evaluation for the center’s key tenets: representative leadership, informed empathy, and inclusive participation.

Coffee Break

VI session – Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Methods – Hands-on Workshop

• Experience a ‘Behind The Scenes’ Journey 

Please join us for an interactive ‘behind the scenes’ journey to explore the style and activities that make the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship a best in class pedagogy.  

• Recruiting: Learn how we recruit large numbers of cross-disciplinary students to Entrepreneurship Classes, Groups, Competitions, our Summer Abroad program and more! 
• Gamification: Come ready to participate in several of the gamified challenges that lead to very intentional learning outcomes for our students – and possibly you! These exercises will test your own innovation leadership skills, from using the resources around you to finding clever non-obvious solutions. 
• Learning Outcomes: Ultimately, through our programs, our students learn leadership through the lens of their own experiences, skills, blind spots, weaknesses and strengths in order to prepare them to lead a team into the unknown, the uncertain and the uncharted. 

We’re confident this workshop will give you practical ideas on how to approach your own entrepreneurship ecosystem challenges to build a program filled with lessons and activities that your students will not only use in the rest of their time at your University, but long into their careers!  

Pamela Induni, Susan Giesecke

VII session – Poster session

Share your experience and activities in the field of entrepreneurship education through a poster session. Pitch Your ideas and learn from colleagues!