Entrepreneurship Day Takes Place in Tbilisi on October 8

Speakers are Nika Kurdiani, who is Deputy CEO of TBC and Mario Berta, who is a professor of IE Business School.

For entrepreneurial activity to translate into economic growth, entrepreneurship education needs to focus less on the “start” and “small” side of things and more on how companies of all ages, sizes and sectors scale. After all, the company founders and successful entrepreneurs that we know today are famous not because they started but because they scaled. A scaleup can be described as any organization that is undergoing rapid growth. Most businesses are surprised to see that past practices do not work well when going from 1x to 2x and 3x.

Panel discussion will be about "Education and Entrepreneurship".

Mario Berta 

Giga Bedineishvili - Dean of Business School, Free University of Tbilisi

Lasha Antadze - Founder, Shelf Network

Levan Giorgadze - CEO, SOCAR Georgia Petroleum & Partner at "Crosty"

Panel discussion will be moderated by Nika Kurdiani
Agenda:

19:00 - 19:30 Registration
19:30 - 19:45 Welcome remarks by Sati Boyajyan, Associate Director for Eastern Europe & Central Asia and IE alumna
19:45 - 20:00 Nika Kurdiani
20:00 - 20:40 Mario Berta – The New Era of Scaleup Entrepreneurship
20:40 - 21:30 Panel discussion – Education and Entrepreneurship
21:30 Wine and Networking


The event will be held in English.