Ahead of Global Entrepreneurship Week (17-23 November) with the 2025 theme #TogetherWeBuild GEN UK Chair, Marc Ortmans, was honoured to speak at the 5th World Business Women Summit held at the House of Lords. Savvitas led by Helene Martin Gee and Sue Lawton MBE convened women leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, changemakers and male allies to set out [...]
The world's largest festival of entrepreneurship is back - 17-23 November. This year the theme for Global Entrepreneurship Week is Together We Build which will be celebrated across the UK and 200 countries. As GEW turns 18, 10 million people are expected to participate in 40,000 events and activities - open to all, everywhere. If you [...]
A special message to entrepreneurs was shared by Jonathan Ortmans, President of the Global Entrepreneurship Network to mark the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2024, the world’s largest festival of entrepreneurship. This week 10 million people will participate in 40,000 events across 200 countries. Hundreds of events and activities are taking place across the UK [...]
Around the world and across 200 countries, 10 million people are celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week. Here in the UK we are starting the week (18-24 November) with the GEW UK 2024 National Launch Breakfast hosted at Mindspace Shoreditch. We have an incredible lineup of speakers including Nick Tyrone, Senior Policy Advisor at The Jobs Foundation, [...]
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2023 kicks off 13th November with 40,000 events taking place across the UK and 200 countries around the world. Our UK launch event is being hosted at HSBC Innovation Banking with Kevin Hollinrake MP – Minister for Enterprise, Markets and Small Business, Matt Jolly Director, ClimateTech & Sustainability and Catherine Wright Director in [...]
2,500 people from 123 GEN countries came together to engage, learn and collaborate to support the development of our global ecosystems at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Melbourne this month. GEN UK was proud to be nominated in 4 categories at the annual Compass Awards: Champion Catalyzer for Partnerships for GEW Champion Catalyzer for Activities Overall [...]
Today with our partner Envirorally we are launching an exciting new event for Global Entrepreneurship Week. A zero carbon motoring event driving green innovation. The inaugural LeZero ‘rally’ will be held in November and run 1,300km from Paris to Venice. Winning teams will be those with the lowest carbon ratio ‘emissions’. The event will run in [...]
Royston Guest, CEO of Pathways Global, has been appointed first GEN UK Director, Channel Islands. An entrepreneur at heart, Royston sold his first business after just 3 years. Since then, he’s built multiple businesses and works with a portfolio of fast growth businesses across diverse sectors. Royston is the CEO of Pathways Global, a fast growth [...]
Gareth Jones, founder of coworking network and small business specialists Town Square Spaces Ltd (TownSq), has been named as new National Director for Wales. Based out of Cardiff, south Wales, Gareth has more than a decade of experience helping other entrepreneurs start and grow enterprises. Through TownSq’s growing network, he has directly worked with over 3,000 startups. [...]
With GEW UK 2021 just behind us, we are already looking forward to GEW UK 2022. GEN UK is delighted to announce that Katie Matthews, our National Director for Northern Ireland will be taking on the role of Director for GEW UK. Katie is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, growth mindset educator, speaker, founder, mentor, mental health and [...]
