The Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 was held on November 28-30 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre in Hyderabad, India. The Summit was inaugurated by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi and Advisor to the President, Ivanka Trump, who led the U.S. delegation.

The GES is the preeminent annual gathering of emerging entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders from around the world. Through networking, mentoring, and workshops, the GES empowers entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas, build partnerships, secure funding, and create innovative goods and services that will transform societies. This year, the focus was on women entrepreneurs and the tremendous potential women bring to entrepreneurship.

GES 2017 strived to create an environment that empowers innovators, particularly women, to take their ideas to the next level. Women represent tremendous promise for economic growth and prosperity — but in both developing and developed countries, they also face tremendous barriers to building businesses. This year’s theme was “Women First, Prosperity for All” to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit in all its strengths and diversity.

GES 2017 was attended by over 1600 delegates, including entrepreneurs and investors, CEOs of major knowledge-based industries, representing the full measure of entrepreneurial talent from diverse backgrounds across the world. The participants were truly global, representing 160 countries, with representation from every region of the world. Entrepreneurs representing a diverse range of geographies, industries, business size, and scalability. Investors and representatives from organizations that support entrepreneurs were hand-picked to catalyze investment, networking and mentoring. There was a special emphasis on empowering young and women entrepreneurs and the role they play in making communities more prosperous and secure through enterprise.

Our founder and CEO, Jaisheela Padmanabhan was chosen as a Mentee- startup entrepreneur GES (Global Entrepreneur Summit) 2017 by US Consulate and Indian government. We share some pictures from the event.