Conference Programme
Agenda
Monday, September 21, 2026
Registration, Breakfast, and Arrival Networking
Guests arrive, register, receive name badges and conference materials, and have breakfast. Location: Outside Loft A/B. Breakfast & registration take place at the Hub.
Opening Ceremony
Introduction & Land Acknowledgement — by Benson Honig CRCE Directors' Opening Address, introducing the theme(s) and outlining the day Deans' Welcome — DeGroote School of Business Research Dean Elkafi Hassani
Opening Feature: Reframery — “How Do You Get Out of Poverty?”
Documentary produced by Nicolas Mertens & Genuine Sadness Inc. Filmed in Nairobi Kenya
Panel 1: The Implications of Entrepreneurship for Poverty
Panel Topic: The pros and cons of supporting entrepreneurship for marginalized communities.
Keynote 1
Presentation Session: Entrepreneurship Education — From Learning to Launch
Presenters in this session
Entrepreneurship Education - Institutional Incongruence and Youth Enterprise in Kenya
Renson Muhiri
Institutional Incongruence and Youth Enterprise in Kenya
Educating Educators: Cross-cultural Adaptations to Incubation Management Training
John Lam & Emily Buchnea
Beyond Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Model of Entrepreneurial Identity Among University Students
Christopher Holt
Using Effectuation to Train Marginalized Entrepreneurs in the Developing World
Akbar Saeed
How a decision logic built for uncertainty can help people build livelihoods under poverty, displacement, and institutional weakness — and where it can't
Lunch
Presentation Session 2: Beyond the Formal Economy — Understanding Informal Entrepreneurship
Presenters in this session
Can backyard farmers actually be agri-preneurs?
Nafis Muntasir
A System, Not a Hurdle: Conditional Legitimacy and Self-Authorized Agency in Racialized Women's Entrepreneurship
Besma Soltan
“Apprentice Spinouts” and Competition in the Informal Economy
Shelter Teyi
Informal, Small & Social Entrepreneurs
Keith Taylor, Duca Impact Labs
Bootstrapping, financial vulnerability and the escalator loan pilot
Scheduled Networking Block
Panel 2: Immigrant Entrepreneurship — Turning Difference into Opportunity
Panel Topic: Resource Orchestration and the Perception of Foreignness: A Study of Migrant Entrepreneurs.
Scheduled Networking Block
"What Came Next" Pitch Contest
Speaker pitches, panel question period, QR code voting period, and award ceremony.Speaker stories, audience conversation, and audience reflection. Following the stories, guests will be invited to vote via QR code for the story that resonated most with them. The audience selection will be recognized at the end of the session.
Draft Programme
This schedule has been updated with the most recent version of the conference materials. Any further updates will not adjust the timing of events.