Entrepreneurship Impact Summit (YONER EIS)
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Our Impact Summit is an ANNUAL colorful and high-level event that brings together participants and stakeholders of our programs and the ecosystems and recognizes and celebrates successful and high achieving entrepreneurs and innovators within our ecosystem. Also known as The Liberia Big Idea combines entertainment with practical information, and is an ideal channel for creating greater awareness of the importance of entrepreneurship, impact investments and the opportunities of an entrepreneurial career. It will convene local, national and international leaders from our emerging impact investment community, entrepreneurs, businesses, academics, philanthropists, governments, development partners, foreign missions and sector leaders to script a new story of Liberia’s socio-economic paradigm.
The Liberia Big Idea aims to unveil and showcase the achievements and successes of our leaders, talents, entrepreneurs, tech-entrepreneurs, agripreneurs, innovators and changemakers and curated, incubated and accelerated solutions that come out of our programs thereby creating value and making our program impactful and creating demand. “The Liberia Big Idea” will be held in Mid-October or early November annually and organized rotationally in major cities of Liberia.
The value proposition of EIS is all about the entire experience – training, inspiration, motivation, resources, connections, and mentorship and more. But on top of that, The Liberia Big Idea is a platform that offers great number of impactful prizes, investment opportunities and awesome resources and perks to leading entrepreneurs and start-ups within our ecosystem. During “The Liberia Big Idea, our entrepreneurs, innovators and others within our ecosystem will set of exhibition booth to showcase and /or display their products and services being offered to their communities and Liberia at large. We will officially inaugurate our Summit in 2022 in Paynesville. The Liberia Big Idea also hopes to achieve these additional objectives:
- To raise the profile of Liberia’s business and entrepreneurial ecosystems amongst the youth
- To inform the youth about local businesses and the people driving them.
- To inspire young people and stakeholders, especially the government of Liberia to support Liberian businesses and to gain interest in entrepreneurship and technology innovation.
- To boost and connect the creative and innovation ecosystem of Liberia to other nations.