Google’s Eric Schmidt To Talk About Entrepreneurship in Indonesia

As part of the Global Entrepreneurship Program, GEP Indonesia will host the Regional Entrepreneurship Summit (RES) in Bali in July 2011. The summit will be attended by Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, who is one of the keynote speakers at this conference. Schmidt will speak on “How Entrepreneurship Can Change the Future of a Nation.”

Eric Schmidt will represent Google, clearly a company that has experienced great success in the entrepreneurial world.

As the topic for this year’s conference will be “Entrepreneurship – The Next Big Chapter,” Schmidt will be encouraging entrepreneurs in emerging nations to develop and contribute to both local and global economies.

This is consistent with the vision of the Global Entrepreneurship Program of the U.S. State Department, led by Hillary Clinton (who will also be a keynote speaker) to promote business growth in emerging economies.

This ASEAN RES in Bali next month is a continuation from the first Entrepreneurship Summit convened by President Obama in Washington in 2010. This conference will focus on ASEAN, and Indonesia’s recent rapid development in digital entrepreneurship, which makes it a suitable choice for hosting the event. As Indonesia’s trade minister Mari Elka Pangestu stated, this summit aims to be an entrepreneurial catalyst for the nation. Hopefully more and more young companies in Asia can take action and develop their entrepreneurial efforts after being inspired by such events.

You can catch the full RES program list here.

Source: Jakarta Globe