Official Summit overview
Event overview
The Global Founders & Innovators Summit 2027 brings together aspiring entrepreneurs, founders, business owners, innovators, investors, advisors, speakers, sponsors, and ecosystem partners around the decisions involved in building stronger businesses and creating meaningful impact.
Taking place online on May 12 and 13, 2027, the Summit follows the business journey from an early idea through growth, profitability, value creation, and eventual transition or exit.
The central idea for 2027 is:
Build Value. Create Impact.
Build what the world needs.
People at different stages of business face different decisions. An aspiring entrepreneur might be validating an opportunity or looking for a first customer. A founder might be working on sales, systems, funding, or team growth. An established business owner might be focused on margins, enterprise value, succession, or preparing for a future sale.
The Summit brings these different stages into one shared experience, together with the investors, advisors, operators, innovators, speakers, partners, and resources involved in helping businesses move forward.
Five pathways through the business journey
Start
Build the right foundation.
Validate opportunities, understand customers, reach early customers, build credibility, and establish the foundations needed to move forward.
Grow
Build for growth.
Strengthen sales, marketing, systems, technology, teams, operations, and partnerships to support sustainable growth.
Profit
Improve profitability.
Focus on margins, cash flow, pricing, financial decisions, operational efficiency, and the overall value of the business.
Exit
Build transferable value.
Explore succession, valuation, buyer readiness, owner independence, and the decisions involved in a future transition or sale.
Social Impact
Create lasting impact.
Explore how businesses grow while creating measurable social, environmental, or community value.
Together, these pathways reflect a business journey that changes as an organisation develops. The challenges change. The people and resources needed also change.
A wider business ecosystem
The Summit is built around people developing businesses and the wider ecosystem around them.
- Aspiring entrepreneurs bring ideas and opportunities.
- Founders and business owners bring real business challenges and experience.
- Innovators bring new solutions and approaches.
- Investors bring capital and investment perspective.
- Advisors and experienced operators bring practical knowledge.
- Speakers bring frameworks, lessons, and case studies.
- Sponsors and ecosystem partners bring tools, services, resources, and opportunities.
The Summit creates a place for these groups to connect around the decisions businesses face at different stages.
Practical learning around real decisions
The programme combines workshops, panels, founder experiences, expert perspectives, case studies, partner sessions, peer discussion, and networking.
The focus is practical.
- How do you validate an opportunity and reach customers?
- How do you build systems that support growth?
- How do you improve profitability and cash flow?
- How do you increase the value of a business?
- How do you prepare for succession or exit?
- How do innovation and social impact become part of a sustainable business?
The aim is for participants to leave with clearer decisions, relevant connections, useful resources, and a practical next step.
More than two live days
The main live Summit takes place on May 12 and 13, 2027.
The wider Global Founders & Innovators Summit experience extends before and after those two days through pre-Summit events, early content, networking opportunities, partner sessions, professional education, and post-Summit experiences.
This gives participants more time to prepare, connect with relevant people and resources, and continue applying what they learn after the main Summit.
A global community
The Summit sits within an Eprenz ecosystem of more than 157,000 community members and builds on previous Global Founders & Innovators Summits that brought together thousands of participants, speakers, panelists, hosts, partners, and business leaders.
For 2027, the focus is not simply bringing people together.
It is connecting people at different stages of the business journey with the ideas, expertise, relationships, capital, resources, and opportunities relevant to what comes next.
Event facts
- Event
- Global Founders & Innovators Summit 2027
- Dates
- May 12 and 13, 2027
- Time
- 9:00 AM ET
- Format
- Live online Summit
- Theme
- Build Value. Create Impact.
- Supporting line
- Build what the world needs.
- Programme pathways
- Start, Grow, Profit, Exit, Social Impact
- Audience
- Aspiring entrepreneurs, founders, business owners, innovators, investors, advisors, speakers, sponsors, and ecosystem partners