Name: IERC 2026 - 2nd International Entrepreneurship Research Conference
Start: 2026-10-27T12:00:00Z
End: 2026-10-28T21:00:00Z
Location: Arab Academy (Cairo, Egypt) - https://ec.aast.edu/

Keynote Speaker 1:

Professor Garry Bruton

Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, USA

Garry is a Professor of Management at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. In the past, he served as the Editor of Academy of Management Perspectives, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies. Garry is a High End Foreign Expert for the under 1000 Talents Program - China, an Honorary Professor at the School of Management, Jilin University, China, and an Honorary Professor at School of Business, Sun Yat Sen University, China.

Keynote Speaker 2:

Professor Yong Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Research Director for Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Yong Li, Ph.D., is the Lee Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Lee Business School, and research director of the Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is a co-editor for Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) and has served on the editorial boards of several other leading journals including AMJ, AMR, JBV, and JIBS.

Li conducts research at the nexus of entrepreneurship, strategy and international business, studying venture capital, crowdfunding, new venture innovation and international investment. His work suggests that it is critical to keep options open and get institutions right for value creation and value capture under uncertainty. He has published extensively in major management journals such as AMJ, JIBS, OS, and SMJ, and in major entrepreneurship journals including SEJ, JBV, and ETP.

Keynote Speaker 3:

Professor David Audretsch, Indiana University, USA

Ameritech Chair of Economic Development; Director, Institute for Development Strategies, Indiana University, USA.

David is a Distinguished Professor and the Ameritech Chair of Economic Development at Indiana University, where he also serves as director of the Institute for Development Strategies. Audretsch’s research has focused on the links between entrepreneurship, government policy, innovation, economic development, and global competitiveness. He is the co-author of The Seven Secrets of Germany, published by Oxford University Press. He is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal.

Keynote Speaker 4:

Professor Diana Hechavarria, Babson College USA

Professor of Entrepreneurship, Julian E. Lange Term Chair, Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship, The Diana International Research Institute (DIRI), Babson College

Dr. Diana M. Hechavarria is a professor of entrepreneurship at Babson College who researches nascent entrepreneurship. Her work examines the intricate dynamics people encounter during the early stages of launching new ventures, with a particular emphasis on gender, underrepresented, and social perspectives. Diana's research has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, among others. She is recognized within the top 2% of scientific authors for 2020-2024 single-year impact by the Stanford study of citation impact.[1] Currently, she serves as an Action Editor at Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice and as an Editor at the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship.
Diana has also played a pivotal role in coordinating and analyzing data for influential research programs such as the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), shaping national and international policy discourse on entrepreneurship.