Gye Corruption Disruption
Online International Entrepreneurial and Anti-Corruption Experience
The GYE Corruption Disruption, a fusion between the traditional start-up camp and an anti-corruption workshop, will bring together students from Georgia, Lebanon, and Ukraine for a 54 hour online event.
So what will you do?
Form a nationally-diverse team and develop a business, nonprofit organization, product, and/or service that makes a positive impact on the world and addresses corruption or the issues that corruption exposes, while learning entrepreneurial skills that will help you solve tomorrow’s pressing issues.
Brainstorm and discuss, with peers from all three countries, the different ways that corruption has impacted your lives.
Engage in intense ideation, prototyping, market research, networking, and more — all supported by expert mentors.
Pitch expert judges and win a range of different prizes and opportunities.
Learn from distinguished guest speakers, mentors, workshop leaders, and –most importantly– your peers from around the world.
Event Format:
The event will start with a four hour “Bootcamp” on the Sunday before the main weekend of the event. During the Bootcamp, participants will hear from guest speakers, have a chance to network with each other, and start to think about how they can use entrepreneurship to address problems related to corruption. Participants will not have any work to do between the Bootcamp and the following weekend. On Friday, they will be divided into teams and will start the entrepreneurial process! They will have three days to pick an idea, develop it under the guidance of mentors, and pitch it to a panel of judges on Sunday evening.
Who?
Ukrainian, Georgian, and Lebanese high school students
How much?
150 UAH, 20 GEL, 10,000 LBP
When?
Bootcamp: November 22nd
Corruption Disruption: November 27th-29th
Details
Online Startup Camp experience:
Build relationships with peers and mentors from all around the world
Participate in creative ideation sessions and learn how to turn ideas into viable companies
Practice identifying problems in the real world and building solutions to address those problems
Work directly with your peers to enhance collaboration and communication skills
Learn to use visual strategy tools
Engage design-thinking and learn startup methodologies
Learn how to acquire startup capital and develop a sustainable business model
Ask questions and get professional feedback from successful entrepreneurs
Hear directly from potential customers and adapt the product based off of their feedback
Participate in a pitching workshop to perfect posture, prose, and communication
Create a mock-organization and pitch it to qualified investors
Prizes
Meeting with executives from top companies, nonprofits, and government agencies – past companies have included Apple, Intel, and Nike.
Continued mentorship and support from the GYE organization
The opportunity to compete for up to $1,000 in seed funding
Itinerary
Coming Soon!
Distinguished Speakers
Prof. Dr. Evangelos Markopoulos
We are delighted to have Professor Dr. Evangelos Markopoulos as one of our distinguished guest speakers. Dr. Markopoulos has a very wide range of experience. He holds a BA in Computer Science, an MSc in Computer Science with concentration in Artificial Intelligence, and a PhD on ICT Project and Investments, and spent much of his early career working at IBM, Siemens, and Bell Laboratories as a Computer Scientist. He has since branched off into entrepreneurship and investment. He is one of the managing partners of Loizou & Co and the Founder of the YNOT Innovation Lab. He has taught at universities in the US, UK, Finland, and Greece, and currently holds positions at UCL, QMUL, and Hult, along with visiting professorship at TUAS.
Deputy Head of National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) of Ukraine — Oleksandr Starodubtsev
We are honored to have Oleksandr Starodubtsev as a distinguished guest speaker at our event. Oleksandr has held a variety of position across public and private sectors. He co-founded the public procurement reform “Prozorro” in 2014, which later won the World Procurement Award for Public Sector in 2016. He worked as the Head of the National Agency for Civil Service of Ukraine before moving to his current role as Deputy Head of the NACP for Ukraine. He also has extensive experience as an investor. Oleksandr has studied at Kharkiv Polytechnic University, Kyiv Mohyla Business School, and Stanford University.
Panelists
Youth Engagement Program Coordinator at USAID SACCI — Roman Tyshchenko
Leen Elharake — Architecture Student at the Lebanese American University
Workshop Leaders
Kaja Pavliníc — “Youth Agency in Corruption Eradication”
Mentors
More information on mentors is coming soon. We will have mentors from each of the three countries represented at the event. To see some of the mentors that we have had at previous events, head to globalyouthentrepreneurs.net/goi and scroll down to the “MENTORS” section!