Conference Agenda

Friday, April 17, 2026

5:30 p.m.

Welcome Dinner – Lilette

Bus departs Hotel Tonnelle at 5:15 p.m.

Saturday, April 18, 2026

7:45 – 9:00 a.m.

Arrival & Breakfast

Bus departs Hotel Tonnelle at 7:30 a.m.

9:00 – 9:15 a.m.

Conference Welcome

9:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Morning Session: Accelerators and Ecosystems

  • 9:15 – 9:45 a.m.: Making Do and Making More: Meta-Analytically Unpacking How Entrepreneurial Accelerators Enable Resource Mobilization for Early-Stage Ventures
    Presenters:
    • Khoa Tran
    • Peiyuan Huang
  • 9:45 – 10:15 a.m.: Mentor-Team Fit, Person-Team Fit, and Entrepreneurial Identity Growth During an Accelerator Program: A Multilevel Change Score Model
    Presenters:
    • Simon Taggar
    • Anne Domurath
  • 10:15 – 10:45 a.m.: Collective Action in Spatially Fluid Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Evidence from the New York SMART I-Corridor Semiconductor Supply Chain
    Presenters:
    • Kathleen Burke
    • Scott Seibert
    • Maksim Belitski
    • David Audretsch
  • 10:45 – 11:00 a.m.: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 – 11:30 a.m.: An Evidence-Based Examination of Igbo Community-Based Interventions from West Africa
    Presenters:
    • Jorge Arteaga-Fonseca
    • Kenneth Obunadike
    • Joyce Nabisaalu
    • Matthew Rutherford
  • 11:30 – 12:00 p.m.: From Commons to Connectors: A Political Economy of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Governance for Effective Interventions
    Presenters:
    • Norris Krueger
    • Kimberly Gramm

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 5:15 p.m.

Afternoon Session: Gender & Mentoring

  • 1:30 – 2:00 p.m.: Perpetuating the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: The Unintended Consequences of Entrepreneurial Interventions
    Presenters:
    • Kimberly A. Eddleston
    • Kristen Madison
    • Chioma Okpalaeke
    • Bryan D. Edwards
    • Jerald L. Wallace
    • Torsten M. Pieper
  • 2:00 – 2:30 p.m.: Unintended Consequences of Gender-Inclusion Cues: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Equity Crowdfunding
    Presenters:
    • Anna Lukkarinen
    • Markku Kaustia
  • 2:30 – 3:00 p.m.: The Effect of Relatable Role Models on Women’s Interest in STEM Entrepreneurship
    Presenters:
    • Jon Eckhardt
    • Brent Goldfarb
    • Minah Park
    • Subra Tangirala
    • Molly Carnes
    • Jennifer Sheridan
    • Markus Brauer
  • 3:00 – 3:45 p.m.: Coffee and Snack Break
  • 3:45 – 4:15 p.m.: The Connectivity and Leadership of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: An Intervention to Create the Reading Tech Cluster
    Presenters:
    • Keith Arundale
    • Maksim Belitski
    • William Kilgallon
    • Colin Mason
  • 4:15 – 4:45 p.m.: Founder Gender and Mentor Preferences
    Presenter:
    • Yeon Jin Kim
  • 4:45 – 5:15 p.m.: Young Like Me: How Age-Relatable Role Models Make Entrepreneurship Teachable
    Presenters:
    • Minah Park
    • Jonathan T. Eckhardt
    • Brent Goldfarb
    • Scott A. Shane

6:30 p.m.

Conference Dinner – Cochon

Transportation will be provided to dinner and back to Hotel Tonnelle.