Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
Conference Theme: Beyond the Boundaries: Fostering a new era of inclusive enterprise and entrepreneurship education (in the age of AI)
Marking two decades of advancing enterprise and entrepreneurship education, IEEC2026 brought together global educators, practitioners, and policymakers to shape the future of entrepreneurial learning and practice. Hosted in partnership with Nottingham Business School, renowned for its excellence in enterprise, innovation, and impactful research, this milestone event has been an inspiring celebration of progress, collaboration, and bold thinking.
Nottingham provided an exceptional backdrop for this landmark anniversary. The city is recognised as a thriving hub for innovation and enterprise, with strengths across life sciences, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, engineering, and the creative industries. Its strong university–industry partnerships and dynamic entrepreneurial ecosystem continue to deliver meaningful impact regionally, nationally, and globally.
Our celebration of 20 years of the International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference, IEEC2026 offered a unique opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reshape the future of enterprise and entrepreneurship education. We listened to some fantastic keynote speakers, heard from some inspirational panellists and our Spotlight sessions, showcased the work of students with drop-in coaching sessions, took part in interactive sessions, listened to seminars and networked with our enterprise and entrepreneurship colleagues and took back ideas to our organisations to inform our future practice.