GEN Exchange: Lessons on Startup Community Building with Ash Barlow and Sarah Dhafir

"GEN Exchange: Lessons On Startup Community Building" is a talk series for community builders to share stories about their ecosystem and experiences leading Startup Huddle, a chapter-based startup community building program that has been tried and tested in over 100 cities around the globe. 

On January 31, Ash Barlow, Executive Director at The Station and Sarah Dhafir, Program Specialist at The Station - both local organizers for Startup Huddle Iraq, will join GEN's Pauly Suchy to share how they are leveraging the program to grow the Iraqi entrepreneurship ecosystem.

This talk is part of GEN's #RoadtoGEC programming, a series of events taking place ahead of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (#GEC2022) on March 27-30, 2022. 

Join us to learn about:

• The entrepreneurship ecosystem in Iraq.
• The launch and growth of Startup Huddle in Baghdad and Mosul.
• The impact of Startup Huddle on founders in Iraq and the ecosystem at large.

About Startup Huddle

Run by the Global Entrepreneurship Network in partnership with local organisers, Startup Huddle is a program designed to help one entrepreneur at a time while strengthening the local ecosystem. Entrepreneurs discover challenges to the solutions they face through purposeful engagement with a broad array of voices from their local community. Currently, there are local Startup Huddle chapters in more than 50 cities around the world. For more information, visit www.startuphuddle.co.