NextPreneur will bring young people together in the United Kingdom from 27 June to 4 July 2027 for its next UK Global Summit, combining entrepreneurship, international exchange and practical idea development.
The event follows NextPreneur’s 2026 programme in Reading and is being developed as a broader international meeting point for students, educators, mentors and entrepreneurs. Rather than functioning only as a competition, the summit is designed to give young participants the experience of developing and presenting ideas in a global setting.
Ideas, teamwork and international connections
Participants will begin with real-world problems and work through the process of understanding users, testing assumptions, developing solutions and shaping those solutions into venture concepts. The experience is designed to strengthen creativity, communication, leadership, teamwork and pitching.
The programme is expected to include student presentations, mentoring, networking, university experiences and cultural activities. It will also encourage ventures across technology and artificial intelligence, social impact and sustainability, health and wellbeing, and consumer entrepreneurship.
For students, one of the central themes is international exposure: seeing how peers from different countries approach problems, exchanging perspectives and beginning to build networks long before entering professional life.
Gökhan Çelebi: “Entrepreneurship has no minimum age”
NextPreneur founder Gökhan Çelebi says young people are already surrounded by the ingredients of entrepreneurship — problems to solve, new technologies and ideas worth testing.
“Entrepreneurship has no minimum age. Young people are already surrounded by real problems, technology and new ideas. What they often need is the right environment to turn their curiosity into action.”
Çelebi said the programme is designed to move students beyond definitions and classroom theory. They are expected to identify a problem, develop and validate an idea, collaborate as a team, build a business model and learn how to communicate what they have created.
He also highlighted the importance of meeting entrepreneurs, mentors and, where appropriate, investors. For young participants, he said, serious questions and feedback can be as important as funding because they help students understand the potential of their own ideas.
In the longer term, Çelebi said success does not depend on every student becoming an entrepreneur. The goal is for participants to leave with more confidence, a stronger ability to develop ideas and a belief that they can contribute solutions with international relevance.
