The summit is the catalyst; the city’s workspaces are where follow-through happens.
- 2025
- Technology
BIP Summit programming ends; the city’s innovation spaces keep the lights on. Side events in Erbil gave founders more time with investors than a single panel Q&A allows.
Demo days favored working prototypes over pitch-deck theater, and office hours let operators ask the unglamorous questions about hiring and compliance.
Local hosts treated BIP week as a forcing function: calendars filled, introductions stacked, and several teams booked follow-on workspace for the month after.
That surrounding ecosystem is part of BIP’s bet — the summit is a spike of attention inside a longer regional capacity-building story.
