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Entrepreneurship is entering a new era where business success is no longer measured only by venture creation, market growth, and profitability. In today’s intelligent and sustainable business landscape, entrepreneurship is increasingly evaluated by its ability to build long-term legacy, adopt technology responsibly, strengthen organizational resilience, and create meaningful impact for society, the economy, and the environment.

As digital transformation, artificial intelligence, sustainability demands, energy transition, and intergenerational business succession reshape the global business environment, entrepreneurs and business leaders are challenged to rethink how value is created, governed, transferred, and sustained. Family businesses, startups, SMEs, corporations, and entrepreneurial ecosystems must move beyond short-term competitiveness toward future-ready strategies that integrate innovation, ethical leadership, technological capability, and sustainable impact.

Family businesses play a particularly important role in this transformation. As many enterprises face succession, governance, and continuity challenges, the ability to preserve entrepreneurial legacy while embracing innovation becomes essential. Entrepreneurial legacy is not merely about passing ownership from one generation to another; it is about transferring values, vision, leadership capability, adaptive mindset, and long-term commitment to sustainable value creation. In this context, family business transformation requires strong governance, NextGen leadership, professionalization, strategic agility, and the ability to balance tradition with innovation.

At the same time, technology-enabled transformation has become a critical driver of future-ready entrepreneurship. Digital platforms, data analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies are reshaping how businesses make decisions, serve customers, manage operations, develop talent, and scale impact. AI, in particular, should not be viewed only as a technical tool, but as an enabling technology that can support productivity, innovation, strategic decision-making, sustainability practices, and entrepreneurial competitiveness when adopted responsibly and ethically.

Sustainability is also becoming a central agenda for entrepreneurial growth. Businesses are increasingly expected to contribute to ESG priorities, energy transition, climate resilience, responsible supply chains, circular economy practices, and inclusive community development. Entrepreneurs and business leaders must therefore design business models that are not only economically viable, but also socially responsible, environmentally conscious, and capable of generating long-term sustainable impact.

Recognizing these challenges and opportunities, The 6th International Conference on Entrepreneurship — IConEnt 2026 — serves as an international academic-practitioner platform that brings together scholars, researchers, students, entrepreneurs, family business leaders, corporate professionals, policymakers, investors, and institutional partners. Hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Pelita Harapan, IConEnt 2026 aims to foster meaningful dialogue, research dissemination, professional insight sharing, and cross-sector collaboration in the field of entrepreneurship and management.

Under the theme “Entrepreneurial Legacy in the Intelligent and Sustainable Era: Family Business, Technology- Enabled Transformation, and Sustainable Impact,” IConEnt 2026 invites participants to explore how entrepreneurship can become a powerful force for building resilient businesses, empowering future leaders, accelerating responsible innovation, and creating sustainable impact across generations.Through keynote sessions, onsite and online paper presentations, research poster competition, parallel academic sessions, publication opportunities, and collaborative networking, IConEnt 2026 seeks to contribute to the development of future-ready entrepreneurial ecosystems that are innovative, ethical, inclusive, sustainable, and impactful.