Idaho’s largest entrepreneurial event.

Sept 28 - Oct 2 Jump Building Downtown Boise
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Boise Entrepreneur Week is five days of keynotes, workshops, panels, pitch competitions, and parties, built by the people who build things in Boise. Fifteen Tracks run across the week, each one a curated set of sessions for a different kind of founder.

General admission is free.

Empowering the people shaping Idaho’s future.

BEW started as a single day of programming and grew into a five-day festival that reaches thousands of people across Idaho annually. Nearly 13,000 people have come through the doors, and 722 speakers have taken a BEW stage to date.

2026

BEW expands with fifteen Tracks, a new Sports Track built in collaboration with Boise State, a morning keynote series to open each day, and for the first time ever, dozens of Track Chairs drawn from the Boise business community.

$135K

In prizes to local Boise startups.

14

Tracks of events for every founder.

$0

Cost to attend. BEW is always free.

BEW is a Trailhead event.

Trailhead is a nonprofit institution that empowers Boise startups to succeed, through programs like BEW and downtown coworking.

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