Say YES to the future of business.
YES 2026 is a free five-month program for young Indonesian founders. Six Academy sessions of two hours each, one business proposal, and a pitch in front of senior judges.
You spend all of it working on your own idea or your own business. Not a case study. Yours.
What is YES
YES — the Young Entrepreneur Series — is a free five-month program that turns an idea or an early business into something you can defend in front of judges.
Most competitions ask you to arrive ready. YES teaches first.
Six Academy sessions come before anyone pitches, and responsible AI use is built into every one of them. A first version of your proposal goes in early October; what you build in those sessions becomes the version you compete with.
Six two-hour sessions that take you from your starting point to a business case you can defend. Online, so you can join wherever you are.
Turn the work into a business proposal, then put it in front of senior judges. Semi-Final, Grand Final, five award categories.
Access to the Indonesia–UAE business ecosystem: founders, corporate and institutional exposure, and a network that carries on after January.
Learn. Build. Compete. Connect.
YES Academy speakers
Six sessions, each led by a practitioner or expert in that topic. Speakers appear here as each one confirms.
Session 1 · Sunday, 11 October 2026
12:00–14:00 UAE time15:00–17:00 WIB (Jakarta)CEO Compas.co.id
Open to everyone · Free
Before you build anything, find out whether the problem is real — and whether enough people have it to make a business.
Session 2 · Saturday, 17 October 2026
12:00–14:00 UAE time15:00–17:00 WIB (Jakarta)Distinguished Chair for Finance and Investment, IPMI International Business School
Open to everyone · Free
Turn a validated problem into a business: why customers choose you, and how you make money.
Session 3 · Saturday, 24 October 2026
12:00–14:00 UAE time15:00–17:00 WIB (Jakarta)Commercial drones and disruptive technology, Middle East
Open to everyone · Free
A good product still needs customers who find it, buy it and come back.
Session 4 · Saturday, 31 October 2026
12:00–14:00 UAE time15:00–17:00 WIB (Jakarta)SME Business Group Head, PT Bank Syariah Indonesia Tbk
Senior Executive Officer, BSI Middle East — Dubai Branch
Open to everyone · Free
Can the business realistically make money and survive? Finance without the jargon.
Session 5 · Saturday, 7 November 2026
12:00–14:00 UAE time15:00–17:00 WIB (Jakarta)Chairman, Indonesian Business Council (IdBC) Dubai
Open to everyone · Free
How the UAE can be your gateway to wider markets. Practical awareness, not legal advice.
Session 6 · Saturday, 14 November 2026 (to be confirmed)
12:00–14:00 UAE time15:00–17:00 WIB (Jakarta)Co-founder & former CTO, Tiket.com
Open to everyone · Free
Communicate your opportunity clearly and credibly — to judges and to investors.
Is YES for me?
YES is built for two different starting points. Pick the one that sounds like you.
Applying solo means living in the UAE. Applying as a team means one of you does, and the rest can be anywhere.
You have a problem you care about and a rough sense of the answer. Maybe you have been turning it over for months. Maybe you have sketched something and stopped.
That's a real starting point, and Track A exists for it. You don't need a registered company, a product, or a co-founder. You need the idea and five months.
You have customers, or a product, or a business that runs on evenings and weekends. What you don't have is time to step back and work on it.
Track B is that time. Everything you do across the five months is work on your own business, and the proposal you finish with is one you can use afterwards.
Why say YES
YES isn't entrepreneurship in theory. Every session, every exercise and every deadline points at the same thing: your idea or your business, further along than it was in September.
Six two-hour Academy sessions built around a real business case. Yours.
Practical, responsible AI use worked into every session, not bolted on at the end.
A professional business proposal, senior feedback, and pitch experience you keep.
People and organisations across the Indonesia–UAE ecosystem, including investors.
Every participant gets the opportunity to access banking facilities with BSI — Credit / Financing and Cash Management. Access is subject to the bank's own assessment.
BSI · Confirmed award partner
Winning teams receive gold savings through BSI Tabungan Emas, and business consultancy services. Five award categories are announced at launch.
Champion 1 · Champion 2 · Champion 3 · Best Idea Stage · Best Early Venture
Your YES journey
Here's the whole thing, start to finish. No surprises after you apply.
September 2026 → January 2027
Six Academy sessions of two hours each. Twelve hours in total, spread across five months, plus one written proposal and a pitch if you reach the Semi-Final.
Sessions are online, so you can join from wherever you are.
Whether you're starting with an idea or already building something, this is the next step. It's free, it starts in September, and it takes five months.
Say YES to the future of business.
