Lo que callan los emprendedores By ALT+Co #ColombiaTechWeek
- Date
- 2024-08-27
- Location
- Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia
- Host
- Colombia Tech Week
About this event
Most conversations about entrepreneurship focus on growth, funding, traction, and wins. This event makes space for the part that usually stays offstage: the doubts, trade-offs, pressure, mistakes, and hard-earned lessons that founders and builders carry while trying to make something real. If you care about building in Colombia’s tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem, this is the kind of conversation that can reset how you think about the journey. About the Event Lo que callan los emprendedores By ALT+Co #ColombiaTechWeek is an in-person community gathering in Bogotá designed around honest exchange. Rather than polishing the startup story, the event centers the realities that often get edited out when people talk publicly about entrepreneurship. As part of #ColombiaTechWeek, it sits naturally at the intersection of community, networking, meetup energy, and social connection. That means you can expect an atmosphere that is open, relevant, and grounded in the local ecosystem, with room for both reflection and relationship-building. The core purpose of the event is simple: create a space where entrepreneurs, operators, and curious members of the tech community can talk more candidly about what it actually takes to build. Not just the public milestones, but the internal questions and everyday decisions behind them. This is especially valuable in a startup culture that often rewards certainty and speed. By making room for more transparent conversations, the event invites a more mature, useful kind of dialogue, one that helps people feel less isolated and more informed. What to Expect Expect a meetup-style format with a strong community feel. The event is likely to combine shared conversation with informal networking, giving attendees a chance to hear perspectives, react to them, and continue those discussions in person with others in the room. You can expect the experience to revolve around themes such as: the emotional and strategic realities of building a company the tensions between ambition and sustainability decisions founders make without perfect information lessons that only become visible after setbacks or difficult moments the gap between how entrepreneurship looks from the outside and how it feels on the inside Because this is part of a broader tech-week context, the room will likely include people from different corners of the ecosystem. That mix matters. It creates better conversations than a purely transactional networking event, because people come with different experiences, questions, and lenses. The networking component should feel especially meaningful for attendees who want more than quick introductions. When the topic itself invites honesty, the follow-up conversations tend to be sharper, more useful, and more memorable. You are not just swapping roles and LinkedIn headlines; you are meeting people through the lens of what they have learned, questioned, and navigated. Why Attend If you are building something, this event offers something increasingly rare: context. Not generic motivation, but perspective from people who understand that entrepreneurship includes uncertainty, pressure, recalibration, and resilience. Hearing those realities out loud can help you make better decisions and put your own experience in proportion. If you are not a founder but work closely with startups, the value is just as strong. Understanding what entrepreneurs often do not say publicly helps investors, operators, collaborators, and community members support companies more intelligently. It gives you a more accurate view of what founders are balancing behind the scenes. There is also a real community benefit to showing up in person for this kind of conversation. Bogotá has become an important node in the region’s innovation landscape, and events like this help strengthen the social fabric around that growth. They create trust, shared language, and higher-quality connections across the ecosystem. You should attend if you want to leave with: a more honest picture of entrepreneurial life sharper questions about your own path, company, or role in the ecosystem real conversations instead of surface-level networking new connections in Bogotá’s tech and startup community perspective that can make the next challenge feel more navigable Practical Details The event takes place in person in Bogotá, Colombia on Tuesday, August 27 at 4:00 PM GMT-5. The in-person format is important here: this is a conversation-driven gathering, and being physically in the room will make the exchange and networking more natural. Because the event is tied to #ColombiaTechWeek, it is a strong fit for anyone already planning to be active in the city during that week. It can work well either as a destination conversation you attend intentionally or as a meaningful stop within a broader week of meetings, meetups, and ecosystem activity. If you are considering whether to go, the best reason is straightforward: the topic is relevant, the format is social, and the context is timely. In a landscape full of polished narratives, this event offers a chance to engage with the part of entrepreneurship that is usually discussed only in smaller, more trusted circles. Come prepared to listen closely, speak honestly, and meet people who value substance over performance. That combination is what can make a community event like this genuinely useful.
Who should attend
This is for you if you want more honest conversations about building than the usual startup highlight reel. - **You are a founder or entrepreneur** navigating uncertainty, growth pressure, team decisions, or the gap between what the journey looks like publicly and what it feels like privately. - **You are an early-stage builder or operator** working inside a startup and want a clearer, more human understanding of the decisions, tensions, and realities behind the scenes. - **You are part of the broader tech ecosystem in Bogotá or Colombia** and want to connect with people through candid conversation, not just transactional networking. - **You are exploring entrepreneurship** and want a more grounded picture before committing time, energy, or resources to building something of your own. - **You support founders in any capacity** and want better context for the emotional, strategic, and practical challenges entrepreneurs often do not say out loud. - **You value community spaces with substance** where good networking starts with a real topic and leads to more useful, memorable conversations.