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Indonesia will host the 2018 Startup Nation Summit (SNS). It will take place in Surabaya, East Java on November 16 and 17. Until now, young entrepreneurs in the digital field from 170 countries have stated their readiness to join the event. The criteria of a startup business is a company working in the digital fieldthat has run under 5 years. Mayor of Surabaya Tri Rismaharini at a press conference in Surabaya Thursday, August 23, 2018 said, she wants Surabaya to start and enter a new era. The 2018 Startup Nation Summit entitled Digital Creative Industry Collaboration is the seventh of its kind. In 2017, this international event was held in Tallinn City, Estonia. According to Risma, the 2018 Startup Nations Summit will collaborate with four other activities, namely Inno Creativitation on November 14-15, Bekraf (Creative Economy Agency) 2018 Festival on November 14-17, Kamadjaja Logistics Hackathon Day on November 10-11 and Mlaku-Mlaku Nang Tunjungan on November 18th. Risma said, in these activities she is deliberately involving stakeholders in education such as chancellors, teachers, and academics to jointly arouse the spirit of young Surabaya entrepreneurs. According to her, being an entrepreneur is the right choice because the challenge of young people in 2040 is how to create a job, not looking for a job. That is why she has invited Bekraf(Creative Economy Agency) and universities. The 2018 Start Nations Summit will become a new era for Surabaya to begin a startup business world, and to realize the city of Surabaya as the first creative city in Indonesia, advance the Surabaya startup world, and bring the city of Surabaya to be equal to major cities in the world in the field of Startup. President of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Jonathan Ortmans said that the SNS would not only become a forum to tell entrepreneurial success stories. It will also discuss the obstacles experienced by each Startup. There is even a special session discussing a real ecosystem that occurs in Surabaya. How the long process has eventually given birth to a sustainable ecosystem in Surabaya. According to Jonathan Ortmans, the SNS will bring the best innovations, and public policies that will be presented in Surabaya. There will be also a collection of reports made by the World Bank to be a joint collaboration in the event. Meanwhile, Deputy Head of Indonesia's Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) Ricky Joseph Pesik added that the Bekraf Festival 2018 would be synergized with the Startup Nations Summit (SNS). On that occasion, the agency will present creative economic players in Indonesia, whose products are considered to be able to compete in the wider world of creative industries.