Attenzione: il treno arriva ora alla Torino Porta Nuova,” the high speed train announced as it screeched into the Porto Nuova Train Station and the 10th and 11th cohorts (myself included) of the Global Entrepreneurship Experience Program (GEE) took our first steps into downtown Torino, Italy.

Once known as the center of Italian film and the home of Nutella, it’s now a hustling and bustling metropolis that mirrors cities like Paris and Prague with excitement and entrepreneurial opportunity.