Amsterdam Deep Tech ShowcasePartner event

The program

The morning program will feature keynote speakers, followed by breakout sessions in the afternoon, an innovation market, and opportunities to connect with relevant players in the deep tech ecosystem. Speakers include Mayor Femke Halsema, Guido van Rossum (creator of Python), Kiki Lauwers (CEO of Thorizon), Jelle Prins (co-founder of Cradle) and Sander van Deventer (co-founder of VectorY Therapeutics). For more information about the event and the program, please click here

Relevant Break-out sessions

There are two interesting breakout sessions to which we will be contributing and that I would like to bring to your attention:

• Collaborative Innovation for Wicked Problems
  This session, organized with contributions from CVN and Erasmus University / RSM, explores how ecosystems of startups, SMEs, corporates, knowledge institutes, investors, and public stakeholders can collaborate to address complex societal and technological challenges. Drawing on experiences from the Corporate Venturing Network, it will offer practical lessons on aligning interests, organizing collaboration, and turning complexity into structural impact.
• How to Collaborate with Defense to Unlock Dual-Use Innovation
  In this session, the Cyber Innovation Hub, ODIN and MINDBases will share how different parts of the Dutch defense innovation ecosystem collaborate with startups, companies and knowledge partners on dual-use propositions. The session will offer practical insights into routes into Defense, public-private collaboration, and how market-ready solutions can strengthen security, resilience and strategic autonomy.