Attend the final of LiveWIRE Award 2015
You are invited to attend the event of the year for entrepreneurs, with:
- Fascinating speakers on stage
- Advice sessions tailored to you
- An opportunity to network with the Dutch business community
- The final of the LiveWIRE Award 2015
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2015
Time: doors open 14:00, start 14:45 – personal advice from experts
17:00, start of the FINAL of the LiveWIRE Award 2015
18:20 to 19:30, networking drinks at the innovative marketplace
Venue: B.Amsterdam, Johan Huizingalaan 763A, 1066 VH, Amsterdam
Personal advice from experts
This is your chance to talk to renowned experts from the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), DSM, Edelman, One Shoe, the Chamber of Commerce, Shell and other companies and institutions. Are you looking for advice about finance, commercialisation, doing business internationally, technological innovation or marketing? And would you like to attend workshops by, among others, Philip Hess, the founder of Senz Umbrella and Niels de Greef, the founder of ParkFlyRent, or hear Kees de Jong talk about his successes? You can! Register now and tell us which area you could use advice in. Be quick, because the number of places is limited!
FINAL of LiveWIRE Award 2015
Four innovative entrepreneurs are in the final of the LiveWIRE Programme organised by Shell and the Chamber of Commerce. Be there to find out which of these entrepreneurs goes home with €20,000 or wins over the general public via www.livewire.nl/getwired. During the official presentation of the LiveWIRE Award, Yuri van Geest, initiator of Singularity University Nederland, will deliver the keynote speech on the subject of
“Doing business at a time of exponential technological growth”.
Schedule
14:00 – 14:45 Doors open for advice sessions
14:45 – 16:45 1:1 Advice sessions and workshops
16:30 – 17:00 Doors open & welcome to LiveWIRE Final
17:00 – 17:05 Opening: Marijke Roskam, BNR Nieuwsradio
17:05 – 17:30 Keynote speech: Impact of exponential technological progress on entrepreneurs
Yuri van Geest, Dutch ambassador for Singularity University & SU Nederland initiator
17:30 – 17:40 LiveWIRE alumnus and successful innovative entrepreneur
Maikel Beerens, founder of Xilloc Medical and winner of LiveWIRE Award 2011
17:40 – 18:20 Presentation of LiveWIRE Award with Dick Benschop, President and CEO of
Shell Netherlands, Claudia Zuiderwijk, Chair of the Executive Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Geert-Jan Bruinsma, Founder Booking.com
18:20 – 19:30 Networking drinks and surprising walking dinner at the innovative marketplace
All thirteen nominees for the LiveWIRE award 2015 will be demonstrating their products here
Jury members
Chair: Hubert Deitmers, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Endeit Capital B.V.
Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Special Advisor at StartupDelta & Vice-Chair of International Circle of Influencers
Huib ter Braak, Excom member of Arval & Director Europe and Mediterranean Zone, Chairman-elect of CIC Rotterdam
Marius T.H. Meeus, Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Organisational Learning at Tilburg University
It promises to be an inspiring day with a spectacular close. Register for this event now, as there are only a limited number of places available. We look forward to welcoming you!
INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURS IN COMPETITION
Cast your vote for your favourite innovative entrepreneur and help decide who goes home with the €5,000 audience prize.
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