Program
08:30 Registration & Welcome coffee
09:30 Plenary program part 1
Moderator of the day: Irene Rompa
09:30 Opening & tech talk with Ton van Mol (Managing Director - TNO at Holst Centre) & Jesse Robbers (Managing Director - imec at Holst Centre)
09:50 Spin-off spark #1: Julien Penders (Co-founder & COO - Bloomlife)
09:55 Conversation & panel: From deep tech to market scale: 20 years of Dutch-Flemish innovation collaboration
Moderated by Jo De Boeck (EVP & Chief Strategy Officer - imec)
- Heleen Herbert (Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands)
- Matthias Diependaele (Minister-President of the Flemish Government)
- Tjark Tjin-A-Tsoi (CEO - TNO)
- Luc Van den hove (Chairman - imec)
10:25 Spin-off spark #2: Ashok Sridhar (CEO - TracXon)
10:30 Fireside chat with Betsabeh Madani-Hermann (Head of Research - Philips): Tending the Light: A heritage kept, a future built
10:50 Coffee break & Innovation market
11:20 Plenary program part 2
11:20 Talk by Richard Kemkers (Head of Research - ASML): Scaling our innovation ecosystem fueled by AI
11:45 Spin-off spark #3: Charlotte Kjellander (CEO - Touchwaves)
11:50 Panel and Q&A: How to spark the ecosystem
Moderated by Irene Rompa
- Silvia Lenaerts (Rector Magnificus - Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Constantijn van Oranje (Special Envoy - Techleap)
- Henk van Houten (Innovation Advisor)
- Naomie Verstraeten (Chief Innovation & Technology - Brainport Development)
12:15 Pitches by Holst Centre researchers
- Cassia Sidney Santana (Scientist - TNO at Holst Centre)
- Riccardo Ollearo (Scientist - TNO at Holst Centre)
- Jerom Baas (Design Engineer - imec at Holst Centre)
- Marzieh Hashemipour-Nazari (R&D Engineer - imec at Holst Centre)
12:40 Spin-off spark #4: Astrid Hart de Ruijter (Entrepreneur in Residence - GutOS)
12:45 Lunch & Innovation market
14:00 Deep dive sessions round 1
15:00 Deep dive sessions round 2
16:00 Wrap-up & Networking
16:00 Wrap-up with Pep Rosenfeld
16:15 Networking