Program
08:30 Registration & Welcome coffee
09:30 Plenary program part 1
Moderator of the day: Irene Rompa
- Opening & tech talk with Ton van Mol (Managing Director - TNO at Holst Centre) & Jesse Robbers (Managing Director - imec at Holst Centre)
- Spin-off spark #1: Julien Penders (Co-founder & COO - Bloomlife)
Conversation & panel:
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)
- Spin-off spark #2: Ashok Sridhar (CEO - TracXon)
- Fireside chat with Betsabeh Madani-Hermann (Head of Research - Philips)
10:45 Coffee break & Innovation market
11:15 Plenary program part 2
- Spin-off spark #3: Charlotte Kjellander (CEO - Touchwaves)
- Panel and Q&A: How to spark the ecosystem
- Silvia Lenaerts (Rector Magnificus - Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau (Special Envoy - Techleap)
- Henk van Houten (Innovation Advisor)
- Naomi Verstraeten (Chief Innovation & Technology - Brainport Development)
- Pitches by Holst Centre researchers
- Spin-off spark #4: Astrid Hart de Ruijter (CEO - GutOS)