Startup Agenda

Entrepreneurship Day Brabant
2022-03-17
9:00 – 12:00 | Accelerator Program: Workshop Finances and funding
Are you that startup with a great idea, a validated Business Model and the ambition to grow? Then sign up for the accelerator program!
In this program you will work with other startups in the same phase, with the help of experts, on marketing, sales, negotiating, financing, pitching, branding and the legal side of your startup. You will get in touch with other startups, experts and the broad network of alumni entrepreneurs who will mentor you in the growth and development of your startup. Continuous validation of your business model is key.
Want to know more or register? iqonic@tilburguniversity.edu
12:00 | Entrepreneurship Lunch
Meet fellow entrepreneurs over a nice lunch.
15:00 – 16:00 | Expert-Hour
Do you have a question for your startup? Register for free for a 15-minute online meeting through mijn.braventure.nl
15:30 – 16:30 | Venture Visionaries
Together with Avans, Buas, Fontys, HAS, JADS, TU/e, Station88 and Braventure, we present a series of events where inspiring entrepreneurial topics are discussed and interesting companies, founded by Dutch Entrepreneurs, will be interviewed. All partners have committed to this series of monthly entrepreneurship events. Each month a different partner will be the host of the event. These events are accessible online to all students and other people interested. Further information about which speakers will be present at this edition of Venture Visionaries will follow.

StartupLeap: Register before 23 Mar for this 4-week online program
2022-02-24 | Online
Announcement: The next edition of the StartupLeap program will start on the 28th of March 2022! 🎉
Do you have a startup idea but no idea where to start? Then StartupLeap is perfect for you! It is a free 4-week online program where we help you prepare to kickstart your idea, develop personal skills, and connect you with entrepreneurs, experts, and incubator programs in the Netherlands! 💡
For more info on the program and sign-up, see the link in the comments below!
The deadline to sign up for the next batch is the 23rd of March 2022. ⏰
Questions? Please reach out to StartupLeap or Anik Metzger

Expert Hours
2022-03-17 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online
Are you already familiar with the ‘Expert Hours’? 👀
Ask all your IP, Legal, Data & AI or Accountancy questions to experts in the field! Book an online, free 1-on-1 on www.mijn.braventure.nl, with one of the available experts below:
📊 EY
🦾 JADS Playground
🤝 Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO)
👩🏽‍💼 VDT Advocaten
📆 Two monthly on Thursday form 3 – 5 pm
💻 Sign up with your www.mijn.braventure.nl account

Venture Visionaries
2022-03-17 15:30 - 16:15 (Europe/Paris) | Station 88, Burgemeester Brokxlaan 12, Tilburg, 5041 SB, Netherlands
Venture Visionaries
Together with Avans, Buas, Fontys, HAS, JADS, TU/e, Station88 and Braventure, we present a series of events where inspiring entrepreneurial topics are discussed and interesting companies, founded by Dutch Entrepreneurs, will be interviewed.
For this edition we have invited Steven Nelemans. Steven is a serial entrepreneur but started as a TU/e student. He soon discovered his love for tech innovations and startups and Co-founded the electric car sharing service Amber. One of the most successful e-car sharing companies in the Netherlands.
Currently, Steven is Founder of Tactic, a digital agency. He also is Venture Advisor with Lumo Labs VC and involved with setting up RoundOne Ventures, Brabant’s first student VC. A few months ago Steven founded a new startup Luna, a B2B sales automation platform.
Join this interactive session, ask questions and learn how to start 3 companies and become an investor before reaching 30!
Event is on-site: Station88, Tilburg
Limited seats available: Pre-register now

Agrofood meets High Tech
2022-03-17 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Het landschap binnen de agrofood sector verandert snel. De industrie, het proces en productie worden steeds beter geoptimaliseerd. Digitale en slimmere ketens, circulariteit, duurzaamheid en het tegen gaan van voedselverspilling staan hoog op de agenda.

Tijdens dit agrofood event zullen de interessante sprekers alle belangrijke thema’s binnen de sector de revue laten passeren. Bent u klaar voor de trends, maatschappelijke thema’s en waardevolle inzichten?
Voor wie is dit met name interessant?
Nederlandse land- en tuinbouw bedrijven, veeteelt bedrijven, tuinbouw, bedrijven actief in de verwerking van producten, foodtech bedrijven, beleidsmakers bij nationale en lokale overheden, softwareontwikkelaars en iedereen met interesse in dit thema.
Evenement Informatie

Datum: 17 maart 2022
Tijd: 16:00-18:00
Locatie: Online

Customer Discovery Program for Early Stage Startups
2022-03-15 16:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | B’wise, Claudius Prinsenlaan 12, Breda, 4811 DJ, Netherlands
Do you want to take your startup (idea) to the next level? Are you willing to make a commitment to a fixed program with fixed dates and associated activities? Then sign up for the Customer Discovery Program free of charge! Register now for the April edition!
In three sessions (12, 19, 21 April), a varied approach with theory, experiments and lively group discussions will learn you what it means to build a startup and how to validate your startup(idea). You will gain insight into your own entrepreneurial skills and develop your entrepreneurial vision. The program is provided by experts in the Brabant startup ecosystem.
Register here
Dates: 12, 19, 21 April
Time: 18h-21h
Location: Claudius Prinsenlaan 12, Breda

AMA (Ask Me Anything) w/ Maarten 't Hooft, Founder & Managing Partner, Quest Venture Partners & Dutch
2022-03-17 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
This Thursday, 5 PM CET, Maarten ‘t Hooft will answer your questions about startups and entrepreneurship, and share what he looks for in companies to invest in.

Maarten is the Dutch-born and raised Founder & Managing Partner of Quest Venture Partners in Silicon Valley. His investments span from online marketplaces to digital media, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to enterprise automation platforms. In addition to large IPO outcomes, more than 20 of his prior investments were acquired or reached a valuation of $1B or more. Maarten is interested to support the startup ecosystem in the Netherlands by advising and investing in innovative startups and businesses.

In 2019, Maarten hosted a group of visiting Dutch women for lunch in San Francisco. The group participated in the first edition of the travel program for women (and a few good men) to meet with and learn from entrepreneurs and venture capital investors in Silicon Valley. The group was brought together by Simone Brummelhuis & Rixt Herklots. Interested to know when the 4th edition is scheduled? RSVP here: https://pioneer.splashthat.com.

The AMA is online and hosted by ASIF Ventures—in collaboration with DutchTechInc.

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Business Brunch Den Bosch
2022-03-18 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Paris) | De Garage, Parklaan 27G, 's-Hertogenbosch, 5211 JL, Netherlands
Kom netwerken met like-minded ondernemers!
De Lifestyle Business Club is een community van ruim 9,500 lifestyle ondernemers welke (inter)nationaal wordt opgezet. Doel van onze lunches is om ondernemers te connecten, te inspireren en aanmoedigen om samenwerkingen aan te gaan.
Tijdens deze ochtend zal iedere aanwezige de ruimte krijgen zichzelf voor te stellen.
Deelname € 30 ex BTW inclusief brunch +2 consumpties en een leuke attentie.
Members betalen € 25 ex BTW
Deze kosten kunt u als zakelijke kosten binnen uw boekhouding opvoeren en zijn derhalve fiscaal aftrekbaar.
Je kunt als niet member 2x deelnemen aan onze netwerk evenementen.
Membership kun je online aanvragen via www.lifestylebusinessclub.nl/word-member en krijg je korting op volgende evenementen en toegang tot het netwerk.
Voor het gehele overzicht van evenementen van de Lifestyle Business Club: www.lifestylebusinessclub.nl/agenda

Round Table Session Amsterdam & Berlin (Online Event)
2022-03-18 15:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Meet investors & startups live 💬! For investors 💸: meet new startups, and spot trends. For startups 🚀: test your story with real investors. It’s casual: everyone is contributing. Join the Round Table Session.

Back to Business: Designing for active office work
2022-03-21
Monday 21 March 2022
16:00
– 18:30
Conference Center HTCE + Workplace Vitality Hub
High Tech Campus Eindhoven

Brabant Hightech Ondernemersreis - Tel Aviv Israël!
2022-03-21 - 2022-03-25
Brabant Hightech Ondernemersreis – Tel Aviv Israël!

Investor Readiness Session (Online Workshop)
2022-03-21 15:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Learn how not to talk to investors 💸! Join our Investor Readiness Session, rated 4,5/5 ⭐

Tilburg University Challenge: Workshop Customer Discovery
2022-03-22
Learn more about how to define your target group and find customers suited for your idea. All teams are welcome to join!

CUCCIBU Conference 22 maart 2022 Creating Value with Privacy and Security
2022-03-22

AWS Startup Accelerate: Start your NLP journey on AWS
2022-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
NLP models have been growing exponentially in size since the introduction of the Transformers architecture in 2018. At the same time, developing NLP models is a complex and costly process and there are barriers to adoption at each step of the workflow, from collecting and preparing data to choosing the right NLP algorithm. In this hands-on webinar, Heiko Hotz and Joao Moura from AWS will talk about how you can get started solving common business problems with NLP on AWS, including a demo of Huggingface on SageMaker, a customer success story showcase, and how to use a fully-fledged AWS Solution using managed Languages Services.

AWS Startup Masterclasses: Start your NLP journey on AWS
2022-03-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)

Agri&Food Startup Programme: Pole Position - APPLICATION OPEN UNTIL 8 April
2022-03-23
🤝 Join Pole Position! A joint initiative of a group of Incubators United and @techleapnl for ambitious deeptech entrepreneurs that want to grow bigger and make real impact
Companies in the programme will receive help to grow and gain access to national and international connections, peer-to-peer learning, and get the chance to connect to the key experts.
For batch #2 we are looking for 10 deep tech startups in the Agri & Food industry 🌱 🍔
Pole Position adds the most value to companies with a technological proof of concept; a thorough market validation; and are ready to speed up towards a series A investment.
Do you want to apply or know anyone who could benefit? ➡ https://www.techleap.nl/what-we-do/pole-position-initiative/
#PolePosition #DeepTech #Startups

Machine Learning pour les Startups Santé
2022-03-23 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Paris)
Dans ce webinaire, Patrick Lamplé expliquera comment AWS a aidé plus de 100 000 clients santé utilisant le Machine Learning à améliorer les résultats des patients, à accélérer le diagnostic, à gérer la santé de la population et à optimiser la pratique médicale.

Accelerating Drug Discovery through High Performance Computing “Art of the Possible”
2022-03-23 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
In this presentation webinar, Stephen Litster will talk about how you can scale and accelerate time to insight across Research and Discovery through the application of High Performance Computing (HPC) on AWS

How to get started on AWS
2022-03-23 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Rome)
AWS offers over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. During this workshop, you will gain a deeper understanding of AWS core and application services and you will get to know the main building blocks behind the AWS Cloud. The session will be held in Italian.

Getting started with AWS Data and Analytics services
2022-03-24 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
AWS provides the broadest selection of analytics services that fit all your data analytics needs and enables organizations of all sizes and industries to reinvent their business with data. From data movement, data storage, data lakes, big data analytics, log analytics, streaming analytics, and machine learning (ML) to anything in between, AWS offers purpose-built services that provide the best price-performance, scalability, and lowest cost.
In this 1-hour webinar, we will be presenting AWS services available for your Analytics and AIML requirements.

Info Session: Rockstart Agrifood Accelerator
2022-03-24 16:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris) | Online
Info session: Join us and hear how Rockstart selects, invests, and helps your startup to get ready for Demo Day and eventually get funded.

Breda Startup meetup - Netwerk & pubquiz
2022-03-24 19:30 - 22:30 UTC | De Zaak, 11 Keizerstraat, Breda, Netherlands
We delen kennis en kennissen met onze partner De Zaak Breda. De Start Up community brengt ondernemers, kansen en netwerk samen.

Over dit evenement

Op donderdagavond 24 maart 2022 zijn we te gast bij De Zaak Breda van Rijppaert & Peeters Advocaten, partner van Breda Startup.
19.30u Ontvangst
20.00u Welkomstwoord Breda Startup
20.15u Legal Pubquiz
21.00u Ronde tafelgesprek met Startup Ondernemers
21.30u Bourgondische netwerkborrel
22.30u Afronding
Waar? Op De Zaak Breda (Keizerstraat 11, Breda). Wanneer u met de auto komt, dan kunt u het beste parkeren bij Mols Parking (Achter de Lange Stallen 1, Breda)

Successful Fundraising Strategies (ACH22)
2022-03-25 11:00 (Europe/Brussels)
We joined forces with AWS to offer this workshop for startups, based on 160+ successful rounds & the dilemmas faced by founders 🚀

's Hertogenbosch Duurzame Challenge
2022-03-14 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
Het klimaat verandert en dit zorgt voor de grootste uitdaging allertijden. Overheden, burgers, bedrijven en onderwijsinstelling staan de komende jaren voor de complexe opgave om samen te werken aan een duurzame samenleving. Wij zijn op zoek naar ondernemende studenten van HAS, Koning Willem I, JADS en Avans die kunnen helpen met de volgende challenge:
“Hoe kan jouw concept of product een impactvolle bijdrage leveren aan de duurzame Bossche samenleving?”
Gedurende de challenge ga jij of je team aan de slag met het creëren van een duurzaam concept of product. Werk jouw (creatieve) idee uit tot een concrete businesscase en wie weet win jij de 2022 Bossche Duurzame Challenge!

Programma
19-04-2022 16:00-17:00
Kick-off
Avans Hogeschool, Onderwijsboulevard 215, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
13-05-2022 13:00-15:00
Co-creatie sessie
25-05-2022 8:00-18:00
Inlevermoment
online
03-06-2022 14:00-16:00
Prijsuitreiking
Koning Willem I College, Vlijmenseweg 2, ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Finance Academy (Online Workshop)
2022-03-28 15:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Startup finance 💸 for dummies! Join our Finance Academy, rated 4,6/5 ⭐

Maatschappelijke impact van AI in Brabant
2022-03-29 | Klassetheater, Carré 16, Tilburg, 5017 JE, Netherlands
Gezichtsherkenning, vertaalapps, medische diagnoses, fraudebestrijding, online beïnvloeding, virtuele assistenten en zelfrijdende auto’s … Artficial Intelligence (AI) is nu al bijna niet meer weg te denken uit onze samenleving. Niet voor niets investeren bedrijven, kennisinstellingen en overheden in Brabant al jaren in de ontwikkeling en toepassing van AI.

Initiatieven zoals Brainport AI Hub, JADS, Mindlabs bieden goede uitgangspunten om economisch en technologisch de vruchten van AI te plukken. Maar, nemen we ook de verantwoordelijkheid voor de sociaal-maatschappelijke inbedding? Daar kunnen de technologische en sociale innovatiekracht van Brabant bij elkaar komen.
WRR: Opgave AI
AI is een systeemtechnologie met verstrekkende gevolgen voor de samenleving en de publieke waarden. Niet voor niets publiceerde de Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (WRR) recent Opgave AIwaarin zij vijf opgaven voor de overheid en samenleving identificeert als gevolg van de overstap van AI van het lab, naar de samenleving.
Om beter te begrijpen hoe we in Brabant invloed kunnen uitoefenen op de mogelijkheden, impact en sturingskansen van AI, is het van belang de AI-geletterdheid bij een brede groep beleidsmakers te vergroten. Waar het nu nog vooral voer is voor innovatiespecialisten, fijnproevers en andere geïnteresseerden.
Kenniscafé
BrabantKennis en de Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) organiseren daarom een kenniscafé over de maatschappelijke impact van AI en bestaande initiatieven voor zowel bedrijven als beleidsmakers. Food for thought dus onder de bezielende leiding van dagvoorzitter Anne-Marie Fokkens en met een gastoptreden van Thijs Pepping.
Programma

14:00 Inloop & ontvangst
14:30 Haroon Sheikh (auteur) met introductie WRR rapport
15:00 Joep van den Tillaart (partner AI bedrijf Pipple) over toepassing van AI
15:15 Pauze
15:45 Marcel Thaens (CIO PNB) over de datacursus voor beleidsmakers
16:00 Esther Keymolen (TAISIG, TiU) over AI in de Brabantse maatschappij
16:15 Discussie met sprekers en publiek
16:30 Borrel & mogelijkheid tot napraten
17:30 Einde

Uiteraard wordt het kenniscafé georganiseerd met inachtneming van de geldende corona-maatregelen. Via onderstaande link kun je je aanmelden.
https://www.aanmelder.nl/131352/subscribe

FinTech Workshop: AIML for Customer Experience
2022-03-29 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London)
Deep dive into key AIML use cases in FinTech focused on the customer experience. This is session will cover an overview of AIML in FinTech, a customer presentation on customer facing applications of AIML, and a demonstration of how to build an AIML model on AWS.
