Join Startup Fest Europe, between 24 - 28 May in the NetherlandsStartup Fest Europe is a nation wide festival of events that

help startups grow faster by bringing together founders,

investors, business leaders and developers around

specific themes (or verticals). These week-long match

making activities are a joint effort of startup hubs and

corporates over the whole of the Netherlands.

“Access to capital, networks, clients and talent are crucial for every startup,

which is why we make it happen at Startup Fest Europe.”

- Constantijn van Oranje, Prince of The Netherlands

“Imagine an entire country working together to organize the biggest startup festival on the planet.” - Neelie Kroes, Special Envoye for startups

E-commerce Live!

Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage

09:00 – 17:00

Pure players, brands, retailers and experts on stage. + 100 speakers, discussions, round tables, demos and startups.

Moritz Corbeling (OTTO Group), Tjalling Smit (KLM), Damien Poel-hekke (Made.com) Martijn van der Zee (Suitsupply). – and more.

5 Techilicious YES!Delft, Delft

17:00 - 21:30

Where corporates & startups dine to deal. Tech incubator YES!Delft will be transformed into an extraordinary restaurant where start-up founders dine with Captains of Industry to establish partnerships. Co-organizers are Venture Café and the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Kevin Hale (Y Combinator) – and more.

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YES!Delft

Auditorium Delft University of Technology

16:00 - 21:00

The story of successful entrepreneurs. Multiple well-known and succesful entrepre-neurs and CEO’s tell their personal story on the stage of the E-Forum to inspire and excite over 1000 students for entrepreneurship.

Jan Kees de Jager (ex-Minister of Finance, KPN), Jelle Prins (UBER), Steinar Henskes (Founder Bird Control Group), Nicolas Brusson (Blablacar).

2 Water Tech Fest

Water Campus in Leeuwarden

9:30 - 17:00

Ambitious in Water Tech? Come to Water Tech Fest. The Water Campus will be the global meeting point for entrepereneurs, startups, scaleups and investors focusing on Water Tech.

Christoffer Gasson (Global Water Intelligence), Lieve Declercq (Vitens) – and more.

3 High Tech Capital

Phillips Stadium, Eindhoven

9:30 - 17:00

The Brainport startup matching event. High Tech Capital joins tech and design-startups, scale-ups, and investors toexplore business opportunities. The day will focus on inspirations, networking and pitching.

Sunny Stalnaker (ASML), Peter Weijmarshausen (CEO Shapeways), Marjan van Loon (CEO Shell NL) – and more.

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Startup Fest Opening

Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage

11:00 - 18:00

Build, Connect, Disrupt. Entrepreneurs, CEO’s and Venture Capatilist come together for the opening of Startup Fest Europe.

Tim Cook, Travis Kalanick, Eric Schmidt, Markt Rutte, Mattias Ljungman, Andrus Ansip, Neelie Kroes and more.

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Mobile Convention Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage

09:00 - 17:00

Great line-up on Mobile Marketing, - Enterprise and The future of Payments.

Lennart de Jong (CitizenM hotels), Olivia Harvey (Google).

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Dutch Construction Hackathon

Oss, Rotterdam, Hengelo, Delft

08:00 - 21:00

In the four identified locations for innova-tion in the building industry, we will work together with startups and stakeholders to develop solutions for a selection of real time challenges. At the end of the day we will harvest and put the spotlight on all the innovative products and idea’s during the Hack Party at Dome-X.

23 Startup Fest Brightlands

Muziekgieterij Maastricht

09:00 - 20:00

Incubate. Accelerate. Validate. Scale. Brightlands is the place to be when it comes to advanced materials, health, food and smart ser-vices. There are many talented entrepreneurs, and resources available in the region – they will connect at Startup Fest Brightlands. Timing, location and presence are key!

Tom van Aken (Avantium) – and more.

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Our Future Health

Concerthall ‘De Vereeniging’, Nijmegen

09:00 - 18:30

24 hours on more than 20 locations world-wide, sharing the newest technologies & innovations within healthcare. On the 26th of May, Nijmegen will be the stage for a conference on Our Future Health.

Peter Hinssen (writer The new normal), Daniel Kraft (Singularity University), Jos de Blok (Buurtzorg), Edith Schippers (Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports), Prof. Hans van der Hoeven (Chair Intensive Care department Radboudumc) – and more.

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Dutch Interactive Awards Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam

18:00 - 00:00

Two days of inspiration from world-class. On 26 May 2016 the Dutch Interactive Awards shall be award-ed to the best interactive work of the previous year. Celebrating its seventh anniversary, DIA is the prize for the cream of the crop of the Netherlands online.

TBC

16 Science & Innovation Award Sciencepark, Amsterdam

13:15 - 18:00

On Thursday 26 May, alongside the finale of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award, a matchmaking event is organized by IXA together with the Science and Business organization of Amsterdam Science Park.

Dr. Debashi Bhattacharjee (Group Director R&D Tata Steel), Prof. Alexander Rinnooy Kan (Uni-versity Professor of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam) – and more.

17 Impact Startup Europe Caballero fabriek, Den Haag

09:30 - 16:30

The city of the Hague will host Impact Startup Fest on the 26th of May. This internationally co-created impact festival will focus entirely on innovations for a better world.

Indy Johar (Co-Founder of 00), Illac Diaz (Liter of Light Movement), Heather Leson (TextOnTech).

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Digital Marketing Live! Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage

09:00 - 17:00

Emerce is organizing the FIFTH edition of the highly successful event Digital Marketing Live! It offers a wide range of activ-ities – continuous sessions, happenings, panel discussions, workshops and round tables.

+100 speakers, discussions, round tables, demos, startups on digital marketing, - advertising and interactive media.

14 CityFlows

The Venture Café, Rotterdam

13:45 - 20:00

City Flows is all about innovators taking on the challenges of today’s cities to truly becoming a Smart. We invite all (inter)national talent & entre-preneurs to share their best ideas for the future of city information, goods and people flows in the areas of circular economy and mobility. The best ideas will be selected to take the main stage with an audience of city and corporate decision makers as jury and potential future partners.

Sanne Manders (COO Flexport), Marten van der Velde (Director Strategy & Innovation at Porta-ble), Rob Kitchin (Smart city expert, Maynooth University) – and more.

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F&A Next

The Wageningen UR campus

25 May 13:00 - 18:30 & 26 May 09:00 - 18:00

Boosting innovation in food and agriculture. On 25 & 26 May 2016, the campus of Wageningen UR will be buzzing with Start-ups and Investors in food and agriculture (F&A).

Dominik Richter (CEO Hellofresh), Margrethe Jonk-man(R&D FrieslandCampina), Prof. dr. ir. Louise Fresco (President of Wageningen University and Research).

This event also takes place on wednesday12Energy Fest

Shell Technology Centre, Amsterdam

9:30 - 18:30

Dutch and international energy industry players–utilities, renewable energy, oil & gas companies and startups will explore how startups and corporations can collaborate more effectively to enhance the speed of innovation. Startups can promote innovations in pitch competitions and in a startup café.

Maroš Šefčovič (European Commission Vice President Energy Union), Betrand van Ee (Climate-KIC Ambassador), Michael Lieb-reich (Founder Bloomberg New Energy Finance) – and more.

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Startup50 Gelderland

Sint-Eusebiuskerk, Arnhem

15:00 - 21:00

Meet the best startups of Gelderland. During this event, we will present the first magazine with the 50 best startups of the Dutch province of Gelderland to an audience of startups, investors and other startup fanatics. Meet the best cleantech, medtech and software startup here.

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The Future of High Tech

Campus University of Twente

10:00 - 24:00

The future is now, and you can contribute. The Future of High Tech is about bringing top talent, great ideas, world class technologies and leading investors together to create solutions for the global high tech challenges. One-on-one meetings, break-out sessions in an inspiring, flashy, high-tech setting with technology leaders, scientists, investors and entrepreneurs. Investing your time in this event could very well be the best investment in your company’s future you have ever made.

Chris Anderson (3D Robotics), Detlef Pohl (Siemens-Venture Capital), Erik Huizer (SURFnet) - and more.

8 FinTech Stage Tripolis, Amsterdam

09:00 - 18:00

FinTechStage is a conference with an unconventional format that brings together a unique network of innovators obsessed with driving entrepreneurship and investment in Fin Tech.

Howard Lindzon (Social Leverage), Jon Martonis (Bitcoin Foundation), Mariano Belinky (InnoVentures, Santander Group’s VC fund), Dan Marovitz (President of Europe, Earthport PLC) – and more.

9 Campus Party Jaarbeurs, Utrecht

25 May – 29 May (08:00-22:00)

Campus Party is the place where the brightest minds meet. From tech geeks to designers, from startups to hackers.

100+ speaker line up, including Dirk Ahlborn - CEO Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc., Camille Francois – Cyber War specialist Harvard, John ‘Maddog’ Hall, Executive Director Linux.

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Fintech Day Tripolis, Amsterdam

15:00 - 19:30

The conference’s program will feature high-class speakers sharing insights within panel discussions and talks. Special spotlight on “FinTech Story” session, where an inspiring FinTech personality will share his/her experience with the audience. speakers, sharing insights within panel discussions, interactive talks, start-ups pitches and keynote speakers.

Arthurs’Legal, OneGine, Wealth Object, Quantstore – and more.

19 Startup Boost Krachtstroom, Zwolle

17:00 - 21:30

Startup boost Zwolle gathers repre-sentatives from multiple organiza-tions - corporate and startup - to let them explain how they are dealing with innovation and building their team.

Mare Straetmans (Rotterdam based PortXL), Gerhard van der Bijl (Wehkamp).

20 VentureClass - Scale Up Academy Building, Groningen

19:00 - 22:00

This Startup Fest VentureClass explores the topic of rapid growth: how do you bring your startup on the road of scaling up?

With Marco Jansen (CTO CataWiki) & Edwin Kuipers (Founder CrowdyNews) – and more.

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The Cruiseterminal, Rotterdam

28 May (21:00-02:00)

On Saturday a big plenary session will take place at a central location in The Netherlands. This will be “the best of” the entire Startup Fest Week.

It promises to be an inspiring day chock full of highlights. You can expect hot off the press stories of starting entrepreneurs that got funded by meeting their angel investor, successful scale-ups that were able to expand internationally and many other developments from around the country that happened during Startup Fest Europe

Closing Party: Startup & Dance

This event will be held the entire week

ProgramStartup Fest Europe is a week-long Festival that takes place during the European presidency. Each day, events will take place

that focus on startups in specific verticals. Here you can find the program.

The travel time between most events is just 90 minutes!

You can print and fold this map to take it with you as a travel guide!

Rotterdam & Delft

The HagueUtrecht

Maastricht

Nijmegen

Wageningen & Arnhem

Enschede

Zwolle

LeeuwardenGroningen

Assen

DIDYOU

KNOW?

Eindhoven

Oss

Amsterdam

See the latest information and even more events during this week at www.startupfesteurope.com

Startup Fest Europe opening1

E-Commerce Live!5

FinTech Stage9

Energy Fest11

Dutch Interactive Awards16

FinTech Day19

YES!Delft2Techilicious6

Water Tech Fest3

High Tech Capital

Dutch Construction Hackathon

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Startup50 Gelderland

F&A Next

Our Future Health

Startup Fest Brightlands

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The Future of High Tech

Startup Boost

VentureClass - Scale Up

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Campus Party10Impact Startup Europe

Digital Marketing Live!14

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Science & Innovation Awards17

Mobile Convention22

CityFlows15Closingparty: Startup & Dance25