On March 5 in B.1, we’re hosting the first edition of Moonshot Fest, and we’d like you to join us.

Moonshot thinking is about thinking big. It’s a mindset that says anything is possible. Moonshot Fest is created to empower you with this mindset. Made in collaboration with Europe’s biggest tech and startup platform, Silicon Canals, and codesigned with our B. members, Moonshot Fest is both a celebration of entrepreneurship and an event that connects you with the change-makers of today.

Our first theme is the human side of tech. We know that behind every groundbreaking, tech-driven idea is a team of ambitious innovators, so we’ve brought impressive minds in the industry to share their stories and ideas with you.

You’ll learn about how you can use coding, creative marketing, and data analysis to form a business that’s primed for exponential growth, how positive social impact can fuel rapid growth in technology centered companies, and how the international expansion of a pioneering platform tied into one business’ mission for a fairer society.

Moonshot Fest, however, is much more than just talks. Our impactful program of keynotes, panel discussions, choose your breakoutsession and networking opportunities.

Meet between the stars: We close the day with our afterparty sponsored by Bud, with food and drinks. (first drinks till 19.30 are on us)

In short, Moonshot Fest is the event for those devoted to making a difference. Shoot for the moon with us.

Program.

1.30 pm // walk in

2.00 pm // opening by moderator Remco Janssen - Silicon Canals

Remco Janssen is the founder of Silicon Canals, one of Europe’s leading technology news websites on startups, scale-ups, and the latest innovation in big tech.

2.15 pm // Paul Eggink - Temper

Social impact and a fast-growing, technology-driven platform can go together. Paul (entrepreneur of the year 2019) shares his vision and how Temper focused on flexible working methods.

2.45 pm // Ivar Hendriks - ZX Ventures (part of AB InBev)

Disrupting an industry: what can the world’s largest brewer learn from small companies? And what can you do to make your company stand the test of time.

3.15 pm // break

3:30 pm // Matthijs Metzemaekers - Harver

Fundamental fairness: selecting your new employees based on data instead of sole intuition. Matthijs is fighting unconscious biases with an intelligent candidate selection platform to evaluate and automate all aspects of candidate selection.

4.00 pm // Choose your rocket

Breakout 1: Ready to take your growth to the moon?

Growth Hacking power session with Growth Tribe

A brief but information-packed power session covering the process, mindset, and tools that will help you on your journey towards a more consumer-centric, experiment- and data-driven organisation.

Breakout 2: Are founders all Moonshot thinkers?

Startupbootcamp - The Founder's Profile

Patrick de Zeeuw is joined by special guests to discuss: Is there such a thing as a “Founder’s Profile”?

Do successful entrepreneurs have similar profiles, characteristics or even similar personalities? We hope to share great insights and start a great discussion on that topic with the help of Michiel Castelijns, co-founder of Humancollective, and Annemarie van Raay, an expert on Pre-Mediation and partner at Partner-Mediation.

Patrick de Zeeuw is the Co-Founder of Startupbootcamp, Innoleaps & The Talent Institute.

Breakout 3: Tech is for everyone.

Techgrounds brings tech entrepreneurship and digital skills to vulnerable communities and neighborhoods.

4.45 pm // break

5.00 pm // keynote: Tessa Wernink and Douwe Schmidt - tada.city

See the bigger picture and understand how you can use technology as a force for good. After all, it’s pretty lonely on the moon and the coverage is shit.

5.45 pm // closing by Tessa Bakker - B. Amsterdam

6.00 pm // Meet between the stars. Eat, drink and dance at our afterparty hosted by Bud, on the rooftop of Europe’s largest startup ecosystem. Open bar till 7.30 pm! 

0.00 am // last call for moonshot fest 2020 🍻

Speakers:

Paul Eggink, Temper, winner of the EY Emerging Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019

Paul has been chosen as a promising entrepreneur of the year because, as an enthusiastic entrepreneur, he is gaining a relevant place in the world of flexible working methods in a very short time. He shows with Temper that social impact and a fast-growing, technology-driven platform can go together.

Ivar Hendriks, eCommerce lead EU North at ZX venture AB/ InBev.

Ivar has been working in FMCG business for over 10 years. He loves setting up new businesses and challenging traditional ways of working as an intrapreneur. Currently he is doing that in the role of eCommerce Lead EU North for the innovation startup called ZX Ventures, founded by AB InBev, the world’s leading global brewer.

ZX Ventures has dream to brew up the future today by making products, services and technologies that bring people together to celebrate and share great times. It’s the business that should prevent the bigger company from being disrupted, simply by disrupting itself. In the last three years Ivar has been working on digital transformation and setting up the eCommerce strategy Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. The partnerships we started resulted in significant growth and an improved online shopping experience for our online beer shoppers. Ivar will talk about what big companies can learn from successful small companies and what you can do to make your company stand the test of time.

Matthijs Metzemaekers, co-owner Harver.

Harver leads the way in changing how organizations select and hire people. Hundreds of the most innovative companies, including Netflix, Uber, Booking.com, and Heineken use the intelligent candidate selection platform to evaluate and automate all aspects of candidate selection, while simultaneously fighting unconscious bias in the process.

In their mission to achieve fundamental fairness for every single applicant across the globe, Matthijs led Harver’s expansion to New York in early 2017. He will share his learnings on how, in the last three years, the USA became their largest market and a crucial driver for Harver’s growth.

Jean Bonnenfant - Lead Speaker & Growth Hacking Trainer at Growth Tribe.

Coming from a copywriting background, Jean is a Growth Hacking hands-on practitioner upskilling companies to thrive and grow in a data-driven world. He has trained companies such as Facebook, ING, Google amongst others.

With international advertising experiences in London, New-York, Paris, and Montreal, he went from creative-centric to conversion-centric processes. As the Growth Tribe’s designated LinkedIn expert, he is also a B2B lead generation expert and excels at inbound marketing strategies.

Growth Hacking - Power Session

Building products isn’t enough. Marketing channels are saturated. Rapid Experimentation and Growth Marketing skills help you beat the competition and keep growing!

Growth comes from a mix of behavioural psychology, coding, creative marketing, and data analysis. Having spent the last couple of years building, coaching and training regiments of growth teams and growth marketers, in this talk I'll run you through some of the latest stories, learnings, and tricks we've learned along the way.

A brief but information-packed power session covering the process, mindset, and tools that will help you on your journey towards a more consumer-centric, experiment- and data-driven organisation.


Remco Janssen, founder & publisher Silicon Canals

Remco Janssen is the founder of Silicon Canals, one of Europe’s leading technology news websites on startups, scale-ups, and the latest innovation in big tech. Ever since his days at a food order website after the dotcom bubble, he has an indisputable passion for startups and technology. As a trained and experienced public speaker, moderator, and host at tech events and conferences, he’ll ask all the right questions to unveil the right answers, thus ensuring the content on stage is of the highest level.

Michiel Castelijns, founder of Facet5 and co-founder humancollective

Annemarie van Raay, an expert on Pre-Mediation and partner at Partner-Mediation.

Patrick de Zeeuw, Co-Founder of Startupbootcamp, Innoleaps & The Talent Institute.

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