IO+'s week: plenty of innovative events alongside all our stories
Our weekly overview offers an overview of the most interesting stories around key innovations every Sunday.
Published on December 8, 2024
Drinks Pitches & Demos, episode 100. © Bram van Dal
Bart is the co-founder and co-owner of Media52 (publishing IO+) and a Professor of Journalism at the University of Groningen. He is responsible for all the branches of our company—IO+, events, and Laio—and focuses on commercial opportunities. A journalist at heart, he also keeps writing as many stories as he can.
Innovation is everything to us. The word is at the core of our mission and defines everything we do or don't do. At the beginning of each day, we ask ourselves which innovative developments are most relevant to share. We select these in this newsletter so you don't have to come to our website every moment of the day to check for yourself every time.
In addition to all the innovation-oriented articles you've come to expect from us, we also bring our mission to the stage with various events. For example, last week, we had the 100th edition of Drinks Pitches & Demos (a free-to-attend event for which we invite a dozen people to pitch their fresh ideas to an interested audience every first Wednesday of the month. Nearly 300 people attended; if you weren't there, you really missed something. The image above this article shows the atmosphere. Click here for more photos.
Our next event is already scheduled right after the New Year: at the Gerard & Anton High Tech Peak Awards, nine people will be on stage who have done something special for the innovation ecosystem in and around Brainport Eindhoven. You can order tickets via our event calendar (on the homepage).
3D Medical Conference
You can also see that the following event is already announced: the 3D Medical Conference. This is a paid event with finger-licking good speakers. We have managed to secure the crème de la crème in the field of 3D Bioprinting, 3D MedTech Printing and 3D Pharma Printing. There are three parallel programs at one location that you can follow crisscross if you wish. You can sign up quickly here. Students get a big discount!
Here's a selection of last week’s stories
- Secure communication, even when there's no wifi or bluetooth, that's what LiveDrop does. Last week, NATO even fell for that concept.
- The false promise of hydrogen: Why the 'green' hydrogen economy is still gray
- Investment of the month: SeaO₂ fights climate change and restores ocean
- Expat life: 'I felt that if I didn't do it, I would regret it for the rest of my life'
- Dutch high-tech sector is by far the most significant private investor in R&D - but it's still far too little
- Technology with clear social purpose: innovation accelerator Eindhoven Engine enters new phase
- Laura De Laporte makes spinal cord repair a reality with groundbreaking hydrogels
- Dutch campuses are 'engines of economic growth and innovation'
- Talks of reducing plastic pollution fail as production increases
- ASML's Newest Gadget: A LEGO EUV machine for under the Christmas tree
Have a great week!