What Is Startup Weekend?

What is Startup Weekend?

Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.

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High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Conference Center The Strip


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Eindhoven Startup Weekend can be best described as sort of a 54 hour MBA crash course. A hands-on way to experience the startup of a company. Will you convince the audience during your pitch on Friday? Then form your own team or help others with your outstanding skill set? Transform the idea to a full business plan on Saturday and Sunday? Will you use the knowledge of the mentors to pass hurdles and will you be inspired by the keynote speakers? Feel the excitement when you rush forward to get ready for the finals on Sunday. Can you convince the jury? Whether you win prizes or not; you end up as part of a strong community network and an priceless experience! Select your team, make a business plan, start building your product or proto, contribute and experience the teamspirit, And have a great time during whole the weekend! Are you the new Ilse? Tomtom?, ASML?

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Schedule

Friday

Mar 1
  • Registration Starts
  • Welcome
  • Speaker SPECIAL (Mystery Guest)
  • Pitches Start
  • Attendees vote for the top ideas
  • Teams start forming and discussing ideas
  • Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Mar 2
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
  • Lunch
  • Call for needs & skills
  • Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
  • Speaker Arthur Sevenstern (Excellent Presentations)
  • Speaker Jan Willem Alphenaar (Social Media Skills)
  • Speaker Heico Sandee (Robosoccer)
  • Dinner
  • Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
  • Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Mar 3
  • Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
  • Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
  • Lunch
  • Speaker Henkjan Smits (Business X Factor)
  • Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
  • Dinner
  • FINAL PRESENTATIONS
  • Judging & awards
  • Wrapup & drinks
  • Go home!
Organizers
Remco de Jong
Monique de Jong
Bastiaan Anink
Bert-Jan Woertman
Noud de Greef
Roos Flapper
Jos Maas
Bart Ghysels
Estrella Mena
Fernando Ballester-Bru
Bram van Sambeek
Michael Dawkins
Jaap van der Heijden
Else Embregts
Alejandra Torres
Mentors

Hans Helsloot

NL Octrooicentrum

Consultant intellectual property.

Merien ten Houten

Merien BV

Entrepeneur in media Innovation.

Rik Konings

MVO Kickstart

Alain le Loux

EIT ICT Labs

Business Accelerator.
Coaches > 20 European IT-startups per year. Travels between the nodes
of EIT ICTLabs based in Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Helsinki, Trento en Eindhoven.

Debbie Mous

Marketing & Innovatie Consultant

Bart Jan Niestadt

Vereenigde

European & Dutch Patent Attorney.

Kees van Nunen

Kees van Nunen currently holds a position as Lean Evangelist at Startup Bootcamp and coaches a portfolio of startups and corporate innovation teams on business strategy & lean startup methodology. In the past he co-founded SNTMNT (stock prediction based on Twitter) & GamiFly (gamification studio) and has worked at ABN Amro Dialogues Incubator as an innovation manager. He has a passion for innovation & entrepreneurship in the field of new media and his expertise lies in product & customer development from a lean startup perspective. As a Firestarter, Kees tries to kickstart a startup ecosystem by organizing events like Evolv Weekend, Leancamp, Rotterdam Startup meetup & the Dutch Lean Startup Circle.

Eric Schauwaert

Brainport Development

Eric is an experienced business consultant, investment manager and tax advisor. As director, partner and consultant he worked for various leading financial consultancy firms and industrial experience he gained as CFO for Miele Nederland B.V. As business consultant at Brainport Development he advises entrepreneurs and small to medium sized companies guiding them to start and grow their business.

Daniel Schobben

Techdysis

Executive Consultant.
Core-expertise: translating high-tech into simple yet compelling propositions.
Daniel Schobben is an experienced high-tech start-up coach with the specific expertise of translating ideas into scalable companies. He raised both venture capital and public funding and has helped others to do the same. Daniel founded Intrinsic-ID through a spin-out from Philips electronics in 2008. Daniel has a commercial focus while understanding technology (Ph.D., M.Sc. TU/e Electrical Engineering - cum laude, 180+ patents) and has been involved in due diligences for acquisition targets ranging from 2M to 2B euro.

Carin van Thiel

Six Fingers, Van Thiel Marketing en Innovatie

Experienced marketing and business professional. Strategic Innovator.

Carel Verspaget

Indiprof

August de Vocht

Gemoro - Apps & more

Mobile Marketeer.

Speakers

Henkjan Smits

Heico Sandee

Eindhoven University of Technology   |  LinkedIn

Program Manager Robotics,
World Champion RoboSoccer!

Arthur Sevenstern

Excellent Presenteren

Presentation Expert

Jan Willem Alphenaar

JWAlphenaar   |  

Experienced speaker and writer on social media, online communication, branding and crowd sourcing

Judges

Henkjan Smits

Patrick Strating

EIT ICT Labs

Theo Stevens

Brainport Development

Director

Ronald Wolf

Philips Research

Director Venturing

Boudewijn Baud

Witteravendesk

Steef Blok

TU/e, Innovation Lab   |  

Director Innovation Lab

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