Join us on the 8th of March from 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM for an online breakfast session!

On the 8th of March it is International Women's Day, a global day celebrating and raising visibility for the achievements of women. We would like to invite you to join us for an online breakfast session with entrepreneurs in emerging technologies such as AI, Cyber and MedTech. These entrepreneurs challenge technology and take matters into their own hands on a daily basis and besides that, happen to be women. Everyone is invited!

Speakers

Janneke Niessen

Janneke is founding partner at CapitalT, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, board member and diversity advocate.

She has started and exited two international technology companies. She is on the board of several organisations and is regularly asked for advice by the goverment, all on the crossroads of technology, talent, investing and diversity. She speaks regularly at international events, appears in podcast and writes for several publications such as Fortune MPW, TNW, Wonder Women Tech, Inc, Cambridge and Jinek.

As the co-initiator of InspiringFifty—an initiative to increase diversity in technology by raising the visibility of female role models—Janneke published The New Girl Code to inspire young girls to pursue careers in technology. Janneke is also a strong supporter of more diversity in venture capital and one of the initiators of #Fundright, a self-imposed quota for venture capital investors to improve inclusion in the investment ecosystem.

She has been named one of Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year, one of the 10 most prominent angel investors, Most Innovative Leader and EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

Eline Vrijland – van Beest

Eline founded the MedTech scale-up NightBalance in 2009 with a new therapy for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). NightBalance was acquired by Philips in May 2018. Now she is the CEO of Hybridize Therapeutics with the mission to help patients overcome untreatable viral diseases with virus-specific RNA-based therapies (anti-sense oligonucleotides). Besides that, she actively invests in early stage healthcare companies through the BlueSparrows Investment Fund, and through her role as Venture Partner at Thuja Capital. Also, she holds a position as a member of the Supervisory Board of Livassured, a company that introduces a smart wearable that warns caretakers on epileptic seizures.

Eline was nominated for several lists of female and/or tech entrepreneurs like Quote, Glamour, Viva, Opzij, Financieel Dagblad, Sprout, The Inspiring 50, World Women's Forum and 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT. 

Nadia Kadhim

CEO Naq Cyber

"I believe that we should all work together to create a level playing field for men and women alike, across all sectors but especially the tech sector. We can only do this by championing women and our male allies, and paving the way for girls wanting to enter this sector through education and accessible language."

Nadia is a Dutch Child Rights Lawyer specialising in International Law, cyber security and GDPR legislation. Starting her career in child protection, she worked at UNICEF in Geneva and helped social workers and mental healthcare professionals by providing them with training on recognising and combatting child abuse. Nadia's mission is simply to use her expertise and experience to help others. This is why late 2020, she co-founded Naq Cyber, a cyber security and GDPR compliance startup. 

Naq offers small businesses a virtual and scalable Information Security Team to give small business owners space to breathe, knowing that their cyber security and legal needs are taken care of. Naq has worked together with the UK National Cyber Security Centre and Nadia has been featured in BAME 50 Under 50Inspirational Women and The Sun newspaper."

Cinzia Silvestri

Founder and CEO Bi/ond | Entrepreneur | Innovator | TEDx Speaker | InspiringFifty Italy

Cinzia believes that as every person is unique, our medicine should reflect that as well. She is a resilient and creative entrepreneur who brings real and inclusive innovation to society by applying her passion and knowledge in microelectronics. She is the founder and CEO of Bi/ond, a deep-tech company that empowers diversity in biological studies by engineering microchips.

Before going "Bi/ond", she did her Ph.D. in microelectronics at the prestigious Technical University of Delft. During her academic experience, she realized that her mission is to shorten the distance between academics and industry.

Cinzia strongly believes that entrepreneurial role models are needed. She built up a diverse and multidisciplinary team to address the significant challenges in the Organ-on-Chip field. In 2018, she was named one of the 50 most inspiring women in Italy's technology sector (InspiringFifty – Italy). Thanks to her vision, Bi/ond has been included in the Fund Right Initiative both as a women-led company and diversity in the team.

Andreea Moga

Founder Rotterdam.AI, Ambassador voor ‘Woman in AI’ and Associate Manager Accenture – Data & AI application development.

I am a "corporate entrepreneur" with a passion for Education and Data & AI in making a good impact in our Society and building the bridge between AI startups, Universities and the Industry. I've worked as a consultant for almost 7 years across various market sectors: Space sector, Transport & Logistics sector, IP video-cameras. I have worked across different geographic areas, and have experience working with both public and commercial sector organizations.

When founding Rotterdam.AI I saw a need in the market of upskilling people with domain knowledge who know the problems best and where to fit AI technology according to their needs. Being autonomous, auto-motivated and goal-driven entrepreneur, I was able to motivate like-minded engineers like me to educate programming and tech knowledge to the community of Rotterdam and surroundings. Roadmaps planning, measuring metrics, facilitating meetups, moderating, organizing and being a driving force during educational bootcamps were main activities.