Sign up for: Doing Business with Defense: 'Strong, smart and together'

On June 18, VNO-NCW Rijnland, Key Region Leiden and Rabobank are jointly organizing the Defense Summit: Doing Business with Defense – Strong, Smart and Together. Led by chairman of the day Alex de Vries, crisis advisor and former journalist, we will explore the opportunities created by the rapidly changing geopolitical situation and the growth of the defense budget. These developments offer entrepreneurs new opportunities to contribute to security, resilience and economic growth with innovative solutions (dualuse).

Our region has a strong starting position here, where innovative strength meets the growing importance of the defense and security sector. During the meeting we will discuss how entrepreneurs can take advantage of these opportunities and how the cooperation between business, knowledge institutions and government can be further strengthened.

You will gain insight into Defense’s strategic priorities, discover how to apply innovations, and meet relevant network partners from the region.

Program

2:30 p.m.	Walk-in meets the innovation ecosystem
15:00	Opening and welcome by Tino Meijn, chairman VNO-NCW Rijnland Brief explanation about Unmanned Valley by Theo de Vries, director
3:10 p.m.	Hugo Leyte, Head of ODIN (Orchestrating Defense Innovation), MinDef. Christine Foekens, Program Manager National Defense Industry and Innovation Program, MinDef
15.30 uur	Siete Hamminga, CEO Robin Radar
15.50 uur	Rob Postma, CEO Airbus Netherlands
4:10 p.m.	Yorick Cramer, Rabobank industry and defense sector manager
4:30 p.m.	Opportunity for questions
4:40 p.m.	Break
5 p.m.	Break-out sessions
5:45 p.m.	Brief summary of breakout sessions by moderator
6 p.m.	Networking drinks
7 p.m.	End

Guest speakers: Hugo Leyte, Christine Foekens, Siete Hamminga, Rob Postma, Yorick Cramer.

Break-out sessies

PLEASE NOTE: At the end of May, all participants will receive an email in which you can indicate a preference for one of the following breakout sessions.

Digital Resilience & Cyber: Harm Teunis, cyber expert ESET Netherlands
The role of SMEs in strengthening digital resilience of Defense and vital sectors.
Products & Services (dual use): Jos Maccabiani, senior business developer Innovation Quarter
How do you take dual-use innovations from concept to an initial commercial application at Defense? In this session we will discuss which routes are realistic and how to accelerate as a company towards funding, pilots, orders and sales.
Employees & The Reservist: Erwin Kwakkel and Martijn van Galen, AReS (Reservist and Society)
What are the benefits and practical (tax/HR) arrangements around deploying reservists for business owners?

The facilitators of the breakout sessions: Harm Teunis, Jos Maccabiani, Erwin Kwakkel and Martijn van Galen.

Sign up

Then sign up for this meeting using this registration form. After registration, we count on your coming!

Creating sensor-based impact

On June 18, we will be guests at Unmanned Valley in Katwijk. This is the Netherlands’ largest field lab for drones and autonomous tech on former naval airbase Valkenburg. Here, high-tech applications are literally getting off the ground.