Thursday Gathering June 4th

16:30–17:00 Break Out: Maximize your Virtual Venture Café Experience - Venture Café Rotterdam
During this session, we will maximize your Venture Café experience, with short introductions and new connections! We will inform you about Venture Café mission and the programming offered. You get to share what you are looking for and can make some first serendipitous connects!
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16:30–20:00 Break Out: Let's connect in the Global Social Space! - Venture Café Rotterdam
Networking is at the heart of Venture Café! Join us in this Global Social Space to connect, exchange and collaborate. This room will be open for the duration of the Thursday Gathering to allow for serendipitous connections, it's just like our physical Café area. Join to talk about a specific subject or for a casual chat to get to know other (international) visitors!
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17:15–18:00 Break Out: Startup your business: Let's Brainstorm - Cor the Coach
Do you want to start a business, but you don't know where or how to start? Then this session will help you to answer some these questions, by brainstorming, structuring and putting everything on paper!
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17:30–18:00 Break Out: VR in the culture sector - VRPlayground
The Louvre has never had as many visitors as it did online during Covid-19 crisis. An interesting development! What can VR mean for the culture sector? Join to learn more about VR from Freek Teunen of VRPlayground!
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17:45–18:15 Break Out: The mondial crisis and its effect on your wardrobe - Logocomo
How does the pandemic affect our daily appearance? Will the face mask integrate into our trends completely? How do we normalize and personalize a mandatory garment in a way that doesn't make us feel like a dime in a dozen? In this session Romy van Eijk (Logocomo) will discuss the fashion side of the mouth mask and try to find answers, with you, to these questions.
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18:00–19:00 Break Out: How to integrate into a new country during times of social distancing - Rotterdam Expat Centre & Yaël Morag
Rotterdam Expat Centre and Yaël Morag, a Certified Life Coach, will share advice how to make the integration process in a new country a success no matter what the circumstances are. Even in times of the pandemic integration is possible.
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18:30–19:00 Break Out: Entrepreneur Spotlight - The Artist Edition #1: Niel de Vries - Niel de Vries
The "Entrepreneur Spotlight" is a sequence of weekly recurring sessions initiated by Venture Café Rotterdam where an entrepreneur is offered the "spotlight". Visual artist Niel de Vries will kick-off! "This is a presentation of my material investigation into the corrosive process of brass. Since October 2019 I have been artistically investigating this fascinating process. During this session I will present my findings, thoughts and works." Join to meet Niel!
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19:00–19:30 Break Out: Get Pitched! Speed dating game! - Venture Café Rotterdam
Get Pitched! is a fun networking game developed by Venture Cafés around the world. You get a problem that you need to solve with a specified technology, industry, and resources. You have 30 seconds until you need to pitch. Go!
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Thursday Gathering June 11th

16:30–17:00 Break Out: Maximize your Virtual Venture Café Experience - Venture Café Rotterdam
During this session, we will maximize your Venture Café experience, with short introductions and new connections! We will inform you about Venture Café mission and the programming offered. You get to share what you are looking for and can make some first serendipitous connects!
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16:30–20:00 Break Out: Let's connect! - Venture Café Rotterdam
Networking is at the heart of Venture Café! Join us in this main networking room to connect, exchange and collaborate. This room will be open for the duration of the Thursday Gathering to allow for serendipitous connections, it's just like our physical Café area. Join to talk about a specific subject or for a casual chat to get to know other visitors!
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17:45–18:30 Break Out: How to expand into international markets now - Heleniq Aha intelligence
What can you do with the current challenges to secure both a health psychological emotional and practical future going forward. What growth exists and how can we navigate the dips between the peaks. Join Heleniq to talk about it!
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18:00–18:45 Break Out: The Emerging South -- Food and Culture in and around Charlois -
Rotterdam has gone South this month. And so should you! Let's talk and share what we know about South Rotterdam.
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19:00–19:30 Break Out: Venture Café Book Club, Edition #1: Talk Data to Me - Lexter Woodley
The first edition of Venture Café Rotterdam's Book Club! Join this session to hear (and experience!) why discussing research-based statements about men/women issues is helpful to pick your own brain but also to get to know someone else on a deeper and more intimate level. Join this "do-session" hosted by Lexter Woodley. So, let’s talk data!
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Thursday Gathering June 18th

16:30–17:00 Break Out: Maximize your Virtual Venture Café Experience - Venture Café Rotterdam
During this session, we will maximize your Venture Café experience, with short introductions and new connections! We will inform you about Venture Café mission and the programming offered. You get to share what you are looking for and can make some first serendipitous connects!
Read more >

16:30–20:00 Break Out: Let's connect! - Venture Café Rotterdam
Networking is at the heart of Venture Café! Join us in this main networking room to connect, exchange and collaborate. This room will be open for the duration of the Thursday Gathering to allow for serendipitous connections, it's just like our physical Café area. Join to talk about a specific subject or for a casual chat to get to know other visitors!
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Thursday Gathering June 25th

16:30–17:00 Break Out: Maximize your Virtual Venture Café Experience - Venture Café Rotterdam
During this session, we will maximize your Venture Café experience, with short introductions and new connections! We will inform you about Venture Café mission and the programming offered. You get to share what you are looking for and can make some first serendipitous connects!
Read more >

16:30–20:00 Break Out: Let's connect! - Venture Café Rotterdam
Networking is at the heart of Venture Café! Join us in this main networking room to connect, exchange and collaborate. This room will be open for the duration of the Thursday Gathering to allow for serendipitous connections, it's just like our physical Café area. Join to talk about a specific subject or for a casual chat to get to know other visitors!
Read more >

17:45–18:30 Break Out: Women of Truth Neo Entrepreneurs - Heleniq Aha intelligence
The Challenges of entrepreneurship and some very significant benefits will be explained in this seminar. Then we look at the exponential growth and challenge facing this new phase of entrepreneurship and the impact of innovation on global culture. Join the discussion hosted by Heleniq!
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