Thursday Gathering June 27th

17:00–17:30 Break Out: Have a drink with one of our team - 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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17:00–19:00 Info Table: Develop your communication skills - CBE Languages
As well as being the language of diplomacy and international communications, English is used as the main language in many industries. The Corporate Business English Training programme helps professionals unlock and strengthen their potential.
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17:00–19:00 Info Table: Startup Weekend Rotterdam
Startup Weekend is coming to Rotterdam! We are truly thrilled to bring this amazing format for the first time to the port city! You got 54 hours to start your business. Are you ready?
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17:00–20:00 Side Event: You See, I See; Fashion Show - CIC Rotterdam
We are getting our fashion on to support Dress for Success Rotterdam; which provides professional second-hand attire to low-income men and women searching for a job. You can donate what you like when getting a ticket for this event. Moreover, you can bring your own second-hand clothing to this event to have a fun swap with someone else and check out a great fashion show!
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17:00–19:00 Info Table: Inkef Capital connects with Rotterdam - Inkef Capital
Inkef Capital likes to connect with Rotterdam! Managing Director Robert Jan Galema is here to connect with you, talk about their investment strategy and what it takes to build the next unicorn. Stop by to learn more about them!
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17:30–19:30 Office Hours: Start-up Coaching - Cor the Coach
Do you want to start a business or recently have started your business? Sign up for a chat with Cor the Coach!
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17:30–18:30 Break Out: How can you do the most good - Effective Altruism Rotterdam
Effective altruism is about answering one simple question: how can we use our resources to help others the most? Get inspired to take action in this breakout. Learn about giving opportunities, startups in charity, the impact of daily actions.
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18:00–18:30 Break Out: Get a Tour Through CIC! Explore the beautifully designed innovation center - CIC
Venture Café is located in Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC). Are you curious about the rest of the space? Join a tour through this beautifully designed innovation center!
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18:30–19:30 Break Out: START with sustainability - Con3bute
In the START with sustainability Break Out session you'll learn 5 START-steps that you can apply to your business. This helps you to make your business future-proof by integrating sustainability in your company vision, business strategy and actions.
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18:30–19:15 Break Out: Inkef Capital connects with Rotterdam - Inkef Capital
Inkef Capital likes to connect with Rotterdam! Managing Director Robert Jan Galema will introduce Inkef Capital and Inkef’s portfolio company Aidence will share how it is to have Inkef on board. Join to learn more about them!
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18:30–19:30 Break Out: SecTalks Holland 0x0d – (pre) summer session! - SecTalks Holland
Summer round of SecTalks Holland, part of the international SecTalks.org technical meetups on information security! Join this monthly series of gatherings reviewing different security topics, a short CTF & lots of infosec knowledge sharing!
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Thursday Gathering July 4th

17:00–19:00 Info Table: The Impact Days 2019 in Rotterdam - Voor Goed // Rotterdam Impact Agency
On November 21, 22 and 23 The Impact Days are taking place. A great opportunity for social enterprises to show their impact. Visit this info table if you want to learn more (about joining) The Impact Days in Rotterdam!
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17:30–18:30 Break Out: Investor Readiness Session - Leapfunder
All of your questions regarding how to successfully talk to investors will be answered. The Investor Readiness Session is a workshop designed to help you prepare for investor meetings. It is led by Leapfunder's CEO, Tienko Rasker.
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18:00–20:00 Break Out: Everyone can be a Creative Thinker - Creative Thinking Workshop - buildupcamp.com
A Hands-on workshop to help you find the creative thinker in you. Anyone can be a creativity machine, learn how to train your brain.
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18:00–18:30 Break Out: How to develop a personality for Business - Heleniq A Consulting
Do you have a personality for success ? How can you develop your blind spots and accentuate your unique style of leadership ?
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18:00–20:00 Office Hours: "Ask Me Anything" with a YCombinator tech founder - Nova Credit
Ask me anything! My expertise is early day prototyping, getting stuff done with limited time, VC fundraising, (tech) hiring & culture dynamics, building full stack tech infrastructure & systems up from scratch.
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18:30–19:15 Break Out: How to do goal setting and planning - 010 Toastmasters Club
Goals help us believe in ourselves, setting goals for yourself is a way to fuel your ambition. Come to this break-out session to explore and practice goal setting and planning.
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Thursday Gathering July 11th

17:00–19:00 Info Table: Starfish Out of Africa - Out of Africa Children's Foundation
Starfish is an initiative to help less fortunate children in Cape Town by connecting them to sponsors. The children will be supplied with all the necessities they need to follow their dreams. We wish to make a change helping one child at a time.
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17:30–18:30 Break Out: Diplomatic Language and Soft Skills - CBE Languages
This session course has been designed for those working in all parts of the world where effective and unambiguous communication is vital to securing and maintaining successful working relations.
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18:00–20:00 Break Out: Test new ideas in three days - Design Sprints 2.0 & 3.0 - buildupcamp.com
Design Sprints have quickly become the standard of working for Startups and innovative business. Learn pro tips on how to run a sprint.
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Thursday Gathering July 18th

17:30–18:30 Break Out: How to... Confess Colors! - Lear
The workshop: "Confess Colors" helps you to be more aware of the different characteristics by using colors. Awareness is knowledge and this knowledge will create a better collaboration within your company.
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18:30–19:15 Break Out: 9 Styles of Leadership - Aha intelligence Heleniq A Consulting
What is the ONE Style that makes leadership easy and flowing for you? How can you use it to get into the flow where you work smart, not hard?
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18:30–19:30 Break Out: How to design and optimize graphics for the web to improve your SEO (Part 1)
In this session, you are learning the basics of creating and optimizing your graphics, photos, and logo for displaying them on a webpage. Get tips and tricks about how to keep your website loading fast while still maintaining a nice balance of graphics and textual contents.
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Thursday Gathering July 25th

17:30–18:30 Break Out: Interviewing Language and First Impressions - CBE Languages
This session focuses on helping you communicate clearly and engage your interviewers. This will help you establish yourself as a confident professional and allow you to outline your credentials in an authoritative manner.
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18:30–19:30 Break Out: How to Master the Skill of Public Speaking - Rotterdam Toastmasters
The Skill of Public Speaking can carry your message to millions, your pitch to investors, and your brand to the world. How can you make sure this opportunity is always maximized?
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18:30–19:30 Break Out: How to design and optimize graphics for the web to improve your SEO (Part 2)
In this session, you are learning the basics of creating and optimizing your graphics, photos, and logo for displaying them on a webpage. Get tips and tricks about how to keep your website loading fast while still maintaining a nice balance of graphics and textual contents.
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Thursday Gathering August 1st

17:30–18:30 Break Out: How to... Communicate effectively and get more success in you business! - Lear
In this workshop hosted by Jan-Paul Duijndam, you will be showed in which way explicit communication with each other directly leads to a higher return and a more successful company.
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18:30–19:30 Break Out: How to work smart not hard - The New Flow State - Aha intelligence Heleniq A Consulting
Athletes break their own world records more than before proving that our species is evolving. Can you learn to surf this curve and use it to accelerate your business growth?
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Thursday Gathering August 8th

18:30–19:30 Break Out: How to Maximise Social Media Marketing and Branding - Aha intelligence Heleniq A Consulting
How does the psychology of selling help you build your brand?
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Thursday Gathering August 15th

18:00–19:30 Break Out: Emotional Intelligence, Soft Skills for Life - Expat Wellbeing & CoBuild
Emotional Intelligence is an essential life skill for healthy relationships with yourself and others. How to understand, express & reflect on your emotions in a new country, using the local language? Let's brush up our EQ and Dutch language at once.
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Thursday Gathering August 22nd

Thursday Gathering August 29th

17:30–19:30 Break Out: Finance Academy - Leapfunder
Need some investment and financial advice for your startup? Get all the financial knowledge you need from Leapfunder's CEO Tienko Rasker. You will learn how to use convertibles, different equity classes, debt, shareholders' agreements and much more.
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