35,000 people visited Dutch Technology Week
Last week, at least 35,000 people attended one or more of the more than fifty events of the fifth Dutch Technology Week. That’s 25% more than in 2015. This year’s DTW focused on themes...
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Doing everything yourself at the High Tech Discovery Route
The line at the ice cream is as long as the one at Oxboard Square. But the soccer robots and VR goggles at VisitU also get a lot of interest. Just like the more specific medical components of the...
Jobs looking for job seekers – at Boostiq Career Event
The auditorium of the Conference Center at the High Tech Campus is full. “Not bad for a Friday morning at half past ten,” Bert-Jan Woertman from HTC says. “Certainly if your...
“BoostIQ Challenge Track is melting pot for talent”
Main Photo: Bram Saeys “What applications can you think of, where data communication through sound would come in handy? And would you market this app? This is just one of the challenges...
1,200 tech fanatics bring Quiz Night XL to a giant success
Deadly silence is in the packed hall of the Klokgebouw, every single person is listening attentively to Julinka van Keulen. She can be seen simultaneously on seven screens hanging from the...
Important prizes for Philips, Tobroco and Jan van Eijk
Philips has received the King Willem I Prize in the category of large corporations. The Oisterwijk based Tobroco won in the category of SMEs. Queen Maxima awarded the prizes at Radio Royaal at...
Brains Award: main prize for idea to use pine needles as raw material
A nice mix of innovative ideas last night at the presentation of the Brains Awards 2016. The main prize was for Tamara Orjola of the Design Academy for her idea to use pine needles as a raw material...
High Tech Capital brings all the good examples to the startups
A sold-out Philips Stadium, but this time 1,000 pair of eyes are only partly focused on the pitch. The audience also spreads over the dressing rooms, bars, business rooms and meeting rooms with...
Opening of the Living Smarter House on the 18 September Square
Engineering and technology is not something far away or for after so many years. It is not something that may be imposed on civilians by society. But what technology can do is help us face the...
How to ‘export’ the success of DTW?
The intention was to support the Dutch Technology Week for just one year. But now, after five years, ING is still one of the partners of DTW. “Right from the beginning for us it was about the...
85 Techies on a CodeFest Playground
“In five minutes there’s an exclusion for all the parents here! And we’re going to strictly enforce that.” Alderman Staf Depla acts as a bad cop in his perfectly cheerful...
Known and unknown winners at High Tech XL’s Pitch Contest
HighTechXL’s Pitch Contest has delivered known and unknown winners. The biggest unknown took the third prize (1,000 euros): VertiWalk is trying to devise a system by which it is possible...
The Shapeways logic behind Eindhoven > New York > Eindhoven
If there’s one thing Peter Weijmarshausen keeps getting questions about, it’s his decision to move his company to New York in 2009. Today, at the High Tech Capital Conference, the...
Strong alliance to support Eindhoven hardware startups
A group of leading Dutch companies and public sector organizations have formed the Eindhoven Startup Alliance. The goal of this alliance is to support startup accelerator HighTechXL in its mission...
Robots to open a door, pass a threshold, serve a drink
The robot battle is on. The Markt – right in the city center – will be the spot where 15 health care robots are competing for the CCM mechatronics Trophy. Fifteen student teams from the...
Jeroen Junte in De Kazerne: “Thinking in opportunities and solutions”
“They are passionate, committed and full of new ideas,” Annemoon Geurts of De Kazerne explains. She’s talking about the generation of designers who have started during the...
DTW’s Permanent Future Lab is also an exhibition-for-a-week
On a stage in the back of the Seats2Meet at Strijp-S the Permanent Future Lab (PFL) is located. Eindhoven is one of the three locations for this nationwide initiative. Companies, preferably from the...
Smart Mobility to satisfy a basic human need
Always thought that mobility is there to get you from A to B? Wrong! Mobility is nothing less than a basic human need. The exact extent has indeed been the same since prehistoric times, Carlo van...
Opening DTW16: Focus on technology’s benefits for society
All those high-tech products, smart cities, smart mobility and e-health, all well and good, but what’s in it for society? If the opening of the Dutch Technology Week, Monday morning at the...
Dutch Technology Week starts today
We have been talking about it for a couple of weeks (and eighteen articles) already, but today it really begins: the Dutch Technology Week. So now it’s up to you to dig into the program and...
Drachten and Almelo join Eindhoven in High Tech Discovery Route
Not only in Eindhoven the High Tech Discovery Route is allowing people a close look behind the doors of the high tech industry, but also about 200 kilometers further away in Almelo. As well as in...
Looking around at ASML and MMC during DTW
It’s not every day that you get the opportunity to get a close look at ASML or the Maxima Medical Centre (MMC). During the Dutch Technolgy Week both are opening up the doors – especially...
Dancing robots open “Living Smarter Home” at DTW
A dance show by Fontys’s famous NAO robots Fontys is the official start of the Slimmer Leven Huis (“Living Smarter Home”) during the Dutch Technology Week. On Wednesday, May 25th...
High Tech Ontdekkingsroute-hotspot AAE will work with the youngest
One of the hotspots on the High Tech Ontdekkingsroute can be found in Helmond. On the 28th of May, over 35 companies and schools will fill the offices of AAE. Their goal is to gather as a collective...
Eindhoven, Living Lab for the rest of the world
Imagine: you want to leave your home and a car drives by autonomously. A small one when you are alone and larger one if you want to take your whole family. The car ‘knows’ that you have...
