TNW Conference 2022 | The Next Web (TNB) | 15 June 2022 | Taets Art and Event Park, Hemkade 16 Hembrugterrein, 1506 PR Zaandam, Netherlands

Rub shoulders with international technology executives, top-tier investors, policymakers, startups, and scale-ups, during two days of business, knowledge sharing and a whole lot of fun.

Our in-person edition is open exclusively to 4,500 attendees, eager to reconnect with the industry face-to-face. The intimate setting of our in-person version allows us to go back to our roots and celebrate tech, while also offering a full personalized experience in a secure and healthy environment.

If you're not in Amsterdam, but you're still eager to join, our hybrid format will make sure you’ll have an experience beyond expectations. Interspersing in-person and digital experiences throughout the event, our powerful digital tools will allow you to network with people on-site as well as online, and reap the benefits of both online and offline events.

Whether we meet in person or online, welcome to TNW - the heart of tech.

2022 Speakers

Edward Snowden
Whistleblower & Cybersecurity Expert

Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa
Chief Technology Officer, Greenpeace International

Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the Web and CTO & Co-founder, Inrupt

Gavin Wood
Co-founder / President, Parity Technologies / Web3 Foundation

Queeny Rajkowski
Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)

Mo Gawdat
Bestselling Author and Former Chief Business Officer, Google X, That Little Voice in Your Head

Maxine Williams
Chief Diversity Officer, Meta

Natascha Chamuleau
Chief Advertising Officer, WeTransfer

John Schoolcraft
Global Chief Creative Officer, Oatly

Jeffrey Faustin
Chief Investment Officer, Jenson Funding Partners

Sahana Hussain
Global Head of Open Banking Technology, HSBC

Jordi van den Bussche
Youtube Content Creator, Gamer & Blockchain Developer

Jon Skeet
Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Google

John LePore
Chief Creative Director, Perception

Franziska Palumbo-Seidel
CEO & Founder, Key Search

Justin Halsall
Pitch Battles Host, Founder, Software Engineer, Record One

Marc Whitten
SVP & GM, Create Solutions, Unity

Amal Dokhan
Partner, 500 Global

Christina Cacioppo
CEO & Co-founder, Vanta

Tamara Rajic
Head of Platforms, Infobip

Prashanth Chandrasekar
CEO, Stack Overflow

Linus Neumann
Chaos Computer Club

Nilixa Devlukia
Founder, CEO, Payments Solved

Bao-Y Van Cong
Investment Director, Target Global

Mursal Hedayat
Founder & CEO, Chatterbox

Tamara Shogaolu
Founder & Creative Director, Ado Ato Pictures

Rina Joosten-Rabou
CEO, Seedlink

Max Levchin
Founder and CEO, Affirm

Ger Baron
CTO - Director Digital and Innovation, City of Amsterdam

Trinny Woodall
Founder & CEO, Trinny London

Ankur Singh
Senior Director, Finance and Controls, OakNorth Bank

Seth Dobrin
Chief AI Officer, IBM

Adam Murphy
Experience Director, Philips Design

Edwin Aoki
CTO, Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies, PayPal

Alisa Cohn
Author, From Start-Up to Grown-Up

Sujata Dasgupta
Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance Advisory, Tata Consultancy Services

Nathalie Lam
Global Head of Sponsorship, Lead for Inclusion & Diversity Marketing Transformation, Philips

Mars Geuze
Co-Founder, Hardt Hyperloop

Ciela Hartanov
Founder, Humcollective

Kit Colbert
Chief Technology Officer, VMWare

Sandra Ro
CEO, Global Blockchain Business Council

Brian Solis
Author, Futurist & Global Innovation Evangelist, Salesforce

Boyan Slat
Founder & CEO, The Ocean Cleanup

Catherine Zhou
Global Head of Venture, Digital Innovation & Partnerships, HSBC

Skye Featherstone
Group Product Marketing Manager at Snap Inc. - Augmented Reality, Snap

Oscar Höglund
CEO & Co-founder, Epidemic Sound

Solo Ceesay
COO and Co-Founder, Calaxy

Lisa Talia Moretti
Digital Sociologist, Ministry of Justice UK

Kristina Gibson
CPO, Dott

Francois Kress
Co-Founder & CEO, Feelmore Labs

Renee Niemi
CPO, Products That Count

Jérémie Rosselli
General Manager, N26

Joanny Lijbers
Head of Digital Transformation, Unilever Benelux

Marilin Pikaro
Director of Innovation, Conduct and Consumers, European Banking Authority

Hoite Polkamp
Business Development Manager, Info.nl

D'Arcy Whelan
Investor, Outward VC

Eric Melloul
Managing Director, Verlinvest

Christian Saller
General Partner, HV Capital

Anieke Lamers
Founder & CEO, Peekabond

Manik Suri
Founder & CEO, Therma

Namrata Sandhu
Co-founder & CEO, Vaayu

Joris Hensen
Initiator and Co-Lead, Deutsche Bank API Program

Gernot Schwendtner
Co-Founder & CEO, weGrow

Ard van de Kreeke
Founder, Growy

Beth Faus
Investor, Notion VC

Geoff White
Author & Investigative Journalist

Robin Wauters
Founder, Tech.eu

Mike Asscher
President, Royal Asscher Diamond Co

Boaz Peer
Senior Director - Israel and Europe, Qualcomm Ventures

Faryar Shirzad
Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase

Erica Kostelijk
Head of Transaction Banking, ABN AMRO

Anandita Punj
Service Designer, Info.nl

Rosanne Janmaat
Chief Operating Officer, ID&T

Michal Marcinik
CEO, AdTonos

Terence Guiamo
Global Director Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging, Just Eat Takeaway.com

Dama Sathianathan
Partner, Bethnal Green Ventures

Michael Schlein
President & CEO, Accion

Darren Argyle
CISRO, Co-founder, Chairman, Standard Chartered, Cyber Leadership Institute

Gil Perez
Chief Innovation Officer, Head of Cloud and Innovation Network, Deutsche Bank

Tim Rehder
Partner, Earlybird Ventures

Rico de Lange
Creative Marketing Director, Q-dance

Ruurd Neurink
Head of Marketing & Communications, Porsche

Daphne Dovermann
Investor, Atomico

Mathias Ockenfels
General Partner, SpeedInvest

Viktor Fischer
Managing Partner, Rockaway Blockchain Fund

Frank Ferro
Director of Insights, PostNL

Courtney Powell
Chief Operating Officer & Managing Partner, 500 Global

Thomas Peham
VP of Marketing, Storyblok

Rune Theill
Co-founder & CEO, Rockstart

Andrew Watson
VP of Artificial Intelligence, Healx

Sako Arts
CTO and Co-Founder, FruitPunch AI

Fabian Vogelsteller
Founder & Chief Blockchain Architect, LUKSO

Oi-Yee Choo
CEO, ADDX

Koen Adolfs
Lead Product Owner, Open Banking & Enterprise Integration Technology

Herman Kienhuis
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Curiosity VC

Christopher Lascelles
Investor, Triple Point Ventures

Bill Reichert
Partner & Chief Evangelist, Pegasus Tech Ventures

Michael Schweikart
Co-founder, Managing Director, Tomorrow

Anthony Levandowski
Founder & CEO, Pollen Mobile

Katica Roy
CEO & Founder, Pipeline

Brian Mullins
Chief Executive Officer, Mind Foundry

Oliver Sigrist
Adviser, Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub

Patrick de Neef
Chief Innovation Officer, DNB

Peter Neufeld
Partner & Head of Digital Customer Experience EMEIA, EY & EY-Seren

Markus Infanger
Global Head Institutional Markets, Ripple

Alexander Grosse
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Issuu

Claudio Bellinzona
Co-Founder & COO, TUI Musement

Aman Behzad
Managing Partner, Royal Park Partners

Aaron Cohen
Co-founder & Chairman, Therma

D Sharma
Co-Founder & CEO, Wellness Coach

Gwen van Poorten
Presenter & Program Maker

Gijs Boudewijn
General Manager, Dutch Payments Association

Lior Ashkenazi
Group Director Partners, Globalization Partners

Bas van Abel
Founder, Fairphone

Hedwig Heinsman
Co-founder and CCO, Aectual

Chris Pace
Chief Technology Advocate, Coincover

Janine Hirt
CEO, Innovate Finance

Pere Ninou
Founder & CEO, Metacampus

Youri Doeleman
Partner, Antler

David Beckett
Pitch Coach, Best3Minutes

Tobias Topic
DJ, Producer & Songwriter, Topic

Jason Silva
Futurist

Ravi Bhalla
Head of Department for Innovation, FCA

Lexi Montée Busch
VP of Marketing & Communications, Happiest Baby (the maker of SNOO)

John Bruce
Co-founder and CEO, Inrupt

Haresh Bajaj
VP Product Growth, Pleo

Mathijs de Wit
Partner, Newion

Murad Ahmed
Technology News Editor, Financial Times

Jeroen Arts
Partner Marketplaces & Consumer, Speedinvest

Liron Markus
VP Product, Fiverr

Diane Janknegt
Founder, Wizenoze

José Woldring
Founder & CEO, The Media Nanny

Martin McKay
CEO & Founder, The Texthelp Group

Thomas Egner
Secretary General, Euro Banking Association

Christian Busch
Best-selling Author, The Serendipity Mindset: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck

Kevin Keenan
Senior Director, Data Science, Smarsh

Jasper De Rooij
Managing Director, Complex Family Office

Casey Rovinelli
Growth Director, OMERS Ventures

Stephen Morris
Banking Editor, Financial Times

Erik Huberman
CEO & Founder, Hawke Media

Anouk Schaap
Conscious Leadership Coach

Stephen Page
CEO, SFC Capital

Sam Bankman-Fried
CEO, FTX

Cutler Cook
Venture Partner, Deciens

Harald Tepper
Sr Director Sustainable Development, Philips

Bindi Karia
Venture Partner, Molten Ventures

Peter Lasinger
General Partner, 3VC

Jonas Templestein
Co-Founder and CTO, Monzo Bank

Yoram Wijngaarde
Founder & CEO, Dealroom

Robin de Jongh
Managing Director Detecting Financial Crime, ABN AMRO

Stefanie Knaab
Founder, Executive Director & Project Director, Gewaltfrei in die Zukunft - Violentfree into the Future

Alex Smout
Principal, InMotion Ventures

Gerard Lavin
Field CTO, EMEA, Citrix Systems

Sherrell Dorsey
Founder and CEO; Author, Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us, The Plug

Kelly Burton
Executive Director, Black Innovation Alliance

Terrance Lamonte
Actor & Comedian, Boom Chicago

Audrey Miller
Partner, Tapestry VC

Manus Weber
Executive Director, IMPROVED Corporate Finance

Patrick Layer
Founder & CEO, Layer&Company

Alejandro Saucedo
Engineering Director - Machine Learning, Seldon

Paul Morgenthaler
Managing Partner, CommerzVentures

Jane Reddin
Talent Director, Albion VC

Lars Silberbauer
Global Head of Brand, Marketing and Digital, The Olympics (IOC)

David Taylor
Token Architect, Next Earth

Jan Scheele
Author, Digital Leader & Coach, World Economic Forum & Talk like TED

Michele Romanow
Serial Entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CEO / Dragon on Dragons' Den, Clearco

Hris Nedyalkov
CEO & Co-founder, Novus

Lizanne Atherly
Founder, Minds2Capital.Tech

Louise Doorn
CEO & Founder, HelloMasters podcast host, HelloMaaS

Judith de Leeuw
Artist / Founder, JDL Street Art

Isabell Welpe
Professor of Strategy and Founder of TUM Blockchain Center, Technische Universität München (TUM)

Carolina Brochado
Founding Partner, EQT Growth

Tessa Wanders
Tech Investor, VNV Global

Sushil Raja
Global Head of Liink, Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Sander Schutte
Mapiq
Co-founder & CEO, Fredrik Lucander

Fredrik Lucander
Vice President Marketing, Wolt

Wiebe Wakker
Sustainable Adventurer, Plug Me In

Isabelle Andrès
Chief Techonology, Operations & Product Officer, Believe

Simon O'Kane
Head of International, Asana

Marian Spier
Founder, Author, Board Member, FEM-START

Tracy Benson
CEO and Co-Founder, Obsesh

Anirudh Narla
Product Director - Head of Payments, Hopper

Tim van de Rijdt
CMO, Mosa Meat

Pierre Chastanet
Head of Unit – Cloud and Software, European Commission

Jasper Schuurmans
Co-founder & CTO, Mapiq

Paul Becker
Co-Founder & CEO, re:cap

Micah Smurthwaite
Partner, Next47

Meik Wiking
CEO, The Happiness Research Institute

George Henry
General Partner, LocalGlobe & Latitude

Robin Laird
Founder & CEO, Health Curious

Bart ter Steege
Managing Partner, Jungle Minds

Lawrence Wintermeyer
Chair, Global Digital Finance

Bram Veenhof
Director Digital Climate Solutions, South Pole

Bryony Cooper
Managing Partner, Arkley Brinc VC

Shilpika Gautam
Co-Founder & CEO, SALT

Eric Kuhn
SVP, Social Media, CBS

Sebastian Peck
Partner, Kompas VC

Nelson Ajulo
Founder, Zarttech

2022 Sponsors and Partners

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• ABN AMRO
• Paypal

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Amsterdam Convention Bureau
• Asana
• Citrix
• Coincover
• EY
• Hoory Metaverse
• Mapiq
• Next Earth
• OKX
• Smart Health Amsterdam
• Snapchat
• StartupAmsterdam
• Storyblok
• Vanta
• Visa

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Ajuntament De Valencia
• Globalization Partners
• Infobip
• Nike
• Pleo
• South Pole
• València Activa

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• AdTonos
• Estrella Damm
• Improved
• Info
• Key Search
• Kompas
• PostNL
• re:cap
• TicketSwap
• Yokoy

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS:
• Grip
• Zuant

PARTNERS:
• IAmExpat
• Rockstart
• Silicon Canals
• StartupBootcamp
• StartupAmsterdam
• Tech.eu
• DutchBasecamp
• MT/Sprout
• Holland FinTech
• ITKey Media
• Previon Plus AG
• Black Innovation Alliance
• Startup Fountain
• Products That Count
• TechUkraine
• Tech Advocates NL
• Social Nest Foundation
• Packt
• BCNL
• Startup Guide
• TechInformed
• Female Ventures
• DutchNews.nl
• Colorintech
• Clarity
• Inqommon
• Stuff Dutch People Like
• Startup Sesame
• Treedom
• Pride in STEM
• People for People Foundation
• Bolt
• Adformatie
• freeQ
• nexxworks
• The heart of tech