TNW Conference 2023 | The Next Web (TNB) | 14 June 2023 | Taets Art and Event Park, Middenweg 62 Hembrugterrein, 1505RK Zaandam, Netherlands

As Europe's leading tech festival, it is the ultimate place to meet the tech ecosystem's hottest startups, scale-ups, and multi-national organizations. With 10,000 attendees, consisting of over 78% decision-makers from over 120 countries, there is no better way to:

• Raise brand awareness through sponsorship and exhibiting
• Position your content in front of an engaged audience
• Gain precious leads in your industry
• Details of our global reach and audience segmentation

2023 Speakers

Lila Ibrahim
Chief Operating Officer, Google DeepMind

Nagin Cox
TED Speaker, Interplanetary Storyteller, & Space Exploration Engineer

Nick Foster
Former Head of Design at Google X

Jordi van den Bussche
YouTube content creator, Gamer and entrepreneur, JVDB Studios

Robert Brunner
Founder & Partner, Ammunition

Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Special Envoy, Techleap.nl

Jumana Saleheen
Chief Economist and Head of Investment Strategy Group, Europe, Vanguard Asset Management

Ramesh Menon
Chief Technology Officer, US Department of Defense

Ryan Patel
Global Business Executive and Board Director, Drucker School of Management

Barbara Belvisi
Founder & CEO, Interstellar Lab

Mark Rutte
Prime Minister, Netherlands

Martin Sorrell
Founder / Executive Chairman, WPP / S4

David Heinemeier Hansson
Co-Founder & CTO, Basecamp

Viktoriia Itskovych
First Deputy CIO, IoT Specialist, Smart City Planner, Kyiv City

SC Moatti
Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

Maureen N. Dunne
Senior Advisor and SEND Expert | Co-founder, The Lego Foundation | Autism Angels

Jennifer Huffstetler
Chief Product Sustainability Officer, Intel

Pierre-Yves Calloc'h
CDO, Pernod Ricard

Caroline Lair
Founder, The Good AI

Sowmya Subramanian
Executive Vice President of Engineering, Warner Bros. Discovery

Lucy O’Brien
Head of Talent & Ecosystem, Eight Road

Sander Vonk
Managing Partner, Volta Ventures

Gillian Tans
Business Executive, Founder | former President/CEO and Chairwoman, Diversity Hero | Booking.com

Jim Adler
Founder and General Partner, Toyota Ventures

David Beckett
Pitch Coach, Best3Minutes

Rana Gujral
CEO, Behavioral Signals

Vedran Cindrić
Founder, Treblle

Jeroen van Megchelen
Founder and CTO, Ledger Leopard

Alex Stephany
Founder & CEO, Beam

Maton Sonnemans
CMO & Partner EY VODW, EY Netherlands

Stefan Wenz
Business Development Manager, Unreal Engine Enterprise | Epic Games

Paul Becker
Co-founder & CEO, re:cap

Shima Abbady
AI & Data Lawyer and AI PhD Researcher, Bird & Bird

Shez Partovi
Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer, Philips

Femke Anna Van Zanten
Group Director, Meta

Anouk Vleugels
Creative Director, TNW

José Woldring
Founder & CEO, The Media Nanny

Teemu Arina
Biohacker, Author & Founder, Biohacker Summit

Matthias Laug
Co-founder, TIER Mobility

Roham Gharegozlou
Chief executive, Dapper Labs

Jan-Hendrik Bürk
Partner, b2venture

Nick Chatrath
Managing Director & Author, The Threshold: Leading in the Age of AI

Thomas Holl
Managing Director & Co-Founder, Babbel GmbH

Sheryn Omeri
Barrister, King’s Counsel

Mark Foster
EU Policy Lead, Crypto Council for Innovation

Tolulope Ayeni
Director of Product, Egencia

Tessa de Flines
Founding Partner, Masters at Scale B.V.

Sander Vonk
Managing Partner, Volta Ventures

Marieke Eyskoot
Sustainable Lifestyle Expert, TV & Event Presenter, (TEDx)Speaker, Author & Consultant

JF Gauthier
CEO & Founder, Startup Genome

Renee Niemi
CPO, Products That Count

Darian Shirazi
General Partner, Gradient Ventures

Gerhard van der Bijl
SVP Tech, Albert Heijn

Romain Palmieri
CEO, Groover

Chris Cunningham
Head of Influencer Marketing, ClickUp

Lucas Bugter
Director of Operations, 433

Frank Speer
Head of Internationalisation & Location Marketing, Business Metropole Ruhr GmbH

Quentin Clark
Managing Director, General Catalyst

Rick Centeno
Vice President Financial Systems - Fintech, Booking.com

Michael Baystone
VP AdTech Solutions, Acast

Deepka Rana
Partner, Northzone

Malcolm Moore
Editor, FT Edit, Financial Times

Tim Rehder
Partner, Earlybird Ventures

Briehan Burke
Partner, Keen Ventures

Laila Abudahi
CTO and Founder, Manara Tech

Lieke Luttmer
Chief Customer & Commerce Officer, Nationale-Nederlanden (NN Group)

Zohar Dayan
SVP of Product, Vimeo

Jasmine Sun
Co-founder and director, Reboot

Kate Mullord
Partner, 4impact capital

Begoña Ascaso
Director Machine Learning Engineering, Egencia

Mona de Boer
Partner data & Technology PwC, PwC

Nikols Latuff
VP of Growth, Zeno Media

Rob Elsinga
CTO, Microsoft NL

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

Danny Lange
SVP of AI, Unity Technologies

Matthew Cockerill
Strategic Design Consultant, Matthew Cockerill (consultant) / Faster Not Easier LTD

Julien Bertolini
IoT Expert, Volvo Group

Rob Visser
Group CIO, NN Group

Mark Mullen
CEO, Atom Bank

Deldelp Medina
Executive Director, Black and Brown Founders

Zack McCune
Director of Brand, Wikimedia

Kathleen Muller
VP & Global Head of Digital Customer Experience, SAP SE

Rawan Alfassi
A&R Manager, MDLBeast Records

Sylvain Le Borgne
Chief Partnership Officer, MediaMath

Martin Tantow
Partner, Pegasus Tech Ventures

Stephan Kuester
Head of Ecosystem Strategy, Startup Genome

Alain Sylvain
Founder & CEO, SYLVAIN

Christian Lindener
Co-Managing Partner of EMEA Delivery and Client Success, Mach49

André Silva
Global Head of International Expansion, Revolut

Coraline Ada Ehmke
Founder and executive director, Organization for Ethical Source

Jonas Nyvang
CEO & Co-Founder, STILRIDE

Mirik Milan
Co-founder, VibeLab

Max Dunhill
Director, ISV Ecosystem, Oracle

Kateryna Rystsova
Head of Software Engineering, Infopulse Netherlands

Murad Ahmed
Technology News Editor, Financial Times

Michael Schlein
President & CEO, Accion

Jinhua Zhao
Edward and Joyce Linde Associate Professor of City and Transportation Planning; Founder and Faculty Director, MIT Mobility Initiative, MIT

Dan Westgarth
COO, Deel

Sonya Simmonds
Head of Distributed First Experience, Spotify

Claire Conby
Operations and Governance Lead, Digital Pound Foundation

Christopher Osborne
Vice President of Product, DeepL

Andrea Frahm
Director of Israel Innovation Hub, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Sebastiaan de Gouw
CEO, Inforit BV

Raj Gokal
Co-Founder, Solana

Brian O'Hagan
Growth Lead, Sorare

Florian Schweitzer
Partner & CEO, b2venture

Abadesi Osunsade
Founder & CEO | VP global community and belonging, Brandwatch | Hustle Crew

Michal Marcinik
CEO, AdTonos

Alex Pasykov
Founder & CEO, Hily and Taimi

Shashi Verma
Director of Strategy and CTO, Transport for London

Alberto Prado
Head of R&D Digital & Partnerships, Unilever

Joshua Morris
Partner, Global Capital Markets, and Chair, Technology Investment Board, Knight Frank

Yemel Jardi
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Decentraland Foundation

Timo Mayer
Executive Board Member, Virtual Identity

Raquel Espada
VP Strategy Sustainability EMEA, Schneider Electric

Rohit Chauhan
Executive Vice President, AI & Security Solutions, Mastercard

Laura Waldenstrom
Principal, Inkef

Pia Schörner
Head of digital content marketing & BMW Metaverse, BMW Group

Thomas Macaulay
Senior Reporter, TNW

Ruth Cremer
Founder & CEO, Entrepreneurial Education

Sacha Haider
Partner, Global Ventures

Courtney Robinson
Global Head of Financial Inclusion and Policy Development, Block, Inc.

Thijs van Herkhuizen
General Manager, Faurecia Aptoide

Adam Elman
Head of Regional Sustainability EMEA, Google

Leigh-Ann Buchanan Buchanan
President, Miami-Dade Innovation Authority

Taner Akcok
Head of API Platform and Integration Services, Deutsche Bank

Hiro Nishiguchi
Managing Director, Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Japan

David Saidden
Director of Product and Partnerships, TikTok

Anis Uzzaman
Founder and CEO, Pegasus Tech Ventures

Simon Bumfrey
Head of Relationship Banking Europe, Silicon Valley Bank UK

Lucia Gallardo
Founder & CEO, Emerge

Lubomila Jordanova
Co-Founder / CEO, Greentech Alliance / Plan A

Megan Wood
Chief Strategy Officer, DigitalOcean

Ryan Breslow
Founder & CEO, Bolt

Joe Fitzsimons
CEO, Horizon Quantum Computing

Siddharth Choksi
Pre-Seed and Seed Investor, Peak

Marwa Azelmat
Digital Rights Expert, RNW Media

Femke van Drooge
Design Lead Customer Interaction, ABN AMRO

Scott Chipolina
Digital Assets Correspondent, Financial Times

David Stuffer
Senior Manager Connected Services, Mercedes-Benz AG

Erik Huberman
CEO & Founder | Co-Founder, Hawke Media | Hawke Ventures

Sébastien Borget
Co-Founder and COO, The Sandbox

Nicole Pabello
Managing Director, Switzerland, Amber Group

Renee Dudley
Co-Author | Tech Reporter, The Ransomware Hunting Team | ProPublica

Roscoe Williamson
Global Creative Strategy Director, MassiveMusic

Ray Johnson
CEO, Technology Innovation Institute

Hrvoje Kapetanovic
CEO, Undabot

Jennie Huijboom
Head of UX, ABN AMRO

Ashleigh Ainsley
Co-Founder, Colorintech

Heleen Dura - van Oord
Founder, Vivid Ventures

Thijs Verhulst
Business Development Manager, Benelux, Warner Music

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

Robby Schwertner
CEO, INNOMAGIC

Nada Alhelabi
Strategy Director, MDLBEAST LLC.

Jon Fink Isaksen
Head of Policy, EMEA, Uniswap Labs

Peter van Logtenstein
Head of Intelligence and Investigations, EMEA, Binance

Thomas Peham
VP of Marketing, Storyblok

Michael Treskow
Partner, Eight Roads

Joseph Smith
COO, Spendesk

Julius Verolme
Lead Producer, Bloo

Audrey Tsang
Co-CEO, Clue

Florijn Vriend
Head of Wellbeing and Social Impact, Edge

Peter Maas
Deputy CPTO and Chief Architect, Adevinta

Kristina Gibson
Chief Product Officer, Dott

Sascha Steffen
Professor of Finance and Vice President Research, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management,

Krijn de Nood
CEO & Co-founder, Meatable

William Quigley
Co-Founder, Tether

Sandeep Bakshi
Head of Europe Investments, Prosus Ventures

Nityen Ranjan Lal
Founding Partner, Icos Capital

Jamie Crummie
Co-Founder, Too Good To Go

Lucas van Grootheest
Lead Producer, Bloo

Joop Snijder
CTO, Aigency

Nish Patel
Managing Partner, Inertia Ventures

Michael Bjørnlund
Managing Partner Emerging Tech, Rockstart

Wouter Schild
Senior Counsel Global Privacy and AI Legal & DPO Europe, IBM

Rob McCargow
Technology Impact Leader, PwC

Ioanna Lykiardopoulou
Reporter, TNW

Ronit Ghose
Global Head, Future of Finance, Citi

Thomas Furness
Founder, Virtual World Society

Min Teo
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Ethereal Ventures

John Whelan
Managing Director of Crypto and Digital Assets, Banco Santander

Julia Hawkins
General Partner, LocalGlobe

Job van der Voort
Co-Founder & CEO, Remote

Joel aan ‘t Goor
Founder, Awake Origins

Franziska Schaadt
Serial Entrepreneur & Program Director, Awake Origins

Andy Lürling
Founding Partner, LUMO Labs

Irene Rompa
Event Moderator & Mediator, De Foundary

Samir Tabar
CEO, Bit Digital

Rob Whitehead
Chief Product Officer, Improbable

Deyan Dimitrov
Founder & CEO, Laundryheap

Bianca Zwart
Chief of Staff to the CEO, bunq

Aniyia L. Williams
Principal | Responsible Technology, Omidyar Network

Stephen Boyle
Head of Strategic Alignment, Lloyds Banking Group

Holly Blondin
Author, Creative Struggle is Real

Sujata Dasgupta
Global Head (Finance Crime Compliance Advisory, Tata Consultancy Services

Katie Ireland
CEO & Co-Founder, Enliven

Alex Roca
Ambassador, FC Barcelona

Janet Adams
Chief Operating Officer, SingularityNET

Matt Smith
Host

Nicole LeBlanc
Partner, Woven Capital

Jason Maude
Chief Technology Advocate, Starling Bank

Ragnar Jongen
Investor, DN Capital

Phill Robinson
Founder, Boardwave

Or Lenchner
CEO, Bright Data

Kelly Richdale
Senior Advisor - Quantum Safe Security, Sandbox AQ

Bart Geerts
Founder, Healthplus.ai

Cristina Criddle
Technology Reporter, Financial Times

Hilde de Vocht
Marketing & Communications Director, High Tech Campus

Philip Rosedale
Founder, Second Life

Shaun McGirr
EMEA Field Chief Data Officer, Dataiku

Berend van der Eijk
Partner, Bird & Bird

Tamas Bazsonyi
Solutions Engineering Tech Lead, Bitrise

Harry Harvey
Regional Sales Director Nordics, Klaxoon

2023 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• NN
• PwC

GOLD SPONSORS:
• ABN Amro
• EY
• Google
• Amsterdam
• Omidyar Network
• Storyblok

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Adevinta
• AdTonos
• Brightdata
• RUHR Business
• ClikUp
• Deel
• DigitalOcean
• MACH49
• Mastercard
• Recap
• SAP

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Aigency
• Amplitude
• Bird & Bird
• Bit Digital
• Bitrise
• Braze
• Egencia
• Faurecia Aptoide
• Groningen
• Infopulse
• Klaxoon
• Ledger Leopard
• Lucid
• Netrom Software
• Nikkei
• SouthPole
• Spendesk
• Treblle
• Undabot
• Worldline
• Yokoy