The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area faces major challenges in the field of responsible digitization, sustainable innovation and an agile education & labor market. Amsterdam Economic Board translates this into concrete action. General manager Nina Tellegen talks about our strategy for the next five years.
Circular products and services can deliver enormous reductions in greenhouse gases and reduce our over-consumption and scarcity of raw materials. The government has a crucial role in this through strong policy and targeted measures. But it needs the joint efforts of the business community, local government, knowledge institutions and civil society organizations to implement the policy. Network management can accelerate this.
Cultural institutions hardly share data with each other. If it were up to filmmaker and entrepreneur Chris van der Vorm, that would soon change. “By sharing data, we could reach more audiences and also a more diverse public.”
A national health data infrastructure makes data accessible for faster and better ...
There are serious shortages of personnel in healthcare, IT and technology. While it is precisely in these sectors that people are needed to work on the smart, green and healthy future of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. In the Board Talk series, we talk with Board member Dominique Hermans (CEO of Randstad Netherlands) about mismatches in the labor market.
From Deloitte headquarters The Edge to the new ABN AMRO headquarters and the green residential tower Valley: EDGE's sustainable buildings are conquering Amsterdam. Director Coen van Oostrom has been a member of the Network Council of the Amsterdam Economic Board for a few months now. “Real estate plays a role in all challenges in the region.”
Digitization in the Amsterdam region is increasing and so is the amount of available data. This has positive consequences, but also requires vigilance. Wouter Kolk, member of our Board and CEO at Ahold Delhaize Europe & Indonesia, thinks the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area would benefit from a strong regional data agreement.
The Data plus Pizza meetups by Amsterdam Medical Data Science are back: for the time being, they’re held online, and without pizza. In the third non-pizza edition, AMDS hosted a talk on AI in health by Peter Szolovits, professor of computer science and engineering at MIT and head of the clinical decision-making group within the Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL).
TechGrounds opens a new location in the Utrecht district of Overvecht. It is the fourth physical location of the now national initiative that sets up 'tech hubs' in neighborhoods and activates hidden IT talent. After previous successful locations in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Zuidoost and Rotterdam Zuid, TechGrounds is now going to make tech training and jobs accessible to hidden talents in the Utrecht neighborhood of Overvecht, in collaboration with Capgemini, AWS re/Start, Salesforce, UTC, UWV and the municipality of Utrecht.
An inventive economy, with a well-educated population and a sustainably connected region for everyone: that is what we are working on in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. During the fourth State of the Region we will discuss how we can invest in this dreamed future. “If we want to work together in this region, then the us is the MRA.”
