The most recent Amsterdam Life Sciences Café focused on what startups in the life sciences industry must do to go to the next level. Basically, you need near-infinite patience, a risk-taking attitude and two billion euros. But most importantly: you need the right partners.
As medical data science evolves, how can it create personalised treatments for health and wellbeing and improve patient care? This was tackled during the latest Medical Data plus Pizza Meeting, the first joint meetup by Amsterdam Medical Data Science and Amsterdam Data Science. And as a reflection of ever-growing interest: the event took place in Amsterdam UMC’s expansive Amstel Zaal.
At the ‘Accelerating a Sustainable European Data Economy’ roundtable, data policy and business leaders gathered in Amsterdam to chart out the conditions needed for fair and open data markets. The sense of urgency was palpable. “This is too important to leave to the Amazons and Alibabas.”
As one of the largest consultancies in the world, Deloitte is an important knowledge partner within the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area in the field of various social themes. Johan Stuiver, Director Strategy & Operations Public Sector and counselor of the Board, explains how they contribute to a future-proof labor market within the energy transition.
Urban mobility and energy transition are important themes within BAM Infra. That is why the construction group is affiliated with the Bouwhub in Amsterdam Westpoort and employees travel on electric bicycles to project locations in the city. Commercial manager Sanne van Vliet tells more about BAM's sustainable ambitions.
The Amsterdam Economic Board starts together with NL Digital, Green IT Amsterdam, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the North Sea Canal Area L*E*A*P (Lower Energy Acceleration Program). The goal of L*E*A*P is to exploit the energy-saving potential of ICT within data centers and to accelerate the pace towards the sustainable digital economy.
The Medical Data plus Pizza Meeting is hosted by the Right Data, ...
Who should own the data that gets used in MedTech and personal health applications? Is data really ‘the new oil’, a resource to be controlled by the few? Or should data be seen as a universal human right, like oxygen?
Natalija recently started as 'Challenge Lead Talent for the Future'. What are her drivers? And how does she give meaning to the ambitions of the Amsterdam Economic Board when it comes to the most adaptive labor market and talent development in the Amsterdam region? How do we ensure that people are motivated to develop for a lifetime and also want to do the jobs of the future?
The Amsterdam Economic Board’s Jeroen Maas opened the evening at Amsterdam Science. ...
