HeroFestival | 6 October 2020
HeroFestival | 6 October 2020

Program HeroFestival
October 6th 2020

 

09:30 Welcoming in the Innovation Hall
10:00-11:30

TECHHACKS: Future Food & Flower packaging and distribution (Dutch)

  • Michel van Hout - CIO at Dutch Flower Group
  • Michiel van Veen - Director Supply Chain & Business Innovation at Royal Lemkes
  • Bram Verschoor - CCO at Eurogroep
  • Kasper Kwant - Co-Founder Future Store Arnhem 
  • Jan van der Velden - Manager Market Innovation and Technology at Vanderlande (powered by FME)
  • Harrie Schonewille - Managing Director at VDL ETG
  • Maren Schoormans - Chief Business Development Officer at Viscon Group
  • Vincent van Wingerden - Technical Architect Data & AI at Microsoft
11:30-12:00 Break
12:00-13:15

TALENTHACKS: Skill shift for future proof businesses (Dutch)

  • Laurens van der Spek - COO at Blue Radix
  • Vera Batelaan - Recruiter trainees at Rijk Zwaan
  • Marc Jansen - Head of People Data and Innovation, EVP Human Resources at Rabobank
  • Petra Biemans - Lecturer and researcher HRM at Inholland
  • Chris Waalberg - Managing Partner at Q42
  • Lenny Dijkshoorn - Program Manager Traineeship at HortiHeroes
  • Hanneke Bor - Greenport West-Holland 
  • Ideation - what ideas do you have to become that magnet for (tech)talent?
13:15-14:00 Network break
14:00-15:00

INNOVATION BY INTRAPRENEURSHIP | The HortiHeroes Class of 2020 (Dutch)

  • Raffi Balder - Program Manager at HortiHeroes
  • Pitches Intrapreneurs HortiHeroes Class of 2020 
  • Puck van Holsteijn - Director at HortiHeroes
  • Announcement winner Class of 2020
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00

UNMANNED GROWING CONCEPTS | Topsector T&U Innovation Prize 2020 powered by TU Delft AgTech Institute (English)

  • Introduction TopSector Horticulture and Starting Materials 
  • Pitches nominees TopSector Innovation Prize 
  • Constantijn van Oranje - Special Envoy at TechLeap.nl |  on the importance of collaboration and investment in startups and scale-ups
17.00-18:00 Networking in the Innovation Hall

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HEROFESTIVAL SESSIONS

  • TECHHACK: FUTURE FOOD & FLOWER PACKAGING AND DISTRIBUTION

Interactive session about the current challenges, ambition and tech solutions from other industries and startups to supercharge innovation in Food & Flower packaging and distribution. Ask an expert about data sharing, vision systems, IoT and machine learning, discuss about return on investment and join an idea storm session about how to accelerate together.
 

  • TALENTHACK: SKILL SHIFT FOR FUTURE PROOF BUSINESS

'hardware needs humanware'

To meet the challenges of modern automated fresh production with human-machine interaction, we need to be ambitious about attracting and developing talent with the required skills & mindset. The adoption of automation and AI technologies will transform the workplace as people increasingly interact with ever-smarter machines. This sessions will bring together the challenges of talent managers and entrepreneurs to ramp up with knowledge institutions and government to move forward, stay competitive and make impact on global challenges. 

  • INNOVATION BY INTRAPRENEURSHIP | The HortiHeroes Class of 2020

The heroes of the HortiHeroes Academy Class of 2020 have already taken a step out of their comfort zone, and will pitch where they've been working on for the past 9 months; new ventures that will innovate their organisation and the Food & Flower Industry. #Happy #Healthy #Hungerfree

 

Nominated innovators for both public as jury award will be announced. They will pitch and co-create with industry partners to accelerate their promising ‘unmanned growing concepts’ to further automate cultivation, harvesting, grading and packaging in the greenhouse, open field, shed and/or vertical farm.

 

 

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