Festival Partners

HortiHeroes

HortiHeroes is calling frontrunners, innovators, government, knowledge institutions, start-ups, young professionals and investors in the Food & Flower industry to team up and supercharge innovation to make impact towards a happy, healthy and hunger free world! Let's attract, connect and grow talent and innovate faster together. www.hortiheroes.com

 

ImpactCity

ImpactCity is the startup and scale-up community of The Hague. We help innovative entrepreneurs to start successfully and to grow their business. We open doors to investors and offer access to a comprehensive business network, inspiring company locations, international trade missions and competitions.

ImpactCity helps startups and scale-ups that deliver a societal contribution by offering various services. We believe that economic success goes hand in hand with solutions for a better world. We call this ‘doing good & doing business’. ImpactCity helps organizations with doing business. The Hague is the first ImpactCity in the world.

To effectively address global challenges, public and private partnerships are formed  on themes such as safety, humanitarian innovation, sustainability, renewable energy and food. These are the challenges for the future. www.impactcity.nl 

 

Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials

Through the Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials, business community, knowledge institutions and government work together to stimulate innovation in the sector. Since 2012, more than 250 research and innovation projects have been funded through the topsector. Around 400 companies are involved in this.

Through the program IMPACT 2025, Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials wants to retrieve ideas and involve new parties to translate (existing) research into concrete applications in practice. For this, the topsector is organising a series of activities in 2019 and 2020. The Top Sector Innovation Prize is one of those activities and part of our HeroFestival 2020.