Events

During this special gathering innovative alumni researchers will update us on their current work and ambitions for the future. Also joining us are a group of startups linked to our universities including the founders of Ore Energy, Scope Biosciences, Insectsense, Flux Robotics, X-Mem & Recarbon – these young entrepreneurs will be in Paris for the ‘Hello Tomorrow’ Global Summit and are excited to talk to local alumni about their companies during a special ‘startup market’.

Linköping University in collaboration with the Technical Universities of the Netherlands, hosts a special shared event bringing together local alumni entrepreneurs of LiU, TU Delft, TU Eindhoven, UTwente & Wageningen University. Join us at the Nordic Innovation House* in Palo Alto on Thursday January 11th to celebrate the impact of our alumni in Silicon Valley as well as learn about the local Dutch and Nordic ecosystems supporting start-ups both back ‘home’ as well as in the greater Bay Area.

Get a glimpse into the inner workings of international organizations and their impact on our world from the perspective of 4tu alumni who will talk about their jobs at the united nations during a special gathering in New York  on Thursday 14 September.

Get a glimpse into the inner workings of international organizations and their impact on our world through mini-presentations by TU alumni who will talk about their careers at the world bank and the European space agency during a special gathering in Washington DC on Tuesday 12 September.

Get ready for an out-of-this-world experience with fellow alumni at an exclusive afternoon tour of NASA’s Johnson Space Center led by TU Delft alumnus and head of the European Space Agency (ESA) Houston office, Eric van der Wal.

Find out if our 4TU startups are on their way to change the world and join us in London for a special programme celebrating the amazing alumni network, and learn about the entrepreneurial spirit and impact of the 4 technical universities of the Netherlands. 

London Tech Week is the perfect time for hosting the first ever ‘founders meet founders’ networking event in London that will bring UK and Netherlands based alumni entrepreneurs together to celebrate local successes as well as stimulate useful contacts with each other. Opening the gathering is TUD alumnus and fintech entrepreneur Stijn Pieper (see bio below) who from the rooftop DJ station will talk about experiences as a founder in both Zurich and London, as well as wisdom he wish he could share in the past with his younger entrepreneur self.

After previous USA Alumni Tours in 2014 and 2018, we are back!

Get ready for the first DEAN* 4TU alumni event of 2023 in Berlin on Tuesday 7 February! This special gathering hosted at the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin will be an opportunity to get a glimpse into areas like the future of ‘giga’ manufacturing, C02 capturing, and AI powered farming from local TU alumni who will talk about innovation and sustainability in their work. The evening programme also includes updates from both the Embassy as well as your university.

Find out by joining us at the VALO Hotel in Helsinki on Wednesday November 16th for a special afternoon programme celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit and impact of the 4 technical universities of the Netherlands. Our audience will include both local alumni as well as alumni from around the world visiting for Slush 2022.

During Collision 4TU is organising an alumni event for alumni living in Toronto and alumni visitors of Collision. This event will take place at Wednesday 22 June from 5.30 hrs at a central location near to Collision.

Especially for alumni who visit ViVa Tech 2022 in Paris, DEAN organises an evening event on 15 June 2022. The event starts at 20.00 and will end around 22.00 hrs.

After over a year and a half of online activities we are excited to be hosting our first international physical event for alumni in Helsinki on Wednesday 1 December 2021 and hope you can join us!

With nearly 100 patents to his name, UT alumnus Wilfred Booij’s Twitter profile motto ‘always inventing’ is well chosen. As the CTO of Forkbeard, Wilfred is currently active in the final frontier of navigation: The great indoors! This Norwegian start-up aims to become the indoor ‘GPS’ standard for retail, smart buildings, healthcare facilities and distribution centers with a solution combining the strength of ultrasound with sensor technologies. Prior to his work at Forkbeard and parent company Sonitor (where he was also CTO), Wilfred was a Senior Scientist in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Lab at SINTEF, Norway's leading industrial R&D organization and a senior engineer at Hewlett-Packard (later Agilent Technologies) in the UK. He earned a PhD from Cambridge University, where he graduated in 1997 on work involving the development of high speed superconducting digital devices.

The interactive evening programme includes brief updates from the universities followed by a short talk by TU Delft alumnus Remko Dirkmaat about co-founding the sustainable urban farm InstaGreen with fellow alumna Anneke Stolk in Barcelona six years ago and how the company had to change due to the Covid19 pandemic.