Knowledge sessions 'Empowering Innovation'

Discover how Techport's Fieldlab Edge AI for Smart Industry can help your company put innovation directly into practice. Together with our experts and students, we fully implement use cases - from design to implementation - with the power of TinyML and Edge AI.

Tennet and Liander are struggling to bring enough electrical energy to users. Costs for transporting electricity are extremely high in the Netherlands. The waiting lists long. Because of urgency, innovative companies are coming up with their own solutions. Smart power sharing, avoiding peaks, smarter metering, new (battery) technology, EMS, storage. What are you up against? How can we take up your challenge together?

Are you an innovative SME, startup or scale-up looking to contribute to a clean and sustainable industry? Do you have a product, service or innovation in the development stage? In this theme session we will discuss your experiences and the best practices of other entrepreneurs and manufacturing companies. This theme table is an introduction to the Green Incubator, an acceleration program for manufacturing companies in the IJmond region.

In the development of your innovation, there are different stages. This stage of growth includes growing pains. Especially when the day-to-day business keeps going, finding focus is a challenge. During this session you will get the inspiration on how to prepare the organization for growth, by preparing internal processes and zooming in on repeatability and scalability of the product, systems and team. This theme table is an introduction to the Growth and Scaling programs that fall within the Transition Accelerator IJmond.

Are you looking to finance your innovations? During this theme table, you'll gain more insight into what opportunities are available and, most importantly, how to prepare to reach financing. This session is an introduction to the Investment Ready Program, part of the Transition Accelerator IJmond.

The first inspiring examples of AI are already penetrating the engineering profession. New designs are presented at the push of a button based on previous successful projects. Is that an opportunity or threat? What does the engineer of the future look like? What does that mean for engineering firms?

IamProgrez presents a short case around the topic of "new methods for recruiting young people for jobs in technology and the manufacturing and maintenance industry. How can you build a future-proof workforce for your company? Led by IamProgrez, you will explore new insights and solutions for recruiting, retaining and developing a workforce.

Many companies are struggling with a shortage of personnel and this is only becoming more acute, while on the other hand there are still target groups that are insufficiently utilized. Think of the group of lateral entrants, women in engineering, people with a language deficiency, people with disabilities. To what extent is your corporate culture open enough to recruit and retain "other" target groups as well?

Spacebuzz has developed a virtual space trip in which people can experience the 'overview effect'. Astronauts see from space how beautiful but also how vulnerable our earth is. This unique experience leads to a new perspective on our planet: the overview effect.

Aboard the SpaceBuzz, people can experience the overview effect for themselves in virtual reality (VR).

AI is indispensable in business. This practical and interactive session will help you integrate AI into business processes. What tools can you use to do this? What mindset does this require of you? How do you get more customers in 3 steps with AI tools? Discover the world of AI here.

By Getting students to collaborate and think about innovations come new insights from a different point of view. A collaboration between student and entrepreneur accelerates the energy transition.

Techport has a special proposition that unburdens entrepreneurs in finding the right students.