Thank you to everyone who attended the annual Swedish Crayfish Party in Amsterdam!
We kicked off the autumn season with our festive Annual Crayfish Party on September 15, together with the Young Professionals, Svenska Klubben and SWEA for an evening of traditional Swedish festivities.
The crayfish season is one of the most popular cultural celebrations in Sweden. On September 15, we welcomed everyone to Roei- en Zeilvereniging De Amstel in Amsterdam to celebrate the end of summer with us.
The evening was gracefully lead by Ceremony Master, Aron Vrieler and Toastmaster, Gillis Danielsen. After a welcome drink on the beautiful terrace overlooking the Amstel River, a three-course crayfish menu was served. For dessert, we enjoyed coffee and Swedish Dajmtårta! When the hats and bibs were off, the tables and chairs were swept away, and the party continued at the dancefloor together with DJ Percy.
We would like to especially thank all of our sponsors for making this a magical evening!
Sponsored by:
View the photos from the event in the slideshow below! Photos by: Jenny Drost.
Thank you to everyone who joined the YP Pub Crawl on September 7!
The authentic and cozy district, De Pijp, was the perfect setting for an evening of fun and new acquaintanceships together with the Young Professionals. During the evening around 30 Young Professionals and students from mainly Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark met up. The evening lead us to Kingfisher Cafe, Venster 33, Cafe Schilders and De Groene Vlinder, who took great care of us all!
We would like to give special thanks to our generous friends at Kingfisher Cafe, Venster 33, Cafe Schilders and De Groene Vlinder for their excellent hosting.
See all of the photos from the evening in the slideshow below.
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce exclusive Business Woman Program 2018 presents four seminars for the empowering and support of woman business leaders. The seminars are designed to increase and sharpen your leadership skills and to help yourself to a higher level of efficiency, awareness, and success. Moderator is Malin Hedlund, MH Leadership. We welcome the women from the Swedish Chamber, Young Professionals of the Swedish Chamber with a focus to expand leadership communication and strengthen the skills to communicate with others. You can follow any number of seminars you prefer.
Yesterday it was finally time for the third Business Women Program session with Malin Hedlund at Epicenter. It was great to see so many business women from both Swedish and Dutch companies coming together for an evening filled with inspiration and to exchange experiences. Together with Malin, we discussed leadership and the roles of young women in business. Malin also shared her rules of engagement which included her takes on participation, attitude, energy, having fun and implementation. Malin also gave us food for thoughts on the questions “Are you maximizing your time in meetings? Or do you tend to run meetings simply by routine, without taking the time to really prepare or think about the best outcome? She gave tips and tools for how to lead inspiring meetings that make others feel excited about taking action when the meeting is over.
The Swedish Chamber of Commerce would like to thank Malin Hedlund, MH Leadership and all participants for making the Business Women Program to a great success.
If you missed this session, the fourth Business Women Program session will take place on November 15! Stay tuned for more information.
View the photos from yesterday’s session in the slideshow below.
On June 14, the Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the Netherlands, Norwegian Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Danish Dutch Business Club and Finnish Dutch Chamber of Commerce organized an exciting company visit to Flokk’s innovative Design Center in Rotterdam in the presence of the Norwegian Ambassador, Martin Sørby.
David Coenen, Country Manager Flokk Nederland, welcomed all guests and presented the works of Flokk, the European leading manufacturer of high quality working place furniture and owner of the brands HÅG, RH, RBM, BMA, Malmstolen and Offecct. Julian Wolse, partner of OTH architects and the leading architect in creating the Flokk Design Center, gave a very inspiring presentation about the transformation of the historic building into a vibrant showroom in the architectonic hotspot of Rotterdam. After the presentations, there were room to explore the Flokk Design Center and plenty of time for all members of the different Nordic Chambers and Business Club to network while enjoying delicious snacks and drinks. Thank you to all participants for making this event a great success, and thank you Flokk for the generous hosting and sharing your fantastic concept with us!
Photo Credits: Flokk
On May 31 the Swedish Chamber of Commerce was very pleased to organize the annual Swedish Business in Brabant event together with BOM Foreign Investments & Trade, Handelsbanken and Ericsson at their visitor’s center in Rijen.
During the very interesting afternoon program, led by Everth Flores, General Manager Ericsson Telecommunicatie, the impact of IoT on society and businesses was visualized through inspiring presentations and cases presented by Ericsson, Cool Industries, Scania and Camilla van den Boom, Sturmm. The Swedish Chamber of Commerce was especially honored to welcome Honorary Member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce, Clas Ivar Schultz and his wife Gunilla to Ericsson this afternoon. Clas Ivar Schultz has been around since the start of the Chamber back in the sixties of the last century and was for many years active as Chairman. He was also General Manager at Ericsson Telecommunicatie for more than twenty years until the early eighties.
We would like to thank all speakers, sponsors and guests for participating and for making Swedish Business in Brabant to a great success. A big thank to the organizing committee, BOM and Ericsson, for the pleasant collaboration and to Ericsson for excellent hosting.
Welcome to scroll down for event photos by Ericsson.
Presentations by Everth Flores and Etienne Scholl, Ericsson and Nico van der Klugt, Scania are available at the Swedish Chamber of Commerce. Welcome to send an email to events@swedishchamber.nl to receive a copy.
Program
16.00 Registration and coffee
16.15 Welcome, short intro to Ericsson and IoT, by Everth Flores, Ericsson
16.35 Industry 4.0: the future starts today, by Etienne Scholl, Ericsson and
Maarten Wijffelaars, Cool Industries
17.05 Connected vehicles – Driving the future, by Nico van der Klugt Scania
17.25 Short break
17.35 What about your business model? by Camilla van den Boom, Sturrm
18.00 Networking and Drinks
19.30 End of Event
Moderator: Everth Flores, Country Manager Ericsson Netherlands
Startup Summit Sweden – the Netherlands
All you need to know about connecting to the Swedish – Dutch Startup Scene
What are the key factors behind the thriving startup sectors in Sweden and the Netherlands?
In both Sweden and the Netherlands, the startup sector is booming. According to the Startup Genome ranking the Stockholm and Amsterdam startup ecosystems were both ranked top 20 globally. During the high-level Startup Summit speakers discussed the factors behind the thriving startup sectors in both countries, and how a long-term collaboration can lead to an even better performance of our startup-ecosystems. Prince Daniel of Sweden and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands honoured the event and made introductory remarks about their view on the importance of startups and what the countries can learn from each other.
The two princes were invited due to their engagement in entrepreneurship and startups. Prince Daniel is committed to enterprise and works to promote entrepreneurship among young people, eg. through the project Prince Daniel’s Fellowship. The idea behind the project is to inspire young people to become entrepreneurs and to support ambitious young entrepreneurs in growing their business. Prince Constantijn is Special Envoy at StartupDelta, the accelerator for the startup ecosystem in the Netherlands, and advises companies and the European Commission on their digital innovation strategies.
The Swedish State Secretary for Enterprise and Innovation, Stina Billinger, and the Dutch State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Mona Keijzer, discussed how policymaking and financial support can help the startup sector flourish, and what the two countries can learn from each other. The event was the starting point for a long-term collaboration between the two countries within the startup sector.
“For me, it is very important that our startup sector is doing well, because then startups become scale-ups and that’s good for the economic growth. […] The three most important things we can help startups with are access to talent, access to funding and access to connections”, Mona Keijzer, State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the Netherlands”
“One important factor for startups is gender equality – women cannot stay at home with the children and scale-up a company at the same time”, Stina Billinger, State Secretary for Enterprise and Innovation, Sweden.
The summit was held the day before the opening of conference The Next Web, in the brand-new Amsterdam premises of Epicenter. a digital innovation house and destination for large corporates and fast growing digital scale-ups looking to learn, inspire, collaborate, grow and innovate with impact.
“Startup Summit Sweden – The Netherlands” was organised by the Swedish Chamber of Commerce, The Embassy of Sweden in The Hague and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
Welcome to scroll down to the end of the page for event photos.
Event photos by: Carolina Nordholm, Nordholm Design & Communication
Program
14.30 Registration
15.00 Welcome by Ehsan Turabaz, Chairman Swedish Chamber of Commerce
15.03 Intro by moderator Wilco Schuttelaar – Holland Innovation Network
Introductory remarks by HRH Prince Daniel of Sweden and HRH Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
How do national governments support scale-up ecosystems? Summing up the findings of a study comparing the United Kingdom, Sweden & the Netherlands
Marc Wullings – Managing Partner SkipRed
Learning from the study: How can policymaking and financial support help make the startup sector flourish?
Stina Billinger – State Secretary for Enterprise and Innovation, Sweden, and Mona Keijzer – State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the Netherlands
16.05 Break
16.20 Fireside talk about building a global startup ecosystem: International expansion and business opportunities
Ricardo van Loenen – Founder/CEO B.Building Business and Patrick Mesterton – CEO Epicenter Stockholm
Fireside talks about talent acquisition
Ruben Nieuwenhuis – Director StartupAmsterdam and Alberto Corti – Head of SSES Ventures
From Startup to Unicorn
Robert Bueninck – General Manager DACH Klarna
Presentations by four mature startup companies from Sweden and the Netherlands
On internationalization: Their journey and lessons learned!
Learn Adapt Build
Elizabeth Nelson
FocusCura
Ronald Scheffer
Just Football
Joel Fredman Klockar
Aida
Stefan Stefansson
Fireside talks about startup culture and women in Fintech
Don Ginsel – Founder Holland FinTech and Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist – Senior Advisor to NFT Ventures, Chairman Swedish Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
Concluding remarks
Nils Beer – Director of StartupDelta
17.40 End of Summit
17.40 Match Making/Tour Epicenter
17.40 Networking, drinks & snacks
19.00 End of Event
On May 14 the Swedish Chamber of Commerce was very proud to host a Chamber Luncheon with keynote speaker Mr. Jesper Brodin, CEO & President of IKEA Group, in the presence of H.E. Ambassador of Sweden Mr. Per Holmström. We would like to thank Mr. Brodin for his inspiring speech about IKEA and its vision for the future as well as thank Courtyard by Marriot for excellent hosting. Thank you to all guests for participating and making this Luncheon to a successful networking event!
Guest Speaker and Honorary Guest:
Mr. Jesper Brodin, President and CEO IKEA Group
Program
12.00 Registration and drinks
12.30 Lunch
Keynote speech by Mr. Jesper Brodin, President and CEO IKEA Group
14.30 End of Program
This event was generously sponsored by:
Event photos by: Carolina Nordholm, Nordholm Design & Communication
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Mentorship program 2017/2018!
On April 24 was the very successful Final Dinner of the Mentorship Program 2017/2018 at Cafe Selma’s. During this final dinner and evaluation, the mentors and mentees reflected on what they have learned, what changes have taken place and the lessons they learned for the future. We would like to thank our wonderful mentors and mentees for commitment and engagement during this program.
A new Mentorship Program will start in September/October 2018. For more information you are welcome to contact info@swedishchamber.nl
