EY x The Next Web conference 2024

In June, The Next Web organized Europe's most spectacular tech conference, and EY was proud to be a partner. The free ticket giveaway was offered, and two lucky winners received full access to both days of the TNW event (tickets valued at €900 each).
The event gathered 15,000 startup and scale-up founders, industry leaders, investors, and tech enthusiasts. Check out the highlight page TNW Conference 2024 (thenextweb.com)

EY Dome

At the center of the TNW exhibition floor, EY had its own dome. For both conference days, a speaker program was curated, tailored to startups, scale-ups, and tech enthusiasts. EY believes that by embracing new technology, innovation, and people, businesses could grow faster and stay ahead of the competition.

Programme

Day 1

• 10:45 - 11:15 Prompt Academy - Understand and master the art of prompting
  Diego Ferri (Senior Director EY Fabernovel) & Babtiste Horny (Project Director GenAI expert)

• 11:30 - 12:00 Innovating for Impact: GreenSwapp and OpenUp's Journey in Tech for Good
  Gijs Coppens (CEO OpenUp) & Ajay Varadarajan (CEO GreenSwapp)
  
  
• 12:30 - 13:00 Deepdive interview with -Too Good To Go
  Mette Lykke (CEO Too Good To Go)
  
  
• 13:15 - 14:00 AI for Good Workshop
  Diego Ferri (Senior Director EY Fabernovel) & Baptiste Martin-Desvignes (senior consultant EY Fabernovel)
  
  
• 14:15 -14:45 Flying cars are finally here, what will the future bring?
  Robert Dingemanse (CEO PAL-V)
  
  
• 15:00 – 15:30 Leading Design Works: Realizing the Value of Design in Large Regulated Organizations
  Peter Neufeld (Head of Business Transformation EY)
  
  
• 16:00 – 16:30 Hyper-scaling in a borderless world: A conversation with Remote’s Job van der Voort and Constantijn van Oranje, special envoy Techleap
  Job van der Voort (CEO Remote) & Constantijn van Oranje (special envoy Techleap)

Day 2

• 10:30 – 11:00 Capitalism 2.0 and the pivotal role of Tech: Rethinking Profit, Ownership, and Competition
  Igor Mikhalev (Partner EY Parthenon) & Sebastian Kortmann (Professor UvA)
  
  
• 11:15 – 11:45 Designing Tomorrow: EY Meets Dutch Design Foundation's Visionary Leaders
  Katja Pahnke (Director Dutch Design Foundation) & Martijn Paulen (Director Dutch Design Foundation)
  
  
• 12:00 – 12:30 Revolutionizing drug discovery with Big Data & AI
  Gunjan Bhardwaj (CEO Partex)
  
  
• 13:00 - 13:45 AI for Good Workshop
  Diego Ferri (Senior Director EY Fabernovel) & Baptiste Martin-Desvignes (senior consultant EY Fabernovel)
  
  
• 14:00 – 14:30 Flight Forward: The Future of Flying with KLM, Fly with Lucy, and Elysian
  Teun Kraaij (CEO Fly with Lucy) & Jolanda Stevens (Program Manager Zero Emission Aviation KLM) & Daniel Rosen Jacobson (CEO Elysian)
  
  
• 14:45 – 15:15 Sustainable futures driven by new digital economies
  Prajña Khanna (Global Head of Sustainability Prosus)
  
  
• 15:30 – 16:00 Extreme E’s mission possible: a race for the planet
  Ali Russel (Managing Director Extreme E)

EY padel court

EY is the main sponsor of KNLTB Padel (the Dutch padel association), and in addition to an amazing speaker line-up, together we brought mobile padel court to the TNW conference. Participants were encouraged to step into the box and play a match against friends or join a padel clinic by signing up for the EY Padel Clinic x The Next Web.