- Launch in US Alliance - CEO and Co-Founder
- Kendall Teams, Market Exploration Program for International Scale-ups (MIT Spin Off) - Co-Founder/Board Member
- MIT international e-Teams Program and International Innovation Symposium, 2012-2014 - Member of Organizing
Committee, Lecturer, Mentor
- MIT Portugal Program - Guest Lecturer, Judge
- MIT IDEAS Global Challenge - Judge
- MIT MISTI - Netherlands Orientation session for MIT students 2018
- Northeastern University Dept of Political Science - Dialogue of Civilizations Program:
Rotterdam, the Netherlands - Speaker 2020
- Boston University, Panelist International Executive MBA sessions 2017-2019
- Swissnex Boston - Guest Lecturer, Mentor
- French Consulate General, Boston, NETVA Program - Judge, Advisor, Mentor
- Harvard Law School - Bangladesh Sustained Development
Conference 2017 - speaker
- Embassy of Estonia, Estonian Study Mission, April 2013 - Lecturer
- Government of Lithuania, Visit of a delegation led by the Vice Minister of Science & Education, Sep 2013 - Organized meetings
- Office of the province of Quebec in Boston 2019 - lecturer
- MassChallenge - Judge, Mentor, International Specialist
- Boston Cleantech Venture Day 2011-2012 - Organization Committee Member
- Life Sciences conferences (BIO 2012, AdvaMed) - Moderator of panels discussing global collaboration.
- United States Department of State, International Visitor Leadership Program -
Lecturer, Specialist
- European Union - Mission of Ecosystem Builders to Boston, presentation - 2019
NETHERLANDS
- Ministry of Economic Affairs/RVO - Xplore US 2017 Program - Organizer of the Boston program for Dutch scale-ups built on our kTeams
program, 2017
- Ministry of Economic Affairs/RVO - Cleantech Scale-up Mission 2020 - Organizer,
Coach
- MBI Life Sciences and Health Masters Program, Netherlands, 2014, 2016 - Lecturer, Mentor, Judge
- Technology for Health Conference, Den Bosch - speaker 2016
- Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands - Guest Lecturer, Mentor, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands, presentation for student entrepreneurs - 2016
- Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Guest Lecturer, 2016
- University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam - mentor 2017, 2018
- The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Delft, Netherlands - Guest Lecturer 2017
- University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands - Organizer and speaker for the visit of a group of students to Boston 2018, presentation to
students 2019
- NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, Netherlands - presentation to candidates for internships in the US.
2019-2020
- Venture Cafe Rotterdam, Netherlands - Panelist March 2016, 2017
- Health-Valley, Nijmegen, Netherlands - presentation 2015
- Groups of Dutch young entrepreneurs visiting Boston (ACE, HOPE, YES!Delft, Science Based Business Leiden University) - Lecturer, Mentor, Organizer
- Leiden Bio Science Park, Leiden, Netherlands - Guest Lecturer, Mentor
- LUGUS, Leiden, Netherlands - Student entrepreneurs, speaker 2016, 2018, 2020
- Utrecht Inc. - workshop, mentor 2015, 2016, 2017
- Student Inc. Utrecht, Student entrepreneurs, lecturer 2018
- StartupDelta Summit 2018, Arnhem, Netherlands - participated as advisor in session organized by Health Valley organization.
- Embassy of the Netherlands, Washington, DC - project manager for a joint project of
the Embassy and the Netherland-America Foundation (NAF) to create a database of Dutch researchers in the US, 2016-2019
DENMARK
FRANCE
- EM Lyon, MBA Programs, France - Study visits of groups of MBA students to Boston 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 - organizer and
lecturer
INDIA
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), Chennai, India - Guest Lecturer, Mentor 2017, Online session for entrepreneurs, Speaker
2020
- Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India, Guest Lecturer, Mentor, 2016
- Ashoka University, Delhi, India - Guest Lecturer 2015
- International Institute for Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India; Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - Mentor 2012
- IndiaSoft Conference, Pune 2011, Hyderabad 2012, New Delhi 2015, Mumbai 2016, Hyderabad 2017 - Foreign Delegate, Panelist
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Articles, Interviews
- Interview by Dutch business radio station BNR, August 17, 2016
- Interview: Landing in US is difficult; reality check for
entrepreneurs, Startup Delta (Netherlands), March 22, 2016
- Boston, a good match for Dutch startups?, Startup Juncture (Netherlands), October 6,
2015
- Do I really need to go to Silicon Valley?, Smart Leaning DK (Denmark), June 25, 2015
- Do I really need to go to Silicon Valley?, Startup Juncture (Netherlands), June 3,
2015
- Interview by Dutch business radio station BNR, Newport RI, May 12,
2015
- MIT eTeams shows
effective acceleration for international startups in Boston, BetaBoston, May 29, 2014
- Indian software engineers can drive Boston's high tech growth,
Global Business Hub, boston.com, Feb 8, 2013
- 12 oorzaken voor falen in de VS, Sprout,
Netherlands. Feb 4, 2013
- Massachusetts: The
Leading Destination for Innovative Life Sciences Companies, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center/Launch in US Alliance, Oct 2012
- Partnering opportunities in the life sciences between Boston and the
Netherlands, Global Business Hub, boston.com, Aug 7, 2012
- BIO 2012 Is Back In Boston – International Collaboration in Life
Sciences, Global Business Hub, boston.com, Jun 13, 2012
- American companies should jump on the India wave, Global Business
Hub, boston.com, Feb 21, 2012
BNR Radio Interview
Panel Session, Venture Cafe, Rotterdam, Netherlands