Speaker Suzanne Eikmans

Entrepreneur

1 hour

NL, EN

Entrepreneurship,
Identity / Brand,
Creativity,
Innovation

Join me on a journey from the starting point to the present. I'll take you through how Festival Wallet came to be and what I encountered on the road trip. I'll give you inspiration and motivation for entrepreneurship, tell you the aspects of change and innovation management and most importantly how you learn from trial and error.

Suzanne Eikmans founded her then company 'Festival Wallet' during the final year of her studies; media, information and communication at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Festival Wallet was a cashless payment system for events where visitors could pay through an app. In the space of two years, she had grown from an idea to a much-discussed start-up, winning several awards.

Awards Won:
- ViVA400 Visionista Award: Most ambitious entrepreneur in the Netherlands
- Creative Business Cup: Most creative start-up of the world - National Winner
- The Young 100: Business Hero's
- Woman in the Media Awards: North Holland (3rd)
- Sprout 25 under 25

Suzanne Eikmans' lectures:
Suzanne makes an impact by getting everyone to actively participate in her session. She gets participants to think about their own situation and can then offer advice on bottlenecks, issues and other challenges. Possible themes of her lectures:

- No fun at work: Suzanne explores with the participants the problem, gives tips on how to break through these barriers and ensures that positive energy is released again.
- Change in the company: With a positive mindset you lay the foundation for a better acceptance of change.
- From concept to start-up: Suzanne explains all phases and shares tips and pitfalls. From idea to development to finding investors and partners.
- From start-up to scale-up: Growth as a start-up.
- Media: How best to deal with the media and what to say and what not to say.
- Reputation: Suzanne advises on how best to keep your reputation high in the (social) media.
- Pitching: A practical lecture full of tips and tricks, training and advice.

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