Working together on the metropolis of the future

Join the Amsterdam Economic Board’s Network Council

Would you like to make a difference in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area through innovative projects, and are you looking for partnerships, inspiration or a sounding board to realise your ambitions? Join the Amsterdam Economic Board’s Network Council.

With a rapidly changing society and a metropolitan region attracting a growing number of inhabitants, the importance of cross-sectoral partnerships is increasing. After all, urban challenges can’t be solved by a single party or within a single sector. Innovation happens principally when people with different backgrounds meet, inspire each other and spur each other into action.

Contribute to a strong region

At the Board, you make an active contribution to realising the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area’s ambitions. Along with the other partners, you launch and develop initiatives relating to the five urban challenges – initiatives that make and keep the region an attractive place to live and work. This means your social engagement with the region is very important. Let’s work together to create a smart, healthy and green Metropolitan Area.

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Marjan Schrama, Relationship Manager

Amsterdam Smart City is the Amsterdam Area’s leading platform for innovation, bringing together a community of companies, government bodies, universities and civil society organisations. With new forms of collaboration and fresh perspectives, within Amsterdam Smart City we can find solutions to social, economic and ecological urban challenges, working with and for the city’s residents to keep Amsterdam and the region liveable for everyone.

Programme

Within the programme, partners work on four major transitions: Circular Economy, Digital City, Energy Transition and Mobile Metropolis. With our combined brainpower, skills and networks, we are improving streets, neighbourhoods and cities, and thus boosting the strength of the Amsterdam Area. The programme is coordinated by the Amsterdam Economic Board and is currently made up of 19 partners: Alliander, Arcadis, Johan Cruijff Arena, Royal Haskoning DHV, City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, KPN, Metabolic, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Eurofiber, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions, Municipality of Amstelveen, Waag Society, PostNL, Transport Authority Amsterdam, Nemo, Kennisland, Municipality of Haarlemmermeer and the Board.

If you would like to know more about the programme, please contact Leonie van den Beuken, programme director of Amsterdam Smart City.

Amsterdamsmartcity.com

Amsterdam Smart City stimulates knowledge exchange in the field of innovation between partners and also other relevant parties in the region by fostering a community both online and offline. On the website that hosts the online community, you can see the innovative projects that are currently underway, track down hundreds of organisations and people and keep up to date with innovation in the region.

The Corporate Network is a network of 50 innovation managers and startup liaisons from corporates such as Philips, Rabobank and KPN. This network is offered tech and startup partnership opportunities and events for peer-2-peer learning.

The Corporate Network was initiated by StartupAmsterdam in 2016. StartupAmsterdam helps the tech and startup ecosystem by showcasing, utilising and improving the benefits, strengths and assets already present in Amsterdam. The Corporate Network officially became part of the Amsterdam Economic Board in April 2018. It now seeks extra opportunities for collaboration regarding the urban challenges the Board works on.

Join the corporate network via corporatenetwork.nl or contact Eline Vliegen.

To maintain and improve the competitive position of the Amsterdam Area, and to boost diversity in the tech sector, it’s important to attract more talent to the field that is growing the fastest: tech.

There is a shortage of tech talent, a lack of diversity and an under-representation of certain groups, a concentration of demand for talent around Amsterdam, and limited distribution in the region.

TechConnect is the programme that, through new initiatives and measures, aims to help balance the mismatch between supply and demand in the workforce of the tech world in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area by 2022. The annual TechConnect Week is aimed at making tech jobs and education accessible to everyone in the Amsterdam Area. The Board works closely with StartupAmsterdam and various stakeholders in the educational and tech sectors.

Join TechConnect or contact Viktor Bos, Talent for the Future Challenge Lead.

Young on Board is a member of the Amsterdam Economic Board, creating a link between young changemakers and experienced decision-makers. Young people bring new ways of seeing, thinking and working, while the older generation has the connections, knowledge, experience and power to get things done. Bringing the two groups together means they can mutually inspire each other and realise innovative plans, collaborating to boost economic growth and liveability in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (AMA).

Each year, Young on Board concentrates on a specific challenge in the region. From September 2018 to September 2019, the challenge is loneliness, a theme that is relevant to all age groups and has a major effect on the residents’ health and welfare.

If you’d like to keep up to date with our plans, or if you’re running an initiative or startup that tackles this problem and you could use some extra brainpower, contact us!