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Prokkelweek – Start preparations Prokkelweek

On the 12th of December Maartje van Boekel (VNG) and Tim van Zanten (LFB and Stichting Prokkel) will open the trading day of the stock market with a bang on the gong.

This is also the starting signal for the preparations of the Prokkelweek, a week filled with events connecting people with and without intellectual disabilities. During the network meetings in January, municipalities, companies and other organisations brainstorm about the upcoming Prokkelweek. In 2020, the week is from Monday the 8th of June until Saturday the 13th of June.

Stichting Prokkel / Prokkel Foundation

Since 2007 The Prokkel Foundation organises “exiting encounters” throughout the country between people with and without intellectual disabilities. To show how important and valuable these meetings are, Stichting Prokkel organises a ‘Week of the Prokkel’ every year: One week as an example and inspiration for the rest of the year.

For more information: www.prokkel.nl

Prokkelweek 12/12/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Stichting Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) – Mission accomplished

Today's opening gong ceremony marks the successful closing chapter of Stichting Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI).

Nine years ago, CYFI's mission was to grow a global movement on the topic of financial inclusion and financial education for children and youth. Today, it has seen the Movement reach a point where it is self-sustaining and no longer needs a coordinator. As such, CYFI’s last milestone has been fulfilled and we will be proudly shutting its doors on December 31, 2019.

It is a true achievement and source of fulfillment for CYFI to be where every NGO wants to be: at a point where what it has built can go on without it.

For more information: www.childfinanceinternational.org

Child and Youth Finance International 11/12/2019 - 9:58AM CET Amsterdam

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Women in Tech

Snezana Zivcevska-Stalpers, lead WitNL – Women in Tech Community, luidt de gong.

WiTNL - Women in Tech NL is een platform voor alle vrouwen en meisjes in technologie in Nederland, om hen in staat te stellen en te helpen groeien in hun carrière, maar ook om technologie te promoten als een aantrekkelijk en leuk gebied voor veel meisjes en vrouwen die denken aan het toetreden tot de technologie.

Ze brengen Academia, Corporates en Start-Ups, individuen en organisaties, vrouwen en mannen samen, iedereen die zich inzet voor het dichten van de genderkloof in technologie. We organiseren inspirerende evenementen, workshops masterclasses, mentorensessies, start -up uitdagingen en prijzen, spreekmogelijkheden en vele andere loopbaanondersteunende activiteiten.

Ze werken samen met vele andere initiatieven, netwerken, technische en niet-technische conferenties, bedrijven en organisaties, terwijl we een ecosysteem bouwen dat vrouwen in technische en vrouwelijke tech helpt ondernemers gedijen.

Women in Tech 10/12/2019 - 9:44AM CET Amsterdam

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TEDxAmsterdamWomen – Tenth edition

Carine de Meyere Director TEDxAmsterdamWomen and Startup Award 2019, opens trading in Amsterdam today, together with the TEDxAmsterdamWomen Partnership & Organizing Team.

On 9 December, the 10th edition of TEDxAmsterdamWomen will take place at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam. Princess Martha Louise of Norway, Science Editor Niki Korteweg, and Foreign Minister of Somalia Edna Adan Ismail will be among those who will take the stage at the to share with the audience their views in a TEDTalk pertaining to this year’s theme: State of Mind. 

Also final of the 5th TEDxAmsterdamWomen Startup Award competition will take place.

For more information: www.tedxamsterdamwomen.nl

TEDxAmsterdamWomen 09/12/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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True Partner Capital – 10 years

Together with his Amsterdam-based colleagues and CEO Ralph van Put, Co-CIO Tobias Hekster will sound the gong to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of True Partner Capital.

True Partner Capital is a team of former market makers and IT specialists who have been working together for over a decade. Their combined expertise on trading, execution and risk management as well as the proprietary trading technology, allows the team to identify and capitalize on trading opportunities.

Tracing its roots to the trading floors of Euronext Amsterdam, True Partner Capital covers the world from offices in Hong Kong, Chicago and Amsterdam.

True Partner Capital 06/12/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Sinterklaas

Who else but Sinterklaas can open trading today? Euronext has the privilege to welcome many famous or remarkable persons on Beursplein 5, but seldom do we receive more distinguished visitors than Sinterklaas.

Sinterklaas 05/12/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Arcadis – Improving PFAS knowledge with Australian technology

Arcadis signed a Heads of Agreement with EVOCRA, enabling an exclusive commercial negotiating period within which the parties will finalize a license agreement for sole rights to the EVOCRA technology for PFAS solutions. This technology, which has already been proven at commercial scale on projects in Australia, will be a welcome addition to Arcadis’ existing suite of PFAS solutions, allowing Arcadis to continue to offer a differentiated solution for clients globally.

To celebrate that Arcadis environment director Marc Raessen will open the stock exchange. 

PFAS, or per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances, were incorporated in commercial, industrial and consumer products, including textile coatings, stain repellents, electronics and mist suppressants. PFAS were also components of firefighting foams known as Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF). In recent years, under increasing scientific and regulatory scrutiny and community awareness, more is being understood about PFAS toxicity, environmental persistence, aquifer mobility and the potential for this emerging contaminant to bioaccumulate in natural environments and enter the food chain.

Arcadis is at the forefront of a global effort to remove PFAS from impacted sites and environments, with over 75 projects in their portfolio, representing over 300 individual sites in 12 countries. This deal will continue Arcadis’ push to achieve greater market share within the PFAS space and provide their clients with a unique and innovative solution that can be used on its own and/or in conjunction with other technologies to remove PFAS from impacted sources. In the beginning of 2020 Arcadis will start tests in The Netherlands tests with the EVOCRA technology.

Arcadis 04/12/2019 - 9:17AM CET Amsterdam

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ICT Media B.V. - CIO of the Year 2019: Perry van der Weyden

Perry van der Weyden, who sounds the gong today, is CIO of Rijkswaterstaat and recently proclaimed the winner of the CIO of the Year Award 2019. He can call himself the best "chief information officer" in the Netherlands. Van der Weyden owes the prize to the way in which he manages to achieve results within the government, a complex environment with many stakeholders.

Winning the CIO of the Year Award 2019 is the reason for opening the Amsterdam stock exchange. Rob Beijleveld, CEO of ICT Media and initiator of the CIO of the Year Award, finds Van der Weyden a shining example in the government world. "You can see that he manages to get digital initiatives off the ground in an unconventional way and subsequently knows how to find support for them." The other jury members were also very enthusiastic about the winner.

At Rijkswaterstaat the share of the IT function in the primary process is growing. Digitization is making its entrance into the monitoring of traffic flows, and the management and maintenance of roads, shipping lanes and other objects. "A true digital revolution" is what Van der Weyden calls it.​

CIO of the Year 2019 03/12/2019 - 9:14AM CET Amsterdam

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Rabobank – Tribe Vermogensopbouw

Rabobank’s Tribe Savings & Investments has a new structure, that enables them to better serve their customers on their way to a healthy financial life and improves their cooperation with their partners, such as Euronext. Sandra Hurkmans-Stuut, Product Manager Investments, sounded the gong.

Rabobank’s Tribe Savings & Investments 02/12/2019 - 11:05AM CET Amsterdam

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Kepler Cheuvreux – Tenth IR Summit

A firm hit with the gong hammer by Marlon Kelly, Global Head, Equity Brokerage van Kepler Cheuvreux, marks the symbolic opening of trade on Euronext Amsterdam, as well as the start of Kepler Cheuvreux’ tenth IR Summit. Mr. Kelly is assisted by Simone Huis in ‘t Veld, CEO of Euronext Amsterdam, and Anne Lacarrière, Managing Director of Kepler Cheuvreux.

The theme of the IR Summit, which is co-hosted by Euronext, is “ESG: Green Is the New Gold”. Over two hundred IR professionals from across Europe gather together in Amsterdam today for a day of workshops and keynote speeches on the most important trends in investor relations.

About Kepler Cheuvreux

Kepler Cheuvreux is an independent European financial services company specializing in research, execution, advisory, and asset management services. Kepler Cheuvreux has twelve offices in Europe, two in the United States, and 600 employees worldwide.

Kepler Cheuvreux 29/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Aidsfonds – Start World AIDS Day Campaign

Stefanie van der Bruggen rings the bell to announce the start of Aidsfonds’ World AIDS Day campaign.

Sunday, December 1, is World AIDS Day. On this day, people all over the world reflect on the importance of the fight against AIDS. Because as we speak, every 40 seconds somewhere on this planet somebody dies as a result of AIDS.

With the support of loyal donors and friends, Aidsfonds stands up for everybody who is infected or affected by HIV or AIDS. In The Netherlands as well as the rest of the world. They are fighting for a world without HIV and AIDS.

For more information: www.aidsfonds.nl

Aidsfonds 28/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Beleggers Belangen – Tenth edition of annual broker survey

Editor Jeff Thijssen of Beleggers Belangen sounded the gong. Thijssen has conducted the tenth edition of the broker survey by Beleggers Belangen. This is the study of costs, trading opportunities, service and ease of use of banks and brokers operating in the Netherlands. The study was published on the 27^th of November.

The broker survey, carried out annually by Beleggers Belangen, is the largest independent broker survey in the Netherlands. Both banks and brokers and private investors attach great value to it. In the survey, Beleggers Belangen examined the services of nine banks and brokers.

Beleggers Belangen is a weekly magazine and a website with current information for private investors.  Beleggers Belangen offers specific, well-founded and independent investment advice from its own investment experts. Both in print and online, Beleggers Belangen provides advice and tips on shares, investment funds, options, ETF’s, bonds, commodities and currencies. Beleggers Belangen also manages successful model portfolios for various strategies.

For more information: www.beleggersbelangen.nl

Beleggers Belangen 27/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Young captain Award 2019 – Winner: Nicoline van Leersum

Nicoline van Leersum, winner of the Young Captain Award 2019, opens trading on the Amsterdam stock exchange by sounding the gong.

Nicoline van Leersum was in the final with two other management talents from the Dutch business community:

1. Eric Jones, ABN AMRO, Managing Director Skillpool Advice

2. Dustin Woodward, Friesland Campina, Managing Director Africa

 

About the Young Captain Award

The Young Captain Award is an initiative of the Young Captain Netherlands Foundation. With the awarding, the upcoming generation of decision makers will be brought under the public’s attention.

In cooperation with the Nyenrode Business University, the Young Captain Foundation organizes the Young Bilderberg Conference, a unique think tank of young business leaders.

The foundation also organizes the two-day Young Captains program in collaboration with the Award partners. Candidates are prepared for the next steps in their careers.

The award has been awarded since 2005 to the most talented young business leader who showed daring, decisiveness and originality in an early phase of their career, who thinks internationally and who sees leadership as a social, personal and economic responsibility.

 

For more information: www.youngcaptainaward.nl

Young captain Award 2019 26/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Salvation Army – Start national collection week 2019

By striking the gong, commissioner Hannelise Tvedt, Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army in The Netherlands, opens trading at the stock exchange in Amsterdam. This marks the start of the national collection week of The Salvation Army.

From 25 till 30 November, volunteers of The Salvation Army will go door to door with their collection boxes. The proceeds of this annual collection go to local activities to combat social exclusion and loneliness. More and more people stand alone these days and a lot of them cannot manage on their own. The Salvation Army wants to offer an open door and inclusive fellowship to these people, including providing meal projects, debt counselling, second hand clothing shops and a soup bus.

The Salvation Army does not receive any public subsidies for these activities, they are fully funded by private donations. That is why The Salvation Army organizes a national collection week each year.

The Salvation Army is a Christian movement that offers help to anyone – without exceptions.

 

For more information: www.legerdesheils.nl

Salvation Army 25/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science – For Women in Science 2019 Awards

The For Women in Science 2019 Award winners Sandra Khor Manickam (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Lisa Becking (Wageningen University) received a prestigious fellowship during the 8th edition of the event on 21 November 2019. On this occasion, For Women in Science will open trading at Beursplein 5.

For Women in Science is an initiative from L’Oréal, Unesco, the Dutch Network of Women Professors (LNVH), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) to support women in science.          

Each year, the Dutch For Women in Science Fellowship Program hands-out two fellowships of up to €25,000 to women scientists.         

In addition, this year the Rising Talent Award was presented for the first time to young women scientists at the start of their career. This Rising Talent prize of €3,500 was handed-out to Jorinde van de Vis, promising researcher at Nikhef/DESY.

The participation of women in scientific research is essential for economic, social and cultural development. Nowadays, women achieve the highest academic level; nevertheless, they are still under-represented. Only 29% of researchers worldwide is female, and in the Netherlands just 21% of university professors is female.

For more information:  www.unesco.nl/publicatie/l-or-al-unesco-for-women-in-science-programma/1-het-l-or-al-unesco-for-women-in-science-programma

L’Oréal 22/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Dutch Circular Leadership Conference sounds gong at Exchange Drumming 2019

Assisted by 60 Amsterdam school children, today’s gong at Euronext Amsterdam is sounded by Mildred Hofkes, initiator of the Dutch Circular Leadership Conference, and Abel Koentjes, Future Circular Leader. The Dutch Circular Leadership Conference will take place on 28 November. One hundred Dutch managers, captains of industry and future leaders gather to shape the principles of circular management and circular leadership.

About the Dutch Circular Leadership Conference

Circular leadership is the leadership of the future. During the Dutch Circular Leadership Conference on 28 November in Circl Amsterdam current and future leaders in business, healthcare, education, financial markets, energy, banking, culture and NGO’s will work on an ‘action plan Netherlands as a frontrunner in circular leadership’. Every manager contributes, on behalf of their organization, to the Dutch Circular Leadership position paper, outlining the circular leadership agenda of the Netherlands. This position paper will be presented to the Dutch Government before the end of the year and will serve as inspiration during national and international meetings on leadership.

About Exchange Drumming

The annual Exchange Drumming (“Beurstrommelen”) is a centuries’ old tradition at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. We commemorate the brave action of an Amsterdam orphan boy, who during the Eighty Years’ War foiled an attempt by the Spanish to blow up the Exchange Building. As a thank you gesture, orphans were allowed to bang their drums in the building for a day.

This tradition is continued by Amsterdam schoolchildren to this day.

More information:

Dutch Circulair Leadership Conference: https://nieuwbestuur.nl/diensten/dutch-davos-congres/

Exchange Drumming: https://www.beursgeschiedenis.nl/moment/beurstrommelen/

Dutch Circular Leadership Conference 21/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Amsterdam Light Festival – 8th Edition

Managing director Frédérique ter Brugge sounds the gong to kick-off the education project of Amsterdam Light Festival #8.

Education

With various educational projects Amsterdam Light Festival offers students a playful introduction to light art and offers a new generation of artists a platform. For example, 850 pupils from 17 primary schools together with the creative collective 72andSunny and Juf op Straat are creating a mysterious, daily changing work of art with dozens of animal eyes on the Entrepotdok side of ARTIS. Emerging talents get special attention every year in the exhibition as well: Amsterdam Light Festival collaborates with Amsterdam Smart City, the Breitner Academy and the Amsterdam School of the Arts.

About Amsterdam Light Festival

Each year, co-created light artworks by (inter)national artists illuminate the city centre of Amsterdam during the Amsterdam Light Festival. The eighth edition of the festival will take place from 28 November 2019 to 19 January 2020 and will cover an exhibition and an extensive program. During 53 days, the twenty light artworks can be admired daily

from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. in the historic city centre. All the works will be illuminated simultaneously throughout the festival period. It's one exhibition that visitors can experience by boat, by bike and by foot along several routes. For this edition, national and international artists have been challenged to work with the theme DISRUPT!

 

More information: www.amsterdamlightfestival.com

Amsterdam Light Festival 20/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam

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Martine Hafkamp – Beste Beleggingsexpert 2019

Martine Hafkamp, Fintessa’s general manager, sounds the gong for winning the cashcow award as the best investment expert.

Earlier this year, Fintessa was voted the best asset manager for the eight time, by the readers of cash and cashcow. In September, Martine Hafkamp won this award as the best investment expert. “It is a big compliment and huge token of appreciation for our investment policy and the personal way we manage our clients’ assets.

Over the past 11 years, Fintessa has grown into one of the larger indepent asset managers  in the Netherlands. Fintessa mainly works for individuals, entrepreneurs, foundations and institutions. We offer customized asset management and do not have our own products. Therefore, we can always make independent choices for our  clients.”

For more information: www.fintessa.nl

Martine Hafkamp 19/11/2019 - 9:15AM CET Amsterdam