The tradition of the annual SCOPE Symposium already goes back several years. It is an exciting full-day event on the 9th of November that brings together speakers and company representatives from various disciplines and industries to discuss the most thrilling contemporary topics related to innovations that will shape our future. Under the motto of "Innovation - The best way to predict the future is to create it", this year's event seeks to inspire you with interesting speeches about the role of innovation in present times and in the future. Along with that, a variety of workshops will allow you to take an active role in finding ways to encourage innovation. The event pursues the objective of stimulating your creativity, leading you towards your future career path. During our panel discussion, we will tap into expert knowledge ranging from company representatives to students that founded their own start-ups to explore several ways to achieve innovation. The event will also dive into the extent to which a company should involve the entire organisation in innovation activities. You will also get to attend a self-development fair where you can take your CV picture, get your LinkedIn profile and motivation letters checked, meet start-up founders, and much more.
We want to offer you the unique chance to join this breathtaking event: the Symposium 2022. Meet other students, as well as famous speakers and company representatives, and discuss the future of innovation in our fast-developing world!
Here are the worshops/seminars/panel discussion you can attend:
Ömer Atiker:
Innovation: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
We strive for improvement, and so we innovate. We find new ways of doing things, new solutions, sometimes even new problems to solve. But not all innovation is successful. As in nature, 9 in 10 interesting ideas die. So let us have a look on how to improve the odds. Fluffy robots! Online Trash Bins! Self-driving beer!
Success formula, Eatly, La Sous Marine, Brubbel
Maastricht founders: panel discussion
Did you ever have a great idea and didn’t know where to start? Learn how other SBE students succeeded in bringing their ideas to life. The talk will focus on the beginnings and outline the path Success Formula (Thomas Leruth), Eatly (Sinan Haciibrahimoglu), La Sous Marine (Benjamin Goeury) and Brubbel (Nick Brokelmann) currently tread on. The conversation will be moderated by Jan Wojak from Green Office and SBE marketing team. Join the discussion to get hands on insight about SBE originated businesses.
Martin van de Pas:
Innovate yourself
There have already been many versions of you. Here you are, the current you. With your characteristics, mindset, identity, style, connections, habits, aspirations. Yet, this is not the last version of you. Whether you want it or not, who you are is going to change. What if you take conscious ownership over this innovation process, just like you would with a product or business? In this workshop we are going to get hands-on about what it takes to innovate yourself. Join in to create the next version of you!
Jan Scheele:
Outlook into the future - Metaverse, NFT`s and much more.
NFTs are talk of Town. Creators, Investors, Big Brands, Developers; all are leaping in the ecosystem quickly and seizing on the incredible, fast growing opportunities. Jan Scheele (32) is MU and SCOPE alumnus, CEO of scaleup BitCanna, CEO of Bloqon, Digital Leader at the World Economic Forum and board member at the Blockchain Netherlands Foundation. He started in the blockchain ecosystem in 2015 and is since then, advising governments and corporates all over the world, about the implementation of blockchain; crypto, NFTs, metaverse and more. In his contribution, he will share the last developments about NFTs, how you can start with them yourself and the link with the metaverse.
Integrand:
Enter the Market Workshop
Are you ready to enter the labour market and to get yourself a job or internship? Do you have questions regarding applying to vacancies? Does your CV and LinkedIn need a bit of a refreshment? Optimize your CV and LinkedIn profile during the Integrand CV and LinkedIn workshop!
During the workshop they will explain how to make a CV that stands out; how to use LinkedIn to network; how to find relevant vacancies, and how to be an All Star at a job interview. So do you want to learn how you can professionalize your CV and LinkedIn profile and how to be successful at applying ? Make sure you attend their workshop!
Rendy Jansen & Kylen Ten Hove:
Innovating within an Organization
In this interactive workshop we’ll be sharing our personal lessons learned on innovating within an organization. Together with the group, we’ll discuss the following questions:
- What are the different forms of innovation and intrapreneurship?
- What are important steps to consider when you want to make change happen?
- How can you move an idea to actual change, and which challenges are you likely to face along the way?
Note, we’ll focus on organizational innovation, this is not a technology workshop.
And finally join us on our career fair with the possibility to do a CV picture, get your CV check, meet the maastricht entrepreneurs and more!
* When filling in the form, if some activities do not appear it means that the maximum capacity has been reached and registrations are now closed for that specific activity.
** In case you have tutorials to attend, you have the possibility to momentary leave the event.
*** Lunch and drinks are provided during the event