Program Highlights:

13:30 - Registration and welcome

14:30 - Opening by Eelko Brinkhoff, Managing Director Foreign Investments
            & International Trade Brabant Development Agency (BOM)

14:35 - Warm welcome by Ina Adema, King's Commissioner Province of Noord-Brabant

14:45 - Celebrating 40 years of BOM by Brigit van Dijk – van de Reijt,
            CEO Brabant Development Agency (BOM)

14:55 - The Dutch economy and the international developments that influence it
             by Mathijs Bouman, Dutch economist and journalist.
Break

16:00 - Panel Discussion + Q&A hosted by Eelko Brinkhoff

16:40 - TNO/Holst Centre - Ton van Mol, Managing Director TNO at Holst Centre

17:00 - Expat Spouses Initiative by
            Alina Totti, Policy Advisor International cooperation & Labour market at
            Province of Brabant 
            Kavitha Varathan, Founder & CEO at Expat Spouses Initiative
            Ed Heerschap, Program Coordinator Living in Holland Expat Center South

17:25 - Closing Remarks by Marc Glaudemans Director, Economy, Internationalization,
            Mobility & Infra of Noord-Brabant and Eelko Brinkhoff

17:30 - Networking reception and diner

20:00 - End of the event