Keynote speaker Vivian Acquah
Unlock Your Team’s Competitive Advantage
Are you a startup founder or leader looking to turn your team's diversity into your greatest asset?
In today's fast-paced business landscape, building a high-performing team is a unique challenge. Whether your team is shaped by diverse cultural backgrounds, spread across different regions, or guided by unique working styles, these differences can often lead to invisible barriers. Without the right strategy, these barriers can stifle effective collaboration, growth, and innovation.
Join us for a focused, high-impact 30-minute session designed to dismantle these obstacles and reveal the competitive advantage hidden within your diverse workforce.
About Vivian Acquah CDE®
Vivian Acquah CDE®, is a Certified Inclusion Strategist and CQ® Facilitator who is dedicated to supporting leaders with creating high-performance environments where everyone feels valued, empowered, and able to thrive.
With a strategic focus on removing barriers that hinder performance, she delivers tailored solutions to address the unique challenges that organisations face.
Her clients include leading companies such as Heineken, LinkedIn, Google, Indeed, Deloitte, Nike, Cargill, Swift, Acrolinx, KLM, and Zalando.
Panel speaker Marianne Dorder-Servet
Marianne Dorder-Servet is an experience IT professional and Founder of Zwarte vrouwen voor Technologie (ZVVT) and Digitale Glans.
Zwarte vrouwen voor Technologie coaches and develops talent and Digitale Glans offers digital expertise, talentmatching and commitment to organizations.
Marianne will discuss the many opportunities IT offers for diverse talents, despite and thanks to developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). She will also discuss the retraining and upskilling opportunities she offers, and the impact Zwarte vrouwen voor Technologie has already achieved. She will also talk about the opportunities for organizations (companies, startups, scale-ups, and government agencies) to attract diverse IT talent through Digitale Glans and why that is important to solve the expertise shortage in IT and positively increase the impact of AI on everyone.
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Panel speaker Tine Bakia
Tine Bakia has worked in software and technology for 13 years. After roles in sales at a food delivery platform and in business design & strategy at a blockchain and IoT consultancy for corporates (including BASF Canada and Glencore), she founded several startups.
She is currently the CEO and founder of PackBack, an intelligence-driven circular infrastructure for reusable packaging in the foodservice industry. PackBack collaborates with brands like Burger King and has already saved over 9 million disposables. With PackBack, Tine was recently awarded Women TechEU, a leading EU funding program for women-led deep-tech startups.
Tine is actively committed to promoting entrepreneurship by women who identify less with traditional startup culture.
Panel speaker Cindy Steward
Cindy Steward works at the intersection of technology and neuroscience. She worked as a Software Engineer and AI Guild Lead at ING Bank, and is currently pursuing a Research Master in Neuroscience at Erasmus Medical Centre, where she develops inclusive machine learning models to detect motor and speech impairments during awake brain surgery.
Her bachelor’s thesis, presented at the Black Scholars and Experts Conference 2023, explored gender and racial bias in large language models used in (neuro)medicine, reflecting her commitment to combining innovation in technology with inclusivity and ethical responsibility.