Expert Sessions
Expert Sessions – fuel your knowledge
Are you looking for fresh insights, strategic advice, or answers to the challenges your business is facing? At ImpactFest, you will have the unique opportunity to join one-on-one sessions with leading experts in finance, growth, internationalisation, technology, legal matters, and more.
How it works:
- Buy your ImpactFest ticket
- Choose up to five experts you would like to meet
- Share your concrete question in advance
- Get matched for focused 20-minute conversations designed to move your business forward
Key dates:
- Register before: October 24, 2025
- Selection announcement: October 27, 2025
- Final matches shared: October 29, 2025
- ImpactFest: October 30, 2025 – Showtime
Registrations are closed! If you missed the deadline for registration, and you still want to talk to an expert, just go to the Table Talks registration desk at 14:00 and we will try to match you on the spot.
Meet the experts
Rabobank Startup & Scale-up Team
Rabobank supports innovative, high-growth companies in realizing their ambitions. In this expert session, discover how Rabobank’s dedicated specialists help startups and scale-ups gain access to valuable networks, expert knowledge, and tailored financial solutions — including the Rabo Impact Fund and the Rabo Innovation Loan. Curious about the opportunities? Join the session and get inspired!
Rabo Foundation
Rabo Foundation has 50 years of experience in impact financing, supporting farmers’ organisations and social entrepreneurs worldwide to improve the living conditions of people and achieve lasting positive change. They are more than a financier—they act as an advisor, knowledge partner, and connector, helping entrepreneurs strengthen their impact models. Join their expert session to explore how you can leverage funding, networks, and expertise to scale your social enterprise sustainably.
Provincie Zuid-Holland – Startup in Residence
Discover how to collaborate with governments as an impact entrepreneur. Learn to position your startup, navigate public procurement, and drive innovation through real-world insights from the Startup in Residence Intergov programme. Practical tips and strategies.
ImpactCity The Hague
Make your impact visible in The Hague. ImpactCity opens doors to investors, provides PR and marketing expertise, and connects you to a powerful business network. The team helps you settle in The Hague and sharpen your story so you can attract funding, talent, and media attention.
EY
Scale with confidence. EY supports entrepreneurs with accounting, tax returns, corporate structures, and business advice. From payroll and legal contracts to restructuring your business or issuing shares, EY ensures your financial and legal foundation is rock solid — so you can focus on growth.
Eiffel Projects (subsidies)
Don’t leave money on the table. Eiffel has over 25 years of experience securing subsidies for innovation, sustainability, and international growth. Their experts know the Dutch and European funding landscape inside out and can help you unlock financing opportunities to grow faster.
Studio Duel
Turn your mission into a movement. Studio Duel uses bold, strategic design to help impact-driven organisations stand out. From branding to creative storytelling, they will amplify your message and help you win hearts, minds, and markets.
BRANDOUTLOUD
Good vibes that sell. BRANDOUTLOUD combines strategy and creativity to make your brand irresistible. From websites and logos to photography and storytelling, they help purpose-driven organisations – from social ventures to impact investors – shine and connect with their audiences.
Schuttelaar & Partners
Grow with credibility. As a B Corp–certified consultancy with 30+ years of experience, Schuttelaar & Partners helps you with stakeholder management, public affairs, and communication strategies that strengthen your impact story and future-proof your business.
Reprex
Scale smarter with clean data. Reprex makes big data reliable and transparent, transforms messy, incomplete, or biased data into a reliable foundation, merging open and proprietary sources to create trustworthy analytics and AI solutions.
Noorderwind
As a cooperative of impact entrepreneurs, Noorderwind enables frontrunners to turn circular dreams into reality. Together with governments, corporates and investors, we co-create breakthrough projects that remove systemic barriers and build the New Economy.
The Young Digitals
The Young Digitals are digital marketing experts who help you grow through content, social media, SEO/SEA, and data-driven strategies. Their teams blend fresh, digital-native skills with senior marketing expertise. Meet them to learn how smart campaigns can boost visibility, attract customers, and accelerate growth.
The Hague University of Applied Sciences / International Center for Frugal Innovation
Meet Albert Kraaij, lecturer in entrepreneurship and researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and International Center for Frugal Innovation, specialised in business models, (frugal) innovation, and financial resilience. He supports regular businesses in rethinking their current business model to strengthen their business with a focus on long-term financial resilience and co-creating sustainable value for society.
Generous Minds
Entrepreneurs who want to base their decisions on data instead of gut feeling and who need to improve their scalability through automation I support. Generous Minds brings companies to working with one CRM system that combines operational and commercial data into a single source of truth.
Impact Investor Robert Boer
Get investor-ready. With experience from over 100 impact investments across the Americas and Europe, Robert Boer, impact investor, shares what investors look for and how you can become more attractive to business angels, VCs, and corporates.
Cybersecurity control Expert Kelvin Rorive
Protect your business growth and continuity with the right security. With expertise in governance, compliance, risk management, and cybersecurity, Kelvin Rorive advises companies on how to scale safely and remain resilient against threats — from the datacenter to the boardroom.
Frank & the Backs
Join this expert session with an experienced entrepreneurial mentor – a Back – from our accelerator and discover how to make mentoring work harder for the growth of your business.
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