On the picture Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Dutch PM Mark Rutter and Neelie Kroes, StartupDelta.
By Baron Henri Estramant.
1-3 February 2016, Silicon Valley, California: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Founder of StartupDelta and former EC Commissioner Neelie Kroes paid a business, informal visit to Silicon Valley to find synergies between the booming technological area and the business mentality and climate of The Netherlands.
They were accompanied by Royal Dutch Ambassador to the USA, Henne Schuwer, who until the summer of 2015 was head of mission to Belgium.
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Several profitable business deals are ongoing such as Planet Lab which is currently working together with a Delft-based company for the development of satellite innovations. Planet Labs is also due to open an office in The Netherlands to step up the project.
The top meetings included the Governor of California Jerry Brown, the CEO of Apple Tim Cook or the one of Uber, Travis Kalanick but likewise members of Facebook board of directors such as Ms Sheryl Sandberg and the Dutch employees at the latter firm. CEO Tim Cook explored its intention to increase the number of iOS developers heavily in The Netherlands.
Google for its part is building at the moment a new data centre in The Netherlands, with its regal capital Amsterdam as one of the globally largest Internet hubs in the world. Itself Amsterdam and other Dutch cities such as Rotterdam, Utrecht or Groningen are deemed as hubs for startups and innovation. These Dutch innovators naturally seek contact and business opportunities with the top players in Silicon Valley, wherefore the visit of Premier Rutte to the innovation capital of the world and the city of San Francisco.
For more information:
StartupDelta: http://startupdelta.org/
Prime Minister Mark Rutte: www.government.nl/government/contents/members-of-cabinet/mark-rutte
Royal Dutch Embassy to the USA, HE Ambassador Henne Schuwer: http://www.the-netherlands.org/organization/embassy-washington-d.c/embassy-in-washington-d.c.html
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