Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit 2026
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Corporate Venturing & Entrepreneurship Summit 2026: From Corporate Venturing to Collaborative Venturing.
Date:
November 19th from 08:30 to 17:30 CET
Location:
Pomp building De Esch - Rijnwaterstraat 11 3063 HC Rotterdam
To secure your spot, please << click here to register >>
The summit is a one-day event that brings together the latest insights on corporate venturing & entrepreneurship, both from a practitioner as well as from an academic perspective. It is a unique opportunity to network with (corporate) venturing professionals, researchers, policymakers, and investors.
This year, we will explore the shift from corporate venturing to collaborative venturing: how corporates, startups, investors, universities and public organisations can build stronger innovation ecosystems, develop new models of collaboration and accelerate innovation and impact.
The summit will also feature the first results from RSM/Erasmus University’s research on The State of Corporate Venturing in the Netherlands, presented by Vareska van de Vrande, Professor of Collaborative Innovation and Business Venturing, and Christopher Sabel, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
The full program is available on the website: corporateventuringentrepreneurship.com.
Below is an overview of the speakers who have already confirmed their participation:
- Albert Maas - CEO & Co-founder at Avular
- Christian Hüttenhein - Managing Partner at Pexus Ventures
- Esther Peters - Director at Leiden Bio Science Park Speaker
- Robert Schuman - Director Venture Capital at Invest-NL
- Meeran Malik - CEO & Co-founder at Kuanta
- Jonathan Fajardo Cortes - Principal at imec.Xpand
- Fabian Dudek - CEO & Founder at Glass Dollar
- Debate: " Collaborative venturing models will outperform traditional corporate venturing over the next decade."
The NVP membership includes free tickets for this summit. If you know any colleagues who may be interested in this summit, please feel free to forward this invitation to them.
We look forward to seeing you on November 19th!
With kind regards
Corina Kuiper – CVN
Vareska van de Vrande – RSM/Erasmus University
Felix Zwart – NVP
The summit is a one-day summit that brings together the latest insights on corporate venturing & entrepreneurship, both from a practitioner as well as from an academic perspective. It is a unique opportunity to network with (corporate) venturing professionals, researchers, policymakers, and investors. Theme of this year: From Corporate to Collaborative Venturing
