Hans Brouwers

Moderator of the panel discussion "The German-Dutch tech region"

As a shared border region, the eastern Netherlands and North Westphalia have a diverse technological infrastructure, including universities, research institutes and innovation centres. The conditions are therefore good for promoting innovation and creating new solutions. Many people are not aware of this, which is why a group of German and Dutch stakeholders has been working for some time to raise the region's profile as a tech region with the aim of exchanging best practices, learning from each other, benefiting from each other - and getting the region more on the radar, including on the European radar in the direction of Brussels.

In the panel discussion, German and Dutch players from science and business will talk about successful cross-border cooperation and why it is worth joining forces and seeing the border between the countries not as a separation, but as a strengthening connection.

Short CV:

Hans Brouwers is an expert in the development of co-operations between German and Dutch companies in the high-tech industry.