On 11th September 2025, I attended the Unknown Community Celebration at Titaan in The Hague. This event brought together founders, students, and changemakers to reflect on achievements from the past year and look ahead to future impact. The afternoon focused on connection, inspiration, and strengthening the ecosystem that supports entrepreneurs. Like the 2024 Unknown Campus … Continue reading 2025 Unknown Community Celebration The Hague
On Friday 13th June 2025, I enjoyed attending Den Haag Inspireert (The Hague Inspires) @ the Fokker Terminal. I've been several times to this annual event and always enjoy seeing the showcase of amazing entrepreneurial ideas in our city. https://youtu.be/YrKOATUs6Jw?feature=shared The afternoon offered a combination of workshops, presentations, awards and networking. A translation of the … Continue reading 2025 Den Haag Inspireert / The Hague Inspires
On Tuesday 12 November I attended another great Wine, Cheese and AI event in The Hague, organised by Fiona Passantino. Event promo text: “AI Sentience”: What is it, how does it happen, how do we know it’s happening, and when? A panel conversation at the dividing line between Human and AI consciousness to understand the … Continue reading Wine Cheese and AI (November 2024)
Welcome to ImpactFest! ImpactFest was created in 2016 to bring together ImpactCity’s ecosystem of purpose-driven organisations from all corners of the world. ImpactFest provides a platform to present oneself, where investors pitch for entrepreneurs and where entrepreneurs and experts exchange experiences to scale together. In the past years, ImpactFest has become the leading impact event … Continue reading 2024 ImpactFest The Hague
Last night I enjoyed attending a "Get in the Ring" event held by Unknown Campus in The Hague. The Pitch Battle was a fun way to have entrepreneurs share more about their startups.
On 14 June 2024, I will be going to The Hague Creators Premiere. This event is aimed at photographers, filmmakers, musicians, designers and all types of creative minds. Join us?
There were numerous events to choose from on Friday 8 March 2024 - International Women's Day. I have very mixed feelings about this day. I absolutely believe we need to focus on and address the ongoing gender gaps in our world. However I feel uncomfortable at events with only women - inclusion is so important … Continue reading 2024 IWD: A Spotlight on Female Expertise @ The Hague Tech
As part of the International Week for the BFM students at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, we recently had the wonderful opportunity to listen in to a series of lectures. On 30 January 2024, Dr Liliya Terzieva gave a really interesting lecture about Why do networks fail and what can we do to reverse … Continue reading Why do networks fail and what can we do to reverse this process? Dr Liliya Terzieva lecture.
On 8 November 2023, I attended the Talent for Good Fair, held where I work at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Organised by The Hague Humanity Hub, I'm sharing some screenshots and link below. Unfortunately I couldn't attend many of the events as I had other work scheduled for the day, but was great … Continue reading 2023 Talent for Good Fair
ImpactCity will bring together two thousand impact makers from around the world in The Hague for the eighth edition of ImpactFest on 7 November 2023 . Startups, scale-ups, investors, knowledge institutes, companies, policymakers and other passionate individuals working towards a sustainable, inclusive, and fair economy will get together to tackle global challenges. A programme focused … Continue reading Eight edition of ImpactFest to take place in The Hague in November
On 2 June 2023, I had the absolute pleasure of being present at the Neurodiversity in Business in The Netherlands launch. Hosted by EY in Amsterdam, it was a truly inspiring event. You have no doubt seen a wide range of discussion around DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) and may or may not have (yet) … Continue reading Neurodiversity in Business the Netherlands launch
The Global School for Entrepreneurship (GS4E) opens their new campus in The Hague in September. Based in de Titaan building, students at the GS4E gain an accredited Bachelor's degree alongside real-world business experience. Do you know an entrepreneurial young person who would like to either start a business or do a business degree? Did they … Continue reading Startup, Study and Scholarship – a chance to combine the three comes to The Hague
De Titaan building in the Binkhorst region of The Hague will officially open its doors in September 2023 for organisations who align with the Sustainable Development Goals. Twenty innovative scale-ups have recently moved into the building, which is still being renovated and due to be completed by the summer. Jurgen Nieuwenhuisen, Chief Operating Officer of … Continue reading De Titaan is building a better world for entrepreneurs in The Hague
Image: Microsoft Teams App on App Store Collaboration on documents and communicating within a team is an ongoing and important tech trend at work. Clear and efficient communication between teams in the same city, or across the world, is crucial to success in today's competitive international business environment. Microsoft have recognised and now addressed this … Continue reading Have you used Microsoft Teams? Thoughts?
On Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th June 2019, I had the amazing experience of attending the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (#GES2019) in The Hague, the Netherlands. Co-hosted by the governments of the United States and the Netherlands, it showcased the depth and breadth of innovations that are improving lives around the world, and the critical role … Continue reading 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit
Welcome to the Zestee blog - this is portfolio of my work as well as a a treasure trove of more than 15 years of my favourite topics, articles, resources, book reviews, summaries of events I've been to and more. You can navigate by scrolling, or via the category and archive dropdowns in the sidebar … Continue reading Welcome to the Zestee Blog
Digital Marketing has undergone some really interesting changes in the last decade. I started Zestee in 2008 with a focus on social media training, as back then, it was a totally new trend. Much of my time was spent explaining to entrepreneurs what Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other platforms were and why they should be … Continue reading 2019 Digital Marketing Trends
Happy New Year! It's now 2018 and I've just returned from an amazing month in Australia and New Zealand visiting family and friends. Now that I'm back to reality and "real life" where I live in The Hague, The Netherlands, I've been using this great new energy of the new year to get myself organised. … Continue reading What is bullet journaling?
Since September 2015, I've been studying part time towards my MICM - Master in International Communication Management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post personal overview of this study: https://zestee.com/micm-master-international-communication-management/ Today, after months of thinking about it, I finally started "putting pen to paper" (and fingers to … Continue reading My MICM Thesis #1: Getting started
On Saturday 5th November, I will be speaking at the Code To Change Conference in Amsterdam. Here's the details below and link to buy tickets for only 45 euros.... Welcome to The Code to Change Conference 2016! Like our successful conference last year, we are all about teaching and learning new SKILLS that will enable … Continue reading 2016 Code to Change Conference Amsterdam
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