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
Yesterday, I met up with one of my AI inspirations, Fleur Prince, at The Hague Tech. I first met Fleur when she gave an AI presentation at the WBII on Unleashing the Potential of AI in Business and have worked with her since on several AI related projects, including Alumni & AI events and THT … Continue reading United Nations AI for Good
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
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
9 & 10 October | The Social Hub Amsterdam City Amidst rapid technologisation, polarisation, the climate crisis, and burnout, it can be easy to sink into apathy and despair. But now is the time to gather and find agency, to do something: We need to transform society's social fabric. How? By listening, nurturing, and repairing our … Continue reading 2024 Society 5.0 Festival Amsterdam
This was the title of the speech I gave at the Toastmasters Area Contest last week in Tilburg, The Netherlands. We've all been inundated with the term "AI" in the previous months, so I decided to write a speech sharing my own journey of recently deciding that I would consciously shift from AI Anxiety to … Continue reading From AI Anxiety to AI Optimism
Last night I attended opening night of the fabulous Highlight Delft Festival - three nights of installations and performances mixing Art & Technology. The show SH4D0W at Theater de Veste was an amazing experience of AI and human interaction. The festival itself is a unique way to wander through the beautiful city of Delft and explore a … Continue reading SH4D0W Show at Highlight Delft – Unique experience of AI and human interaction
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25 years seems both ages...and not long at all. I'm at that age, where I remember life before Google...and have had a front row seat to watching it impact us all. I've taught digital marketing, digital trends and even gave workshops on behalf of Google in The Netherlands, teaching university students about SEO and search. … Continue reading Google 25 Years of Search
Volunteer The Hague offer a great opportunity a couple of times a year for those looking for opportunities to volunteer with not for profit organisations in The Hague, in English. At this edition on Saturday 18 November, 2023, I was one of the keynote speakers, and gave a half hour presentation on "LinkedIn" Top tips … Continue reading Volunteer The Hague Mix & Match Fair
Clubhouse launched in 2020 and I joined in January 2021. They were the first app to focus on what become known as ‘social audio’. I logged in only a few times. When I decided to delete my account today, I found it a little concerning that the wording on the app is that it will … Continue reading Tech tools – Clubhouse
From November 2022 until February 2023, I had the fantastic experience of being a freelance lecturer at Hotelschool The Hague. This highly specialised university offers both Bachelors and Masters education with a focus on hospitality. They were in need of a lecturer/coach for students for the module "Aligning Business & Information" 1-2 days a week. … Continue reading 2022-2023 Hotelschool 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?
I recently purchased an iPhone Xs, and as part of the set up found it very convenient to be able to transfer all my apps across automatically from my iPhone SE, including the way I have organised my home screens. How many apps on your phone? How many apps are on your phone? On iPhones, … Continue reading Tech Tools – How many apps on your iPhone and how do you organise them?
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
The Next Web - the "Heart of Technology" - held its 14th annual conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 9 & 10 May 2019. With around 17,500 attendees from all around the world, it was an absolutely epic two days. I spoke with so many incredibly inspiring people - from wonderful WiT (Women in Technology) … Continue reading 2019 The Next Web Amsterdam #TNW2019
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. Â You can navigate by scrolling, or via the category and archive dropdowns in the sidebar … Continue reading Welcome to the Zestee Blog
I take way too many photos on my phone.  Whether you do the same, or even if you just take a few, here's the most simple way I've found to back up photos from my iPhone, and have used the same method on my Android (Wiley Fox) phone.  Dropbox and Google Photos are my favourites, but … Continue reading Backing up photos from your phone
I've considered buying a fitness band for some time, such as the Fitbit, but wasn't quite prepared to pay the 100 euro+ price tag. Â After attending a presentation a few months ago at The Hague University (where I work part time) on ebusiness in China, I thought I'd try out ordering something from AliExpress. Â … Continue reading Xiaomi MiBand Fitness Band Review
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