PRESS RELEASE

Girl Geek Dinner Eindhoven #3
Date: Monday, October 1, 2012
Location: Trafalgar Pub (Dommelstraat 21, 5611 CJ Eindhoven)
Cost: 10 euros (incl dinner & drinks)
Time: 18.30
Registration: www.girlgeekdinner.nl

What is a Girl Geek Dinner?

Girl Geek Dinner is a social event that is intended to encourage women in science, technology, and other traditionally male-dominated areas. It is a great opportunity to network and learn something new. Men are welcome as guests.

Marjan van Loon: Innovation in Gas

Marjan is Vice President of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) in Shell Projects & Technology, responsible for technical support to LNG projects, including new business opportunities. She joined Shell in 1989 and has worked both in the oil and gas sector, in a large variety of technology, operations and change management roles. She also acts as a Technical University Eindhoven campus ambassador for Shell and is member of the Oil & Gas Board of KIvI.

Liesbeth Vriens: Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Liesbeth will present tools and techniques to define innovative scenarios for building your own business or implementing corporate innovation. Liesbeth will also share her own ‘lessons learned’ and will present the ‘highlights’ of visionary entrepreneurs she admires. She is a graduate of the Technical University Delft. She studied Information Technology and Marketing Management. Liesbeth worked for several multinationals in different disciplines. Her latest corporate position was Senior Director at Philips Design, which she exchanged for becoming an entrepreneur two years ago. Since then she founded and led multiple start-ups and won several entrepreneurship competitions, among which ‘Start-up Weekend Eindhoven’ as “Most Innovative Start-up” in 2011 (www.wiehaalt.nl).

For more info,
www.girlgeekdinner.nl 
organizers@girlgeekdinner.nl