Alumni meeting
4TU.Alumni Event - London, United Kingdom
As an alumnus/alumna of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), you are happily invited to join the 4TU.alumni event in London on Wednesday, 7 May 2025. We look forward to meeting you!
We hereby invite you to the 4TU.Alumni event in London!
As alumnus/alumna of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) we are happy to invite you to the 4TU.alumni event in London on Wednesday 7 May 2025.
Wageningen University & Research, together with TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and University of Twente is bringing a group of 4TU.Startups to London during a startup mission in cooperation with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is your chance to hear the inspiring stories and future ambitions of these Dutch startup founders.
The evening programme will also include alumni talks and updates from the universities. The closing drinks will maximize your networking opportunities with local alumni.
Practical information
Date: Wednesday 7 May 2025
Time: 17:30 - 21:00 (local time)
Location: The Hems Dutch Cafe Bar, 11 Macclesfield St, London W1D 5BW, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Registration
Alumni speakers
WUR alumna Christina Mallin, Water Lead at South Pole
Christina Mallin, Global Water Lead at South Pole, is a corporate water stewardship and agricultural value chain expert with a decade of experience in the implementation of water risk and stewardship,
deforestation, and emission reduction projects in the Americas, Africa and
Europe. She focuses on strategy development for multinational cooperations drawing on her professional experience in Canada, the Netherlands, Mexico, Switzerland, and the UK. She holds a B.Sc. in Environmental and BioResource Management from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, and an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University.
TUD alumna Cleo Jongedijk, Data Engineer at Transport for London
Cleo Jongedijk is interested in everything that flows: fluids, oceans, traffic, anything that moves according to a (defined or not) set of rules will keep her entertained. Even better if those flows can be studied from the comfort of a (super)computer. She studied abstract fluids during her BSc in Applied Physics, oceans and waves during her MSc in Environmental Fluid Mechanics (both TU Delft) and oceanic plastic transport in her PhD (Imperial College London). During her PhD she won with an international team the EU hackathon on development of a digital twin of the ocean. She is currently developing the real-time Digital Twin of Surface Transport at TfL with the mission to improve the resilience of London’s road network and reduce congestion.
UT alumnus Wietze Beukema, Lead Threat Detection & Response Engineer at Confidential
Wietze Beukema has been hacking around with computers for years, and specialised in Cyber Security during his BSc and MSc studies at the University of Twente. He is the Lead Threat Detection & Response Engineer for a technology company in London, and previously also worked for CrowdStrike and PwC UK. As a threat hunting enthusiast and security researcher, Wietze has presented at a variety of security conferences and describes himself as a tech enthusiast, security fanatic with an interest in politics and society.
TU/e alumnus Sven Koster, Head of New Business Development and Innovation at GoMedia
Sven Koster moved to London in 2016 after he graduated in 2015 from Eindhoven University of Technology with a Msc in Innovation Management. In London he joined a start-up company as a business developer and project manager. Fast forward, 9 years later, in 2025, this start-up company has now been acquired by Equans that counts 90,000 people. He currently leads the new business development and innovation projects within the organisation. He is responsible for introducing new service offerings, which at the moment focuses on accessibility solutions for public spaces.