Arjen van Klink; Master of Ceremony

Dr. Arjen van Klink is the managing director of Research Centre Business Innovation, Rotterdam University of Applied Science. He combines this role with a position as professor of next strategy; his research interests are strategy as a learning process, ambidexterity, and transition of industries and organisations. Until 2016, Arjen van Klink worked for Rabobank in various positions, especially in the domain of strategy and innovation. He received his PhD from Erasmus University on a study of the development of port cities into port networks.

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Jan Jonker; Talent for Transition 

Jan Jonker is an Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), appointed to this chair for life. His work focuses on contributions to shaping a different economy, based on new concepts of value creation around sustainability, social inclusion and circularity. He specializes in sustainable and circular business models and strategies. In particular, he looks at how change, transition and transformation are linked to sustainability and circularity. Over the years of a fruitful career, he wrote 35 books and booklets of which the latest (2021) Organizing for Sustainability is an international bestseller with over 170.000 readers. At present, he is working on a new book publication linking change and transition with sustainability and circularity, to be published in 2024. He lives at home in two countries (Holland and France). When not working, he keeps on restoring his 15th-century house, is busy cooking or ideating about another book.

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Derk Loorbach; Exploring real and radical transition (beyond the waste-resource paradox)

Derk Loorbach is director of Drift and Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was amongst the first researchers to develop the concept and approach of transition management. He started his professional career working as researcher for the International Centre for Integrative Studies (ICIS), Maastricht University, directed by Prof. Jan Rotmans, founder of transition management research.

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Kees Klomp; parallel tracks

Kees Klomp (1968) studied Political Science and Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. Klomp is a driver and champion of the Meaning Economy in the Netherlands; partly as co-founder of the do-tank THRIVE Institute, and partly as Professor in Purpose Economics at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Klomp has written several books on the Purpose Economy, including the management book Betekenisvol Ondernemen, Pioniers van de nieuwe welvaart and THRIVE.

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Ton van Kollenburg; parallel tracks

Ton van Kollenburg, supported companies with continuous improvement for over thirty years, focusing on value creation and respect for peope. Nowadays, as a Professor at Rotterdam and Avans Universities of Applied Science, his research aims at making companies more sustainable and more circular, using continuous improvement and digitalisation. He recently published two lean textbooks, discussing existing lean concepts and combining them with digitalisation and sustainability. Ton studied Industrial Engineering and Management at Eindhoven University of Technology and obtained his PhD there in Technology Management with his dissertation on self-managing teams. 

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Marcel den Hollander; parallel tracks

Dr. Marcel den Hollander, Professor, Circular Design & Manufacturing at RUAS, is a circular design consultant, researcher and author (Products that last, Design for managing Obsolescence) whose academic work on circular product design in conjunction with circular business model development is rooted in over 32 years of hands-on industrial design experience, working with (inter)national studios and clients. His ultimate professional goal, whether consulting with industry or doing research to further knowledge and education at institutions, is to help organisations, professionals, and students operate in the most circular manner possible, as quickly as possible. His circular design methodology and books form the basis of the ongoing CIRCO circular business program of the Dutch Government and have found their way to circular design courses and MBA programmes from universities, design- and business schools around the world. 

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Koen Dittrich; parallel tracks

Dr. Koen Dittrich is a professor of Circular Economy at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and also holds a teaching position at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Previously he held positions as professor Vital Agribusiness via Circular Process and Production Chains at Aeres University of Applied Sciences and as research scientist at TNO. His research interests include open innovation, sustainable business model innovation, co-creation, R&D collaboration, biobased economy and circular economy. Dr. Dittrich has (co)authored many articles and chapters in various books on R&D collaboration and innovation management.

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Maaike Lycklama à Nijeholt; parallel tracks

Maaike Lycklama à Nijeholt is a professor of Finance & Business Innovation at the Business Innovation Knowledge Centre of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. She conducts research into sustainable and circular finance, mergers and acquisitions, business valuation, soft controls and digital accountant. At Leiden University, Maaike is involved as an assistant professor in the course mergers and acquisitions in the Master's programme in Law and provides postgraduate education on finance for lawyers. Her research focuses on long-term value creation. Maaike is chairman of the core group financing of the bachelor's programme accountancy at Nyenrode Business University and a member of the supervisory board of Rabobank Leiden Katwijk. 

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