December 2018: Christmas dinner with the Harvard Society

Dear Alumni, We proudly invite you to come to the annual Christmas dinner organised jointly with the Harvard Society.

When: Saturday, December 15th
Time: Doors open at 18:00 (there’s a bar for meeting up), dinner starts at 19:00
Where: The Lobby Hotel V, Fizeaustraat 2, 1097 SC Amsterdam
Price: €65 for for a three-course meal, two drinks and tea/coffee

Looking forward to seeing you there! For more information and registration click [here].

November 2019: Day of the Dead

Please join alumni of MIT, Harvard, Altardediademuertos.jpgColumbia, Fulbright, McGill and many others! For our new annual tradition: Instead of Halloween or Thanksgiving we will celebrate the “Day of the Dead”, a Mexican tradition that invites the loved ones who passed away to become part of the festivities. With altars full of colors, candles, food and drinks, we dance the night away. Dress Code: Customes suggested! Just wear what you can find in your closet, something colourful!

Date: Saturday 3 Nov, 5pm-9pm
Place: Terragon
Price: €29 euros including full dinner (for vegetarian option please tell us in advance), 2 drinks, coffee, tea and free parking.
What: 17:00 Drinks and tour of the Terragon forrest with the Altars. (There is a bar if you want to start drinks early.)
18:30 Full dinner (for vegetarian option please tell us in advance), drinks, coffee and tea.

Please register HERE so we know the numbers. Information on payment can be found on the site as well.

Picture by Eneas de Troya – http://www.flickr.com/photos/eneas/4072192627/, CC BY 2.0, Link

October 2018 (MIT): drinks party of Startup Commons

You are invited to the drinks party of the Startup Commons.

As you may be aware the Startup Commons is the largest annual town-hall meeting for the leaders of the NL startup scene.

At the Commons drinks you can network with senior management of NL’s leading startups (e.g. Catawiki, PicNic, Camptoo, Leapfunder, IkBenFrits, NightBalance, etc.) You can meet senior management of all the major Accelerators nationally (e.g. Brightlands, HighTechXL, PnP, Rockstart, SBC, PnP, NLC, etc.). And of course you can connect with the VCs and Informals that are backing them behind the curtains. Also, there will be opportunity to meet the listening ears from the government (Constantijn van Oranje, Wethouder Kock, etc.)

It should be a great evening for those of you thinking about starting your own company.

The drinks go from 21:00. It’s Oct 5 in the attic of Magna Plaza, rent 24, 139F Spuistraat, Amsterdam.

You need to RSVP. Number are limited and first-come first-serve.

Yours, MIT Netherlands

October 2018: Annual Dinner

Dear alumni, we have great pleasure in inviting you to our Annual Dinner held in Slot Zeist. Our speaker and guest of honour is the Honourable Peter Wilson CMG who was appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands in August 2017. Prior to this, Ambassador Wilson was the Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of the UK Mission to the UN, New York. His previous postings have included service at the Foreign and Commonwealth office and the British Embassy in Beijing. He has also ran the European Parliament Team at the UK Representation to the European Union in Brussels. Ambassador Wilson is also an Oxbridge alumnus having obtained a Bachelors in Modern History from Oxford University.

Date: Friday, Oct. 12th, starting at 7:00 pm
Place: Sot Zeist, Zinzendorflaan 1, 3703 CE Zeist (free parking available)
Price: €70 for members, €80 for non-members and guests.

More information including the registration form can be found [here] .