With a combined network of over 8.000 ‘4TU’ graduates in the United States, alumni are not only valuable contacts for each other but also unique access points to exciting organizations!
Join us in April for ‘behind the scenes’ alumni events at the HQ of autonomous vehicle company Motional (Boston, 19 April), Adyen’s North America Tech Hub (Chicago, 20 April) and ASML’s Silicon Valley R&D facility (San Jose 25 April), as well as a casual meetup over drinks in San Francisco (venue TBD, 24 April).
These special gatherings are part of a new USA Tour organized by the UT, TU Delft, TU/e and Wageningen University alumni offices with evening programmes that include talks by local alumni from the host companies about their career paths and current jobs as well as updates from your alma mater. The closing ‘borrel’ offers the chance to mix with both fellow TU alumni and representatives from the universities.
The events are free for alumni from the Dutch Technical Universities but for logistical reasons prior registration is required via this form (Sign-ups are handled by TU Delft Alumni Relations)
300+ local 'TU' alumni are based in the Chicago area and our event on tuesday April 20th PROMISES a great cross selection of participants from different companies, sectors and roles – see below for more details.
Date: Thursday 20 April 2023
Time: 5:30PM to 9:00PM (CDT)
Location: Adyen | 167 N Green St | Chicago, IL 60607
Information about the company host and our alumni speaker:
The global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses including Facebook, Uber, Spotify, Casper, Bonobos and L'Oréal. Adyen operates a worldwide payments platform, and offers a back-end infrastructure for authorizing. The company was founded in 2006 and from its HQ in Amsterdam and 27 offices around the world employes over 3000 employees. With the motto “launch fast and interate” Adyen also highlights a distinct corporate culture of minimal links, where engineers having ‘all in one’ roles of coders, designers, architects, testers and operations engineers.
| Bert Wolters studied at the TU Delft and earned his MSc in Computer Science in 2012. Bert joined Adyen in 2010 and is currently head of the company’s tech hub in Chicago as well as SVP of Technology. He is a proud TUD alumnus and has shared his knowledge and experience at Adyen with students as a recurring guest lecturer in the university’s software architecture courses. |
Programme:
5:30PM– 6:00PM, Arrival with light refreshments
6:00PM – 6:15PM, Opening words and updates from your TU's
6:15PM – 7:00PM, Talk by TUD alumnus Bert Wolters, SVP Technology - Adyen
7:00PM – 9:00PM, Networking Borrel with fingerfood
>> Please click here to sign up <<
Alumni in Chicago who are unable to join this gathering but wish to be notified of future activities in the area can submit/update their contact details using the event's registration form. A special DEAN USA Linkedin group also exists to faciliate sharing information and networking between nearly 8.000 graduates living in the country - to request to become a member click here.
Interested in attending one of our other 2023 USA Tour events in April?
Boston 19 April (@Motional) | San Francisco 24 April (drinks) | San Jose 25 April (@ASML Silicon Valley)
* ABOUT DEAN: The Dutch Engineers Alumni Network (DEAN) is the cooperation of the four universities of technology of the Netherlands in the field of alumni relations, and launched its activities in 2014. Together, they represent nearly 250,000 alumni all over the world. Today DEAN encompasses over 30 alumni communities in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Nordics, Spain, Switzerland and the USA with activities aimed at connecting local alumni both with each other as well as with students and the universities. Read more: https://www.4tu.nl/en/about_4tu/alumni/
