Kees Noorman has been leading ORAM – Ondernemend Amsterdam for over a decade. In that time, he has turned the region's largest business association into something more than a membership organisation — a genuine platform for the people and companies that keep the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area moving.
He knows the system. Not from a boardroom at a distance, but from inside it: the competing interests, the slow decisions, the moments where things could have gone differently — and the ones where they did.
He doesn't talk about the importance of young professionals. He acts on it. ORAM – Ondernemend Amsterdam Next Gen Festival exists because of that conviction.
Throughout the day, organisations put real challenges on the table. Not hypotheticals. Not case studies. Actual problems they carried into the room and needed help moving forward.
Young professionals worked on them. In focused sessions, across sectors, without the usual hierarchy getting in the way.
The closing panel is where that work is weighed. Kees takes the stage with the people who brought the challenges and the people who worked on them. What came out of the sessions? What is actually worth taking forward? And how does the business community look back on a day built around their real problems?
Not a ceremony. A verdict — with next steps attached.
Tickets give you full-day access to all sessions, workshops and networking.