innovation

Forward·Inc is a foundation dedicated to the empowerment of people with refugee backgrounds through entrepreneurship. Founded by Diederick van der Wijk, David Hwan, and Laura Di Santolo, Forward·Inc started as an idea to bring together university students, working professionals, and entrepreneurial people with refugee backgrounds to work on startup ideas for three days, during intense startup weekends.

Tech startup Please ask m aims to digitize the hospitality sector and make it more efficient. The CIC Rotterdam-based company, run by three entrepreneurs, develops software that automatically processes hotel and meeting requests. As a result, reservations and requests are handled significantly faster and employees are able to spend less time behind the computer.