On Thursday morning, January 22, the ICD received Bas Dijkmann, the new Site Leader of Philips Drachten. He was accompanied by Marloes de Vos, Vice Site Leader at Philips, and Pascal Homan, who represents Philips on the steering committee of the ICD.
Joost Krebbekx introduced the ICD in the Skill building. After this, Arend Hiddema of Exosens and Hilbrand Wijbenga by Ventura Systems their fine international companies and innovations in the product portfolio.
The company then visited the ICD company BD Kiestra. Here lit Lars de Groot (Demcon) from the Groningen office explained their strategy. He also demonstrated recent high-tech systems.
Afterwards, it gave Jaap Oudman of BD Kiestra a presentation and tour of the R&D Center, in which he outlined the transformation from family business to international player and highlighted the high-tech vision as regional innovation from the ecosystem.
Coincidentally, the Safari of the NHL Stenden students was also at BD Kiestra at that time (See photo below right), so Bas and Marloes were able to observe with their own eyes that 50 technical business students were being shown around with full attention.
Bas thanked everyone for the introduction with the words: ‘I am impressed with these ICD companies and their innovations. The pride radiates from them - that's great to see!’
