The expat’s guide to working in Dutch high tech

From an endless loop of deliberations to receiving criticism that can sound downright rude, when you’re new to the Netherlands, the Dutch work culture can seem totally weird.

Fine-tuning the design of piezoelectric transducers

They are compact, reliable, self-generating, and can be found in various industries: piezoelectric transducers. The design of such devices is a multiphysics problem involving electric current, pressure acoustics, mechanics, etc. Want to know how to improve the performance of your piezoelectric transducer? Read more!

Headlines

Differ leads search for better electrolysers

These innovation stimuli are included in the 2021 national budget

Futurelab pockets new investment and a new home at Evoluon

SALD deposits trust in new advisory board

Vanmoof pedals series B to a €34M payout

Ghent diagnostic startup Antelope gets injected with additional €9M

How AI-assisted development delivers on the promise of IoT

With an AI-assisted development approach, enterprises will benefit from hands-on mentoring for new developers with AI-assisted next-step suggestions, increased developer productivity and capacity and decreased time and cost impact of defects. Learn more about this topic from Johan den Haan, CTO of Mendix, at the Software-Centric Systems Conference in Eindhoven on 25 September.

AI-enhanced glasses for the visually impaired

To assist the visually impaired with increased mobility independence and enhanced text reading capabilities, Yes!Delft start-up Envision is developing its own hands-free, AI-based solution for smart glasses.

In other news

Can the Dutch Fairphone 3 scale ethical consumer electronics? (Techcrunch)

Apple puts ‘walkie talkie’ Iphone project on hold (The Information)

HP builds supercomputer for future moon missions (Techspot)

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Software engineering: balancing what you make and how you make it

Using three statements on topics such as best software practices, CI/CD, DevOps and consistent documentation, software engineers Aran Vink, Nick van der Veeken and Thom Koomen put into words Itility’s view on the art of software engineering.

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