Alumni Week: What if you could design the future? Interdisciplinary innovation with AUC and PPLE alumni
Wednesday 8 October 2025 | 18:00-20:30 | REC A 2.09 + CREA
- Date
- 8 October 2025
- Time
- 18:00 -20:30
- Location
- Roeterseilandcampus - gebouw A
- Room
- 2.09
What if the future is not something that awaits, but something you can actively shape? During this event, we give the stage to four young alumni of AUC and PPLE who are already doing just that. With a sharp eye for societal challenges and an interdisciplinary approach, they combine knowledge from all corners, such as law and artificial intelligence or urban planning and biology, to find new answers. How did they get from idea to implementation? What is their vision of the future? And what blind spots do they signal in their practice? Each alum will share their vision, followed by a joint Q&A - and we close the evening with informal drinks. Important: this event is for AUC and PPLE alumni and students only!
Speakers
Legal tech entrepreneur Natali Petras co-founded TenantHero to empower tenants. She is now Legal Product Director at Zeno, where she develops AI-driven tools that modernise legal services.
Hidde Griek is a Strategic Foresight Scientist at TNO and the founder of Flip the City, where he transforms the problem of duckweed into a circular solution for greening urban environments. With his award-winning Kroostegel, he is making cities more sustainable and biodiverse, step by step.
Chaheed Chekhchar is Programme Manager for Community Wealth Building in Amsterdam-Noord. He is committed to placing power and resources in the hands of local communities, building a more resilient and deeply democratic Amsterdam from the ground up.
Tamara Happé is the co-founder of Right2Education, a non-profit organisation that has been offering Dutch and English lessons to refugees and asylum seekers for ten years. What began as a small grassroots initiative has grown into a thriving community of mutual learning - with language as only the starting point.
