Where partnerships take shape. Two Living Rooms. Three days. One community space where EU projects, networks, and partners meet the wider ITW audience and each other.
The Summer Opportunity Lounge is a community space within ITW’s communal area built around four Living Rooms where EU-funded projects, networks, associations, and partners can meet each other and the wider ITW audience.
Each Living Room is a bookable, branded meeting area where a partner can host introductions, present initiatives, or simply be visible and available for conversation.
Sustained presence
Multiple conversations, visible anchor point. You’re there all morning or all afternoon; people know where to find you. The deeper conversations happen here.
Focused session
A network introduction, open call, or focused session. Enough time to present, take questions, and start real conversations. Tight, intentional, effective.
Not companies selling headsets. The layer underneath the projects, networks, and institutions creating the conditions for the entire industry to grow.
Immersive
and AI projects with active grants looking for consortium partners, pilot sites, or visibility across sectors.
Projects
& Consortia
European
and Dutch innovation networks, industry associations, and ecosystem builders. Share open calls, find new
members, connect across sectors.
Networks
& Ecosystem
CIIIC,
Rotterdam AI Zone, municipalities, policymakers. The public-sector side of the innovation equation, face to
face with the private sector.
Public
& Institutional
Looking for
funded projects to join? Need a research partner? Want to understand what’s in the European funding pipeline?
Walk in, sit down, ask.
Enterprise
& Research
No side agreements, no custom workflows. One format that works for everyone because the value isn’t in the package, it’s in the room.
All initiatives align with ITW’s existing formats. No custom programming, no parallel workflows.
Walk in, look at the signs, stand where you belong. The right conversation finds you.
You have an idea, a
project, or funding and you need people. This zone is where builders find each other.
Ethics, policy,
regulation, society. You’re here because the questions matter as much as the answers. Find your thinking
partners.
The most honest zone at
any conference. You hit a wall and you need someone who’s been there. No judgment just solutions from peers.
Whether you’re an EU project, a network, or a public partner one conversation is all it takes to figure out if the Lounge is right for you.