We are excited to welcome you to a special evening of gratitude, celebration and connection as we come together for a Thanksgiving Day dinner with a unique twist!

Thanksgiving is a special holiday celebrated in America, and we’ve appropriated the theme “Let’s Give Thanks” for our event.

The Meaning of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is one of America's most beloved holidays, deeply rooted in the history of gratitude and giving. Originating in the early 17th century with the Pilgrims and Native Americans coming together to celebrate the harvest, Thanksgiving has evolved into a day where we pause to reflect on our blessings – big and small. It's a time to appreciate family, friends, mentors, partners and the abundance we often take for granted.

More than just a meal, Thanksgiving is a moment to slow down, to give thanks for what we have and to share that gratitude with others.

Celebrate Thanksgiving Together

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, you could share this special occasion with someone who means a lot to you (additional tickets required). This could be a colleague, mentor, or anyone who has made a meaningful impact on your career. To make it even more exciting, we will be giving away 5 free guest tickets—stay tuned for a chance to win! Let’s celebrate the connections that lift us up and make us who we are!

Event Details

• Thursday, November 28
• 17:00 - 21.30
• The Lounge | High Tech Campus Eindhoven
• Attire: Casual Elegance
• 45.00 euros per dinner ticket

We look forward to sharing this wonderful evening with you and celebrating the many reasons we have to be thankful.

Program

Introduction to Thanksgiving by Cheryl Boyd, Fe+male Tech Heroes team member

Cheryl Boyd is co-founder and co-CEO of Dispatches Europe, a communications company with a website for English-speaking expats in Europe. DE also provides marcom services in native English for tech startups and scale-ups as well as venture builders, corporate clients, VCs and ecosystems. Cheryl’s broad experience includes executive sales management for international luxury hotels and event planning companies as well as building the client portfolio for one of the first pure-play digital media companies in America. 

Cheryl joined the Fe+male Tech Heroes core team several years ago, helping Hilde and Ingelou in planning events, writing the FTH role model profiles and managing social media. Oh, and Thanksgiving is her favorite holiday.

Keynote by Betsabeh Madani-Hermann, Global Head of Research at Philips

"Creativity, Connection and Courage: Leading the Future of Tech"

Betsabeh Madani-Hermann is the Global Head of Research at Philips. She is the first female head of Research in the company's 133 history. In this role, Betsabeh is the executive responsible for building, managing and funding the breakthrough and exploratory innovations across all business segments. She joined Philips initially as the Global Head of Strategy and Business Development for Philips' 6 businesses in Connected Care at 7Billion Euro in Revenue. Betsabeh career spans strategy, operations, scientific research in proteomics and biophysics, entrepreneurship, and early-stage investment across healthcare, biotech, and robotics.

Betsabeh Madani-Hermann is the Global Head of Research at Philips. She is the first female head of Research in the company's 133 history. In this role, Betsabeh is the executive responsible for building, managing and funding the breakthrough and exploratory innovations across all business segments. She joined Philips initially as the Global Head of Strategy and Business Development for Philips' 6 businesses in Connected Care at 7Billion Euro in Revenue. Betsabeh career spans strategy, operations, scientific research in proteomics and biophysics, entrepreneurship, and early-stage investment across healthcare, biotech, and robotics.

Before she Joined Philips, Betsabeh held operating and investing hats in Robotics, Healthcare, and Biotech ranging across $5M-30B market cap. At Cerner, she led corporate strategy for healthcare predictive analytics and managed population health programs in diabetes and heart failure. As Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at EquicareHealth, she led both market positioning and vertical growth across chronic illnesses with a focus on the oncology care space.

Betsabeh holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, a Master’s in Bio-Mechanical Engineering and graduate research in proteomics from the University of British Columbia, and holds Bachelors in Physics and in Biochemistry from the University of Victoria. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Engineering teaching Tough Tech Innovations and is a Brain Trust at XPRIZE.

Fireside chat with Evangelia Demerouti, full professor at TU/e

"Shattering the Glass Ceiling at TU Eindhoven: Evangelia Demerouti's Bold Approach"

Evangelia Demerouti is a Full Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her research focuses on the processes enabling performance, including the effects of work characteristics, individual job strategies (including job crafting and decision-making), occupational wellbeing, and work-life balance.

Evangelia Demerouti studied psychology at the University of Crete (Greece) and obtained her PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology (cum laude, 1999) from the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany). Having worked as a post-doc researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Radboud University Nijmegen, Demerouti was assistant professor and associate professor at Utrecht University between 2002 and 2009. since 2015 she is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

She has published over 200 national and international papers and book chapters, and is associate editor of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology and European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.