Social innovator with a track record in building international innovation ecosystems that work. In different managerial roles Bert-Jan Woertman helped create High Tech Campus Eindhoven, co-founded venture building program HighTechXL and incubator HighTech Plaza. He contributed to the development of TU/e innovation Space and the Brainport Industries Campus. He’s a co-founder – now advising - of AlphaBeats, a braintech venture. Currently Bert-Jan is managing director of Mikrocentrum, an independent knowledge and network organization, for the high-tech manufacturing industry, located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.