Initiator Next Web Conference, Managing Partner at Meganova
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
- Current
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- Founder at Confnetwork.com
- Initiator at The Next Web Conference 2008 - 3 & 4 April
- Managing Partner at Meganova
- CTO at Fleck.com
- Founder at Streamedge
- Past
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- Initiator at The Next Web Conference 2007
- Initiator, Jury Board Member at The Next Web Awards
- Contractor, Developer, Architect at Linkit Consult
- Consultant and Contractor at Artolive
- Consultant and Contractor at Courage to connect
- Consultant and Contractor at Universiteit Wageningen
- Consultant and Contractor at Trendwatching.com
- Consultant and Contractor at 1Site1
- Consultant and Contractor at Henselutions
- Consultant and Contractor at KPN Internet
- Internet technical assistent at LEI
- Managing assistant at Planet Internet
- Education
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- Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
- Hogeschool van Utrecht
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Arjen Schat’s Summary
Mailto: arjen@meganova.nl
M: +31 (0)6 224 05 312
Please feel free (motivation appreciated) to contact or invite me.
I love;
The internet and the innovation it has on the connected society,
Understanding the world better,
Developing tailor made information applications, services and solutions based on web2.0 internet technology,
Taking the time to brainstorm to go from obvious/ good ideas to great ideas,
Working in small teams for start-ups and innovative companies,
Keeping up with the daily online trends, feed reading, hypes and successes.
Arjen Schat’s Specialties:
Innovation, Web2.0, User Concepts, Online Services Concepts,Rich internet applications, Business process streamlining, Information architecture, Application development, Ajax, User behavior, Interpersonal Communication
Arjen Schat’s Experience
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Founder
Confnetwork.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Events Services industry)
August 2007 — Present (10 months)
B2B Events are networking nightmares, so lets do something about it.
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Initiator
The Next Web Conference 2008 - 3 & 4 April
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (11 months)
The Next Web Conference is THE European Internet Conference with attendees from over 25 countries.
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Managing Partner
Meganova
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Meganova is a private incubator. Several projects have started in Meganova and grew into companies. Check Meganova Website for more information
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CTO
Fleck.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
CTO for the concept and development of the fleck.com service.
Fleck.com is an Internet annotation service. To put it simple; you can add post-its on any web page without installing any software. Share this page with a friend so she can see the web page through your eyes.
At the start of the project I focussed on concept development, the GUI and the back-end architecture. In the second part I developed the server side system that able to scale to at least 1.000.000 internet users. -
Founder
Streamedge
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1999 — Present (9 years 4 months)
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Initiator
The Next Web Conference 2007
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2006 — July 2007 (9 months)
The Next Web Conference is THE European Internet Conference with attendees from over 16 countries.
On July 7 2006, there were 6 Showcases from successful european start-ups (Plazes -DE-, Hyves -NL-, Netvibes -FR-, eSnips -Israel-, WidSets -Finland-, and AllPeers - UK-) and Keynotes from: Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Mark Tluszcz (Mangrove Capital Partners), Tim Roe (Nielsen Netratings), Paul Molenaar (Ilse Media), Jay Adelson (Digg), and Kevin Kelly!
The NEXT Next Web conference is on June 01, 2007. More information on http://www.thenextweb.org/ -
Initiator, Jury Board Member
The Next Web Awards
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
The Next Web Awards
The worldwide award for future accomplishments!
The public awards for upcoming disruptive services, that will change the web.
The Next Web Awards show June 1st At The Next Web Conference Grand Party
http://awards.thenextweb.org/ -
Contractor, Developer, Architect
Linkit Consult
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Environmental Services industry)
January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)
Contractor, developer and architect for the concept and development of a new social service platform aiming to centralize people, contact and knowledge for environmental water professionals all over the world.
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Consultant and Contractor
Artolive
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
July 2006 — May 2007 (11 months)
Consultancy, maintenance & development of their online business administration applications and database driven website.
Artolive is the largest online art gallery in the Netherlands with more than 2500 connected artist and a collection of more than 30.000 original paintings and sculptures. -
Consultant and Contractor
Courage to connect
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
April 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Main activities; Technical and functional consultancy, research. Courage to Connect is developing an online coaching tool that is specifically tailored to their unique coaching process.
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Consultant and Contractor
Universiteit Wageningen
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
May 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 1 month)
Development of several online database driven sites and web applications, to facilitate long term field research
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Consultant and Contractor
Trendwatching.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Market Research industry)
August 2006 — September 2006 (2 months)
I designed & developed the client administration application. The main focus of the tool is to streamline the administration of their client base and to facilitate primary contact moment after the sales process. The application is developed with open source web technology.
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Consultant and Contractor
1Site1
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
November 2005 — August 2006 (10 months)
Development & maintenance for their central hosting & administration platform.
1site1 provides a low cost high volume solution for database driven websites, based on a single central application. -
Consultant and Contractor
Henselutions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2005 — March 2006 (4 months)
With a four man team we developed a fully ajax-ed online application to facilitate the primary processes for Room4U; an online hotel arrangement site. The application facilitates automatically processing of hotel reservations, central maintenance of several theme sites. Clients, hotels, arrangements and allotment administration.
The administration system is developed in CakePHP. This is the most popular PHP based implementation of the Ruby on Rails (ROR) MVC platform. -
Consultant and Contractor
KPN Internet
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
September 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 1 month)
Lead system design & development online project controlling application. With this project we translated the KPN telecom project controlling method “NPD” from a paper based method to an online application process. The solution offered to more than 150 employees central access to all project information and real time reporting facilities.
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Internet technical assistent
LEI
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Market Research industry)
January 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 3 months)
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Managing assistant
Planet Internet
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — January 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Arjen Schat’s Education
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Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
2001 — 2002
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Hogeschool van Utrecht
ICT 1999 — 1999
Additional Information
Arjen Schat’s Websites:
Arjen Schat’s Interests:
interpersonal communication, interface design, usability, web technology, ajax
Arjen Schat’s Groups:
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Kings of Code | A Gathering for Web Developers member -
The Next Web Conference & Blog member -
European Internet Professionals member
Arjen Schat’s Contact Settings
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