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“It's both terrifyingly interesting and interestingly terrifying”

According to VICE, TNW Conference is quite the event

Here’s what those in attendance had to say:

Sezayi Arsalan

Head of Communications | GoodUp

“In my previous job, I was the organizer of the biggest cultural event here in Amsterdam, Museum Night. We decided to stop doing paper tickets and go for digital ticketing. But with digital ticketing, wristbands came along as well. We had to order wristbands to distribute all over the museums in Amsterdam. But because we had 50 locations, we didn’t know where people would pick up their wristbands. We had to distribute them evenly. We didn’t think it out very well. We made educated guesses in the distribution. Then, in the night, some artist came to a couple of locations, and the distribution was totally wrong. I had to drive around on my bike the whole night distributing them manually, which cost me six hours. I could have done it better, or predicted it would go wrong”

Ekaterina Kazakova

Marketing Manager | Blender.io

“I was working for another start up, and we had a limited budget, and wanted to distribute it wisely. I made a LinkedIn campaign that was working well, but I really fucked up and forgot to switch it off. It was running for four months without me knowing, and we spent a lot of money. It was very embarrassing.”

Sven Dekker

Communications Manager | GoodUp

“During my bachelor studies, I did a job on the side where I would go to high schools and educate them about universities. We came to some pretty crazy schools. Some of them were pretty strict Christian. Swearing on the school yard wasn’t the best idea. I tripped, started swearing, and that was it.”

Carol-Ann O’Hagan

Workplace Manager | Soundcloud

“There have been times artists are in the office, and I’ve mixed them up with the wrong people. We had a photo shoot in the office the other day with three different artists coming in. One of them is non-gender-conforming. I mistook them for our German DJ. They were cool with it, though.”

Sophie Van Wersch

App Developer | IBM

“My bachelor’s degree. I studied politics and now I’m a web app developer.”