Marleen Stikker

Marleen Stikker is founder of Waag.

Marleen Stikker (1962) is also founder of ‘De Digitale Stad’ (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet in Amsterdam. She leads Waag, a social enterprise that consists of a research institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, that launched companies like Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world.

She is also member of the European H2020 Commission High-level Expert Group for SRIA on innovating Cities/DGResearch and the Dutch AcTI academy for technology & innovation.

Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker’s Bill of Rights motto: 
“If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It”. Marleen believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.

Keynote speaker on Friday 13th December