As a tech leader, you handle difficult conversations, you make decisions that not everyone will like, and you need diverse teams to work towards the same goal. How do you do that well?

Fresh ideas. Bold moves. Real impact. Challenge your thinking, spark new ideas with fellow tech leaders and discover how to turn ambition into meaningful impact.

Following the success of previous editions, we invite you to the final NextGen Tech Leaders event of the first cycle: the Impact Festival on January 28, 2027, at Schiphol Group. Together with inspiring speakers and moderator Gabriëlle Lopes, we explore how tech leaders can make an impact and achieve their goals through communication and decision-making.

From Failure to Impact: the NextGen Tech Leaders journey
The Impact Festival closes the first season of NextGen Tech Leaders. At the Failure Festival, we learned to turn failure into progress. At the Dream Festival, we explored which dreams we want to pursue and why they matter. The Breakthrough Festival challenged us to turn ambition into action. Now it is time for the next step: creating meaningful impact:

• People: Human Centered Leadership
  Impact starts with people, the foundation of every organisation. Carolien Wessling, HR Business Partner of the Year (2026), challenges a familiar idea: what if we stopped measuring people against one standard and built on what makes each person strong? Her belief that every person is a talent changes how we view performance, leadership and team development. Learn how to create an environment that fits your people, instead of making people fit the environment. This helps build stronger teams, improve decisions and prepare your organisation for the future.
  
  People impact also extends beyond the workplace to customers, communities and society. The social side of ESG challenges tech leaders to create value for people inside and outside the organisation.
  
  
• Planet: Have a Strong Why
  Success needs values. Organisations, teams and people that last have a strong why. A clear purpose and strong values help you set priorities, align people and act faster. They also shape your organisation’s contribution to the world. We explore how purpose can guide leadership, decision-making and long-term success.
  
  
• Profit: Turn Innovation into Sustainable Impact
  Impact needs a sustainable foundation. Whether your organisation is funded by customers, businesses or taxpayers, you must keep innovating to grow your reach and relevance. The opportunity is to use existing systems, technology, business models and partnerships to create positive change for markets, customers and society. We explore how tech leaders can connect commercial thinking with meaningful impact.

What Will You Take Away?
Insights from the speakers, conversations with fellow tech leaders and practical lessons you can use in your own organisation on how to make better decisions, bring people along and create real impact.

This is your chance to learn, connect, and be part of a community that is shaping the future of tech leadership.

Join us on January 28th. Be part of the impact.