End of year summary 2024

It's time for us to look back on 2024. First of all, we're extremely happy to see the support we received from you throughout the year. If you wouldn't participate and be members, there wouldn't be a tekom Netherlands. So, thank you very much - and please keep it up in 2025.

Membership development

Unfortunately, we had 8 company members terminate their memberships this year. On the other hand, we had 6 new student members joining us. We hope we'll live up to your expectations, and that you'll benefit greatly from your memberships. Welcome in the community, we look forward to meeting you in 2025. 🤩

Events

2024 turned out to be a very busy year. Let's give you some figures first : 

• Hosted on-site events: 4
• Hosted webinars: 3
• Number of participants in all events: 80

Our top 3 event successes this year:

1. tekom DocDinners are here to stay! 
   We tried out a new format in Gelderland and you welcomed it with open arms. We've had so many interesting talks throughout the year, and we look forward to continue these efforts next year. We also hope to expand the DocDinners to other cities in 2025.
2. Cross-border event in Belgium
   We were happy to host the cross-border event with tekom Belgium, where we had a variety of topics to discover and several social events to strengthen the tekom community.
3. In person interaction beats quick online meetings
   We saw high interest in our first on-site event since the pandemic, where we learned a lot about STE and sampled some exquisite tea. So, we'll do what we can to have more in-person events next year and we welcome suggestions for the agendas.

Development in tekom Netherlands

2024 was a rewarding year in many ways. First of all, we were very happy to welcome a new IC member: Patrick Andriessen. We also found a better way of working together in the IC committee and distributed tasks more evenly. We continued the good collaboration with our colleagues in tekom Belgium and we expect it will continue next year. 

Our biggest challenge this year was the organization of in-person events. We had so many ideas that we could have filled two years easily if it weren't for the shortage of volunteers. We would love to do more on-site events next year. 

We'll meet in January to do the yearly planning and find out what to offer in 2025. We already know we'll work on:

• Working closer with industry partners to host in-person events.
• Attracting more members and volunteers with targeted communication and interesting events.

If we should sum up the year in just a few words they would be: Successful, interactive and rewarding.

We want to thank you all for a great 2024. We in the IC committee are happy about the progress we made together, and we look forward to seeing you and your colleagues in 2025.

All the best from

Sarina, Henk, Patrick and Jan

Your IC committee of tekom Netherland