Pride in Innovation
About this event
What if the question you haven't asked yet is the one that changes everything?
Pride in Innovation brings together LGBTQ+ founders, corporate professionals, and Nyenrode Business University students for an event of structured discovery, where the goal isn't to pitch, present, or perform, but to ask better questions.
The LGBTQ+ community has always had to think differently. To find new ways in, new ways around, new ways forward. That spirit of resilience and reinvention is exactly the kind of thinking that unlocks growth, in business and beyond.
At this event, founders share what they're building and the challenges they're facing. Then students and professionals do something rare: they listen deeply, and ask the questions the founders haven't asked themselves yet.
The central question driving every conversation:
"What is the one question that, if you could answer it, would unlock new growth for your business?"
This is not a networking event with a side of panels. It's a focused, facilitated event where real connections and real insight happen by design.
What to Expect
A brief on the art of asking better questions
90-second founder introductions (no slides, no pitches)
Two rounds of structured discovery interviews in small groups
A collective synthesis session — what questions emerged?
Closing drinks and open networking
Who is this for?
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ Founders — Bring a real challenge. Leave with a question you hadn't thought to ask.
🏢 Corporate Professionals — LGBTQ+ or ally, step outside your organisation and into a different kind of conversation. Meet the founders your company could be working with.
🎓 Nyenrode Students — Practice the kind of inquiry that matters in real business. Real founders, real stakes, real impact.
💡 Anyone who believes in this community — If you care about LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship and want to contribute something meaningful, you belong here.