-- Moved to June --

Our upcoming speakers are Reinhard Mengelberg and Job Hamann, Founder of Applyfin.

ApplyFin is an AI-powered platform designed to make recruitment as effortless as possible.

Recruitment on Autopilot. We drastically improve workflows and efficiency while reducing hiring costs by up to 60%. Our solution automatically finds, qualifies, and manages suitable candidates across popular channels, allowing one recruiter to manage up to 3 times more applicants.

More about them here.

**_\-- Moved to June --_**

**Our upcoming speakers** **are** [Reinhard Mengelberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/reinhard-mengelberg-50151829b/) **and** [Job Hamann](https://www.linkedin.com/in/job-hamann/)**, Founder of** [Applyfin](https://applyfin.com/)**.**

ApplyFin is an AI-powered platform designed to make recruitment as effortless as possible.

_Recruitment on Autopilot. We drastically improve workflows and efficiency while reducing hiring costs by up to 60%. Our solution automatically finds, qualifies, and manages suitable candidates across popular channels, allowing one recruiter to manage up to 3 times more applicants._

More about them [here](https://applyfin.com/about).

S&P: Applyfin, effortless recruitment through AI

Vitara (Sommalife), a social enterprise that uses modern technology to create sustainable income and impact in rural communities.

"We provide resources for women farmer groups in shea producing communities to produce high quality farm commodities in large volumes. Bottlenecks such as manual operations, walking long distances to local markets and middlemen are reduced. Then we connect local producers to international markets to earn fair wages and additional income."

Speaker: Willem Oomens Co-Founder.

[Vitara](https://vitara.ag/) ([Sommalife](https://sommalife.com/)), a social enterprise that uses modern technology to create sustainable income and impact in rural communities.

"_We provide resources for women farmer groups in shea producing communities to produce high quality farm commodities in large volumes. Bottlenecks such as manual operations, walking long distances to local markets and middlemen are reduced. Then we connect local producers to international markets to earn fair wages and additional income._"

Speaker: [Willem Oomens](https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-oomens-57567b1a6/) Co-Founder.

S&P: Vitara (Sommalife), Digitizing shea supply in West Africa

LEA is a promising startup focused on eliminating the stress of creating top-tier slide decks.

They combine the deep consulting experience of co-founder Lars Ammerlaan with the 16+ years of teaching Machine Learning at UvA from co-founder Breanndán Ó Nualláin (UvA) to automate and enhance presentation design.

Speaker: Lars Ammerlaan Co-Founder.

[LEA](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lea-productvitiy-software/posts/) is a promising startup focused on eliminating the stress of creating top-tier slide decks.

They combine the deep consulting experience of co-founder Lars Ammerlaan with the 16+ years of teaching Machine Learning at UvA from co-founder Breanndán Ó Nualláin (UvA) to automate and enhance presentation design.

Speaker: [Lars Ammerlaan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-ammerlaan/) Co-Founder.

S&P: LEA, the end of slide stress

Speaklee turns kids’ reading and speech practice into guided, AI-powered mini-lessons with instant feedback. Their mission? To make speech support engaging, accessible, and effective. Used to learn at home, in school, and in clinics.

🌐 Speaklee (rebranded from readler.ai)

Speaklee turns kids’ reading and speech practice into guided, AI-powered mini-lessons with instant feedback. Their mission? To make speech support engaging, accessible, and effective. Used to learn at home, in school, and in clinics.

🌐 [Speaklee](https://www.readler.ai/) (rebranded from readler.ai)

S&P: Speaklee, Award-Winning AI Speech Assistant for Children

BASH turns every event into its own social hub.

Their mission? To help organisers unite info, media, organisation and invites on one shareable page, building audiences that buy early, bring friends and keep coming back.

https://bash.social/landing

**BASH turns every event into its own social hub.**

Their mission? To help organisers unite info, media, organisation and invites on one shareable page, building audiences that buy early, bring friends and keep coming back.

[https://bash.social/landing](https://bash.social/landing)

Startups & Pancakes

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S&P: Applyfin, effortless recruitment through AI

S&P: Vitara (Sommalife), Digitizing shea supply in West Africa

S&P: LEA, the end of slide stress

S&P: Speaklee, Award-Winning AI Speech Assistant for Children

S&P: BASH, The new standard for organisers to build an audience

March