The largest Dutch trade mission to Switzerland, chaired by VNO-NCW president Ingrid Thijssen, and with participation of the NL vice-Minister of Trade, Michiel Sweers, consisted of shared events and two seperate programs for the HighTech/Semicon track and the BioTech track. Our company MassSpecpecD BV participated in the HighTech/Semicon track which was led by track leader Peter Stolk of Holland High Tech.
The program brought together the Dutch and Swiss high-tech ecosystems with inspiring company visits and networking opportunities. The mission kicked off with an informal welcome meeting in Bern at the residence of the ambassador Karin Mössenlechner, to whom a big thank you, setting the tone for 2 days full of inspiration.
There was a strong focus on collaboration during the Swiss-Dutch Semicon matchmaking event at the Paul Scherrer Institute at Switzerland Innovation Park Innovaare. The mission offered plenty of opportunities for knowledge exchange, new connections, and strengthening high-tech collaboration between the Netherlands and Switzerland.
In the evening of 10 Sep 2025 our founder and CEO dr. Maurice Janssen of MassSpecpecD BV signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the cofounder and CEO dr. Michel Antolovic of Pi Imaging Technology - a ZEISS compny, at a special networking event and dinner at the Casino in Bern, hosted by the Dutch Ambassador to Switzerland.
An extensive report on the MoU signing event is posted in a seperate news item here.
On the last day of the HighTech & Semicon track we visited BESI, Roche Diagnoistics and IBM Research Laboratories in Ruschlikon, At Roche Diagnostics our CEO dr. Janssen presented an Introduction to some of the Roche counterparts on our novel technology for direct Mass Spectrometry of Chiral Molecules by laser-based MS - PhotoElectron Circular Dichroism (PECD). The short lecture presented can be viewed here, pdf link Pitch chiral MS-PECD.)
A LinkedIn post with after movie of the Trade Mission was uploaded by the Ducth Embassy in Bern and can be viewed here: