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Retail2Repair
November 3rd 2025

Retail2Repair will explore the Future of Repair

In addition to the succesful event in 2024 we present a new edition of Retail2Repair, on Monday November 3rd, at TU Delft. Here industry and academia will come together for a day full of innovations, insights, and connections for everyone in the electrical retail and repair sector. Students will have the opportunity to pitch their research idea or project to experts. Language is Dutch. 

Opening with: Ruud Balkenende (TU Delft, Industrial Design Engineering) and Mark Harbers (Techniek Nederland). Paneldiscussion and dialogue, with: Ilona de Hooge (WUR), Lija Groenewoud van Vliet (In4Art), Tessa Eerenberg-van Kesteren (Rabobank) and Lex te Riele (TeamRol-Indexator).

Breakout sessions, about the 'Right to Repair', 'Circular Business models', 'Offline Retail' and 'Inclusiveness & Diversity'. With: Martine Koetsier (ministry of Economic Affairs), Erik Schalk (Road2Work), Bas Flipsen and Ruth Mugge (TU Delft), Jan van Os (ATAG Benelux), Jean-Paul Verhaaren (Unified Retail Services), Sandra Horlings (Innoboost) and many others. 

Stroll through one of the different Plaza's where you'll find games, challenges and conversations about consumer behavior, education for repair, or the labor market.

Find more about the Program and sumbit on the website of Techniek Nederland. 

For Students: The electronics Auction (Marktmeesters) 

Are you a students from Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities, secondary vocational schools (MBO), or a university of applied sciences (HBO), doing work or research on repair, refurbishment or remanufacturing of electronic products? Pitch your research(idea) or project at Retail2Repair - and find businesses and experts that will help you with data, interviews and their network.

Here you will have the opportunity to pitch your own research or project, for Danny Murkens (DynaGroup) and an expert of Techniek Nederland. You can ask them (and other business owners) for ideas, tips & tricks, or to connect you to people in their own network. Whether it comes to design, consumer behaviour, marketing, legislation or business models or skills: as long as your work is about electronics, this is the place to be.