Friday 23rd March 2018 the first HiPerGreen semi-annual symposium took place at the newly opened World Horti Center in Naaldwijk. Participants in the form of students, professors and company representatives came together to share progress and ideas. Cock Heemskerk, lector Robotica, opened the event with a welcoming speech. Lucien Fesselet, assistant project manager, followed with general updates on the project. Then the floor was given to the students to present their results and progress. Pieter van der Hoeven, associate lector, presented on behalf of four graduating students from the Business, Finance and Law department the assignment on market research. The findings show great potential in business opportunity with the Orchid market. Amora Amir, a potential PhD researcher on big data, gave a speech on the usefulness and the need to understand big amounts of data. Lucien Fesselet performed a live flight demonstration to give an idea of the capabilities and the behaviour of the drone. After the risk analasys the sympoium was concluded with a drink.
