Daan Quakernaat

Daan Quakernaat is a speaker by profession. He studied Artificial Intelligence at the faculty of philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Since then he has been looking for balance, between man and machine, between fear and control, between passion and structure.

Daan started his career as a self employed IT advisor. He became a full time speaker for Media Plaza, a internet showcase center in the nineties. From 1998 he started marketing his own talks and lectures as a public speaker.

Over the years Daan Quakernaat gave more than 750 talks for all kinds of businesses and government branches. Daan is a real performer, with humor and his snappy style he will make your audience laugh, while getting the message across. He will entertain as well as give food for discussion and thought later on.

Daan Quakernaat’s main performance
'Building Cathedrals!'
The cathedral is a metaphor for any bold project. We should be building cathedrals, trying, making mistakes and learning from them. But we are spending more and more time trying to control things. We want to know everything upfront, want to ban out risk and anything unknown. That is killing our passion and means to innovate and grow. Building Cathedrals! Is a story about our fears to try things that might not work (right away).

Some of Daan’s customers: Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Brandweer Gooi en Vechtstreek, Facilicom, Unit 4 Agresso, CRM Association, VNG, IB Groep, Zylab, Nyenrode, Siemens, Kadaster, Delta Lloyd, BAM Utiliteitsbouw, Provincie Groningen, AKZO Nobel, Kyocera, INK, Alex Beleggersbank, Schiphol Group, Microsoft, Fortis, Politieacademie, Centric, Rabobank, Reclassering Nederland, Logica CMG, Gemeente Hilversum, KLM, De Lage Landen, Belastingdienst, Accenture, AXA, Imtech, Dell, CSC, TNT, Alcatel, NS, Sun Microsystems and many others.