Mendix Announces Global Adventurer Bear Grylls as Headline Speaker for Mendix World 2019

Mendix World 2019, the world’s largest low-code conference, will be held April 16-17 at Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands

Bear Grylls will deliver inspiring speech to compel attendees to go back to their organizations and drive problem-solving, odds-defying digital initiatives

BOSTON and ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – March 7, 2019 – Mendix, a Siemens company and the global leader in low-code for the enterprise, has announced renowned explorer Bear Grylls will be the headline speaker for Mendix World 2019, taking place on April 16-17 at Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands. Bear Grylls will close the two-day conference with an inspiring talk that highlights his numerous accomplishments surviving tough conditions and the power of never giving up.

Mendix World 2019 is the premier low-code conference, bringing together business and IT leaders to share ideas that can drive innovation, solve the IT resource and backlog crisis, and empower their organizations to take a radical approach to application development. Previously announced speakers include executives from Canada Post, Rabobank, eXp Realty, Zurich Insurance, Erie Insurance, and Continental.

The addition of Bear Grylls to the already packed Mendix World 2019 agenda will highlight how businesses and organizations can be just as hard to navigate as any jungle, especially when different teams are speaking different languages. Embracing adversity, and building resourceful solutions is critical to thriving in these challenging conditions.

Bear Grylls’ presentation takes place on Wednesday, April 17 at 17:00 at Rotterdam Ahoy as part of Mendix World 2019.

For more information about Mendix World 2019 and to register, please visit https://www.mendix.com/mendix-world/.

About Bear Grylls
Known worldwide as one of the most recognized faces of survival and outdoor adventure. BAFTA award winning TV host Bear Grylls began his journey in 21 SAS before becoming one of the youngest ever climbers of Mount Everest. He is a number 1 bestselling Author, an Honorary Colonel to the Royal Marine Commandos, the youngest ever UK Chief Scout and the first ever Chief Ambassador to the World Scout Movement, representing a global family of some fifty million Scouts.

About Mendix

Mendix, a Siemens business, is the only low-code platform designed to address the full complexity of enterprise software development challenges. Deploying point solutions to departmental problems solves things at a micro level—but if you want to make a significant impact on your business, you need to go bigger and build powerful portfolios that move the needle sustainably and strategically.

With Mendix, enterprises can take on more complex, transformational initiatives by engaging everyone in capturing requirements, forming ideas, and embedding value assessment throughout the lifecycle of the software portfolio.

Focus on the right problems while relying on governance and control to avoid unnecessary risk. Mobilize your organization. Build the change readiness muscle. And when the next big idea drops, turn it into an outcome quicker.

More than 4,000 organizations in 46 countries use the Mendix low-code platform. An active community of over 300,000 developers has created over 950,000 applications – and counting.