This Thursday, the 19th, Zooma's annual "Open House" festival will take place in our building De Dorus. Expect a relaxed atmosphere with interesting speakers, young up-and-coming bands and tasty drinks. This year there will even be a food truck pulling up!

The evening kicks off at 17:00 with a lecture by the Plastic Soup Surfer, followed by presentations and demonstrations by companies that, like Zooma, have their home base in De Dorus. Then from 19:30 you can enjoy performances by four emerging talents from the Popronde selection: Magic Coat, Sea Butterfly, Royking and Gespuys.

Come along, admission is free and open to everyone. Check out the full program here!

Starting in the second half of June, the Zooma office will close for a few weeks due to renovations. This is much needed to provide our growing team with a comfortable and flexible office with sufficient calling, concentration and meeting rooms. Plus, it's a great time to give the office a fresh, new look! It does present a challenge that we are temporarily without an office, but that went well during corona too :-)

Zooma has been building state-of-the-art apps for study and student associations under the name Youmie since 2016. The apps quickly became the digital membership platforms for several major student associations.

In the winter of 2023-2024, computer science students Daniël and Katinka of Leiden University of Applied Sciences built a complete narrowcasting system for Zooma's coworking building De Dorus during their third-year internship. On large Sony screens in various places in the building, information is displayed about the various companies in the building, get-togethers and events, solar panel yields, the weather and much more.

Zooma has been working as a tech partner on TMSQR since 2015; now an established name in the interesting world of music festivals and fans of live music. TMSQR started as a platform for festivals apps but recently started offering 'standalone' apps!

In the revolutionary development of BlinkLab, Zooma and the prestigious Princeton University explored the limits of the smartphone. The BlinkLab app uses the iPhone in unconventional ways, turning it into a device suitable for conducting neurobehavioral assessments.

For bookstore De Kler, Zooma developed a new responsive website / webshop in 2023 in five intensive sprints. De Kler is a well-known name in the book trade with no less than twelve physical stores spread over as many cities in the Randstad.

Zooma has participated in a very nice project since 2020: Hospital Hero. The purpose of Hospital Hero is to optimally prepare parents and children for a hospital visit and thereby reduce the stress, tension and anxiety experienced by both children and parents.

Together with Naturalis, we built the Pollinator Academy, the new knowledge platform for information about pollinators.

Last Friday we went karting with the entire Zooma crew in Zoetermeer! We ended the day with pizza and drinks in our home base De Dorus.