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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 /PRNewswire/ -- 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/

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Mendix, a Siemens company and the global leader in low-code for the enterprise, is transforming the world of legacy software and application development by bringing business and IT teams together to rapidly and collaboratively build robust and modern applications for the enterprise. The Mendix application development platform directly addresses the tremendous worldwide software developer talent gap, and involves business and IT at the very start and throughout the entire application building and deployment process. Recognized as a "Leader" by top analysts, including Gartner and Forrester, Mendix helps customers digitally transform their organizations and industries by building, managing, and improving apps at unprecedented speed and scale. More than 4,000 forward-thinking enterprises use the Mendix platform to build business applications that delight customers and improve operational efficiency. Join the Mendix community on LinkedIn and Twitter. Start building apps for free at signup.mendix.com.

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.

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