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Michel Smit

Michel Smit is the CEO of Energy Floors, a Dutch company that makes kinetic floors - floors that transfer human energy (dancing! playing! walking) into use-able energy. Their simple branding says exactly what their products do : The Dancer. The Gamer. The Walker.

Kinetic energy flooring? Please explain!

I owned a very large nightclub in Rotterdam in 2000. In 2006, a group of students and entrepreneurs and creatives from Erasmus University in Rotterdam asked me: ‘How can we make a nightclub sustainable?’ The idea touched my own ambition to make the city and the world better while still having a…

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