Alain Heureux

Product Design & Creativity

I started my first company when I was 18. I'm now 53 and have created over 20 companies, 15 associations and invested as a Business Angel in some start-ups. My passion as Hacker is to promote cross-over innovation in our society.

Albert De Beir

Robotics Theme Curator

Albert is currently doing a PhD in robotics within the Brubotics research center at VUB. He specialises in the design of social robots and Human-Robot Interaction. He also created Bot4You, a start-up in robotic.

Andrea Strohmayr

Service Design & Business Models

Hands-on experience in working with start ups and big corporates on innovation - from user research to problem reframing, from idea generation to business modelling, from stakeholder engagement to delivery. Taking great pleasure from supporting others in tapping into their entrepreneurial & creative potential.

Ange Raïssa Uzanziga

Education Theme Curator

As project facilitator my role is to facilitate synergies between different organisations. Also I support early stage entrepreneurs in the design and implementation of their projects. I love ideation sessions. I think there is a magic factor to it.

Angela Pisani

Bio-Hacking

Part of the community around ReaGent who will have a stand in the experience zone.

Annelies Vankeirsbilck

Pharma

15 years experience in the pharma industry with clinical, medical and market access expertise, mainly in area of cardiovascular renal metabolic domain. Always looking for new opportunities, overcome different kind of challenges in health care and think broader to improve the life of patients.

Annelore Deprez

Fake News

I'm a senior researcher at Artevelde University College and Ghent University. I'm studying social issues from a social scientific perspective. Currently, my research adresses news wisdom among young people with a specific focus on fake news. I'm also conducting studies on digital stress.

Augustin Van Rijckevorsel

Beyond Business

CEO of Barefoot&Co (Corporate startup studio) & Serial entrepreneur

Bart Collet

Digital Health

Bart is a digital health innovator. He is director of a care institution for the elderly, has organised numerous events and sits on various advisory boards (SXSW, ICT&Health, Rockstart Health, etc) in the digital health space. Bart is helping In4Care set up a process of continuous care innovation.

Broos Fonck

Art & Tech

medialab.brussels is an inspiring environment for students, experts, entrepreneurs, artists. We provide people and resources to develop your prototype.

Bruno Delepierre

A High-Quality Life

Value driven serial entrepreneur who has had the good, bad and ugly of entrepreneurship early in life. Focused on value maximization and building value driven organizations. Long-time TEDx organiser in Leuven, MIT talent scout, PhD (ongoing) in behavioral economics, father, husband and generally chill with life.

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David Baetens

Water Theme Curator

Experienced in the Volvo Group as Service Manager and later IT Architect, taken the step towards public service as Senior Project Manager. Combining technical know how with soft skills to create opportunities for others to excel.

David Truyens

Digital Fabrication

Passionate about making things I started a project to open up workshops and connect education with professional makers. This involves a lot of electronics, IoT, social platform...

Dennis De Clercq

Innovation & Customer Validation

I'm a seasoned Product/Service Designer. Because I experienced the validation struggle during an innovation process first-hand, I have founded a company to bring the voice of the customer within reach. Ask me anything about Customer Validation and the impact of gut feeling decisions in innovation!

Dimitri Verboomen

Education, Digital, Communication

BSF promotes access to knowledge for under-served adults and children around the world. We adapt Khan Academy in French and train educators to use digital tools. We run Cyber Heroes program in Belgium to teach cybersecurity and digital citizenship to 8-14 years old. Experience in marketing, IT, entrepreneurship.

Dominique Adriaens

Bio-inspired Design Thinking

Evolutionary morphologist interested in understanding evolutionary patterns leading to adaptive evolution, and how to use this information to develop bio-inspired designs (biomimicry). Keen on scientific communication to all kinds of audiences, and 3D computer graphics.

Dr. Imre Keseru

Urban Mobility Curator

Dr Imre Keseru is a senior researcher and team leader for urban mobility at VUB-MOBI. His main research themes include participatory evaluation of urban mobility projects, co-creation for mobility planning and analysis of travel behaviour.

Evelyn Lafond

Sustainable Design & Fashion

I'm working on the transition to a sustainable materials policy. Through awards, tools and projects we stimulate ecodesign and sustainable fashion among designers and entrepreneurs. I haven't bought any new clothes myself for 4 years and, by organizing swapping events, I want to encourage others to consume less.

Floris Daelemans

Media Theme Curator

As an innovator for the Flemish Public Broadcaster I have first row insight in the digital evolution of media. Come find me for ideas to improve engagement and trustworthiness of the media in the future.

Frank Dethier

Business Model & Pitching

Innovation, Digital, Strategy & Marketing executive with over 20 year's experience designing, leading and implementing a broad range of corporate growth initiatives in a wide range of industries. Entrepreneur with proven experience in supporting initiation and founding of start-ups and in management coaching.

Frederik Loeckx

Energy Theme Curator

Frederik Loeckx is Managing Director of Flux50, the membership organization that helps Flanders gain international recognition as a Smart Energy Region. Flux50 facilitates cross-sector collaboration between energy, IT and building companies to enhance the competitiveness of the Flemish smart energy industry in the transition towards low carbon systems.

Frederik Vincx

Design Thinking & Service Design

Founder of Belgian scale-up Prezly. After exit now designing social services for vulnerable people in Belgium. Co-organizer of the Brussels Service design and social innovation meetup.

Gaëtane Lenain

Leadership & High Performing Teams

Helping you become the Leader you want to be! Now: Executive & Team Coach; Founder GL Coaching; Board Member ICF Belgium. I support Executives & Entrepreneurs to enrich their leadership style, develop their vision, improve team performance. Before: M.Sc. In Astrophysics; Account Manager in the High-Tech industry; Expat.

Geert Tewissen

Service Design tools

I am a business savvy psychologist. As one of the co-founders of Superlab, I help startups and big corporates shape their ideas into succesful products and services. I also teach Business Model design at the university of Hasselt.

Guenter Huhle

Health Theme Curator

Guenter is the Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS EMEA. Guenter is experienced in Business modeling, Licensing, Merger & Acquisitions, Science, Medical and Market access in Healthcare. He privately supports start-up businesses as investor and entrepreneur and has founded Corevas® in 2015.

Guerric de Crombrugghe

Satellite Services & Space Exploration

Enthusiastic engineer with experience in a significant spectrum of the aerospace industry: science, propulsion, fluid dynamics, satcom, etc. Currently focused on business development and innovation commercialisation. Leveraging on a large professional network. Open to collaborations with the art community and humanities at large.

Guillaume Veldekens

Blockchain Technology Curator

I co-founded HIVE Blockchain Society, an ecosystem that aims to stimulate Belgian entrepreneurship around blockchain-related businesses by connecting and supporting all relevant actors. I have had the pleasure to meet numerous projects in their early stage learning a lot from them while sharing my insights.

Hilde Stenuit

Research & Business Space

After a PhD in plasma-astrophysics, I started work “in space” with the company Space Applications Services. I supported the European Space Agency as ISS mission scientist. Now we created a unique service - called ICE Cubes - to provide fast access to space opportunities for research and technologies.

Ischa Lambrechts

Mobility as a Service & Smart mobility

As the mobility advisor of BECI, Ischa Lambrechts is the leading link for mobility solutions within the Brussels enterprise community. In this role, Ischa maps the evolution within the Brussels mobility industry with the goal to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable urban mobility.

Iva Pérez

Human-Centered Innovation

As a Human-Centered Innovation Explorer & Strategist, I'm thrilled to solve real problems. As a TechHumanizer, I'm an ambassador of bringing more ethics to technology as it is shaping our human behavior and as an Imagineer, I'm delighted to re-think and improve how everything works.

Jasmien Wildemeersch

Food Theme Curator

Jasmien is co-director at FoodWIN. Jasmien holds a PhD in Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University. She is the author of several scientific and other publications, o.a. a book on ecological fruit production. Besides being an excellent researcher, Jasmien is a strategic and innovative thinker.

Jasmien Wynants

Circularity, Sustainability in Fashion

Jasmien Wynants is a Project Manager at Flanders DC. She's working on sustainability in fashion for the past for years. She's responsible for the Close The Loop platform and coaches fashion companies in implementing circular economy strategies.

Jean-Brieuc Feron

Drones Tech Curator

With an Electronics & Software engineering background, I developped next generation space systems and took care of some business development activities. Today, I'm head of engineering of the Unmanned Systems business unit at SABCA and develop safe & reliable drones for professional and industrial use.

Johan Geysen

Sustainability, Circular Design

Sustainability, Healthtech & Life Sciences pro. Currently active as New Venture Manager for VITO; starting up a business in circular manufacturing of cellulose products and supporting sustainable entrepreneurship North & South: through the ‘Roadmap to Circular’ program; for OVO (Ondernemers voor Ondernemers); the ClimateLaunchpad (Climate KIC); the Cleantech Challenge (AFT/AFD),...

John van der Linden

Product Innovation & Organisation

29 years Innovation experience at P&G (of which 12 years in China) and currently active in a range of start-up's, VC funds - as well as teaching Innovation elements at the Solvay Business School.

Joke Van Bommel

Work Theme Curator

As spokesperson of VDAB I have an overview on the main challenges we're facing on the job market. I can tell you what VDAB is doing to provide answers to those challenges. And if you're stuck and you need some perspective and structure in your idea, call me.

Jonathan Berte

Artificial Intelligence Curator

Founder and CEO of Robovision, Jonathan Berte is specialized in applying deep learning algorithms in image processing, robotics programming and automation. He studied engineering applied Physics in Ghent and specialized in neuroscience at the ETH Zurich.

Jonathan Gross

Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

I have a Master of Science degree in Digital Currency. During the day, I help companies improve their processes by implementing blockchain technology. During the night, I play around with cryptocurrencies. I also worked in supply chain, at a startup accelerator, and I do programming.

Julie Vranken

Mobile Health Innovation

As a Biomedical Scientist I specialized myself in mobile healthcare innovations and solutions the past 3 years. I’ve been a proud researcher within the Mobile Health Unit, a research organization of Hasselt University, known for its unique collaboration with Jessa Hospital (Hasselt) and Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (Genk).

Lina Karimi

Digital Learning

After studying language didactics and digital learning, I worked for 4 years in an organisation for migrant and refugee women where I coordinated the professional integration programme, and taught literacy and French.

Lina Kusaite

Creativity, Outbox Thinking, Intuition

Lina Kusaite is looking into how artistic practices and permaculture principals can support connection between wilderness, art and education systems for more sustainable futures. Lina designs creative, nature centered workshops. Works as illustrator and designs her own coaching methodologies for individuals and groups using improvisation and art tools.

Maarten Cox

Service Design Tools

I’m a service designer with a technical background and a huge fascination for human behavior. As one of the co-founders of Superlab, I help startups and big corporates shape their ideas into succesful products and services.

Marjan De Mey

Synthetic Biology

I focus on the development of novel tools and methods to fine tune metabolic pathways. They apply these tools to create custom designed microbes for the production of useful chemicals, special sugars and natural products from renewable resources.

Martine De Weirdt

Team Dynamics, Pitching & Selling

Long experience in a multinational corporate environment as a Senior Manager in various roles. For the last 5 years, entrepreneur, coach, trainer and facilitator.

Martine Delannoy

Urban Digital Foresight

I have 20 years of experience within the digital sector, 13 in the public sector. I am currently Chief Foresight Officer at Digipolis, helping Ghent understand the possibilities of disruptive technologies, decide on what to focus on and set up first experiments with local and foreign partners.

Mathias Merckx

Second Hand Sales

Already 5 years of experience in the sales of second hand goods and coaching of people in the social economy. Very interested in circulair economy models.

Maxim Korotkov

Innovative FinTech & Business Model

My specialization is in managing teams and bringing to success complex programs in FinTech. I have technical (Computer Science) and managerial (MBA) backgrounds; experience working for big organizations and advising start-ups. Can help you with essence of financial technologies, business models and management toolset.

Maxime Pepi

IoT Product Development

Civil Engineer in Embedded Electronics and Telecommunications, I started the Hardware Department of M4KE.IT 5 years ago. At M4KE.IT, we help entrepreneurs validating, funding and developing products from idea to market growth. We reduce risks and investments with an iterative validation-testing approach, directed by go/no-go and adapted scopes.

Michael Creek

Facilitator

I'm a professional freelance facilitator. I design tools to get people talking about ethical and social questions in science and policy, from one-off workshops to long-term processes. My work is all about finding dynamic, participatory, innovative ways of structuring conversations that work towards consensus.

Niek D'Hondt

Biohacking & Education

I coordinate Ekoli, a non-profit aimed at developing sustainable classroom activites for teachers, while also bringing science to underprivileged groups. Ekoli was born out of ReaGent, the community biolab in Ghent, which I co-founded. Lastly, I help researcher collaborate and communicate.

Noémie Wouters

Ocean Theme Curator

CEO GreenBridge bv and Blue Growth Liaison Officer at Ghent University

Pierre Lacroix

Landscape & Food Resilience

Landscape architect, drawer, nature animator, ecologist & activist, Pierre works in the Urban Ecology Centre (urban-ecology.be) in various participatory action-research projects. His thesis, made out of science and comics (pierrelacroix.be/paysages-resilients) explores trajectories of the territories in the Anthropocene, He is regularly solicited as a resilience expert/lecturer.

Pieter Sprangers

Educational Design

Pieter Sprangers is an educational designer and educational futurist. He lives in parallel worlds : academic (teacher and researcher) and entrepreneur (innovator in human processes - educational designer). He is passionate about learning because it is like 'oxygen' for human beings.

Pieter Van Bochaute

Pharma Medico-Marketeer

Bio-engineer and PhD in biomolecular sciences. 5y+ experience in the thriving pharma industry, translating ground-breaking science via medical and marketing functions in the cardiometabolic area at AstraZeneca to ultimately help improve patients lifes.

Prof. Jijakli Hassam

Urban Agriculture

Prof. H. Jijakli develops research's on urban agriculture at the University of Li̬ge. Several (inter)national research projects are underway and he has to his credit more than 400 scientific outputs (including 125 refereed articles; 7 patents, 3 spin-offs). He created the Research Centre in Urban Agriculture (www.agriculture-urbaine.be).

Rico Trevisan

Value Proposition & No-Code Development

Got analysis paralysis? Too many ideas? I've helped energetic teams get out of their heads and onto a Value Proposition canvas to build businesses. Also, My "programming skill" (singular) was Excel's VLOOKUP. Now I can develop complex web applications with rich REST APIs.

Rob Roemers

Mobility Data & Analytics

Rob is the manager of the team responsible for BI, data and analytics at STIB/MIVB (Bxl Public Transport). Hacking mobility is their day job. Rob has a background as an entrepreneur in this field and has a deep knowledge of BI, Data, Visualization and predictive analytics.

Sebastian Matoso

Design Thinking & Business Modelling

Sebastian is an expert in innovation and digital transformation. He is a startup coach in Corporate Incubators, Accelerators and founder of startups. Sebastian develops effective, hands-on, ideation & growth tracks to build innovation from the ground up.

Sebastiano Olivo

Web Development

Developer, trainer and digital enthusiast. My everyday challenge is to bring to live any digital product whether the idea comes from, students, start ups or established companies.

Tina Mertens

Marine Research

Assistant director at Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). Involved in research projects related to marine spatial planning and coastal protection.

Tom Peeters

Biohacking, Biotechnology & Bioart

Tom Peeters teaches biotechnology at the Erasmus University College Brussels. He's a founder of the Open BioLab Brussels and has extensive experience in biohacking, DIY-biology and the organisation of workshops (Let's Swab, Cut DNA, CRISPR,...)

Valentin Carlan

Business Model & Pitching

Junior researcher at the Department of Transport and Regional Economics at the Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp. His PhD-research interests include innovation assessment models, cost and benefits quantification methods for port related innovations, and applications of cost-effectiveness analysis for IT advancements.

Valerie Storms

Digital Health Innovation

Graduated as doctor in Bioscience Engineering and now project manager at the Mobile Health Unit (Hasselt University, Hospital East-Limburg and Jessa Hospital). Expertise in research, innovation and implementation of mobile health applications for chronic diseases, in-hospital technology validation, Health Technology Assessment and how to apply for research funding.

Winnie Poncelet

Bio as Tech Curator

Catalyst for the biohacking scene in Belgium, from my own basement lab to a now thriving biohacker community space: ReaGent, a meeting place for citizens, researchers, non-profits, designers, artists, companies and much more. Currently focus on open source pharma, open source biomaterials and biodesign.

Yanni Garcia

Business Model & Pitching

I am a business coach for people willing to start their own business with a focus on sustainability. My entrepreneurial experience as co-founder of PlantHive and FarmTech Society allows me to challenge ideas from the business model to the financial plan.

Yolan Gielen

Circular Consumption Curator

Everything on my path made me what I am now: a sustainable change-maker. Change is uncomfortable, it needs an inspiring and motivating context. That is what I like to build, and where I find common ground with Hack Belgium.