Brains on fire
: Hundreds of experts will be at Hack Belgium to help you create ideas and
develop your project.
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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.
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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.
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An Jacobs
Health & People Centred Design
Prof. An Jacobs (PhD in Sociology), lectures interpretative research methods at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is head of the research unit” smart health and work” at imec-SMIT. Since 2005 she advocates people centred design in interdisciplinary collaborations between academia and industry on digital health (cure, care, prevention).
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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.
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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.
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Angela Pisani
Bio-Hacking
Part of the community around ReaGent who will have a stand in the experience zone.
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Ann Van Nooten
Digital Upskilling Expert
Working at VDAB. Passionate about the world of work and how competencies evolve and about how we can help people build sustainable careers. I would like to discuss with you about assessing (digital) competencies and about upskilling en reskilling jobseekers and employees.
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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.
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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.
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Antoine Geerinckx
Climate & Environmental Expertise
Antoine Geerinckx is the founder of CO2logic, the Belgian pioneer in local & global climate action.The relentless quest to “have a positive impact on society” shapes his entrepreneurial life and gave birth to other environmental ventures such as Naturalogic.org, Greentripper.org and Airscan.org.
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Astrid Vanackere
Blue Tourism and Ocean
Smart City Coordinator. Ostend seas it smart and we are working on developing a Blue Economy competition model. This will serve the city's goal of attrackting and innovative businesses relevant to blue growth. As Ostend is THE city at the Belgian coast, blue tourism is a big challenge.
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Audun Bengtson
Tech Ethics Consultation
Specialised in moral philosophy, I have a keen interest in the philosophical dimensions and ethical implications of AI, cryptocurrency and other technologies. From my field I am able to provide insights crucial to further developments of these technologies.
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Augustin Van Rijckevorsel
Beyond Business
CEO of Barefoot&Co (Corporate startup studio) & Serial entrepreneur
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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.
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Bart Dooms
Sustainability Circular Economy
OnePlanet VITO, Sustainable Development Goals, bootcamp VITO, VITO Open Data Science
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Bart Van Loon
Networking & Pitching
Bart is an entrepreneur, geek-for-life and public keynote speaker. His love for the stage has lead him to become a professional improviser, dance teacher and pianist as well.
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Bart Van Lysebeth
Value Proposition Design
20 Years of EMEA Business Development. Pitch coach and jury member for many investor events. Technology & Innovation expert in sectors: finance, telco, food, chemicals and production.
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Benjamin Clarysse
Sustainable Energy Expert
Benjamin is Energy Policy Officer at Bond Beter Leefmilieu. His focuses lie towards energy efficiency, decarbonised heating strategies, renovation policies, local climate policy, low carbon industry. I'm an energy policy officer at Bond Beter Leefmilieu. Contact him if you want advice on renovation strategies, hydrogen, biomethane, climate and energy policy in general
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Broos Fonck
Digital Fabrication Tech Curator
medialab.brussels is an inspiring environment for students, experts, entrepreneurs, artists. We provide people and resources to develop your prototype.
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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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Bryan Bogdanic
Business Prototyper
Many people have great startup ideas. I'm the one testing them to see if there is a real market opportunity and validating all the assumptions through a unique methodology called "Business Prototyping". The goal? Having real KPIs before investing in a startup.
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Charlotte Dewilde
Circular Economy
As a project manager for circular economy, I have experience in circular economy (incl. sharing economy). Currently, I am working on circular procurement. I am drafting a standard tender concerning circular procurement of IT. Furthermore, I am also facilitator in the Green Deal Circular Procurement.
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Christophe Smeets
Mobile Health technologies
Graduated as doctor in Biomedical Sciences at the Mobile Health Unit department of Hasselt University, in close collaboration with imec. Currently project manager for mHealth-related topics. Expertise in clinical research, innovation and implementation of mobile health applications for chronic diseases and in-hospital technology validation.
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Daniel Leufer
Tech Ethics Consultation
As a philosopher who is passionate about technology, I have the expertise to help you plan and develop responsible & ethical technological solutions.
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Dorien Luyckx
University of Antwerp
I research business models and strategy for news media at the University of Antwerp. I focus on the relationship between news media and their main stakeholders: readers and advertisers, to find solutions to strengthen the relationship where needed.
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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.
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Elke Markey
Food Waste Warrior
Elke is a food waste expert from FoodWIN, helping mainly cities and canteens reduce their food waste. In doing so, we save money, rescue food and prevent unnecessary greenhouse gasses.
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Emily Kluyskens
GoodPlanet
As an educational collaborator in the mobility team, I contribute on a daily basis to improving the mobility of our youngest citizens. I am in constant contact with schools, so I am in the heart of the subject to help in the best way to meet these challenges.
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Emmanuel Mossay
Regenerative Economy Tools
Expert in Regenerative Economy projects (Enterprises, Associations, NGO's and Institutions), Expert in Circular Economy (Parliament of Wallonia), Invited-Professor about New Economy Models & Tools (UCL-ECAM-HEC-Henallux-EPHEC-ICHEC), Guest Speaker at the Belgian Parliament, co-Author of books (Shifting Economy). Ecosystemic models & Tools developper, Strategic Adviser of Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation)
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Evan Cole
Ethical Innovation
People and businesses need to learn & adapt. A simple set of principles can illuminate the essential aspects of digital success: Technical, Ethical, Commercial, Human. By looking at your digital endeavor through the lens of TECH, you can identify the key principles which define sustainable success.
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Evelien Verschroeven
Edtech, Pitching, Business modelling
I assist starters and start-ups with the development and realization of their business ideas. Together we find out if their idea is achievable, how we will approach it and ultimately we translate it into a workable business plan. Expertise learntech and carreertech
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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.
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Fabian Vandenreydt
Curator Finance Theme
Fabian's key focus is on new business models for global digital finance. Executive Chairman at B-Hive Europe. Owner at FabianVDR Advisory Services. Previousy Head of Securities Markets, Innotribe & SWIFT Institute at SWIFT. Also worked at Capco & JPMorgan.
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Filip Burgelman
Design Thinking and Ideation
Guiding and coaching bachelor students of business and technology courses in creative processes and supporting them in the development of entrepreneurial competences. Designer of entrepreneurship & innovation education.
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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.
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Francesca A. Fata
Storytelling & Pitching
Francesca will inspire you to strive for relational growth and depth: first of all within yourself, and then with anyone you interact with throughout your day. She will I empower you to dive, head-first, into the world of powerful interaction, mindful communication and lasting human connection.
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Francesca Ostuzzi
Open-Ended Design
We can all support positive change! One possible strategy is to embrace the imperfect and dynamic nature of our designed product-service-systems.
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Francois Chung
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Business Analyst at Fujitsu, Ph.D. in Computer Science.
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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.
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Frank Dingemans
Reuse and Redesign of Furniture
Innovation Manager: Sustainability and behavioural change. Master in social sciences and applied economics. Started up his own social enterprise in the field of sustainable behavioural change on mass events: “Ecofest”. For The Circularity Centre of Antwerp he initiated a number of new earning models for more reuse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Geoffroy Verney-Carron
Entrepreneurship and Mentorship
Entrepreneur, mentor, coach, experienced strategy, digital and ideation project management professional who believes in building trust and its value over time. Founding member of la French Tech Brussels and avid promoter of the startup ecosystem in Belgium and beyond.
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Gilles Pinault
Community and shared manufacturing
Gilles has avid curiosity for ways to infuse technology in real everyday life (i.e. digital fabrication, transparent interactions, smart objects).
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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.
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Guerric de Crombrugghe
Aerospace Tech Curator
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.
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Guillaume Humblet
Product Design
Studied industrial design in college and co-founded a product design agency in Luxembourg straight after my diploma. I have a good idea of what is a designer but also a entrepreneur launching his idea. I accompany our customers from an idea to an industrial product.
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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.
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Gwenny Nurtantio
Food Waste Warrior
Jr Consultant Engineer at Altran by day, challenge-addict entrepreneur by night. Co-organizer and community manager of the JUST KEEP IT Challenge – 21 days Zero Food Waste (2.5K participants - www.justkeepit.be). Gwenny holds a Master Degree in Business Engineering with a specialization in Business & Technology (Solvay VUB).
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Hilde Gillebert
Work and Interregional Mobility Expert
Hilde is project Leader Interregional Mobility and Migrants at Le Forem.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jente Rosseel
Holistic Human-Centered Design
Entrepreneur with over 5 years of experience in education innovation, both in Europa and East Africa. I work on the intersection of product, strategy, business/team stabilisation, governance and traction. Co-Founder/Director of Elewa Company Ltd., Eledu and Elewa Investment CVBA.
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Jimmy Goossens
Blockchain
Blockchain Consultant from 2 years, I am passionate about new technologies and the field of possibilities it opens. And as an art lover, I found the perfect match of my passions with TrueArt. It's a real pleasure to bring my contribution to the art world.
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Joeri Thijs
Climate Problem & Solutions
Joeri Thijs works at Greenpeace Belgium for 15 years. He is spokesperson, and expert on climate and mobility. Greenpeace is a watchdog, but also actively proposes solutions by publishing scientifically based alternative scenarios for eg a mobility, energy sector or agricultural sector in line with the climate challenge.
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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),...
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Johan Hellemans
Traffic and Smart Cities Expert
Johan is a Traffic Engineer at Siemens Mobility Intelligent Traffic Systems, trying to optimize the perfomance of approx 2K traffic intersections equipped with traffic lights in a data driven way.
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Johan Maricq
Energy Transition through Digital Expert
Johan works in the innovation team of Elia group (Elia in Belgium, 50hertz in Germany) and is in charge of Artificial Intelligence and Digital aspects.
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Johan Vangrunderbeek
SME Innovation Support
Setting up innovation projects with SME's: connecting to adequate expertise, looking for co-finance, evaluating IP and freedom to operate position.
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John van der Heyden
Business and Startup Skills
Retail banking and digital transformation, payments, open banking, innovation and partnerships, active in fintech since before it was called fintech.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jonathan Saelen
Energy Policy Expert
Project manager with a demonstrated history in environmental policy work and an intrapreneurial mindset. Skilled in renewable energy, sustainable transition management and organizational development.
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Joris Finck
Business Modeling
Innovation Manager – Business Modeling at imec
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Joris Pieters
Water Theme Expert
Chemical engineer, environmental & sustainability specialist. Faced with increasing droughts and water scarcity due to climate change and growing urban development we tackle the challenges to fresh water availability. Thinking nature based solutions and closing urban water cycles.
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Josephine Delmote
Energy and prosumer-centricity Expert
Josephine is working for 2 years at Elia Group. She is in charge of screening of startups that can support growth of Elia group and enrich the knowledge of the company. Furthermore, she works on the realization of prosumer centric projects.
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Judith Caeyers
Students View on Education
Being part of Vlaamse Scholierenkoepel I have something interesting to share about education. I am experienced with lobbying, going to school and participation on different levels: on a local level, at a national and even at an international level. (Like wow, I don’t even believe this myself)
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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).
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Kaatje Boury
User Research
Innovation Manager at imec, specialist in user research
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Kai Langel
Clinical Trials Inovation
Global experience in development, delivery and consultation of patient-centric solutions for clinical trials since 2000. Extensive experience in technical, scientific, operational and commercial aspects of patient-centric technology solutions such as ePRO (eCOA) and patient engagement.
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Karen Scheelen
Work and Interregional Mobility Expert
Karen is advisor and project manager interregional employment at Actiris and Aviato, where she tries to match unemployed people from Brussels with job offers in Flanders. She knows all the ins and outs on interregional mobility.
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Karine Van Doorsselaer
Circular Economy Packaging
Karine Van Doorsselaer teaches for 25 years 'Ecodesign'. During the session she will guide you through the principles of the circular economy to inspire you to find innovative packaging sollutions.
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Koen Delvaux
Entrepreneurship & Mentorship
Koen helps organisations to scope, plan and execute a digital transformation of their business processes. His speciality is to build a vision and lead teams towards tangible results. The experience ranges from corporates to start-ups, both as a founder and as a consultant.
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Koen Vanderhoydonk
Fintech and Pitching
The financial sector is changing rapidly and many challenges are ahead of us. My passion is to innovate the banking industry and my mission is to actively support and accommodate this transformation. Let's collaborate!
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Kris Clinckx
Mobility Business Model Expert
Ir. Kris Clinckx is since 2005 active in the domain of Mobility and public transport. He occupied different positions within Siemens Mobility and gained a broad knowledge of the public transport sector, technology wise and business wise.
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Liliana Carrillo
HighTech and Educational Researcher and Entrepreneur
Liliana dreams of and works for a society organized as a peer-to-peer democracy. She works for the decentralization of power via her contributions to the tech industry and educational system. Currently, CIO at the Threefold Foundation, guest lecturer at universities and freelance researcher and entrepreneur. TEDx speaker.
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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.
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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.
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Loic Tilman
Energy Innovation and Blockchain Expert
Loic is Innovation Manager at Elia with a strong background in the energy market and international consulting. Currently, he's leading platform and blockchain initiatives at Elia
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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.
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Maarten Schenk
Fake News Expert
Maarten is the designer and creator of the Trendolizer engine (http://get.trendolizer.com), which tracks trending content on the internet. At the moment he's using it to detect and debunk fake news and hoaxes going viral so they can be debunked on https://leadstories.com
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Manuel Pueyo
Business Model & Pitching
I am a content designer.I help teams to create better web content for a more human world-wide web. I see a content strategy as an opportunity to create spaces for dialogue within teams that often do not talk to each other. I have an experience in starting projects.
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Marc Toledo
Facilitator Finance Theme
Serial entrepreneur with a nice success story in the telecom sector. Now Managing Director of Bit4you and Chainius solutions working hard on blockchain evangelisation. We just launched the first crypto exchange in Belgium in presence of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Decroo.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Maxime Peeters
Energy Transition in Cities Expert
Projectleader at Architecture Workroom Brussels, a design innovation think-and-do-tank. He guides policymakers and design practices through the spatial challenges and opportunities of the energy transition towards the sustainable transformation of our cities. Always in experimenting with formats to engage a wide group of stakeholders.
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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.
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Menno Janssen
Energy Transition Expert
Since August 2016 Menno is head of the innovation department at Elia making sure Elia is ready to lead the energy transition and being ready for the future. In this function he has developed his skills in an international, innovative and agile context.
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Michael Creek
Facilitator
I'm a professional freelance facilitator and co-founder of Stickydot. 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.
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Michael Moonen
Business for Education
Problem solver born to build bridges between business and technology. Supporting enterprises to share their knowledge allowing individuals to grow. Future Proof Education -workshop 3.
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Michel Verstrepen
Digital Skills Expert
Michel is IT and Digital Product Line Manager at Le Forem.
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Michiel Wierinck
Bio design, growing design
I am masterstudent industrial design. I have a cocreation project with Glimps, where we develop a ecological urn out of the biomaterial Mycelium.
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Nick Dutry
Media Tech Expert
Nick is part of the Roularta Innovation Lab which has a radar function and looks beyond the horizon for the latest technologies and trends. The Roularta Innovation Lab functions as an intersection of digital and technological innovation at RMG.
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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.
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Pablo Ortiz
Biobased & Circular Economy
Pharmacist as background, PhD in organic chemistry and currently researching on how to make polymers from renewable resources. Convinced that a circular, bio-based economy is the solution to some of the biggest societal challenges (climate change, ocean pollution)
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Paul Klatser
Preventative Biomarkers, Bioanalytics
Prof. Paul R. Klatser is currently team Lead Predictive Analytics, Bioinformatics and Preventive Biomarkers of the World Without Disease Accelerator of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies (a J&J company).
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Paul Preaux
Gluon STEAM STEM
Gluon is a platform combining Art, Science and Technology. The research, artworks and prototypes made it possible to offer a new way to view, understand and criticise our technology-driven society. Gluon also offers workshops aimed at promoting digital integration for Belgian youth.
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Paul Theyskens
Business Ecosystem Innovation Expert
Paul has 20 years of experience in business development of big websites. Strategy and innovation are his focus. He's currently working as an intrapreneur on Mobility as a Service ecosystem for De Lijn.
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Philippe Lebeau
Sustainable City Logistics Expert
Philippe Lebeau is a member of the research group MOBI. He completed his PhD on the electrification of the logistic networks with a strong focus on the urban areas. He is now Assistant at the Solvay Business School and keeps working in the field of sustainable logistics
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Philippe Martens
LEGO Serious Play Facilitator
Philippe Martens lectures & advises organizations in the field of service design, design thinking, business design & innovation for Antwerp Management School. Philippe is also a certified LEGO® Serious Play® facilitator and runs frequently business strategy, innovation and design thinking workshops.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prof. Jijakli Haïssam
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).
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Ralph Van Crombrugge
Lego Serious Play Facilitator
Bringing alignment between your co-project values and your own values using Design and Visual Thinking, User Experience (UX) and Play together. Product Owner in the world of Agile, certified LEGO Serious Play facilitator, workshop designer, cross-generation and cross-cultural collaboration and dad.
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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.
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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.
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Robin Murgia
Product Design
Master in Industrial Design. Co-founder of a product design agency (Habilis Product Design - Luxembourg). Co-founder of an IoT projects incubator (IoT-D - Belgium). Product owner, project manager and developper in IoT-D.
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Rozina Spinnoy
Design Thinking & Strategy
Rozina is passionate about the role Design can play in our changing society. Tackling complex societal issues and not afraid to take on a challenge. Continually advocating the benefits of collaborative creative economy. Designing projects with the UN SDGs at the core. Passionate about 'Designing Inclusive Communities'.
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Ruben Merre
Blockchain & Crypto Wallet
Ruben Merre is CEO at Ngrave, a tech company on a mission to make the world of blockchain technology & cryptocurrencies a safer place, with the greater goal of sustaining and co-nurturing the technology’s widespread adoption. To this end, Ngrave is developing a next gen cryptocurrency hardware wallet.
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Sarah Garre
Food Expert
I work on a better understanding of soil-plant interactions. I am convinced that scientific innovation in the agricultural world will come through a real connection between scientific domains and various actors. I want to develop a stimulating environment for diverse actors of society to pollinate each other.
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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.
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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.
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Sebastien Dolige
Energy Expert
Sébastien has 10 years’ experience in the energy sector. He has been working with Eurelectric since 2011. Prior to this, he worked 2 years for Total and with the European Commission. Sébastien holds Master degrees in History and Political Science and graduated from the College of Europe.
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Sebastien Mortier
Sustainable Finance
Sebastien have worked for 14 years in the financial sector in Belgium and abroad. He is currently conducting research and organising campaigns on sustainable finance at FairFin. FairFin is a socio-cultural organization encouraging people and organisations to put the financial system at the service of society.
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Sophia De Backer
Students View on Education
I might be one of the youngest experts at Hack Belgium, but because of my experience with participation in education, lobbying, being confronted with different school systems internationally and undergoing education every. single. day., you will find my ideas and advice very helpful.
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Steven Ceuppens
Technology and Education Specialist
Steven has been working for mainly inner city youth for nearly 20 years now - from the classroom to the ministry of education and back - Steven has a broad view on anything education and is the current innovation manager for Antwerp City Education.
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Thomas Vande Casteele
Innovations in Healthcare and Pitching
Founder and CEO of Awell Health, care pathway management solution currently being used in BE, ES, BR, NL
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Thomas Vanderstraeten
Blockchain Development
Full-stack techie. Former management consultant turned CTO & founder of several tech ventures. Proudly leading the Blockchain journey at Hey, a new breed of social network.
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Tim Leenaers
21st Century Education
Our goal at Eledu is to make education both meaningful and enjoyable, for all ages. With our platform and courses we teach 21st century skills through 21st century design. We believe that our approach will demystify digitization and will be of great help for companies.
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Tim Van Lier
Digital Media Expert
Tim is a user researcher who wants to create valuable digital experiences with an innovative angle. His challenge is to introduce a People First-approach at VRT.
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Tim Vanmarcke
Facilitator Mobility Theme
Tim Vanmarcke (also know as "The Playful Challenger") wants to challenge individuals, teams and organisations to be responsible, autonomous and self-organizing.
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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,...)
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Tomas Wyns
Energy of the Future Expert
As a researcher at the Institute of Europan Studies at VUB, Tomas is on a mission to guide humankind through its technological adolescence. He has been working on climate policy since 2001 in different roles: government, NGO, think thank and since 2014 in academia. His main focus is researching the low-carbon transition of industrial sectors (e.g. steel and chemicals) and their value chains. Looking at bridging technology and policy.
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Tony Belpaeme
Robotics and AI
I build Human-Robot Interaction, bringing robots and people together. How can we make a robot see and listen and respond to us? What makes an appealing robot?
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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.
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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.
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Vickie Dekocker
Apprenticeships, Edtech
Vickie Dekocker is responsible Innovation within Syntra Flanders, and Secretary of the Flemish Partnership Dual Learning. From this position she is point of contact for various partners (education and work partners as well as private partners) to further develop the apprenticeship system in Flanders.
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Violeta Tulceanu
Artificial Intelligence
Business Consultant - Artificial Intelligence at Fujitsu Technology Solutions
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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.
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Xavier Speeleveld
Design Thinking and Business Modeling
Co-founder at innovation agency The Argonauts. Forging a meaningful organizational culture that promotes purpose-led innovation. Bringing people together to build a culture of innovation and discovery. I'm a follower of the main trends, technologies and future thinking.
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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.
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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.
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Yoneko Nurtantio
Food Waste Warrior
Speaker and author of the book Zéro gaspi! (Larousse), Yoneko coorganized the JUST KEEP IT challenge - 21 days Zero Food Waste (2.5k participants • www.justkeepit.be). Her dream for 2019: bringing 500 single mothers to cook every day in a healthy, easy, cheap and #zerofoodwaste way!
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Yorick Schetgen
Internet of Things Curator
Passionate about technology as an enabler for new business models. With 20+ years experience in technology from large corporation to startups, Yorick has focused on bringing new technologies to market and enabling companies to take advantage it.
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Yves Siperius
Public Transport Expert
Yves Siperius is since 2008 active in the domain of Mobilty and public transport at Siemens. As business unit manager within Siemens Mobility he gained a broad knowledge of the public transport sector, technology wise and business wise.
