Overview
The POD is a community-driven catalyst for digital innovation located in Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant. It supports digital and tech companies through collaboration, tech watch, peer-to-peer workshops, and connections with academic partners like UCLouvain. The hub helps companies sharpen their vision, explore new technological approaches, and manage growth and international expansion.
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- Le 24 septembre, The POD accueille une délégation québécoise pour une journée dédiée au business, à la tech, à l’internationalisation et aux rencontres entre nos deux écosystèmes. Au programme : des acteurs clés de l’écosystème wallon et canadien, deux workshops très concrets, trois entreprises québécoises venues explorer le marché belge, un Connecting Lunch… et un « 5 à 7 » québécois & Afterwork pour terminer la journée 🇨🇦🥂 Pas besoin de bloquer toute votre journée : choisissez ce qui vous intéresse. → Venez pour un workshop →
- Que se passe-t-il quand deux communautés curieuses se rencontrent ? Elles challengent les idées, croisent les expertises et apprennent les unes des autres. C’est tout l’esprit d’AI Loop : réunir entreprises, chercheurs, experts, étudiants et équipes de développement pour explorer collectivement l’impact de l’IA sur le software development, expérimenter et transformer les apprentissages en pratiques concrètes. Ce Tabletop AI avec The POD et le Cercle du numérique en est une belle illustration. Explorer. Challenger. Expérimenter.
- It’s going to be another busy Thursday at The POD! This Thursday, September 17, our doors are open from lunchtime until late for a full day of connections, conversations, learning… and a few drinks. 🍷 👥 Connecting Day — from 12 PM Join us for our monthly community rendez-vous: pizza lunch, coworking, networking and new encounters with entrepreneurs & tech professionals from our ecosystem. This edition will also feature a presentation of ATMOS by Benoît De Nayer, Patrick Steinfort & Vincent Wodon, a method designed to help
- In 2 days, we're talking cybersecurity across the value chain. Your suppliers. Your cloud partners. The APIs and AI services you don't fully control. The customers whose environments shape your own risk. Olivier Pereira, Professor of Cryptography at UCLouvain - Université catholique de Louvain, joins as scientific sparring partner. Norman Deschauwer 🚀 (CEO, Pyxis Technologies Belgium) will facilitate. Only 15 spots. Confidential, peer-to-peer setting, space to talk about what's still unresolved, not just what works. 📅
- EODE is back, and we’re kicking off a new cycle! 🙌 September marks the start of a new season of our quarterly Euranovians’ Open Doors Evening (EODE), and with a few upgrades, including a new venue! 🏠✨ Yesterday, Euranovians came together at The POD for an evening of catching up, meeting new faces, sharing what’s new, and, of course, having a good time. 💙 🎤 On the agenda: 🧠 A look back at our latest knowledge-sharing initiatives 📱 The launch of our new evaluation process app 🤖 An introduction to our new Euranova Assistant
- La Québec Tech Delegation arrive au POD ! 🇧🇪 Le 24 septembre, nous accueillerons à Louvain-la-Neuve une délégation d’entreprises tech québécoises pour une journée dédiée aux rencontres, aux échanges et aux opportunités business entre le Québec et la Wallonie. Organisée avec LE CAMP / Québec International, cette journée sera notamment l’occasion de rencontrer trois entreprises québécoises : → Dirigeable - Transformation numérique par l'IA, qui développe des solutions pour le secteur de l’assurance et de la finance →
- We're very happy to be launching a new Circle series. This time, the focus is sales 📈 Sales Circles are a new monthly breakfast series for sales professionals, founders and business leaders who want to strengthen the way their organizations sell. For this first edition, one simple truth: sales is a contact sport. You can have a great product, a talented team and an ambitious strategy: if your organization doesn't know how to sell, scaling stays painfully hard. We're going back to what actually makes sales work: obsession, contact,
- Your customers’ security requirements don’t stop with you... And neither do yours! A security questionnaire from a client. A contractual requirement. A supplier certification. A critical technology you’ve chosen to outsource. For CTOs, cybersecurity is increasingly about understanding where responsibility, trust and dependency sit across the entire value chain. At our next CTO Circle, we’ll move beyond the usual supply-chain checklist and discuss the actual technology decisions behind it: → What really needs to be secured across
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