Overview
Betacowork was co-founded by Jean Derely and Ramon Suarez on November 19, 2010, during the first Coworking Europe Conference. The space is located in Etterbeek, Brussels-Capital, at Rue des Peres Blancs 4. Ramon Suarez managed and grew the space after Jean Derely shifted focus to other ventures.
The coworking space emerged directly from the BetaGroup community network that Jean Derely had built from 2008, giving it an early membership base drawn from the Brussels internet and startup scene. Betacowork became one of the primary hubs for early-stage founders, freelancers, and digital professionals in Brussels before the wave of larger campuses and corporate coworking spaces that followed.
Ramon Suarez went on to write The Coworking Handbook, drawing on the Betacowork experience, and served as a board member of BetaGroup and Startups.be. Nicolas Frenay, founder of BeTech, identified Betacowork as the physical home of his 7,300-member Belgian entrepreneurs community.
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- Three questions we hear from almost every founder about video marketing: • Can I really make it with AI, without a studio or crew? • How much time and money will it save? • Which AI tools are the best? A few weeks ago, 12 participants came to our event to build something else with AI. Some of them left knowing which video their business needed, and AI did the rest. Watch where one of them ended up, and what’s happening at Betacowork on 21 November. Join the free morning or grab an early-bird seat for the afternoon:
- Eventbrite, Luma, Meetup, LinkedIn Events. We compare them on price, reach and ticketing for event organizing. But one of them has a small feature that does something none of those can: it tells you who is really coming, and why, before the event starts! Most organisers never touch it. Which one do you think it is? Guess first, then watch. #Event #Eventorganizing #AIvideo #Coworkingspacebrussels
- Eventbrite, Luma, Meetup, LinkedIn Events. Many coworking spaces use them for event announcements and organizing, so compare them on price, reach and ticketing for event organizing. But one of them has a small feature that does something none of those can: it tells you who is really coming, and why, before the event starts! Most organisers never touch it. Which one do you think it is? Guess first, then watch. #Event #Eventorganizing #AIvideo #Coworkingspacebrussels
- 200+ AI videos in a few days. After one workshop. That's what Yves Hanoulle (he/him) 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 did after joining our AI Weekend for Business at Betacowork Brussels, on 26–27 September. Watch how he did it 👇 This video was made with AI tools. It's the kind of case-study promo video you can make for your business, without a video production team. Want to see the tools? We introduce them in the free morning session on Saturday 21 November. Want to build your own video hands-on, with us? Join the afternoon: a fully practical,
- Last Friday, three entrepreneurs came back to Betacowork at the ICAB building with their laptops, twelve days after AI Weekend for business, our two-day event where you build something with AI for your own business instead of listening to talks. No programme this time. A table, a few hours, and one question for each of them: what is stopping you from starting video production? Three people, three very different projects: ▪️ 2D videos made with vibe coding, for an app ▪️ An avatar to introduce a company’s services on its
- Most events end when the room empties. We said at the "AI Weekend for Business" event that support does not stop on Sunday evening. Today it does not. The video workshop two weeks ago was three hours, and three hours was enough to agree on the language but not to actually build anything. So today, less than two weeks later, we are back in the room for a free follow-up session, only for the people who were there. No presentation. Everyone emailed us beforehand about what they want to make, so we start with hands on the keyboard from
- Fourteen people registered for AI Weekend. All fourteen showed up. Everyone came with real questions and wanted answers they could use, not a general introduction to AI. On Saturday morning, Toon Vanagt started working through the canvas with the participants: twenty questions about their own business. Before lunch, Dr. Pierre-Nicolas Schwab and his son Pierre-Raffaele Schwab talked about their own experience with AI in their businesses. Both are Betacowork members; Pierre-Nicolas runs the market research agency IntoTheMinds, and
- The room is ready✔️ The canvases are printed and laid out, with a name on it✔️ Tomorrow morning, 12 people sit down here with a laptop and one real problem from their business, and by Sunday evening they walk out with something that runs. 👉 Two of those names are not written yet. If you have been thinking about it, this is the last moment. Azera room, ICAB building at Etterbeek, breakfast at 09:00. https://lnkd.in/erZM4DDW
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