Overview
Sirris is a non-profit scientific organisation founded in 1949 by Fabrimetal, now operating as Agoria, the Belgian federation of technology industries. It functions as the collective innovation and research centre for Belgian manufacturing and industrial technology companies, complementing university research with applied industrial expertise.
The organisation operates with a multidisciplinary team of over 150 engineers, scientists, and technicians across eight locations in Belgium. Its headquarters is in Brussels at Boulevard Auguste Reyers 80. Sirris executes approximately 1,300 innovation projects per year, spanning advanced manufacturing, product innovation, Digital Transformation, green transition, and energy optimisation. It maintains relationships with more than 200 partners across industry, academia, and government.
Sirris programmes have played a notable role in Belgian startup development. Nick Boucart, Peter Verhasselt, and Vladimir Blagojevic co-launched Startathlon from Sirris, one of Belgium's first formal accelerator programmes. Peter Verhasselt ran the Mistral programme at Sirris, guiding more than 70 companies in technology strategy. Vladimir Blagojevic also organised the first Lean Startup Circle Brussels from a Sirris base, helping introduce lean startup methodology to the Belgian community.
Until 2007, Sirris operated under the name CRIF-WTCM.
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- Echte innovatie begint bij de juiste connectie! Dat bewijst Noa bij Sirris | Innovation forward. Ze integreert moeiteloos in het team, denkt proactief mee en brengt waardevolle voorstellen aan die de kwaliteit ook op lange termijn borgen. Een gedreven collega die niet alleen inhoudelijk het verschil maakt, maar een team ook echt sneller en sterker laat draaien! Knap werk, Noa! En Ann Debaere, heel erg bedankt voor de mooie waardering en de fijne samenwerking! 🚀
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, represented by FACT - VUB and VUB TechTransfer, was proud to attend 𝗘𝗘𝗥𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺, organised by EERA - The European Energy Research Alliance and BERA (Belgian Energy Research Alliance) to explore the potential of European R&D collaboration in achieving a sustainable energy future.⚡ During the sessions, Jan Declercq (FACT - VUB, OWI-Lab, partnering with Ghent University and Sirris | Innovation forward) presented a case study on “The new EU call: Belgian involvement in the EU SET Plan Wind
- We spent months asking ourselves whether founders would make time for 2.5 days in Ostend to rethink their companies around AI. Thirty of them did. And they didn't come for a list of tools (even though I personally caught wind of some interesting new toys to play with). They questioned what they sell, how they price it, what their teams should look like, and whether they would build the same company if they were starting today. Some of the best conversations happened in the workshops and carried on over lunches, dinners and walks
- Always really happy to be back at the Belgian coast! 😍 Looking forward to my talk tomorrow morning at the AI Summer School by Agoria Scaleup Flanders Sirris | Innovation forward, on how at Luzmo we rewrote our internal operations around AI: - What worked - What it cost us - What we got wrong - And a few findings that are counterintuitive, and maybe a little controversial I am not going to pretend we nailed it. Nobody has. Tonight first: Anita Schjøll Abildgaard's opening keynote, on what founders should rethink before AI
- Looking forward to the AI Summer School organized by Scaleup Flanders / Agoria / Sirris | Innovation forward and the fireside chat with Robin Wauters to go a bit deeper into what the AI Transformation meant for ML6. More info: https://lnkd.in/eYshJUVG
- 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰'𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 ⚗️🏭 For more than 𝟑𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 Certech has been helping chemical industries innovate sustainably and remain competitive through cutting-edge expertise in 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 & 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬, (𝐁𝐢𝐨)𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 & 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 From advanced catalysts and hydrothermal synthesis to tailor-made reactor design for optimized industrial processes. ⚗️🧪
- I am speaking at PR_D_CT DAY 2026 in Ghent on 23 September. In my talk I'll cover our trajectory with Adomate from Self-Serve to Services to Self-Serve again. Looking forward to connecting with the Belgian product management community. Secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/e5_qiRAE Sirris | Innovation forward #ProductManagement #ProductDay
- I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year talking to founders about AI. The conversation rarely stays focused on models and tools for long. It quickly moves to much harder questions: What happens to your competitive advantage when software becomes dramatically cheaper to build? Which parts of your organisation need to change? What should you automate, and what should remain distinctly human? And ultimately: what will still make your company relevant when AI becomes the default? Those are the questions we've tried to build the
Alumni 4 went on to found or lead
Buvana LefevreEngineer Intelligent Systems - bridging market and technology→Founder at Alari Technologies
Kristof MulierIngenieur→Cofounder at Embeetle IDE at Embeetle
Renaud BouckenoogheMachine Learning Engineer→Chief Technology Officer at COREMATIC Europe
Vladimir BlagojevicAccount Manager Software Industry→Co-founder at Fullfunnel.io
Nick BoucartChief Customer Happiness→Artist in Residence and Curator at www.nerdkunst.be
Omar MohoutEntrepreneurship Fellow→Non-Executive Director at Verhaert
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