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Entrepreneur, Founder, CEO of Collibra

Co-Founder & Board member at Pitchdrive

Co-founder, Investor & General Partner Pitchdrive at Pitchdrive

Founding Partner at Pitchdrive

CTO at DNAnexus, Founder Collibra

Sebastien Dubois is Owner of DeveloPassion.

Dado Van Peteghem is a Founding Partner of duval-union, co-authored "Digital Transformation" with Jo Caudron in 2014, and has delivered 150+ international keynotes on digital strategy.

Jurgen Ingels is Managing Partner at Smartfin, one of Belgium's leading tech-focused Venture Capital funds, and a well-known entrepreneur and investor in the Belgian ecosystem.

Kenneth Van den Bergh is co-founder and CEO of Carbon+Alt+Delete, a Mechelen-based carbon accounting software company for sustainability consultancies.

Christophe Ricevuto is Co-Founder & CEO of Nalios.

Sonya Siderova is Founder & CEO of Nave, a Kanban analytics suite for Jira and Azure DevOps teams, and is based in Antwerp.

Robin Wauters is Editor-in-Chief of Tech.eu, co-founder of BeCentral, and a founding member of Syndicate One, making him one of the most connected ecosystem builders in Belgian tech.

Guy Van Neck is founder and CEO of MobieTrain, a Genk-based mobile learning platform for frontline workers used by brands including BMW, Vans, Zara, and Massimo Dutti.

Yoran Brondsema is CTO and co-founder of Curvo, a Belgian Fintech product helping young people invest passively for the long term.

Stijn Christiaens co-founded Collibra, Belgium's first SaaS Unicorn in data governance, and has since become an active angel investor with more than 10 investments and an LP position in Syndicate One.

Kris Decker is Founder/Product Owner of OptiRiver.

Gauthier Henroz is co-founder and CEO of Chift, a Brussels-based unified API platform that connects SaaS companies to accounting, invoicing, POS and ecommerce software across Europe.

Maarten Weyn is Vice-Rector of Research and Impact and full professor at the University of Antwerp, and a co-founder of CrowdScan, Aloxy, IoSa and AtSharp.

Mathias Noyez is a co-founder of Rankshift, a Belgian GEO SaaS tool, and co-runs SEO agency Depends.

Maarten Masschelein is Co-founder and CEO of Soda, a Brussels-based data quality and observability platform backed by Hummingbird Ventures and Point Nine.

Ludwig Dumont is founder and CEO of Willow, a Belgian tech company.

Thibaud Elziere is a French serial entrepreneur who co-founded eFounders (now Hexa) after selling Fotolia to Adobe for 800 million EUR, and has since invested in approximately 100 startups including Algolia, Notion, and Hugging Face.

Jo Caudron is one of Belgium's earliest digital agency founders with a 30-year career, co-founded Scopernia and Duval Union, created 20+ companies, and co-authored "Digital Transformation" with Dado Van Peteghem.

Clo Willaerts is Belgium's most prolific tech blogger, running bnox.be since 2004, a lecturer at Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp, and author of several digital and content marketing books.

Niels Arts is Co-founder Clonable of Clonable.

Maarten Verwaest is co-founder and Co-CEO and CRO of limecraft, a Ghent-based online workspace for video production teams.

Jeroen Corthout is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an Antwerp CRM company for small and medium-sized B2B businesses.

Xavier Lombard is founder and CEO of Leexi, a Brussels-based AI notetaker and conversation intelligence platform.

Hasan Suzen is Founder & CEO of Hybrid Core.

Phil Auryon is Co-Founder of Clean Water Global.

Beatrice de Mahieu is Deputy CEO at finance&invest.brussels, and previously served as CEO of Co.Station Belgium and CEO of BeCode, the social impact coding school.

Danny Lein is the founder and CEO of Twipe, the Leuven-based digital publishing software company whose platform powers digital editions for more than 140 newspapers worldwide.

Norman Deschauwer is co-founder of Pyxis Belgique, a nivelles-based agile transformation consultancy serving organisations in Europe and North America.

Laurent Hublet co-founded BeCentral in 2017 and in February 2026 was designated as Brussels Minister for Economy, Employment, and Digital Economy in the government led by Boris Dilliès.

Assem Chammah is co-founder and CEO of Nexus, a Brussels-based Enterprise AI agent platform in Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch that raised a $4.3 million seed round led by General Catalyst in March 2026.

Nick Veenhof is Director, Developer Relations at GitLab.

Alexandre Hernandez is a co-founder of Jobgether and served as its Sales Director until October 2025, when he left to join Spanish proptech Vivla as international sales lead.

Steven Backer is Founder & CEO, Afriwise of Afriwise.

Pieter Casneuf is a Ghent-based serial entrepreneur turned angel investor, co-founder and former CEO of Adam Software, and one of the key connectors in the Ghent tech ecosystem.

Kristof Van Tomme is CEO of Pronovix.

Pierre-Yves Pirlot is co-founder and managing partner of ECCO NOVA, a Liège crowdlending platform for energy, real estate and SME projects.

Geoffrey De Smet is Co-founder and CTO of Timefold, a Ghent-based AI planning optimization company, and the original creator of the OptaPlanner open-source solver.

Lorenzo Bown is co-founder of HappyClient, a Ghent-based SaaS product helping teams collect video testimonials remotely.

Jeroen Van Hautte is co-founder and CTO of TechWolf, one of Ghent's leading AI-Native HR tech scale-ups.

Jeroen Jacobs is Managing Partner of Cloudar.

Patrick Van Deven is CEO of VaultSpeed since January 2025, previously partner at Fortino Capital, with almost forty years across enterprise software at SAP, SAS, and C3.ai.

Mohamed Boulahfati is the founder of Hidden Data Lab, an Antwerp-based research company that runs AI-powered trend research and foresight.

Harold Kinet is CEO of BE Blockchain.

Marie Martens is CEO and co-founder of Tally, a Ghent-based bootstrapped form builder that has reached $4M ARR without external funding.

Zhong Xu is co-founder and CEO of Deliverect, a Ghent-based food-tech scale-up that became one of Belgium's fastest-growing startups.

Grégoire de Hemptinne is co-founder and CEO of Shayp, the Brussels company that fits sensors to existing water meters and uses anomaly detection to find leaks in buildings.

Niko Caignie is Certified Drone Pilot & Owner of AirScout-BE.

Olivier Delangre is Co-founder & CEO of Amoobi.

Christophe Sion is CEO Co-founder of Husk.

Jonas Mets is HubSpot RevOps & Co-Founder of Koalify 🐨.

Fabien Pinckaers is the founder and CEO of Odoo, a Belgian open-source ERP company that has grown into one of the largest business software platforms in the world.

Roeland Delrue co-founded Aikido Security, a Belgian developer security platform, and is an active angel investor backing ecosystem companies including Eagl.

Kilian Niemegeerts is Co-founder of FlowFactor.

Alain Heureux has led IAB Belgium since 2002 and IAB Europe since 2006, positioning him as one of the most senior voices in European digital advertising.