Overview
Alexis Safarikas is CEO and Managing Partner of Campfire AI, a role he has held since March 2020. He is based in Brussels.
From October 2015 he worked at Springbok Agency as a senior digital strategist for artificial intelligence and conversational user interfaces, and from January 2018 until June 2019 he headed the agency's conversational user interface and applied artificial intelligence work. Between April 2013 and June 2014 he was a web and e-commerce consultant at Caracal Studio. He co-founded Ring Twice in April 2012, where he worked on business development and digital strategy until July 2015.
Safarikas studied economics and management sciences with an option in European studies at the Université catholique de Louvain, graduating in 2010, and went on to complete a master's degree in business administration and management at the Louvain School of Management and a master's degree in entrepreneurship at UCLouvain Entrepreneuriat, both in 2012. From September 2022 to September 2023 he was a fellow of Belgium's 40 under 40.
Career history
In the news
- Back from summer, back to a full calendar. ☀️➡️📅 September is bringing plenty of reasons to reconnect, get inspired and step away from your desk for a bit. 🥂 Central Thursday Apéro — 3 September We’re bringing the BeCentral community and Réseau Entreprendre Bruxelles together for an evening of drinks, new faces and good conversations. 🤖 SustAIn.brussels TechTalk — 3 September A deep dive into agentic AI and how Isabel is using it to improve customer service. 🔗 Digital in Action 2026 — 24 September SustAIn.brussels brings the
- AI, to be open-sourced or not to be open-sourced? 🔮 It's been the hot topic of the summer, with Mark Zuckerberg introducing Meta's open-sourced model Muse Glimmer. Our very own Jean-Charles N was recently featured in L'Echo breaking down the real-world trade-offs behind this debate. Moving away from proprietary, closed models often shifts your reliance from software subscriptions to heavy hardware investments and specialised engineering talent. Some key takeaways from the discussion: 💡The promise? On paper, open-source AI
- Brussels, Think Bigger is already back at BeCentral 🚀 For this second edition, we’re bringing together three bold voices on ambition, and on what Belgium needs to do to help more entrepreneurs succeed, think globally and get noticed. Meet the people behind our 3 bold takes on ambition: - Emmanuelle Ghislain, CEO of PULSE Foundation and President of hub.brussels, is injecting new energy into entrepreneurship across Belgium and creating the conditions for more founders to succeed. - Tanguy Goretti, co-founder of Cowboy and Off The
- IT’S TIIIIIIIME… for the Best Bots of Belgium 2026! 🤖 🇧🇪 Since 2022, Campfire AI has been spotlighting the most impressive AI bots built in Belgium, evaluating real performance, design, intelligence, and user value. For the 2026 edition, we wanted to set the bar even higher. Here’s what changing: 🤝 We’ve joined forces with Louis de Diesbach and Marek Hudon to completely rethink our evaluation methodology. Our goal? To build a transparent, ethical, and rigorous standard for auditing AI solutions. ✍️The biggest shift this year: it
- The Atlantic is calling Generative AI an “engineering disaster.” Honestly ? They’re right... 🫣 We are going way too far, blindly throwing massive LLMs at every single business problem without an ounce of critical thinking or conscience. Why are we burning massive amounts of compute and carbon on tasks that don’t require it? Tracking a delivery order does not need a multi-billion-parameter model. 🧠 "Large language models do not scale logarithmically. When they’re given more words to process, they get slower and use more memory, the
- Big tech and surveillance technology won. Democracy and citizens lost. Yesterday, the European Parliament pushed through the extension of "Chat Control 1.0" just before heading into the summer break. Here is exactly what happened, who is responsible, and why we shouldn't look away. 👇 1️⃣ The Democratic Failure: ❌ 314 MEPs voted TO REJECT the text (and thus against Chat Control 1.0) 🟢 276 MEPs voted AGAINST the rejection (voting for Chat Control 1.0) In any normal democratic system, 314 beats 276. The text should be dead.
- Ideas don't matter. Execution does." 🎯 I’ve lived by this rule for years, but the era of vibe coding and autonomous agents just completely redefined what "execution" actually means. It used to be simple: having an idea was the easy part. Executing meant doing the heavy lifting 🏗️: writing the code, building the architecture, and shipping the product. We are moving into a world where the barrier to building software is dropping to near zero. Anyone with a solid prompt can spin up an autonomous agent or a full software
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