Overview
Jeroen co-founded In The Pocket in Ghent, building it into a respected digital product studio known for quality mobile and web applications. The studio works with large Belgian and European brands and organizations.
As CEO, Jeroen leads In The Pocket's commercial direction, culture, and positioning. He is also an active voice on leadership, digital product thinking, and studio culture.
Jeroen leads In The Pocket, a 200+ person digital product studio he co-founded alongside Louis Jonckheere and PJ Bouten. The studio creates digital strategies, products, and platforms for enterprises across Belgium and Europe.
Career history
- Co-Founder, CEO2010 - PresentIn The Pocket
- DirectorJan 2024 - PresentEntourage
- Co-Founder, Member of the BoardMay 2023 - PresentWintercircus Ghent
- Member of the BoardNov 2025 - PresentTectonic
- Board MemberSep 2024 - PresentVoka
Education
Master, Philosophy2000 - 2004Ghent University
Talks about
- European Tech
- Venture Capital
- Semiconductors & Photonics
- Scaling
In the news
- Dario Amodei legde afgelopen zaterdag een plan van drie stappen op tafel om het tempo van AI-ontwikkeling te verlagen. Binnen een dag zeiden Sam Altman en Elon Musk ja, en allebei op stap één. De krantenkoppen maakten er een sectorbreed akkoord over vertragen van. Ze hebben toezicht toegezegd, en dat is iets anders. Stap één laat externe evaluatoren permanent binnen, en Anthropic bindt zich daar eenzijdig aan. Altman schreef op X dat OpenAI hetzelfde zal doen. Musk hield het op drie woorden: Dario is right. Stap twee, waar de
- Stad Gent als technologiehoofdstad van Europa met Wintercircus Ghent als kloppend hart is een evolutie om trots op te zijn. Maar hoe moet onze stad evolueren om de impact van groeiende techbedrijven en innovatie te omarmen op vlak van vastgoed, bouw en ruimtelijke ontwikkeling? Op 30 september ga ik daarover in gesprek tijdens het Vastgoedevent Gent met Jeroen Lemaire Mark Andries Guy Eeckhout Egbert Lachaert Laat je verder inspireren door de keynotes van Jeroen Vanden Berghe over de toekomst van Ghent University en Liz Bamber die
- A different kind of stack party... On October 7, imec, TechWolf, In The Pocket, Upgreat AI, and Wintercircus Ghent are hosting an evening dedicated to the layers behind the AI boom - maximizing your intelligence per euro and ensuring your organization is prepared to scale even further. Our CTO, Jeroen Van Hautte 🐺, will take the stage alongside Jeroen Lemaire (In The Pocket), Steven Latré (imec), and Upgreat AI, mixing strategic perspectives with technical insights on the evolving AI landscape, the infrastructure and economics
- Join us for an evening in Wintercircus Ghent about the AI-stack and how to optimise it, with only a limited amount of seats available! AI-usage and -cost are increasing rapidly in all businesses that operate like it's 2026. Frivolous prompting of frontier models is coming under scrutiny and the idea that AI isn't just a SaaS-product is taking hold. AI implies a stack of technologies that can be managed and tuned according to the needs and priorities of your organisation, be it cost, sustainability, sovereignty, flexibility or
- Last week, Wintercircus Ghent's board and leadership team discussed the future of Europe's most buzzing tech hub in a 2-day offsite. If you had been a fly on the wall, you would not have noticed any hierarchy or politics in our discussions, only the most passionate and dedicated people showing up for something that's much bigger than all of us. Startup mentality. I'm grateful to have been involved with the Wintercircus since 2018, when the building was still part ruins, part construction site. As a member of the board, I'm baffled at
- We have 20 roles with open vacancies at In The Pocket. If you want to experience what it means to lean into the age of intelligence, don't hesitate for a second. https://lnkd.in/dxygY_X
- Very proud to bring the promise of AI to the reality of cancer research, together with the amazing team at EORTC - European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer 🙏
- Joining Tectonic as a volunteer is an excellent idea if you want to contribute to the most exciting tech event in Belgium, if you want to start building your network in the tech ecosystem or if you would love to belong in this group of good-natured ass-kickers 💙
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