# Karen Boers - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Karen Boers for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-04-14

## Identity
- Name: Karen Boers
- Role: Managing Director, startups.be; Director, FARI AI Centre
- Company: Startups Be
- Location: Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenboers/

## Career History
- Co-founder and Managing Director: Startups.be (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/startups-be/llms.txt)
- Co-founder: BeCode (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becode/llms.txt) (social impact coding school)
- Contributor to: BeCentral (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becentral/llms.txt) (Brussels (https://techwiki.ai/cities/brussels/llms.txt) digital campus)
- Current: Director, FARI AI Centre for the Common Good (ULB-VUB)

## Connections
- Startups.be (co-founder): https://techwiki.ai/hubs/startups-be/llms.txt
- BeCode (co-founder): https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becode/llms.txt
- BeCentral (ecosystem): https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becentral/llms.txt

## About
Karen Boers is a serial impact entrepreneur with over a decade building the institutional backbone (https://techwiki.ai/companies/backbone-agency/llms.txt) of Belgian tech. She co-founded and served as Managing Director of Startups.be (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/startups-be/llms.txt), the national startup support organisation. She also co-founded BeCode (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becode/llms.txt), the social impact coding school, and was instrumental in launching BeCentral (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becentral/llms.txt), the Brussels (https://techwiki.ai/cities/brussels/llms.txt) digital campus. She is recognised as one of the most influential figures in Belgian tech and appeared on the Inspiring Fifty Europe 2022 list. She now heads FARI, the joint ULB-VUB AI Centre for the Common Good.

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [hub] Startups.be: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/startups-be/llms.txt
- [hub] BeCode: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becode/llms.txt
- [company] backbone: https://techwiki.ai/companies/backbone-agency/llms.txt
- [hub] BeCentral: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/becentral/llms.txt
- [city] Brussels: https://techwiki.ai/cities/brussels/llms.txt

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenboers/
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/karen-boers/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/karen-boers/llms-full.txt

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