Overview
Pieter-Paulus Vertongen is co-founder and chief executive of Aaltra, which he co-founded in November 2007. He is based in Melle.
Between January 2002 and December 2007 he was owner and developer at Glint creative design VOF. He worked as a web developer at XOLUTIONS from May 2004 to June 2005, and before that completed a web development internship at the Real Biblioteca Madrid in late 2003.
He studied multimedia and communication technology at Howest, taking a bachelor's degree between 2001 and 2004, and then took a master's in internet and software technology at the IT-Universitetet i København from 2005 to 2007. In 2016 he followed the KMO challenge programme in business and commerce at Vlerick Business School. His earlier schooling was at Sint-Barbaracollege Gent and at SintLucas, and in 2000 he attended a Rotary Youth Leadership Award seminar.
Career history
In the news
- Our CEO on stage in Copenhagen. 🇩🇰 On 23 September, Pieter-Paulus Vertongen speaks at Future Product Days, in the old train workshop in Copenhagen, with 9,000 product people around him. His talk: "Connecting hardware to apps: easy… until it isn't." Pieter-Paulus shares what we learned building connected products outside the lab. Stage 2, Engineering & Technology, 09:50 sharp. The whole Aaltra team is in Copenhagen on 22 and 23 September. 🤩 Because a connected product is never one person's job. We all need to know what happens
- A lot of people are talking about AI being bad. AI is going to take our jobs. AI is going to destroy humanity. But AI is just a massive calculator predicting what comes next. And yes, you can use it to predict how to destroy something. A tool that powerful in the hands of a few chasing status and money is frightening. But we can also use it to do good. To solve problems that would otherwise take us years. Let AI serve humans, not the other way around. That is why we need models trained on fair data, and open access for everyone,
- Copenhagen, next week on 22 and 23 September. I'm speaking at Future Product Days, and I'm not going alone. The Aaltra team is coming with me. Two days of product people from all over Europe. If you're building products where software has to talk to hardware, this is a good place to meet. Find us and say hi. See you in Copenhagen 👀 Thank you Luciano Lykkebo for the invitation!
- Start with the problem, not the technology. Semek, the AI buddy, addresses the challenge of knowing what is real and what is AI-generated. And oh boy, it got some media attention in Belgium. I was already working on getting IoT data closer to the end users, sharing the value of that data with manufacturers. But the data itself? It’s yours. The Chinese vacuum cleaner scans your home, creates a floor plan and an inventory, and sends it to... who knows where? Then I contacted Prof. Ruben Verborgh to share some of my ideas and the
- Sumura haalt €143K op voor slimme e-bike-laadinfrastructuur 👏 De Antwerpse start-up Sumura haalt €143.000 op bij een business angel van BAN Flanders en drie andere investeerders. Kapitaal én expertise om verder te bouwen aan de mobiliteit van morgen. Sumura ontwikkelt slimme laadinfrastructuur waarmee vrijwel elke e-bike veilig en eenvoudig kan opladen, thuis, op het werk én onderweg. Geen eigen lader nodig en toegang, betalingen en energieverbruik worden slim beheerd via één platform. 😃 Met het nieuwe kapitaal zet Sumura verder
- I was invited by Agoria to share my vision of the world over the coming years. The past two years have been a crazy journey, and the next five will be even crazier. One thing I’m sure of: as long as you create value, you’ll succeed. 💪💪
- Everything you call "smart" is just an expensive remote control. Your thermostat. Your doorbell. The app that dims the lights from the couch. We've been calling that smart for fifteen years. It isn't. It waits for you to press something. Smart would mean the device understands what's happening, decides, and acts. With you in the loop, never behind your back. I've never seen a device actually do that. Not once. I think we can finally build it. Not with another humanoid robot on a stage, but by making the ordinary things already
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