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
- Opportunity is upon us 🚀 2 ways to look at AI: short term = cost cutting long term = amplify your services Which one do you choose?
- A new buddy for a new client project 🤩 Looking forward to it!
- Stem mee voor Sumura! We staan in de finale van Hét Product Made in Antwerpen 2026, en nu kan jouw stem het verschil maken. Het duurt maar even … ↘ Ga naar www.made-in.be/stem/ ↘ Kies provincie Antwerpen ↘ Stem op Sumura En maak kans op een Kinepolis cinematicket. Stemmen kan tot en met 8 november. Wil je ons een extra duwtje geven? Stuur dit door naar familie, vrienden en collega's. Benieuwd wie we zijn en wat we doen? Neem een kijkje op sumura.eu. Merci. 💚 David Dos Santos Jan Vertongen Thomas Van Aken Joost Peeters Pieter-Paulus
- AI that copies itself from device to device, without a datacenter, running on €55 TV boxes and smart ovens. That is what is already possible today! Anthropic published research yesterday showing it can already be done in a test setup. They ran a model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes, and it was really slow, but it worked. In another test, a model worked its way from one device to the next on its own until it had all of them. They are careful to call it “signs of life” and not a real threat yet. The setup was simplified
- The fridges of hundreds of supermarkets in France were hacked and started defrosting, and millions of euros of food went to waste. The fix was already there, but the hackers targeted fridges that weren’t updated. But the problem should not have been in those fridges in the first place. It was not a bug. It was a hidden authentication system, so you could log in as an admin when you forgot the password. And that is what I talked about last month on stage in Copenhagen: design the failure first. What happens if the owner forgets the
- At Abiss in Kortrijk today. Come find me if you want to talk about making technology human, so it serves people instead of people adjusting to it. No ticket yet? We still have a few VIP tickets left. Send me a message.
- Harvesting season is here, so there is no room for "we'll fix it in the next sprint" 😅 This year, Dewulf chose us as their product partner for their connected machines. We're glad to have you on board. 👋 -- More to come soon. Want to hear it first? Come talk to us at ABISS on 8 October, Kortrijk Xpo. No tickets yet? Send me a DM.
- There is no "we'll fix it in the next sprint" in a harvest. This year, Dewulf chose us as their product partner for their connected machines. We're glad to have you on board. 👋 -- More to come soon. Want to hear it first? Come talk to us at ABISS on 8 October, Kortrijk Xpo. No tickets yet? Send Vic or Pieter-Paulus Vertongen a message.
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