Virtual Data Innovation Summit * Full-Year 2021 Program

About

Welcome, we are organizing a Virtual DI Summit program instead of an in-person DI Summit. The theme of the full-year 2021 online edition is AI For Everyone. Our objective is to make AI knowledge and experience accessible for everyone: public organizations, private companies, academics, and citizens in general. Therefore, we organize live-webcasts. Registration is free, as well as the 12-month available on-demand webcast recordings. Additionally, we create valuable AI content such as blogs and also plan videos and podcasts.

Webcasts

We focus on showing you meaningful, practical AI applications from a societal, business, and technical perspective during the webcasts. Each webcast includes an inspiring keynote by an AI expert, followed up by knowledgeable AI speakers who explain in-depth, purposeful, real-life AI cases. At the end of every webcast, we have a 15-minute question-and-answer session based on the audience’s questions.

Data Collection

Data Access

Data Analysis

Data Reporting

Registration

AI in Brussels

Brussels, the ICT Capital of Europe, offers many exciting AI opportunities for public organizations, private companies, academics, and citizens in general.

For example, icity.brussels is a technology hub focusing on research development, innovation, and valorization. Cluster software.brussels is a powerful network of 150 SMEs & partners active in Brussels’ software / ICT industry, and the AI Experience Center of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels connects academic expertise of the EU Framework with relevant stakeholders.

Moderator & Speakers * Stay Tuned

Jean-Luc Verhelst

Business Bitcoin & Blockchain Author Speaker Trainer & Advisor

Jean-Luc is the author of the book Bitcoin, the Blockchain and Beyond (2017) and works as a freelance public speaker, trainer, and advisor in Europe and the Middle East. He is the co-founder of the blockchain community HIVE.brussels, was selected by the European Commission as a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum, a member of the Beltug Blockchain Taskforce, and a visiting professor at universities (18-hour courses).

Prior to his current position, Jean-Luc worked several years as a strategy consultant, and became the blockchain leader for Deloitte Belgium after spending several months at the EMEA Blockchain Lab. He worked for numerous clients in Europe, managed the development of blockchain solutions, and delivered internal training in EMEA and the USA. He also won the world’s largest blockchain hackathon of 2016, and his master thesis on Bitcoin received the award for the best financial thesis of 2014 in Belgium. Jean-Luc holds academic degrees in IT and business.

Niels Van Weereld

Chief Commercial Officer at
Metamaze

Niels has a background in Economics and Business Management and has elaborate experience in consulting clients in incorporating technological and innovative solutions. He is currently leading the teams at Metamaze, a recently founded A.I. startup that is active in the domain of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP).

It is Niels’ mission is to educate and help clients in identifying A.I. and IDP opportunities that ensure true business value, as well as guiding them through the process of successfully implementing and adopting these new technologies.

Toon Vanagt

Tech Entrepreneur &
Lean Startup Coach

Toon has been a startup entrepreneur since 1999. His latest ventures are data.be, structuring Belgian business information from official sources, and lex.be, a full-text search in millions of legal publications. Both these freemium businesses are built on unstructured data and heavily relying on open data. Toon is a firm believer of all things open, which he supports via the non-profit Open Knowledge Belgium. He enjoys being the ‘master of ceremony’ during FinTech events, which has grown into a grass-root non-profit federating the Belgian FinTech community.

Toon holds a Commercial Engineering degree from Solvay Business School at the VUB, and was awarded “ICT manager SME of the year 2002” by Datanews. He splits his professional time between entrepreneurial and innovation coaching roles while focusing on his ventures’ development.