ANGEL.ME SUMMIT 2014

9.45  REGISTRATION & COFFEE:  Please come early to register on time. The conference starts 10.30 sharp.

10.30  Welcome & introduction: Bart Becks, Founder angel.me. Official start of angel.me summit 2014.

10.45  Dries Buytaert, Co-founder & CTO Acquia; Creator Drupal.  From my dormroom in Antwerp to building global activities from Boston: the journey of Drupal & Acquia

11.25  Saskia Van Uffelen, CEO Ericsson Belux; EU Digital Champion.  New ways of innovating

11.45  Erika Mann, Policy Director, Facebook; ICANN Member of the board.  Perspectives on how Facebook supports EU ecosystems & how policy can ignite innovation

12.10  Arnoud Raskin, Founder Streetwize & Mobileschool  Hybrid models & social impact entrepreneurship

12.30  LUNCH BREAK

13.30  Introduction of on Corporate Innovation, VC’s & Starting from Belgium.  Bart Becks

13.40  Omar Mohout, Growth Engineer Sirris.  Growth hacking demystified

14.00  Hendrik Van Asbroeck, Director Corporate Venture Capital, GDF SUEZ.  What Venture Capital means for GDF Suez

14.20  Marion Debruyne, Associate Professor & Partner, Vlerick Business School.  The fat cat and the hungry puppy dog: how incumbents can disrupt the disruptor

14.40  Donat Rétif, CEO Truvo Belgium  Truvo on a mission to digitalize the Belgian SME’s

15.00  Q&A discussion on corporate innovation.  H. Van Asbrouck (GDF SUEZ), M. Debruyne (Vlerick), D. Rétif (Truvo)

15.20  Frank Maene, Managing Director, Volta Fund.  To VC or not to VC, that’s the question

15.35  Should we stay or should we go ?  A panel discussion on starting & finding product validation, founder hurdles & scaling from Belgium

. PJ Bouten, Founder & CEO, Showpad

. Frank Bekkers, Founder & CEO, Mobile Vikings

. Folke Lemaitre, Founder & CEO, Engagor

. Moderator: Robin Wauters, Founder Tech.eu

16.00  COFFEE BREAK

16.20  Introduction on Disruptive innovation & the role of the Crowd

16.30  Josh Grau, Senior Vice President Brand Strategy EMEA, Twitter Marketing #Live

17.00  Dominick Moxon-Tritsch, Head of Public Policy Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA), Uber

17.30  Closing words & end of conference.  Bart Becks, Founder angel.me