Public speaking expert & renowned actress Ianka Fleerackers trains and coaches people in bringing their message, vision or story to the public in a passionate, charismatic and authentic manner that delivers real impact. 

Ianka regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Peter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He has given numerous keynote speeches around the world, among which those for Google Think Performance, Nimbus Ninety, Gartner, NEXT Berlin, Tedx, PayPal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CIO City, SAS, Accenture and Apple. He lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. 

Wim is a performance coach, trainer, speaker and author. He inspires and stimulate leaders and their teams to outperform. Keep the balance right, mental and physical: that is the core message that he’s sharing with you. His vision: management is a top sport. His purpose: inspiring you to find inner peace and focus. 

Wim regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Public speaking expert & renowned actress Ianka Fleerackers trains and coaches people in bringing their message, vision or story to the public in a passionate, charismatic and authentic manner that delivers real impact. 

Ianka regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

China’s upcoming leadership in global innovation is moving forward with astonishing speed. While the world is seeking to adapt to a New Normal,  China’s New Normal has been a reality since 2013. If we want to understand how to deal with a world of increasing unpredictability, we can learn much from how Chinese organizations, brands and entrepreneurs have learned to reinvent themselves. 

 Pascal Coppens is the expert in all things innovation and Day After Tomorrow in China, rooted in his deep understanding of the country as a sinologist. He is an entrepreneur at heart with more than 20 years of experience in China and Silicon Valley. Pascal has employed, partnered and competed with hundreds of Chinese innovators. Currently, he is an inspiring international keynote speaker,partner at nexxworks and author of the book China's New Normal, which offers sensational insights into business and technology in China and their potential for the rest of the world. Pascal's candid presentations with real-life examples will be eye-opening, create food-for-thought and uncover patterns for you to turn the Chinese innovation train into an opportunity for your business.

Mobit co-founder Alexander De Bièvre sees possibilities where others see threats and risks. That's’s actually a ‘little something’ he picked up when he worked and lived for 9 years in China: in Wuhu, Beijing (Tsinghua University), Shanghai and Guangzhou. 

Mobit is the sharing platform for mobility solutions that Alexander co-founded with his business partner Bernard De Groote. Mobit started out as a SaaS platform for bike sharing with smart locks, but then it turned out in an own platform that also can be used for other shared mobility ideas and smart city IoT applications. 

Rik is a renowned thought-leader, worldwide keynote speaker and author of business bestseller “Managers The Day After Tomorrow”. He’s a trusted advisor on the topics of extreme customer centricity, innovation in the digital era, business model change, sales, marketing and leading companies on their journey to their very own Day After Tomorrow.

Coen Olde Olthof is CEO from Alpha.One, which clarifies and predicts consumer behaviour with neuroscientific research and machine learning. 

Before Coen was Senior Vice President Marketing at KPN.

Koen Vingerhoets combines a Master in Law with a sound passion for IT. He caught an interest in bitcoin early 2013 and is currently responsible for Blockchain & Digital Transformation at Belfius' The Studio. He is often praised for making difficult items understandable through vivid keynotes and clear texts.

Koen regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps

Matthias De Clercq started as Chief Commercial Officer at nexxworks, and then moved out to become Chief Operations Officer. 

Before that, Matthias had been working at Coolblue for the past 7 years, of which the last two years as head of Coolblue Belgium. During that period, the e-commerce company experienced a steep growth. Among other things, Matthias has helped launch "CoolblueBezorgt" in Belgium, Coolblue moved into a new head office and the first steps were taken in Francophone Belgium. When Matthias started as manager of the Belgian division, Coolblue had 100 employees in the country. Now, this number is well over 350. With this experience, Matthias takes up the challenge to support the ambitious growth plans of nexxworks.

During his 7 years at Coolblue, he learned the importance of customer focus and how technology contributes to this.

Axelle had been an HR and communications entrepreneur for 10 years when she discovered the power of (live) visual storytelling for corporate purposes. Since that day,  She has been combining her passion for drawing with her skills as a facilitator in a uniquely energetic way.

Axelle regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Yoav Nir is the author of the book Game-changing Innovation and will explain us more about the lean start-up method and how he implemented this during his carreer at Barco, Yofi consulting and The Skein Company. Already in 1997, he was involved in VR projects from Barco, so we can call him a real pioneer in Virtual and Augmented reality. Yoav was the co-inventor from ClickShare.

Omar is a tech entrepreneur turned advisor and mentor. As an advisor he tries to practice a "hands-off unless requested" approach. If required, he has hands-on experience with executing go-to-market, with a major focus on scaling cloud and web based services.

Bernie Caessens holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. As a post-doc he switched to the neurosciences, and investigated how the brain makes decisions. After several years he moved from the university to corporate life, and worked in consumer electronics and biotechnology, investigating new and emerging technologies. He held various management and leadership roles prior to switching to Human Resources to explore the application of digital technology to human behaviour.

Bernie regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps

Xander is a young engineer fascinated by data science and machine learning. Through his thesis on brain-computer interfaces at Ugent, he first came into contact with the vast opportunities provided by data driven computer algorithms. After his Master of Science in electrical engineering, he took an extra master’s degree in business economics because he believe’s the combination of these two backgrounds forms an excellent outset for changing the world with bright ideas.

Xander is strongly convinced that intelligent, data driven algorithms will be a major source of technological progress in the coming decade. Moreover, he believes that combining these systems with upcoming trends such as virtual reality and better natural language processing forms a fascinating platform for advancing the human experience in ways that we cannot yet imagine.

Currently, he works as a machine learning engineer at ML6, where they enable companies to create state-of-the-art ML solutions to transform their businesses into technology flagships for the 21st century.

Xander regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

From the startup of Niceberg Studiosin 2011, Nicolas Verhelst deployed the technical infrastructure of the Studio and manages the operations of the company.  Niceberg produces and distributes immersive experience movies for the entertainment industry.  As from 2015 Nicolas became Chief Executive of Niceberg guiding this creative team into new innovative markets tapping into the potential of Virtual Reality.  His vision: “Stay on top of the know how”.

Nicolas started as an independent Operational Project Manager in the TV broadcast and event industries. He is known as an unstoppable result driven force, capable to guide teams of engineers and technicians in extreme conditions and far away countries, securing broadcasting & movie production contracts covering the complete cycle from concept proposal to their realization.

A short list of recent achievements before Niceberg:

2010

As Director of Operations for the Brussels part of the French group GL Event, Nicolas managed a working structure for international meetings like ASEM8 (Asia-Europe Meeting), with 3.000 guests of international press, world leaders and prime Ministers of 45 different countries.

2009    

As an Operational Project Manager for Alfacam, Nicolas guided a production crew to deliver live broadcast coverage of the World Touring Car Championship for Eurosport International in countries like Brazil, Mexico, Morocco, Europe and Japan, with 41 million people tuning-in during the 12 events.

2008    

Also for Alfacam, Nicolas operated as the Project Manager for worldwide broadcasting from the National Indoor Stadium during the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing.  He was responsible for deployment and configuration of Outside Broadcast-vans.  He coordinated the Alfacam team in conjunction with production crews designated by the Beijing Olympic Broadcasting Organization. 

Ingrid Willems is CEO at DataScouts and and co-founder from we connect data. DataScouts provides strategic marketers and business developers a platform to map their competitive landscape, systematically monitor competitors and build a strategic edge by discovering trends early on.

Leen Gorissen, Ph.D. in Biology, is specialized in ecology, transition science, regenerative development and bio-inspired innovation. She is the author of the recent book ‘Building the Future of Innovation on millions of years of Natural Intelligence’ and the founder of Centre4NI, a catalyst that helps organizations and businesses to innovate like nature. She is a frequently asked evaluator of innovation projects by the European Commission, a thought leader on innovation-beyond-the-usual, a strategist and business innovation process facilitator. She has worked for a broad range of clients and organized bio-inspired innovation sessions in cities across the world. From 2009-2017, Leen worked as a Transition Research Coordinator at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO Belgium). 

Peter is a serial entrepreneur, Forbes contributor, LinkedIn Influencer, best-selling author and one of the most sought-after thought leaders on organizing for the Day After Tomorrow, radical innovation, leadership and the impact of all things digital on society and business. He has given numerous keynote speeches around the world, among which those for Google Think Performance, Nimbus Ninety, Gartner, NEXT Berlin, Tedx, PayPal, MasterCard, Microsoft, CIO City, SAS, Accenture and Apple. He lectures at renowned business schools like the London Business School, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine. 

Baudouin de Troostembergh is CEO and founder from Startup Factory.

Raphael Halberthal is managing partner at Startup Factory

Rik is a renowned thought-leader, worldwide keynote speaker and author of business bestseller “Managers The Day After Tomorrow”. He’s a trusted advisor on the topics of extreme customer centricity, innovation in the digital era, business model change, sales, marketing and leading companies on their journey to their very own Day After Tomorrow.

With over 20 years of experience in IT and training, amongst which five years working for Microsoft in the Netherlands and Europe, Nancy has always and above all passionately focused upon people: how technology influences their behaviour, how it helps them to share knowledge and how it enables them to create and innovate. 

She is a highly rated and motivating international business speaker. She has energized many roundtables, boardroom sessions and corporate events with bold presentations on the topics of digital transformation, extreme customer centricity, disruption, AI, business model change and leadership. She loves inspiring others about how they can organize their companies for The Day After Tomorrow and push their business models to the next level.

Jeroen is CEO at Teamleader, a SaaS application designed for SME’s. It enables companies to manage their relationships, opportunities, projects, timesheets and invoices in a unified and collaborative online solution. Combining these tools provides a unique solution to help clients improve company productivity and allows them to focus on their core business.

Jeroen De Wit and Robin Geers wrote the book 'Start-up survival: Tacticals van 50 topondernemers'.

Robin Geers is guest lecturer at VUB and Howest. Robin Geers and Jeroen de Wit wrote the book 'Start-up Survival'.

Jorn Vanysacker is VP Marketing at Intuo.

Intuo is a talent enablement platform that provides the alternative to the yearly evaluation cycle. They introduced a system that helps people and offers data on skills and careers and translates the company’s mission into agile objectives and makes sure the company is aligned with every single individual within the company. Their early adopters are recruitment companies, professional staffing companies and consultancy companies. 

Before, Jorn lived in London where he founded Rendeevoo, a dating app bringing two people together for a drink, at a very cool place in The City. This adventure was selected as an instructive 'failing forward' story by Canvas and Startups.be

You can blow our minds by telling us what you have been up to and how you have been since our last experience!

Alexander is a result-driven entrepreneur with a strong vision on the future of the peer-to-peer economy. He combined his entrepreneurial dream with his passion for cooking and started FLAVR, a peer-to-peer platform that enables foodies to buy homemade meals from the best homechefs in their neighborhood.

Wim is a performance coach, trainer, speaker and author. He inspires and stimulate leaders and their teams to outperform. Keep the balance right, mental and physical: that is the core message that he’s sharing with you. His vision: management is a top sport. His purpose: inspiring you to find inner peace and focus. 

Wim regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Steven is an expert in customer focus in a digital world and in how our customers will behave in the Day After Tomorrow. He is a popular speaker at home and abroad. In his keynote presentations, Steven takes his audience on a journey to the world of modern customer relationships in a clever, enthusiastic and inspiring way. So far, he gave more than 750 keynote presentations, reaching more than 200.000 people in over 30 countries around the world and received several best speaker awards.

He's also the author of multiple international bestselling books including ‘The Conversation Manager’, ‘When Digital Becomes Human’, ‘Customers the Day after Tomorrow’ and ‘The Offer You Can’t Refuse’. 

Steven is also one of the leading moderators of the nexxworks community: Mission CX. It's a one-year journey consisting of 10 live Digital Monthly Sessions with international speakers and company cases about customer experience and 24/7 access to a community platform to connect with peers. Discover the full program here!