Registration/breakfast/expo

Ingrid Lieten

Opening

Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Innovation, Public Investment, Media and Poverty Reduction

Jimmy Wales

The story behind Wikipedia

Peter Hinssen

Author of The New Normal

Koen Vanmechelen

Conceptual artist, internationally renowned for his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project

Alexander Osterwalder

Entrepreneur and author of Business Model Generation

Lunch/Expo/E-culture Fair

Wrap up by Pascal Cools, general manager Flanders DC

VOKA Innovation Award

Keith Sawyer

Author of Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration.

Workshops (10)

7 minute speeches (9)

Serge de Gheldere

Towards a sustainable and profitable low carbon economy

We are living today in the most important period since mankind came into existence. For decades we have been running our planet like a business in liquidation; we need to reinvent capitalism. Serge will show you some exciting stories about the restorative economy: being a factor 10 more efficient with energy and resources is a choice for a more attractive, affordable, profitable and comfortable future. 

Break

Malcolm Gladwell

Author of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers