Your community is holding its first full day summit this week on Thursday in Brussels.

We have received so much support from all parts of Belgium. I’m so proud of all our actors contributing to this amazing agenda. It will be a fast paced day with over 50 presentations and over 30 exhibitors. You will see and meet:

• Most important Universities of Belgium
• Major corporations will explain how they prepare to become data driven
• Political powers represented by Kris Peters
• Over 20 start-ups
• Over 480 data experts
• Over 30 exhibitors

Here are some Highlights of the day are:

• The presentation of Kris Peeters & Vincent Blondel
• The presentations of Reservoir Lab from UGent. 100 k$ winner of the international Kaggle competition.
• The launch of the European Data Innovation Hub.

If you have already registered and are on the waiting list, take the survey that will lead you to your ticket directly. Once you have answered this short poll we would like to challenge you and your team to analyze this data and to prepare a presentation for our finals.

About the summit:

• We open our doors at 07:30. The Axa building is situated Boulevard du Souverain, 25. 1170 Bruxelles.
• A parking space has been reserved for you. Use the Tenreukenlaan to proceed to the visitors parking of Axa.
• The venue is 10 minutes walk from metro Hermann Debroux.
• All presentations will be recorded and made available on our website.
• Here is the list of participants .
• Press Coverage: We have issued a press release

I’m looking forward to meeting you on Thursday.

Philippe Van Impe