Afternoon & evening

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Three curated tracks. Built for deep learning, high-level connection, and real-world impact. Explore what’s in store.

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Afternoon - Specialized Tracks

TechWolf Track

Event Time: 14:00–17:00

Host: Reinhard De Milt, VP Marketing at TechWolf

A look “under the hood” at our founding story, proprietary AI models, customers cases and engineering culture.

14:00 - 14:20
The year of the wolf
Jeroen Van Hautte, co-founder & CTO at TechWolf
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TechWolf co-founder and CTO Jeroen Van Hautte reflects on a landmark year for AI - both for the industry at large and for TechWolf in particular.

14:25 - 14:45
From Tesla Optimus to UMA: scaling humanoid intelligence
William Verstraete, robotics and machine learning engineer at Tesla Optimus
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After trading his role on the Tesla Optimus project for a new chapter in Paris, Belgian robotics engineer William is leveraging his Bay Area experience to launch his own startup.

14:50-15:10
Publishing over patenting: how our model hit Hugging Face’s top 0.01%
Jens-Joris Decorte, Director AI at TechWolf, and Marijn De Kerpel, Founder Associate to the CTO at TechWolf
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TechWolf's Jens-Joris and Marijn highlight the company's commitment to transparency by open-sourcing their most groundbreaking, highly-ranked models like WorkRB and JobBERT instead of patenting them.

15:15 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:00
How the best AI coding teams pull ahead
Patrick Debois, independent advisor and Product DevRel Lead at Tessl
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Patrick dives into why context is the essential fuel for AI agents and how organizations gain a competitive edge by managing their domain knowledge as a continuous flywheel of creation, evaluation, and distribution.

16:05 – 16:30
Career chat: becoming a 100x worker by integrating AI into your daily excellence
Panel: Reinhard (host), Bernd (TechWolf), Hendrik (vibelab), Lien
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Patrick dives into why context is the essential fuel for AI agents and how organizations gain a competitive edge by managing their domain knowledge as a continuous flywheel of creation, evaluation, and distribution.

16:30 – 16:50
AI lessons from the product cockpit
Yasamin Karimi, CPO at TechWolf, & Vincent Schelstraete, Director of Engineering at TechWolf‍
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TechWolf CPO Yas’ mission is simple yet bold: building world-class HR software with AI at its core. She’s joined on this journey by Vinny, our very first employee and current Director of Engineering. From the highs to the inevitable hurdles, they’ve seen it all.

16:50 – 17:00
Q&A
17:00
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Ecosystem Track - SOLD OUT

Event Time: 14:30–17:00

Host: Enya Steenssens, Head of Product & Program at Wintercircus

A collective deep dive into Europe’s AI opportunity and our shared mission as builders: bridging today’s breakthroughs with tomorrow’s AI frontiers.

 14:30–14:50
Entering Europe’ AI era
Dorien Van Steenberge, CEO at Wintercircus
14:55 - 15:15
what it really takes to scale a European AI company across borders
Julie Dumoulin, co-founder at Spotable
15:20 - 15:40
Scenes, frontiers, and the next phase of AI
Talfan Evans
15:40 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
The state of tech in europe/us
Panel: Julien Codorniou, Dorien Van Steenberge & Talfan Evans
16:25 - 16:40
Publishing over patenting: a vision on advancing AI
Jens-Joris Decorte, Marijn De Kerpel
16:45 - 17:00
The marriage of AI and art
Joëlle Snaith, digital artist, & Stijn Jansen, Creative Director at Wintercircus
17:00
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Evening – Main Stage

Event Time: 19:30 - 21:00

Hosts:

Dorien Van Steenberge, CEO at Wintercircus

Andreas De Neve, co-founder and CEO at TechWolf

Power talks at twilight.

19:30 - 19:45
Opening
Matthias Diependaele (Minister-President of Flanders)
19:50 - 20:10
AI eats the world
Benedict Evans (Tech visionary and independent analyst)
20:10 - 20:20
Q&A
Stefan Weitz (Co-founder and CEO of HumanX)
20:20 - 20:40
Building a new legal standard
Martina Domenicali
20:40 - 21:00
The AI transformation is a people transformation
Jeroen Van Hautte (Co-founder & CTO at TechWolf)
21:00
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