Start to scale

Thursday 24/9/26
15.00 to 17.45h

WELCOME

Inge Moors (Gedeputeerde Landbouw & Platteland, Provincie Limburg)

BUILDING VALUE

Pascal Mertens (Co-founder, Koppie) “Bringing Startup Value through IP”

SURVIVING

NOA & Michiel Van Meervenne (Founder, Kriket) “Surviving the Valley of Death”

SCALING — IN DIFFERENT WAYS

Charles-Louis Stinglhamber (Co-founder & CEO, No Waste Republic) “Can you scale impact?”

(TBC) “Expanding in retail”

Dominique Bleiman (Co-founder, Hydrofix) “From Belgium to the world”

A SUCCESFUL EXIT. AND WHAT NEXT?

Glenn Mathijssen (Co-founder & CEO, Alberts) “From scale-up to consolidation with a leading industry player”

GROWING STRONGER, TOGETHER

Stijn Bex (Founder, Bullseye Distribution) “Does Food Need Its Own Wintercircus?”

ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT

Flanders’ FOOD “New Food Business”

Bistro Effixtée

Thursday 24/9/26
18.00 to 22.30h

RECEPTIE

SCALING B2B

Yarne De Munck (Co-founder & CEO, Polysense.ai)

FUNDING GROWTH

BAN Flanders x Alexander Van Laer (Co-founder & CEO, Qallo) x Karlien De Turck (Business angel) “The value of wise money”

WHAT’S MOVING IN FOOD

Magali Renard “Innovative product launches”

VOORGERECHT

RETHINKING OUR FOOD SYSTEM

Johan Jörgensen (Co-founder Sweden Foodtech, author) “Flat Earth Food”

HOOFDGERECHT

SCALING B2C

Lynn Verstrepen (Co-founder & CEO, Crush)