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?”

Panel: Sigrid Severijns (Founder, Life Is Bananas), Matthias Pletinckx (Co-founder, Drizzle), Michiel Van Meervenne (Founder, Kriket) “Expanding in retail”

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

A SUCCESFUL EXIT. AND WHAT NEXT?

Glenn Mathijssen (Managing Director Alberts Products, Circus Group) “From scale-up to consolidation with a leading industry player”

GROWING STRONGER, TOGETHER

Stijn Bex (Founder, Bullseye Distribution) “Does Food Need Its Own Wintercircus?” panel: Marc Beenders (Sr Corporate Community Manager, LRM & Limburg Startup), Paul-Emmanuel Vanreusel (Gedelegeerd Bestuurder, Beltaste)

ECOSYSTEM SUPPORT

Marieke Sopers (Innovation manager Flanders’ FOOD) “New Food Business”

Bistro Effixtée

Thursday 24/9/26
18.00 to 22.30h

RECEPTIE

Meet the Chef: Milan La Roche

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)