Start to scale
Donderdag 24/9/26
15.00 tot 17.45u
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
Donderdag 24/9/26
18.00 tot 22.30u
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)
DESSERT