On August 27th we welcomed over 120 Digital Leaders and Business Partners at the Dolce in La Hulpe to celebrate the end of the summer with a barbeque.
In the morning the first Digital Leaders gathered to discuss Innovation in their Peer Group. After lunch our Advisory Board brainstormed the Program for 2020. What type of transformation, organizational change priorities and technology area's would be most important for 2020?
At 16h our Summer Celebration started with a warm welcome from our President of the Advisory Board, Koen Vandaele.
Niels Decraene from our new Business Partner, Transmit Security gave a short introduction on his company.
After the introductions, it was time for our first guest speaker, Dado Van Peteghem. He explained us the seven metaphores of transformation, gave his view on Start-ups and Scale-ups and how these can work together with big corporations. Next up a session on Ecosystems and how to think outside the box with this network of networks. To quote Greg Satell:
It’s Ecosystems, Not Inventions That Truly Change the World
And concluding:
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Our final speaker was Jürgen Ingels, entrepreneur pur sang and founder of Clear2pay. Jürgen guided us through his life, from organising parties (do something you like), via commercialising notes at university and selling exam questions (the price is not always linked to value). As president of the faculty he organised the 'night of the erotics' (sex sells). He used the profits of classisal concerts to buy champagne for the after party (it's not important what you know, but who you know). And even started selling diapers (shit sometimes sells) and chocolates in Stockholm (expect the unexpected).
Jürgen's conclusions as an entrepreneur:
As Jürgen ended with "Have fun in life", our barbeque started and the six CIOs who won our competition left for hot air balloon trip.
And what is Hendrik Deckers up to.. find out soon:
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