Opportunity Summit

Date
June 15, 2022 at 12:00 - 17:00

Business as usual is a thing of the past. Today we find ourselves in a completely different world. With a new context comes new challenges. Yet, challenges mean opportunities and we help our clients successfully make the switch. Thanks to an impressive roster of top-notch speakers, we get to inspire you to see and grasp (infinite) opportunities. We would love to show you what’s waiting out there in branding, innovation, technology, and marketing.

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What is the iO Opportunity Summit?

This Opportunity Summit is a chance to reset your business mind. An opportunity for you to take time out of your normal, working week to gather with a like minded, yet diverse group of interested professionals and experts in the field. The Opportunity Summit is the perfect moment for you to learn, to be inspired and to prepare yourself and your business to grab the infinitie opportunities that the future holds.

It’s not all business, along with the programme, that’s packed with inspiring speakers, you will have ample opportunities to network and share inspiration with your fellow attendees during the generous refreshment breaks. A delicious lunch is included in the programme, because a well-nourished body is the best foundation for an inspired and entrepreneurial mind.

Program

  • 12:00 – 13:15 Delicious Lunch

  • 13:15 – 13:30 A warm welcome by Pieter Janssens (CEO iO)

  • 13:30 – 14:15 Keynote Lars Sudmann

  • 14:15 – 15:00 Keynote Ruud Veltenaar

  • 15:00 – 15:30 Break + iO Metaverse

  • 15:30 – 16:15 Keynote Clo Willaerts

  • 16:15 – 17:00 Keynote Isabel Verstraete

  • From 17:00 – Drinks, bites and sharing opportunities and connecting with your peers

Isabel Verstraete
About the speaker
Isabel Verstraete
author of the book ‘Does your brand care?’

Isabel Verstraete has almost 30 years of experience in advertising and marketing in the Netherlands, France and Belgium. She is author of the book ‘Does your brand care?’ in which she explains the C.A.R.E principles and brand & communication strategy consultant and president of FAM, Female Association of Belgian Marketeers.

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Clo Willaerts
About the speaker
Clo Willaerts
Digital strategy consultant

Clo Willaerts is a Belgian keynote speaker, author of numerous books and a digital strategy consultant. She has over 20 years of experience in digital business, digital marketing and digital culture. Clo describes herself as a girl geek, an old skool tech blogger and a tech optimist who believes that technological singularity will bring both chaos and delight.

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Ruud-Veltenaar
About the speaker
Ruud Veltenaar
Progressor | SDG Ambassador | Ted speaker

Ruud Veltenaar is a progressor, SDG Ambassador, global speaker and author with extensive experience as an entrepreneur and impact investor. As financier and/or founder, he was at the inception of, among others, Silvac (ICT - sold to RAET in 1992), Planet Internet (sold to KPN in 1996), Park-line and Parkmobile (sold to BMW in 2016). As an impact investor, he led a number of funds that have invested more than 8 billion dollars in start-ups, scale-ups, projects and the internationalisation of successful companies. For example, he was one of the first investors in LinkedIn (2002) and Tesla (2003). He is co-author of the book ‘Once Upon a Future’, the bestselling management book. Years of research and experience have given him the most up-to-date insights and an understanding of the connections that exist between everything, and how that will affect our lives in the future, and how to make sense of it all.

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Lars Sudmann
About the speaker
Lars Sudmann
Leadership Advisor I Strategy Facilitator I Management Trainer

Lars is an advisor, keynote TED-x speaker and author of the book 'Innovation that sticks'. Furthermore he is an executive trainer on leadership, strategy, innovation and communication for global corporations and their leaders. Lars is drawing on his business experience (e.g. as CFO Belgium of Procter & Gamble) as well as consulting expertise with Fortune500 companies to help companies achieve better business and organizational results.

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