The second annual AI5050 event, held on May 28th 2024, at Hi!Site in Brussels, was an even bigger triumph than last year. This premier gathering once again brought together the brightest minds in AI, offering insightful talks, expert panels, and hands-on sessions led by top industry leaders.

Attendees were left energized and inspired, gaining invaluable knowledge from forward-thinking discussions and powerful networking opportunities.

the 2024
edition

These were the speakers in 2024 // These were the speakers in 2024 //

Ai5050 2024

Anke Vande Velde

Business Manager @ ACCO Learn for Business

Ai5050 2024

Arne Mosselman

Generative AI Strategy Consultant @ ainigma

Ai5050 2024

Bart Becks

Entrepreneur - Innovator - Investor / Board member European Innovation Council @ EISMEA

Ai5050 2024

Bart Veenman

Senior Manager AI @ KPMG

Ai5050 2024

Ben Selleslagh

Co-Founder @ Vectrix

Ai5050 2024

Bob Ballings

Author & Trainer

Ai5050 2024

Coen Olde Olthof

Founder @ Alpha.One / expoze.io / Junbi.ai

Ai5050 2024

Eddy Van Hemelrijck

Regenerator @ Emagine.life

Ai5050 2024

Edward Frank Morris

CEO & Founder @ Enigmatica

Ai5050 2024

Eva Champagne

Founder @ The Customer Excellence Consultancy

Ai5050 2024

Eveline Smet

CEO @ The Growth Agency

Ai5050 2024

Evert Van Cauwenberg

Founder @ ENDPoint / AI Expert & Data Consultant @ Keyrus

Ai5050 2024

Filip Maertens

Managing Partner @ Aldenburgh Capital

Ai5050 2024

Gianni Boone

Business Consultant @ bureau boone

Ai5050 2024

Glenn Van De Locht

Process Automation Strategist & Solutions Architect @ RoboRana Group

Ai5050 2024

Helene Minge Olsen

AI Practice Lead @ Kapernikov

Ai5050 2024

Jeroen Derynck

Founder @ Digital Nomadz

Ai5050 2024

Joanna Stoffregen

Co-Founder & AI Product Lead @ Labsbit.ai

Ai5050 2024

Johan Van Mol

Founder @ No-Kno

Ai5050 2024

Joris Roebben

Managing Founder @ The Bakery & baas.agency

Ai5050 2024

Jurgen Indekeu

Innovation Manager @ KBC

Ai5050 2024

Juul van Kessel

Co-Founder @ UTF.ai

Ai5050 2024

Koen Dils

Managing Director @ Keyrus

Ai5050 2024

Kristian Aune

Co-Founder & Head of Customer Success @ Vespa.ai

Ai5050 2024

Maja Vande Velde

Founder @ BegonAI

Ai5050 2024

Mathieu Demulder

Instructional Designer @ ACCO

Ai5050 2024

Menno van der Steen

Partner @ ONBRDNG

Ai5050 2024

Nikola Tanev

Founder @ True Insights

Ai5050 2024

Noémie Bultot

@dievandemarketing

Ai5050 2024

Peter Hoogland

Neuro-Strategist & Founder @ BrainWolves

Ai5050 2024

Peter W.J. Staar

Master Inventor, Principal Research Staff Member, Manager of AI for Knowledge @ IBM Research - Zurich Lab

Ai5050 2024

Pieter De Buysser

Founder @ NXTGN

Ai5050 2024

Robin Reuschel

Founder & Managing Director @ ROOVER GmbH

Ai5050 2024

Seppe Housen

Machine Learning Engineer @ Datashift

Ai5050 2024

Simon Uytterhoeven

Senior AI Translator & AI Business Analyst @ MbarQ

Ai5050 2024

Sjoerd de Kreij

Founder & CEO @ Typetone

Ai5050 2024

Sohrab Hosseini

Co-Founder @ Orq.ai

Ai5050 2024

Tom Braekeleirs

HealthNerd - Innovation Catalyst - Storyteller @ NEXXTT.HEALTH

Ai5050 2024

Tom Cuylaerts

Co-Founder @ Edge.be

Ai5050 2024

Vincent Nys

Head of AI & Innovation @ Keyrus

Ai5050 2024

Zaïna De Beer

IP Lawyer & Founder @ Alpha Legal Creatives

Schedule 2024 // Schedule 2024 //

	@Marktplein	@The theater	@Collab 3	@Collab 9	@Brainstorm	@Collab 10
09:00	Welcome & registration 09:00 - 09:30
09:15
09:30	Continuous availability of coffee, tea, soft drinks + partner visit & networking 09:30 - 12:20	Opening Keynote: Leveraging AI use cases for business and IT applications 09:30 - 10:00 by Peter W.J. Staar / IBM Research & Koen Dils
09:45
10:00		The 'Why', the 'Wow' and the 'Well' of AI in Healthcare 10:05 - 10:35 by Tom Braekeleirs	Boost your business with AI and marketing 10:05 - 10:35 by Gianni Boone	AI will(not) replace us all - How to prepare your company for the age of AI 10:05 - 10:35 by Helene Minge Olsen	From idea to AI prototype in 15 days! 10:05 - 11:15 by Joanna Stoffregen WORKSHOP	Hyperscaling your Business with AI Employees 10:05 - 10:35 by Sjoerd de Kreij
10:15
10:30		AI: Catalyst for Apocalypse or Savior of Humanity? 10:40 - 11:10 by Eddy Van Hemelrijck	Wat is de impact van AI op intellectuele eigendom en kunst? 10:40 - 11:10 by Zaïna De Beer	Pioneering diverse and inclusive marketing with AI for good 10:40 - 11:10 by Johan Van Mol		Getting AI products from Playground to Production 10:40 - 11:10 by Sohrab Hosseini
10:45
11:00
11:15		Connect through Science, Creativity and technology (part 1) 11:15 - 11:45 by Peter Hoogland	AI Do's and Don'ts. Practical tips to set you up for success 11:15 - 11:45 by Eva Champagne	Locally training and comparing small, task-specific language models: A hands-on guide to fine-tuning and RLHF 11:15 - 11:45 By Ben Selleslagh WORKSHOP	Unlocking Value with Generative AI: Transform Your Business Today 11:15 - 12:20 by Simon Uytterhoeven WORKSHOP	Future of Business – a journey to AI-powered value creation 11:15 - 11:45 by Bart Veenman
11:30
11:45		Connect through Science, Creativity and technology (part 2) 11:50 - 12:20 by Coen Olde Olthof	Experimenting with AI: let a 1000 blossoms bloom 11:50 - 12:20 by Jeroen Derynck	ChatGPT als tool voor meer sollicitaties in recruitment 11:50 - 12:20 by Joris Roebben		AI powered code conversions and migrations 11:50 - 12:20 by Vince Nys & Philip Allegaert
12:00
12:15	Lunch time @marktplein 12:20 - 13:30	Lunch time @marktplein 12:20 - 13:30	Lunch time @marktplein 12:20 - 13:30	Lunch time @marktplein 12:20 - 13:30	Lunch time @marktplein 12:20 - 13:30	Lunch time @marktplein 12:20 - 13:30
12:30
12:45
13:00
13:15
13:30	Continuous availability of coffee, tea, soft drinks + partner visit & networking 13:30 - 16:25	Generative AI: a system as flawed as its creators or new possibilities for the better? 13:30 - 14:00 by Maja Vande Velde	Navigating the Future with GPT and RAG: A Roadmap to Thriving in AI 13:30 - 14:00 by Evert Van Cauwenberg	From SciFi to Reality: Supercharging your workforce with AI superpowers 13:30 - 14:35 by Robin Reuschel WORKSHOP	Prompt engineering is dead but there is a better life after death. 13:30 - 14:00 by Bob Ballings & Juul van Kessel WORKSHOP	AI in marketing 13:30 - 14:00 by Menno van der Steen
13:45
14:00		Lessons learned after building and exiting AI ventures 14:05 - 14:35 by Filip Maertens	Educational AI: your next business solution? 14:05 - 14:35 by Anke Vande Velde & Mathieu Demulder		Collaborative Intelligence: Multi-agent large language models 14:05 - 14:35 by Bob Ballings & Juul van Kessel WORKSHOP	Unleashing AI Superpowers: how to move from resistance to revolution and drive bottom-up innovation to transform your workplace 14:05 - 14:35 by Arne Mosselman
14:15
14:30		Justice in the digital age: How AI reshapes legal systems 14:40 - 15:10 by Glenn Van De Locht	Tussen droom en daad. Een Elsschotiaanse kijk op generatieve AI in de praktijk. 14:40 - 15:10 by Tom Cuylaerts	Drive Growth with AI: 30 Marketing tactics to implement right now 14:40 - 15:45 by Eveline Smet WORKSHOP	How to build a competitive advantage with generative AI: in 5 steps from business challenge to generative AI strategy 14:40 - 15:45 by Pieter De Buysser WORKSHOP	How to deploy AI and embeddings without breaking the bank 14:40 - 15:10 by Kristian Aune
14:45
15:00
15:15		How European corporates look at startups to ignite AI driven innovation 15:15 - 15:45 by Bart Becks	Make them click! How to create AI-boosted images that drive sales 15:15 - 16:20 by Nikola Tanev WORKSHOP			What Leonardo Da Vinci teaches us about Prompt Engineering 15:15 - 15:45 by Edward Frank Morris
15:30
15:45		Kate, KBC's digital assistant: saving time and money for over 1,7 million customers 15:50 - 16:20 by Jurgen Indekeu		Hoe bouw en scale je een geheel B2B content systeem met AI 15:50 - 16:20 by Noémie Bultot		AI powered data management - a use case from the healthcare service industry 15:50 - 16:20 by Seppe Housen
16:00
16:15
16:30	Networking drink 16:30 - 18:00
16:45
17:00
17:15
17:30
17:45

	@Marktplein	@The theater	@Collab 3	@Collab 9	@Brainstorm	@Collab 10
09:00	Welcome & registration 09:00 - 09:30
09:15

	@Marktplein	@The theater	@Collab 3	@Collab 9	@Brainstorm	@Collab 10
09:30	Continuous availability of coffee, tea, soft drinks + partner visit & networking 09:30 - 12:20
09:45
10:00
10:15
10:30
10:45
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15

	@Marktplein	@The theater	@Collab 3	@Collab 9	@Brainstorm	@Collab 10
12:15	Lunch time @marktplein 12:20 - 13:30
12:30
12:45
13:00
13:15

the 2024edition

Anke Vande Velde

Arne Mosselman

Bart Becks

Bart Veenman

Ben Selleslagh

Bob Ballings

Coen Olde Olthof

Eddy Van Hemelrijck

Edward Frank Morris

Eva Champagne

Eveline Smet

Evert Van Cauwenberg

Filip Maertens

Gianni Boone

Glenn Van De Locht

Helene Minge Olsen

Jeroen Derynck

Joanna Stoffregen

Johan Van Mol

Joris Roebben

Jurgen Indekeu

Juul van Kessel

Koen Dils

Kristian Aune

Maja Vande Velde

Mathieu Demulder

Menno van der Steen

Nikola Tanev

Noémie Bultot

Peter Hoogland

Peter W.J. Staar

Pieter De Buysser

Robin Reuschel

Seppe Housen

Simon Uytterhoeven

Sjoerd de Kreij

Sohrab Hosseini

Tom Braekeleirs

Tom Cuylaerts

Vincent Nys

Zaïna De Beer

@Marktplein

@The theater

@Collab 3

@Collab 9

@Brainstorm

@Collab 10

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the 2024
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