In case you missed this year’s iMinds Conference, we made a short video report. Wim De Waele (CEO of IBBT) tells us all about iMinds, and we added a small part of our interviews with keynote speakers Charles Leadbeater and Xavier Damman. You can find the full interviews with Wim, Charles and Xavier further below!

Social media guru Jo Caudron gave a speech about privacy and censorship during the break-out about social & secure ICT. A couple of days ago he presented his new book ‘Fixing The Media’ in which he talks about the threats and opportunities media have to cope with. We managed to steal a few minutes of his time and pick his brain about the importance of social media and innovation. 

Xavier Damman is the guy who moved to San Francisco with his girlfriend and co-created Storify. His story is a story about young entrepreneurship, guts and a brilliant idea.  He shows us how important it is to find the right mentors. Bart Becks introduced Xavier as a keynote speaker, and talked about the similarities in his entrepreneurial story.

Time is scarce, they say. But that was most definitely the case this afternoon. Luckily our reporters grabbed a few speakers and asked them what IBBT and iMinds means to them and what their asset is to this informative day. 

Karel Braeckman (Dutch) - Researcher VRT Medialab

Lisa Pattyn (Dutch) - Entrepeneurship Program Manager IBBT


Kathleen Heireman - MAPLE - Mobile, Adaptive & Personilized Learning Experience

Markus Moll - Future Health

Wim de Waele is the CEO of IBBT. In his keynote he elaborated about the importance of consumers, interaction and entrepreneurship through a timeline story. We asked him about it, and how he experienced this year’s iMinds Conference.

We just finished the first series of break-out sessions. If you couldn’t make it yourself, check out these pictures and get a taste the of iMinds atmosphere.