Innovators Under 35 Belgium Gathering

Date/Time: June 20, 2017—June 20, 2017
5:00pm—8:00pm CEST

Location: Chancellery Auditorium, BNP Paribas Fortis
1 Chancellerie Street
Brussels, Belgium

MIT Technology Review is back in Belgium, thanks to the support of BNP Paribas Fortis, with the objective of recognizing the most remarkable technological entrepreneurs and researchers all over Belgium. Since its creation in 2015, the Belgian Innovators Under 35 community has been growing exponentially always pursuing the same objective: to award innovation —the development of new technologies or the creative application of pre-existing ones in order to resolve current problems—, ingenuity, and advances toward addressing the world’s most pressing challenges.

This year, as the European project continued to grow, the community had gone one step further by compiling a pool of the top 35 profiles from several European countries which were recognized as Innovators Under 35 Europe 2017 during the award ceremony on September 14th in Paris.

Prior to this ceremony, MIT Technology Review selected the Top Belgian Talents who competed for a spot among the final list of Innovators Under 35 Europe. The ceremony took place on June 20th at Chancellery Auditorium BNP Paribas Fortis and gathered laureates from the previous editions and experts from the tech ecosystem in Belgium.

Top Belgian Talents

Meet the 10 Top Belgian Talents

These are the 10 Top Belgian Talents. They are the most influential tech talents in Belgium, selected among more than 1.100 European candidates.

Bert Conings

Developing a new generation of solar cells based on perovskite

Jelle de Smet

Flexible tunable lenses to help treat presbyopia or age-related farsightedness

Julien de Wit

Charting new habitable planets and stars outside our solar system

Victor Dillard

Production of genome editing therapies will be safer thanks to his affordable guides based on AI

Mohamad Hasan Bahari

Deep learning technology that understands video and audio

Damya Laoui

Developing new immunotherapies based on dendritic cells to win the battle against cancer

Malgosia Ratajska

The quality and cost of healthcare for expectant mothers can be improved with her mobile apps

Vincent Spruyt

Improving user’s quality of life through a platform that uses machine learning to understand human behaviours

Felix Van de Maele

His data governance platform improve the way business use data

Samuel Van de Velde

Founded Pozyx Labs, a company specializing in accurate indoor positioning

Additionally, at the ceremony, Julien de Wit was recognized as Innovator of the Year Belgium 2017 and he has automatically become one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 in Europe.