Opportunity Summit

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.

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.

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.