Last week, a few of us attended the first edition of Hack Belgium. Describing what Hack Belgium is turns out to be a bit difficult: is it a conference? A hackaton? A hands-on workshop? A technology fair? A pitch? In my view, it’s all of those combined – and that made the event so interesting!
Hack Belgium offers its attendees 14 crucial challenges around topics that keep our world busy: from healthcare to mobility and building intelligent cities. Over the course of 3 days, all attendees put their heads together to come up with a bright solution to these challenges. With the help of more than 300 experts, it’s certainly a great experience and exercise in idea generation! The objective is to pitch your idea on Saturday and to walk out of Hack Belgium with a blueprint to start working on your project.
OK, I have to confess – we did not stay until Saturday for our pitch, however we did have a lot of fun and interesting moments on Thursday and Friday! We worked on a concept for the media to bring news in a more balanced format, we did a workshop on designing connected projects, we attended an expert session on the state of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), and we had fun playing around with IBM Watson and other upcoming technologies.
Pulling off this type of event at this scale takes a lot of preparation (and guts!) – we want to congratulate the Hack Belgium staff and all the volunteers involved! You truly made this into an interesting & worthwhile event.
We hope to be present for Hack Belgium 2018 and beyond (… and we will stay for the pitch, promise 🐀!).
A few more impressions after the break!
