Sponsors
GOLD TIER SPONSORSHIP
Deloitte
As a leading audit and consulting practice in Belgium, Deloitte offers value-added services in audit, accounting, and financial advisory services.
Deloitte has more than 4,500 employees in 11 locations across the country in Belgium, serving national and international companies, from small and middle-sized enterprises to public sector and non-profit organizations.
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors.
Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address the world’s most challenging problems. We have deep functional and industry expertise as well as breadth of geographical reach. We are passionate about taking on immense challenges that matter to our clients and, often, to the world.
SILVER TIER SPONSORSHIP
QbD
As the QbD Group, we bring our consultants and their expertise together with our life sciences clients in the best possible way, we help our clients to develop safe therapies and technologies for patients and consumers.
We do this worldwide, with over 450 people who are highly qualified in regulatory affairs, clinical, qualification & validation, quality assurance, quality control, software solutions and go to market.
To this end, we have set up offices including Belgium (HQ), the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, and Colombia.
BRONZE TIER SPONSORSHIP
Capricorn
Capricorn Partners is an independent manager of private and quoted equity funds that invest in minority shareholding positions of innovative companies with technology as a competitive advantage.
Through their private venture capital funds, they invest in promising companies with technological advantages in sustainable chemistry, cleantech, health-tech, digital technologies and artificial intelligence. They are convinced that by investing in new technologies and innovations they can make a positive impact on our society and contribute to a better and more sustainable world, whilst achieving an acceptable return. They support the growth of their portfolio companies as active value-adding shareholders towards successful businesses and profitable exits.
Through their Quest Funds, they invest in best-of-class quoted and unquoted companies, managed by their dedicated team of specialists, focused on financial strength, growth prospects, market position, management strength and valuation.
OUR SUPPORTERS
KU Leuven
KU Leuven is a research university in the Dutch-speaking city of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in the natural sciences, engineering, humanities, medicine, law, business, and social sciences. KU Leuven is the largest university in Belgium and the Low Countries.
KU Leuven consistently ranks among the top 100 universities in the world by major ranking tables. As of 2021, it ranks 45th in the Times Higher Education rankings, 84th according to QS World University Rankings, 97th according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities. For four consecutive years starting in 2016, Thomson Reuters ranked KU Leuven as Europe's most innovative university, with its researchers having filed more patents than any other university in Europe; its patents are also the most cited by external academics.
SnapGene
SnapGene provides the easiest and most secure way to plan, visualize, and document your everyday molecular biology procedures. That’s why scientists at leading institutions and companies around the globe depend on SnapGene every day.
Technovation Hub
Technovation Hub a non-profit organization that brings together innovative and high-tech student projects and students-entrepreneurs and supports them with practical support and coaching. We are convinced that we can stimulate entrepreneurship and technological innovation by creating a learning and working environment in which students can really do business.
Vlaamse Overheid
Vlaamse Overheid is a governmental organization of the Flemish part of Belgium. Administrative work and funding are handled by this department.
Academics for Technology
Academics for Technology (AFT) is a non-profit organisation introducing students to technology and entrepreneurship through events, workshop, etc. AFT believe that the future is technology-centered and will involve everyone’s life one way or another!
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- Home. (n.d.). McKinsey & Company. Retrieved October 11, 2022, from https://www.mckinsey.com/
- Capricorn Partners. (2022). Capricorn Partners. Retrieved October 10, 2022, from https://capricorn.be/en
- Technovation Hub. (2022). Technovation Hub. Retrieved October 10, 2022, from https://technovationhub.be/
- File:KU Leuven logo.svg - Wikimedia Commons. (2017, July 12). Retrieved October 11, 2022, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KU_Leuven_logo.svg
- AFT Leuven. (2022, October 11). Home. Retrieved October 11, 2022, from https://www.aftleuven.be/