AI Summer School 2026 for scale-up founders
Ostend, Belgium
AI is not just changing your product. It is changing your business model, organisation and growth path. During AI Summer School 2026, founders, CEOs and management teams of tech scale-ups come together at the Belgian coast. Over two and a half days, you will explore what AI means for your company, which choices you need to make now and how to turn technological innovation into sustainable growth for industry.
For whom?
- Founders, co-founders and CEOs
- C-level executives and scale-up management team members
- Companies with proven product-market fit
- Tech scale-ups ready for international growth
- Companies with a turnover above EUR 500,000, at least EUR 1 million in raised capital or at least one customer abroad
Key takeaways
- Understand why AI is a business model shift
- Discover how AI changes teams, roles, costs and decision-making
- Learn what to automate and what to protect strategically
- Translate AI into product, pricing, sales and revenue growth
- Gain insights from founders, operators and experts from industry
- Define first actions for your own AI transformation
Programme
Day |
Topic |
| 09/09/2026 (evening) | Setting the Stakes: Why AI Changes Everything |
| 10/09/2026 | Rebuilding Your Organisation for an AI-First World |
| 11/09/2026 | Turning AI into Product, Revenue and Advantage |
Final programme to be published soon
Speakers
Matthias Feys - ML6
Yasamin Karimi - TechWolf
Jeroen Van Hautte - TechWolf
Stijn Christiaens - Collibra
Wouter Janssen - Tekst.ai
Laurens Nys - GTM Sigma
Valentijn Destoop - AI platforms
Tim Vandecasteele - die van de boekhouding
Manon Vandebergh - Phished
Nicolas Finet - Sortlist
Karel Callens - Luzmo
Julie Van Damme - Peripass
Thomas De Clerck - Nexus
Iman Lamrani - Eximium Talent
Carine Lucas - Agoria
Wim Codenie - Sirris