The innovation & networking evening by Technovation Hub & teams will take place on Tuesday 17 May, at 7 p.m.
After the official part with an inspiring keynote speaker form our new partner Infinite/CadCorner, you will get the chance to choose between eight innovative workshops led by one or more members of our student teams.
All students, professors, companies, entrepreneurs with interests in innovation, technology & entrepreneurship are very welcome.
Location
Quadrivium
Celestijnenlaan 200, 3001 Heverlee
A limited number of parking spaces is available on campus.
You can also a park your car on car park 'Kasteelpark - De Molen' with this access code 9992# (Kasteelpark Arenberg 50 - 6 minutes walk).
Innovation & Networking evening
Tuesday 17 May 2022
Pictures of the event
Programme
19.00 - 19.05 h | Introduction
19.05 - 19.15 h | Welcome speech by Gerard Govers, Vice Rector Science, Engineering and
Technology Group KU Leuven
19.15 - 20.00 h | Keynote by Xavier Werbrouck, CEO Infinite/CadCorner: “The physical & digital
worlds have converged”
20.00 - 20.30 h | Innovative workshops led by the teams
20.30 - 21.00 h | Innovative workshops led by the teams
21.00 - 22.00 h | Networking
Registration
The event is free, but registration is mandatory. You can register for the event using the form below. The deadline for registration is Monday 9 May.
WORKSHOPS
Aether - Can't control that storm in your brain? Learn how to brainstorm with Aether
Some various ways and tips to adjust your brainstorm methods to the problems you’re facing.
Formula Electric Belgium - The driverless electric race car, an innovation for the future of mobility?
What does it take to make a car driverless? How can you gain perfomance and how does that translate into a people car? This and much more will be discussed in an interactive workshop around our driverless test platform. If you always wanted to know more about these topics, be sure to register!
Agoria Solar Team - A winning team in three months
Keeping up performance and ensuring knowledge transfer in a high-turnover student team.
Circl-E - How not to reinvent the wheel: systematic inventive thinking
This workshop will showcase the difference between innovation and invention, emphasizing that innovation can be achieved in different ways. We will provide a framework that may help you to come up with new ideas. There is no such thing as being uncreative! Let’s break patterns and start thinking outside the box!
iGEM KU Leuven - Inclusion and diversity in STEM
While inclusion and diversity initiatives increase innovation, productivity and revenue across all STEM fields, ongoing efforts are required to allow employees and executives to feel comfortable contributing their diverse perspectives. Let’s try and discover some possibilities together!
CORE - The (student) cooperative as a sustainable and distributive business structure
Student cooperative CORE shares its experience with the cooperative form of enterprise. This form of business is built on the next generation of business values, namely sustainability, cooperation, society and added value.
NeuroTech Leuven - Reading the mind: an introduction to neurotech applications
Neurotechnology has become so accessible that enthusiasts can now use its technology to craft their own applications. NeuroTech Leuven will show this accessibility live through a self-made application and speak about the relevance of its fundamentals in various sectors.
Start-up team - Important lessons for start-ups
Each start-up tells us briefly what it does and the path it has taken through the postgraduate programme. Each of us also shares one of the most important lessons that we have learned during the programme. In this way, we want to give interested parties some insight into what the postgraduate programme for start-ups actually entails and show them that it is actually quite easy to start something.
