Topic: “Innovations Event”
Organizing Committee: Vlerick iMBA Alumni Board
Media Partner: The Future Leadership Institute*
21 October 2009 | Joint Seminar | Belgium
(*Between 2007 and 2011 the Institute carried temporarily the name ‘The Wall Street Journal Future Leadership Institute’)
Sponsors:
•Xerox
•Alcatel-Lucent

Speakers:
Sophie Vandebroek
•CTO
•President of the Xerox Innovation Group
•Corporate VP
•Born in Leuven
•electro-mechanical engineering from KUL
•Ph.D. electrical engineering from Cornell University
•living in US & fellow of the IEEE

Wim Sweldens
•Corporate VP
•Head of Alcatel Lucent Ventures (the incubator)
•Head of Network Technology (network technology strategy & roadmap)
•MIT’s Technology Review choose him as one of most promising innovators
•Civil engineering from KUL
•Ph.D. computer sciences from KUL
•living in US & fellow of the IEEE