Startup World Cup Belgium 2026 | Brussels

What happens when you have to build ecosystems with limited resources, fragmented institutions, and no established playbook? Drawing on experiences from across the Middle East region, this conversation will challenge traditional assumptions about where innovation comes from—and explore why some of the most relevant lessons for Europe's future may now be emerging from outside Europe. €5 to be paid in CASH at the entrance *includes a drink after the event

The AI-First Engineering Community is back in Brussels 🇧🇪 Second event in the series, brought to you by TechWolf and ML6, with Wintercircus as ecosystem partner. Join us at BeCentral for three talks, one theme: solving workflows the agentic way. Meet the speakers 🚀 Niels Lowie - Senior AI Engineer @ TechWolf Sleeping While Specto Builds: The Reality of AI-Driven Engineering AI writes most of the code at TechWolf today, shifting the core engineering challenge away from typing syntax and toward specifications, rigorous review, and system design. Niels will dive into how their workflow evolved with the creation of Specto - a custom spec-to-implementation tool that lets agents build full features overnight. Expect an honest breakdown of what works, what still breaks, and where the new bottlenecks lie, giving you practical takeaways for your own AI-first engineering journey. 🚀 Christophe Geudens - CTO & Co-founder @ Prismos Agentic Coding at Prismos Over the past two years, the way we build software at Prismos has fundamentally changed. In this talk, Christophe traces that evolution: from our early experiments with agentic coding to the setup Prismos runs today, where they work through remote agent sessions in personalised cloud environments. He'll cover what worked, what didn't, the struggles along the way, and how practices like code review had to change with it. 🚀 Georges Lorré - Unum, Senior Platform Engineer @ ML6 Unum: Building the Execution Layer for Enterprise Agents Unum is ML6's execution layer for the enterprise: rather than another chatbot or copilot, it senses signals across an organization's tools, decides what needs attention, and carries workflows through to completion under governance the business already trusts, closing the loop between sensing and acting that most agentic AI initiatives never reach. Practicals 🚪 Doors open at 6 PM 🎙️ Talks start at 7:15 PM 🥗🍷 Food and drinks are provided 🛜 Networking after the talks ends at 10:30 PM

Most founders spend years searching for one idea that works. Startup studios claim they can do it again, and again, and again. Same playbook, new company, repeat. So is it a real system, or just a great story told by people who got lucky early? For the next public event of FirstMovers, we go inside the startup studio model: how ideas get picked, how founders get matched, how capital and shared resources are structured, and what transfers from one company to the next. We will be joined by people who build studios, back them, and come out of that world as founders: Séverine Nolf, Co-founder & CEO @ pleasefix.ai | former McKinsey, Entrepreneurs First, now building the AI workforce for finance between Brussels and San Francisco Maarten Mortier, Venture Studio & Early-Stage VC @ Entourage | former Head of AI & Innovation @ Henchman, tech lead @ Showpad and In The Pocket Amaury Sepulchre, Senior Partner & Co-founder @ Hexa (formerly eFounders) | 40+ companies launched since 2011, including Front, Aircall and Spendesk. He has met around 2.000 people who wanted to start a company Co-hosted by Nightborn, THE agency for App & SaaS success for start- and scale-ups. Hosted at WAT, the Brussels tech hub founded by Thibaud Elzière, gathering startups, operators and investors around European innovation. 📅 Program 6:30 PM: Welcome drinks 7:00 PM: Panel talk + Q&A 8:00 PM: Networking drinks & pizza