Sheron Shamuilia is a physicist, entrepreneur and an advisor in intellectual property protection and commercialization. She currently works as a director at EY, providing consultancy services in intellectual property valorization for several stakeholders, such as universities and both small and big business owners. She has expertise in software based technologies and medical devices.

Sheron is an analytical, result-driven, pragmatic, and business oriented personality. She is mad about mountains, music, technology and interested in creating the future instead of predicting it. Although she is a product of Iran, she has lived in Belgium for 30 years.

In her compelling talk, Sheron shares her own unique and personal journey as a refugee back when she was a child in the eighties and the important lessons it taught her. It is the story of her family, her muslim mom and jewish dad, fleeing Iran, building a new life and realizing that not fitting in was the perfect fit for her.