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and& is a one of a kind
summit & festival
at the intersection of health, tech & creativity
curated for the curious

4 dagen & nachten
10 venues
100 sprekers & artiesten
8000 bezoekers

and& is een uniek, multidisciplinair initiatief in het Belgische innovatielandschap.

4 dagen en nachten verkennen we de impact van health, high-tech en creativiteit op het toekomstige stadsleven. Gecureerd voor the curious zorgt and& voor een weloverwogen, diverse en wereldwijde selectie van denkers, uitvinders, ondernemers en kunstenaars. Verwacht een reeks van inspirerende talks, avant-gardistische muziekacts, een start-up & scale-up forum, een tech expedition en artistieke interventies in publieke ruimte.

relive 2018

program 2018

summit

talks

Daan Roosegaarde Stefan Sagmeister Lucy McRae Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro Shigeru Ban Carlo Ratti Sophie Vandebroek Andrew Keen Carla Camilla Hjort Steven Keating Johan Thijs Duco Sickinghe Luc Van den hove Peter Hinssen Dimitri Hegemann Lutz Leichsenring Eve Turrow Paul Maroš Šefčovič Prof. Koen Kas & Jasna Rok Prof. Bart Preneel Kenric McDowell ontdek meer sprekers en het programma per dag hier

festival

music

Bicep - live Joy Orbison Jlin Laurel Halo Jordan Rakei STUFF. Legowelt - live Project Pablo Donna Leake Le Motel Binkbeats Kamaal Williams Dengue Dengue Dengue Africaine 808 Orpheu The Wizard Laura Misch Ross From Friends Up High Collective Nosedrip Dijf Sanders & veel meer

speakers & artists 2018

speaker

Daan Roosegaarde NL

the Leonardo da Vinci of the Dutch Polders (or just Daan)
music

Bicep - live UK

live & analogue deep house duo flexing muscles for club culture
speaker

Stefan Sagmeister AT

iconic NY-based designer & storyteller
speaker

Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro JP

builds androids/human replicas, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory Osaka University

speaker

Lucy McRae AU

science fiction artist & body architect
speaker

Shigeru Ban JP

revolutionary pioneer in humanitarian architecture & winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
music

Joy Orbison UK

one of the most acclaimed underground DJs in the world
speaker

Carlo Ratti IT

architect, engineer, inventor, educator & activist professor at MIT
music

Jordan Rakei NZ

rare jazz talent & soul album of the year producer
music

Jlin US

masterly formed origami of rhythms
speaker

Carla Cammilla Hjort DK

SPACE10-founder & cultural entrepeneur who proclaims "The Rebel Way"
music

Laurel Halo US

shapeshifting artist on the balance between pop-tinged electronica & avant-garde expressionism

music

Le Motel BE

Belgium's most talented & eclectic producer
speaker

Johan Thijs BE

CEO of KBC & one of the best in the world according to the Harvard Business Review
speaker

Duco Sickinghe NL

charismatic investor in remarkable companies of today & tomorrow at Fortino Capital

speaker

Luc Van den hove BE

president & CEO of imec
music

Legowelt - live NL

Electro producer and DJ from The Hague with international fame
music

STUFF. BE

5-headed hyperkinetic & genre bending groove-crusaders
speaker

Peter Hinssen invites Steven Keating & Ozark Henry BE

serial entrepreneur & visionair & speaker & author on all things digital & radical innovation
speaker

Andrew Keen UK

‘antichrist of Silicon Valley’ & one of the world’s most influential no nonsense digital tech rebels
speaker

Sophie Vandebroek US

KU Leuven-alumni & COO of IBM Research
speaker

Steven Keating US

MIT doctoral student who researched & 3D printed his own brain tumor
speaker

Dimitri Hegemann DE

founder of Berlin’s legendary techno club Tresor & cultural activist & space-pioneer
speaker

Lutz Leichsenring DE

founder of The Creative Footprint & leads Berlin’s Clubcommission
music

Project Pablo CA

Montreal-based artist & underground hit producer
speaker

Prof. Koen Kas & Jasna Rok BE

a healthcare professor & a visionair on future fashion and technology
music

Kamaal Williams UK

raw energy fusing jazz with the sound of urban London
speaker

Maroš Šefčovič SK

vice-president of the EC
art curator

Samir Bantal NL

and&'s art curator & director of AMO, the research & design studio of OMA
speaker

Prof. Bart Preneel BE

KU Leuven professor & inventor & future of security & privacy thinker
music

Dengue Dengue Dengue PE

masked duo of producers, dj’s & graphic designers from Lima, Perú
music

Donna Leake UK

music for open ears, open minds, open hearts and zero expectations
music

Binkbeats NL

producer & four limbs plus-fifty instrument percussionist
art

AMO NL

research & design studio applying architectural thinking to domains far beyond
speaker

Kenric McDowell US

head of the Artists & Machine Intelligence program at Google

Africaine 808 DE

two Berliners & an 808 analog drum machine

Cecilia Tham & Mark Bunger CHN & US

esigner and biologist & Research Director at Lux Research

Tomas Diez VE

urbanist & director of Fab Lab Barcelona

Kosta Peric US

author & deputy director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “Financial Services for the Poor”

Prof. Luc Steels & Dr. Oscar Vilarroya BE & SP

director of the VUB’s AI laboratory & researcher in neuropsychology & cognitive science at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Dr. Charlotte D’Hulst BE

biotech entrepreneur building a human-nose-on-a-chip to detect, discover & digitize every single smell on this planet

Antonio Garcia Martinez US

industry provocateur known as ’a brilliant jerk'

Dijf Sanders BE

globetrotting multi-instrumentalist producing future exotica

Eve Turow Paul US

Millennial food culture expert

Fahim Kawsar BD

leads the Internet of Things research at NOKIA Bell Laboratories

Elinor Samuelsson SE

future of the work thinker & co-founder of The Kokon

Bjeor BE

40-something Chicago-scene-legend trapped in the body of a 23 year old from Leuven

Chris Van Hoof & Stephan Claes BE

Director CHS at imec & Head of Unit for Adult Psychiatry UPC KUL

Jason Jercinovic US

global head of marketing innovation at Havas

John Baekelmans & Gert Bergen BE

imec’s vice president and Netherlands managing director

Stephanie Alys UK

sextech expert & co-founder of the award-winning British pleasure brand MysteryVibe

Dr. Hermann Hauser AT

entrepreneur & venture capitalist in various tech sectors

Moodprint BE

patchwork stitcher of free-flowing sounds, swinging grooves & worldly gems

Chris Burggraeve BE

former CMO AB InBev & investor in disruption (incl. cannabis)

Prof. Luc Van Gool BE

electro-mechanical engineering professor at ETH Zurich & KU Leuven

Canay Atalay TR

global business & cultural innovation designer

Felix Petersen DE

Managing Director Europe at Samsung NEXT & global entrepeneur

Prof. Tony Belpaeme BE

Professor in Cognitive Systems & Robotics & member of IDLab

Jonathan Berte BE

applied Physics engineer & Founder of Robovision

Prof. Chantal Mathieu BE

Professor, endocrinologist & President of the Flemish Diabetes Society

Orpheu The Wizard NL

a distinguished & curious selector, who invites his audiences to be so too

Dr. Michel Dumontier CA

scientist in biochemistry & distinguished Professor in Data Science

Prof. Bram Vanderborght BE

Professor in Robotics & active member of BruBotics

Prof. Johan Neyts BE

award winning Professor in Virology & co-founder of Okapi Sciences

Peter Hanappe BE

researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory

Koen Hufkens BE

Earth System scientist & ecologist

Laura Misch UK

unexpected sounds accompanying a gorgeous, folkish voice

Matthias Einhoff DE

artist & composer & performer & co-founder & director of ZK/U

Rudy de Waele BE

innovation strategist & content curator & author

Up High Collective BE

thoughtfully constructed sounds somewhere in between future soul & electronica

Sofie Foets BE

multilingual social entrepeneur & founder of TADA

Prof. Geraint Wiggins UK

Professor in Computational Creativity at QM University London & AI expert

AliA BE

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