Session

Open For Business

  • Time: 14h15-15h00
  • Location: Salle Hocaille
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Type: Panel

With this session, CC Belgium wants to discuss some various forms of open business models - or how openly licensed and public domain materials can be both a very useful resource for businesses, and how businesses can create a viable business model by opening up their product and/or production process. Panelists and introduction will be partly based on the book Made with CC by Creative Commons

Speakers

Hello I'm Winnie Poncelet

Winnie is co-founder of ReaGent, the first biohackespace in Flanders. In the lab he mainly does community engagement and is involved in several citizen science initiatives around materials, water quality and medicine. The most important of which is Open Insulin, a project dedicated to developing open source insulin. He has been a fellow for Edgeryders, researching how communities solve governmental or systemic gaps in healthcare through science & technology and is well acquainted and connected to the European and global biohacking network.

Winnie Poncelet

Science Engagement Strategist

Break it Down

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Hello I'm Hessel van Oorschot

Hessel is an experienced entrepreneur, C-level coach and interim manager with background in online business models, digital media and building teams to execute disruptive ideas.

Hessel van Oorschot

CEO

Tribe of Noise

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Hello I'm Gwen Franck

Gwen is an Open Access Programme Coordinator for EIFL (working on FOSTER, PASTEUR4OA and OpenAIRE projects). Project lead for the OpenAIRE FP7 Post Grant Open Access project on behalf of LIBER. Former Regional Coordinator Europe for Creative Commons. Co-founder of Open Access Belgium on behalf of Ghent University Library as well as Board member of Open Knowledge Belgium.

Gwen Franck

Independent Consultant

Open Matters

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Hello I'm Sebastiaan ter Burg

Sebastiaan ter Burg (1979) is a visual consultant and storyteller. Most of his work is available under a Creative Commons license, an open license that allows reuse of the photos by others. Sebastiaan has been an open content advocate since 2007. As founder of Circular Content he helps organizations design and implement content strategies that maximizes their communication reach. Visit www.circularcontent.com for more information.

Sebastiaan ter Burg

Founder

Circular Content

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Hello I'm Jolan Soens

Jolan is a project manager at Timelab in Ghent. The city lab provides a space for people to co-create together with artists, neighbors, the community, etc. to address everyday problems in our society. Jolan is passionately motivated by circular economics and sustainability and how their complexity intertwines with everyday issues. A practical example is his Knotplex project, where he turns waste into valuable raw materials.

Jolan Soens

Project Coordinator

Timelab

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