Expert classes

Where thought leaders, best in class startups, accelerators, and many more share their knowledge. Expect best practices, insights and hands-on advice on all startup topics!

Check out the expert classes for The Big Squeeze.be 2021!

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Enter the Dragon: Conquering Asia via Hong Kong!

In this expert class, you will hear all about the vibrant international Startup ecosystem in Hong Kong, and how Hong Kong can be your ideal regional APAC Hub.

Hardware-Startups: from idea to commercial success

Developing a new product is not easy, developing the right product is even more difficult, developing and successfully launching the right Hardware product is just Hard.

Research & Development

Fundraising: Finance as frontrunner for your business expansion

Building your business is a continuous process. Along that process businesses need to raise money to support the strategy. Based on the experience at Unifiedpost, I will zoom in into the different steps we have taken, with of course some do's and dont's.

How to scale your culture?

In this class he will focus on both the foundations and the necessary next steps to scale a culture successfully at any stage of your growth.

R&D funding and commercialisation models

In this class Cresco experts will explore various funding models for research & development activities.

Research & Development

Fuck the rules

In his expert class, Tim will explain how Marbles was able to fundamentally increase the employee engagement by giving its employees the freedom to make their own decisions.

Key Metrics for SaaS Scale-Ups

What are the key SaaS metrics, how are they calculated, and what do they tell your team and investors about your business?

Go Global - Panel discussion with founders, funds and lawyers on how to scale your business globally

What are the key learnings when scaling outside of your original geography? What makes scaling successful and how do you hope to keep momentum as you grow at pace?

Zero to Hero - How to attract, retain and grow your team of superhero's globally

This class will look at global recruitment for attracting top talent

Investor Readiness

How to best prepare founders and their startup for growth: are you ready to go fund raising?

HR: challenges & best practices

Jürgen Ingels reveals the lessons he has learned during his career so far. He will give concrete, practical tips about how you can take your company to the next (HR) level.

The challenges of an AI startup - Building an AI product is easy, but is it really?

This talk will describe the opportunities and challenges of AI startups and ways to cope with them.

Research & Development

Enabling autonomous aviation: the sky is not the limit

In this expert class we share the building blocks that were instrumental to Unifly's exponential growth.

The biggest secret weapon is you

You will learn to invest in yourself!

Get smart private or public funding with the services of hub.brussels

Discover with hub.brussels all the possibilities in Brussels to get the good investment at the right time during our expert class!

Rodolphe d'Udekem d'Acoz

What if your CFO was a Spotify playlist?

In this expert class, 3 CEO’s of scaling companies will explain how they have solved this in their company for their finance, together with their spotify’ed CFO’s.

Grow your business in the UK

Hear from our expert speakers on how you can access and grow your business in the UK market.

Accenture’s Immersive Collaboration Platform - The future of how we work

The global covid-19 pandemic became a catalyst for our XR practice to explore how might we connect with each other and how might we work in the future.

Research & Development

Revive after a start-up failure

This expert class is a panel discussion about how to deal with tough times in business and get the best out of it.

Funding Journey

In this session, Force Over Mass will walk you through a typical funding journey and explain what investors will focus on when they asses a business.

Enable smarter hardware products by using Edge AI

In this class, we will explain Edge AI and show you several practical real-life use cases. Expect a small deep dive under the hood of AI hardware and how they process AI.

Research & Development

How to grow a startup globally

WeGroup CEO Arvid De Coster will share his story of why they did what they did, and how.