My ambition is to inspire other people to dream. I create artistic interventions, interruptions, and provocations that lead to higher states of alertness and aliveness. Formats can be analog and digital artwork, performances, writings, poems, blogs, installations, exhibitions, immersions, soundscapes, recordings, documentaries, and time capsules. Top 100 Futurist Influencer 2018 – Multiple FinTech Influencer Awards – Former co-founder Innotribe (SWIFT) – Microsoft Chairman’s Award 2005 – WEF Personal Data Expert Group. From 2007 till 2017, I was the Co-Founder of Innotribe, the innovation initiative of SWIFT. The main architect and content creator of the eight Innotribe Sibos events between 2009 and 2016. Project lead of the Digital Asset Grid, a major project on peer to peer sharing of data. Prior to SWIFT, I was at Microsoft as EAI Solution Sales and Business Development Manager for Microsoft’s Electronic Identity Card plans in Belgium, for which I received in 2005 the Microsoft Chairman’s Award. Advisor and investor in Volta Ventures, and on the Advisory Board of several organizations and start-ups. Member of the WEF expert group on Personal Data, and the REXpedition, a think-tank for the Relationship Economy. Co-initiator of Corporate Rebels United, a movement to unite corporate rebels worldwide to ensure that true change happens virally, and Charter Member of Change Agents Worldwide. Speaker, including TEDxNewWallStreet and TEDxChange. Belgian, Flemish primitive, married to Mieke, and proud father of a 13-year-old daughter. I am studying painting and digital visual arts at the Academy of Arts in Ghent.