Impact Shakers Meetup Ghent
Impact Shakers is a global network and growth partner for those taking action to change the world through entrepreneurship.
Through local meetups, we offer impact entrepreneurs a platform to connect with their peers and to those with a curiosity for the impact ecosystem to come and explore.
The format is intended to help connect the different actors in the ecosystem and each time we will showcase an impact entrepreneur alongside a different stakeholder like an impact investor or a researcher, policymaker, support organisation,...
Programme
18h30 Intro Yonca Braeckman, Impact Shakers
18h45 Jeroen Vereecke
19h00 Piet Colruyt
19h30 Q&A with Jeroen and Piet
20h00 Too good to go banquet
Jeroen Vereecke/ De Leiding
Jeroen Vereecke is well known in Ghent as the organiser of our yearly favorite city festival 'Boomtown'. After making this festival the most sustainable one in Flanders, he started 'De Leiding', a social cooperative to help other events' beverage services become more durable.
Piet Colruyt / Impact investor, director, entrepreneur
Piet Colruyt is one of Belgium's leading impact investors. He's invested in several impact funds and many social innovation companies benefited from his investments as well as expertise in the impact ecosystem. Most recently, he opened the first Impact House in Brussels in order to strengthen the spillover effects of uniting capital, support and entrepreneurs under one roof.