Who you will hear
Aurora is not a speaker carousel. You get a keynote, the people who built the system, and nothing else. Here is who they are.
Rik VeraKeynoteRik Vera is an author, futurist and keynote speaker. He has given more than 1,500 keynotes in 62 countries, on why and how a company stays relevant while the ground moves under it. His books include The Guide to the Ecosystem Economy and Net Curiosity Score, and with Patrick Petersen he wrote Menswaardige AI, on using AI without handing over human judgement and responsibility. At Aurora he speaks about what changes inside an organisation once building is no longer the bottleneck, and which questions a leadership team then has to ask itself.
Peter VerbovenYour host for the eveningTAGPeter Verboven is an engineer by training, a consultant by experience and an entrepreneur by nature. Throughout his career, he has worked at the intersection of business and technology, advising C-suite leaders on strategy, innovation and transformation.
As founder and managing partner of Tactical Advisory Group (TAG), he combines a consulting mindset with a strong entrepreneurial drive, focused on turning ideas and new technologies into tangible business value and moving from strategy to execution.
Rein LemmensYour host for the eveningKapernikovRein Lemmens is CEO of Kapernikov, the Belgian data and AI engineering firm he co-founded in Leuven in 2011. He graduated as a computer science engineer from KU Leuven in 2004 and has been an entrepreneur ever since.
He now spends much of his time on agentic AI, both in how Kapernikov delivers its own work and in sessions with customers’ engineering teams. He believes it will profoundly impact all knowledge work, as it already does in software development.