Tech x Bio Night: Different DNA, Same Ambition

Two Ghent giants are about to meet. At last. 💥

Ghent has two ecosystems of world-class calibre: tech and biotech. But for the most part, they live next to each other, not with each other. A tech founder thinks in sprints and quarters. A biotech entrepreneur thinks in clinical phases and decades. Different clocks, different languages. Same hunger to build what doesn't exist yet. 

On 27 October, VIB and Wintercircus bring professionals from both worlds together for one evening. 

The night opens with Karen Massey (CEO of argenx) and Roeland Delrue (co-founder of Aikido Security): two reference points in their ecosystems, on growth. How do you scale with software, and how do you scale with a medicine? 

From there: Matthew Foy (Avante Biocapital) and international tech investor Michelangelo Valtancoli join Karen and Aikido on what it takes to fund a biotech company versus a tech company, and Riccardo Sabatini and Jeroen Van Hautte – two…