A historical moment in time
Now, COVID-19 didn’t only shake up our lives. It made us aware of how being healthy is mankind’s greatest good. But, as an entrepreneur, this is and will be a moment in time during which you’ll need all of your skills to stay on top of things. Suddenly, lean and mean are not just fancy words, but a way to survive.
Talking to you, entrepreneurs, out there, inspired us to organize this event. We wanted to enable you to share ideas and stories and hopefully help you to get even smarter. By uniting you, we want to empower you to move on.
We will all remember this once-in-a-lifetime event for different reasons for quite a long time.
For Paul Bojarski from Sceenic, this might be because in the middle of this storm, he had to leave and help his wife give birth to a beautiful baby girl. But still, the show goes on. We respect that and we thank his team for helping us out and making this happen.
For Egon Verharen from NPO, who had to cancel one of the biggest events in the world, ‘The Eurovision Song Contest 2020’, yet still found the spirit to rethink and reorganise to keep the ball rolling.
For Jorre Belpaire from Kiswe Mobile, who decided to take a deep breath and take some risks, whilst serving their clients in the best way they can. If needed, just rebuild and adapt and make social watching a thing of today instead of it being a plan for tomorrow.
For Kasper Vancoppenolle from WinWinner, who was one of the first to start posting tips and tricks for all SMEs out there. In the meantime, being a start-up, they also had to review their own business model from scratch. But this only proves how customer-centric thinking pays off.
Of course, these are just a few stories. You all have yours and not all of them might have a happy ending… But it’s like pearls in an oyster. They only grow to cover an injury or to protect itself against parasites. Something good must come out of this. And we truly hope this event was a small step in the right direction.
All the tips and tricks from the event in short…
Sceenic
This interactive live event was powered by Sceenic, who launched their Interactive Online Event Solution, a service that lets us experience a new and more interactive way to do online events whilst building communities. The company is globally recognised for its Watch Together software solution that helps business owners to bring the conversation to life on their platforms! The Eurovision Song Contest and LaLiga are amongst their clients.
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KISWE
At Kiswe, we help media companies meet the needs of today’s connected audiences. We partner with sports leagues, entertainment brands and broadcasters to expand reach and engage viewers using our groundbreaking platforms — CloudCast and Hangtime.
Transcend single broadcasts for general audiences with tailored content. Our CloudCast platform enables personalised and localised viewing experiences at scale by using remote commentators to reach new audiences around the world.
From music to sports, take live events to the next level with multi-views and interactive features and bring fans into the venue.
Go beyond “TV everywhere” by bringing audiences together. With interactive watch parties during broadcasts, you can increase engagement and view time.
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WinWinner
In 2016, WinWinner started with a clear mission. To help entrepreneurs to grow and to scale by finding the perfect match between entrepreneurs and investors.
WinWinner is a matchmaking platform that brings starting entrepreneurs and investors together. They offer help and expertise concerning the use of the WinWin loan and tax shelter for starting companies.
Recently, they started a second business unit ‘The Harbour’ to support their clients in finding investments via banks, crowds and PMV, but with a focus on VCs. In the meantime, they have more than a 100 VCs in their portfolio ready to go.
But due to the Coronavirus, their business model was under pressure. Discover how they shifted gear.
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CALLS & OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Mike Matton, one of the driving forces in the VRT Innovation team, was so kind to create this shortlist.
Unfortunately, we can’t guarantee this contains all the possible funding opportunities, but feel free to let us know if we miss something. We’ll keep this as up-to-date as possible for now.
Discover the open calls and EU funding opportunities: Click here
Discover support opportunities that could help you grow: Click here
VR OR AR, Who’s gonna tell?
Those who know Gregg Young, one of our dedicated VRT Sandbox team members, sometimes wonder whether he wasn’t born with VR glasses on his head. He is a natural interactive storyteller and really a pioneer in the field.
Are you new to VR/AR discover the difference in this movie.
Ready to take it a step further. Check what Gregg was talking about during this session. Click here
Do you really want to stay in tune?
Follow us on LinkedIn. Over there, we post and share all the calls we see.
Do you want to discover the rest of our VRT Sandbox team?
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