Multi-Mania 2014 | 19-20.05.2014 Kortrijk Xpo | Europe's biggest free multimedia conference

Andries is co-founder of Bits of Love, a digital studio with a passion for data visualization. His founding partner in crime is Vic Rau, a Howest alumni. They also won the Trends Gazellen Starter award for West-Vlaanderen in 2014. (more…)

Anner Tiete (1983) is a user experience designer and one of the founders of beyond.io, an Antwerp-based Research and Design Lab for hire.
beyond.io uses design & technology to craft things that intrigue and make people smile.

As a strategist with an eye for how people interact with technology, Anner has specific expertise in combining digital intelligence and connectedness with physical objects into amazing user experiences.

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Bart is a software engineer having a profound expertise both in multiple technology stacks and heterogenous industries. Bart is passionate about identifying and prototyping new technology usecases. Bart coordinates ICT at Howest.

Head of Group Software, Bigben Interactive

Musketon. 22 year old illustration machine trying to conquer the world with The Pentool.

Bert Timmermans is Application Designer at Digiti, a digital agency located near Antwerp. He has a passion for transforming ideas into engaging user experiences. (more…)

My name is Chanan Moll. Getting old; 28 years already! I started doing business as a little boy, so you can say that I was an entrepreneur from the day I can remember. Together with my business partner (Peter Budding) I started an online bureau called the “Media Artists” in 2008. (more…)

Co-Founder, Syndicate 17; Adjunct Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media & Games Division; Chief Product Officer, Score Music Interactive.

Chanel Summers began her career as a pioneering designer and producer of video games, developing a wide variety of innovative products at early industry-leading companies such as Mindscape, Velocity and Mattel Media.

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David is Technical evangelist at Microsoft Belux, with a 15+ years of extensive experience in Microsoft IT Technologies, enterprise architecture & deep expertise in Mobile projects.
Startup’s coach, passionate of technologies, his playgrounds are Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Windows Azure.

Almost 20 years of experience in the videogame business: networking, sales, retail, media, marketing and gamification. More than 4 years of experience in content marketing (custom made media): print and online. Project management, social media and conversation management. Specialties: games networking, sales, media, marketing and gamification.

Diederik was born in 1978 in The Hague. Aged 18, Diederik moved to Amsterdam to fulfill his dreams of working in the film industry. He started as a runner on critically acclaimed film L’avventura and soon found himself working as a freelance video assistant. He was the first video assistant operator to start working with a digital hard disk recorder in the Netherlands, and continued doing so for eight more years, after which he decided it was time for the next challenge and started working as an Editing Assistant on the feature film ‘Kees de Jongen’.

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Dieter De Preester is a faculty member of the Technical University of West-Flanders (Howest), where he teaches .NET/WinRT and web development (ASP.NET MVC/HTML5/Windows Azure) in the NMCT curriculum. (more…)

Dominic Wilcox is a British artist and designer who creates innovative objects, drawings and installations. In 2002 he graduated from Ron Arad’s renowned Design Products course at the Royal College of Art and has gone on to develop an international reputation for his diverse range of original and creative work. Through his drawings and objects he aims to place a spotlight on the banal; adding a new, surprising perspective on the everyday.

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As a digital videogames expert I am managing for videogames developpers or publishers; digital distribution of their games all over the world on lot of platforms (PC, MAc, Mobiles, Tablets, Cloud gaming and FreeToPlay). We help them to find new partners, new distributors or to deploy their new digital strategy.

DigiPunk

Co-Founder: Arkaos
Founder: IDform

Motion Graphics Lead and VFX Supervisor, SuperHeroes

Fred Huergo is Motion Graphics Lead and VFX Supervisor for SuperHeroes, an international, creativity-driven agency with a singular mission: to save the world from boring advertising.

Mexican-born and bilingually raised, Fred moved to the United States at the age of 18 to study Film production at the Savannah College of Art + Design. The fine balance between the artistic and the technical side of post production gave way to a much deeper inclination towards motion design.

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I am a lecturer at the University College of West – Flanders (Howest) in Kortrijk where I teach Windows and Web Development in the bachelor degree New Media and Communication Technology. (more…)

Frederik is a commercial engineer with a strong passion for technology. He currently works at Imtech ICT Belgium as domain manager ‘technical solutions’ and technology lead of software development. Frederik is founder of the vibrant Belgium Internet of Things community (http://www.iotbe.org).

Geert co-founded Moovly in 2012 and is the company’s evangelist, responsible for technology, business development and operations. Prior to Moovly, he founded and ran the digital communications agency Instruxion. (more…)

Sociobiologist

Founder: MARKEE –Ghent, www.markee.be
BrandSpecies-Ghent, www.brandspecies.com
The Hunting Division Kortrijk, www.thehuntingdivision.com
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Gwen is creative developer at Little Miss Robot and passionate about creative coding, generative artwork and interactive experiences.

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Halbo cut his teeth in the creative and VFX industry as a trainee at Valkieser Capital Images, specialising first in edit and later in VFX for the commercial market in the Netherlands. After nine years, having thoroughly caught the VFX bug, he jumped ship to Vancouver and Rainmaker Digital Pictures where he worked on high profile film and TV projects including Free Willy and The X Files and picked up two Emmy Award Nominations along the way.

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Hilde Maassen is a professional photographer. She is known for her experimental work. In addition to her commercial works as an artist hilde also works on larger projects for gallery and museum exhibitions. (more…)

HKI™ Hellohikimori™ is an independent design studio founded in 2004 by Nathalie Melato and David Ronhel. Providing : Creative/Art direction , directing, motion, cgi, web/app development, storytelling & innovation.

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Jan De Coster grew up with a vivid fascination for physics, science fiction stories and hacking stuff. In college he realized that all the stories around science were a far more appealing than the theory behind them, (more…)

Jo Plaete has been working in the visual effects industry as a technical director for various studios including Framestore, Animal Logic and is currently a lead crowd simulation TD at the Moving Picture Company in London.

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Joel is a web developer who is comfortable at every level of the stack. He enjoys diversity in projects, from working with database and backend systems to writing JavaScript HTML5 games.

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Johan Michels is a designer at Netvlies[Netvlies.nl], a dutch fullservice online agency based in Breda. He started building websites back when Angelfire designs where the standard and has been ever since. He’s always been passionate about design that people really use and creating great experiences for them.

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Already on school, the talent and interest of Joost for drawing and mathematics was visible. It wasn’t a strange decision to go to the Artacademy, where he was educated in motion graphics. And it still proves to be a good combination, because Joost has 15 years of experience as a motion graphics designer. (more…)

Associate Director, Digital Sales & Marketing COCA-COLA

Expert in building world leading brands that touch the HEART (Coca-Cola) & convince the HEAD (Danone), with a passion for New Media. (more…)

Kevin DeRudder is lecturer at the Technical University of West Flanders (http://www.howest.be). He teaches .NET, Windows 8 and front-end web developement in the track New Media and Communications Technology (http://www.nmct.be). Kevin also speaks at several conferences and user groups.

Lorenzo is a young entrepreneur in New Media.
Founder and CEO of StoryMe, the startup specialised in 1 minute video animations, based in Ghent and London. (more…)

Geurts is professor at the Faculty of Engineering Technology of KU Leuven, and currently leads the e-Media Lab. His research focuses on serious games for health and learning and novel technologies for human computer interaction.

Maarten Balliauw is a Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. His interests are all web: ASP.NET MVC, PHP and Windows Azure.

He’s a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Windows Azure and an ASPInsider.

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Coming from Animation, Film and Electronic Arts, Marc Lavigne worked recently for Valenciennes Trade and Industry Chamber and the regional cluster “Pôle Images Nord – Pas de Calais ” to set up facilities for the serious games industry and its development. His current position is managing director of Game IN.

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Marin Todorov is an independent iOS developer and publisher with background in various platforms and languages. He started developing on an Apple ][ more than 20 years ago and keeps rocking till today. Meanwhile he has worked in great companies like Monster and Native Instruments, has lived in 4 different countries, and (more recently) has worked on 10+ titles on the App Store.

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Mathias is a Belgian web standards freak. He likes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Unicode, performance, and security. At Opera Software he’s a member of the Developer Relations team.

Michaël is a Senior Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe. He’s been passionate about the web since the 90s and has worked as an interactive designer in web agencies before joining Adobe in 2006. He blogs about Creativity and the Web (http://www.CreativeDroplets.com).

Mihai has been working with web technologies since the late ’90s. He spent the last 6 years traveling around the world to give speeches and meet Adobe customers. When he is not traveling he is coding and writing. (more…)

Neil Harbisson (July 27th, 1982) is a Catalan contemporary artist, composer and cyborg activist best known for his ability to hear colours and to perceive colours outside the ability of human vision.

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Paul Verbeek is a JavaScript developer, living and working in The Netherlands where he’s established the country’s first Open Device Lab.

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Peter Elst is a Web Solutions Engineer in Creative Innovation at Google. Originally coming from a Flash and multimedia background he’s now passionate about web standards and how to drive innovation on the web.

Phuong Do, with Vietnamese & Chinese background, is the Co-founder and CEO of LayerGloss. Her passion for creativity and entrepreneurial spirit is the genesis of LayerGloss – an innovative, online app-building platform.

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Pieter van Helvoirt - sr. Solution Consultant at Adobe Benelux - has a broad knowledge of the Adobe creative software and technologies like database publishing, Javascript, XML, HTML, Adobe InDesign Server solutions and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. (more…)

Rizon Parein started in the early nineties as a graffiti artist with a strong passion for 3D letter styles.

After quitting school at the age of 17, he started working in graphic design to make a living; the ‘School of Hard Knocks’. He specialised in designing flyers for Belgian club nights, which gave him the chance to experiment with classic graphic design techniques as well as 3D design.

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Rob Bateman is an internationally renowned web developer and open source advocate with a passion for realtime interactive 3D. His main focus lies in and around the widely established 3D graphics engine Away3D, and the general purpose graphics framework AwayJS for native web platforms. (more…)

Sakri is a Brussels based creative coder from Finland. He currently gives workshops through http://www.devstate.net . With nearly 15 years of experience, in the past he has worked on award winning projects for international companies including Sony, Pioneer and Bose. (more…)

Seb Lee-Delisle is a digital artist and speaker who uses computers to engage with people and inspire them.

As an artist, he likes to make interesting things from code that encourage interaction and playfulness from the public.

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Marlies is art director. Bart is editor. Together they are Stapel, a creative team of magazine makers. Stapel has a mission: to define the role of print in a digital age. No wonder Stapel means bonkers. Or is it?

Thomas Clever is co-founder of CLEVER°FRANKE, an interactive design agency focused on information and data visualization. He studied Graphic Design at the University of Arts Utrecht (NL) and received his Master’s degree from the same university, specializing in Editorial Design and data visualization. (more…)

Tom Palmaerts is a trendwatcher and partner at Trendwolves, European youth intelligence.

He continually expands a network of young and talented trendsetters, with his main interests being micro trends, tribes, online communities and street culture. Within Trendwolves Palmaerts conducts trend research on the next five years. He is a worldwide keynote speaker and trend consultant. Working for brands like Clariant, HP, Microsoft Innovation Center, Palm, PwC, Universal Music, Hello Bank, … Every year clients can read Trendwolves future vision in a trend report. On a daily basis brands can login to Youthr, a youth trend database for inspiration, strategy and insights.

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Val Head is a designer and consultant based in Philadelphia. Her work ranges from projects on the web to interactive installations to print. She is the author of The Pocket Guide to CSS Animations from Five Simple Steps and CSS Animations on Lynda.com.

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Ward started his career as a web application developer specialized in rich internet applications and games. He is now running the development team behind CHILI Publisher, an online document editor.

Born in the late seventies, Wim Vanhenden is a child of the first generation that grows up with a personal computer in the living room. He was raised in a creative family: his father owned an art gallery and teaches painting, his mother is a ceramic artist and his sister is a graphic designer, he himself has always been more attracted to computers than to a painter’s canvas. In the mid eighties he started drawing his first experiments in BASIC on his Tandy TRS-80 Coco II home computer. From that moment onwards, life without computers is unthinkable for him.

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