Isabel Michiels Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Be

Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium

• I am the lead of the Agoria4SaaS community that unites Agoria's fast growing innovative digital companies. Agoria launched a business group in 2022 to better serve the needs of (220+) Agoria digital product/SaaS companies. Such businesses are "born global", which means that customers, partners, but also competitors are located worldwide from day one. Therefore scaling and growth happens in a very different way than more traditional companies. Via this business group Agoria wants to offer on the one hand its broad expertise, but specifically tailored towards these type of companies. On the other hand, Agoria will serve as a facilitator of the Agoria4SaaS community, where SaaS members can learn and share from each other, but also collaborate with corporates to help them grow their business faster. Supported by a steering committee of 10 digital product/SaaS member companies.• I am part of the Agoria DigiCoach programme; DigiCoach offers a framework to assist companies in their digital transformation. I help companies to understand the possibilities of digital technology and how to create value with it. • I am the theme manager digitalization for the VLAIO Industry Partnership. The #industriepartnerschap is a consortium of 17 Flemish innovation partners (led by Agoria and Sirris) with an integrated service offering to stimulate growth and innovation in the Flemish industry in three themes: digitalization, sustainability & industry 4.0.

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Further shape and develop the smart cities ecosystem with and for our member companies (both digital and manufacturing companies)• Supporting the digital transformation in cities and municipalities – towards better digital IT systems and smart municipal infrastructure for the transitions such as mobility & energy. • Building relationships and networks with the various stakeholders to enable smart cities projects and initiatives. • Strong cooperation with Business Group Leaders smart mobility, smart energy and smart building to support the Agoria smart cities strategy as a whole. • Building ecosystems, with companies, cities and municipalities and third parties to boost and accelerate the market development of smart cities.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Bluepoint Brussels

Agoria represents 1900 Belgian companies in the technological industry. Within Agoria, I work as a lead expert in the expertise center Innovation. I advise companies on digital innovation by combining a strong background in software engineering with expertise on valorisation of innovation projects.I am project lead and coach for Scaleup.vlaanderen, a guidance programme for digital product companies, supported by Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship Agency. This programme helps digital product companies grow by offering practical tools and top notch expertise specifically aimed at scaling a digital business model (http://scaleup.vlaanderen).Because of the growing demand for internationalisation support of our target group, I am also leading the EFRO project Scaleup.international, which aims at building up knowledge to design and develop an accompanying format to assist digital product companies with their internationalisation strategies.And I am the point of contact for Innovation within the Brussels Region. I follow the Brussels innovation ecosystem via a.o. a mandate in the "Raad voor Wetenschapsbeleid Brussel/Conseil de la Politique Scientifique de Bxl".

Brussels Area, Belgium

I participate as a valorisation expert in the panels for the PhD fellowship strategic basic research on Informatics and data communication. Possible research topics: Theoretical informatics, parallel and distributed computing; programming languages and techniques; software engineering; scientific computing; computer graphics and visualisation, software for embedded and real-time systems; web and information systems and their management; computer networks; computer security, cryptography.

For each European edition, MIT Technology Review has relied on its global innovation community to select the ambassadors. They are allies who stand out thanks to their high visibility, experience and knowledge of the ecosystem. Some of these collaborators are well-known technologists, entrepreneurs, winners of previous editions, investors and academics at leading universities and companies from all around the world. Others are influential opinion leaders and credible points of contact within a specific field.All of them are Ambassadors of the competition with an important mission: to promote the diffusion of new technologies and bolster the search for young, scientific and entrepreneurial talent by recommending young people with the potential to be tomorrow's leaders and reshape our world.

Since its creation, MIT Technology Review has been publishing the list of the most brilliant Innovators Under 35 that are making exciting strides, shaping their fields and solving problems in remarkably different ways. In 2011, the magazine brought the search for talented youth to local editions in different countries within Europe. The main objective of the regional European award has been to consolidate this young European community of innovators and pioneers. Today, the European program lends visibility to the work of the most talented, young, technological leaders to strengthen an international innovation community. Each year, brilliant men and women are recognized for their advancements in diverse technical fields such as biotechnology and medicine, computer and electronics, hardware, software, Internet, artificial intelligence, robotics, telecommunications, nanotechnology and materials, energy and transportation. MIT Technology Review relies on its committee of judges, made up of experts from leading universities and companies to select the 35 best profiles of candidates. In addition to this, the competition recognizes five different categories of winners: Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Visionaries, Humanitarians, and Pioneers, according to their profile as innovators. From generating new opportunities to reimagining how things are done, this competition creates a unique platform for those individuals that strive to make a disruptive and impactful change in the world.

Brussels Area, Belgium

The Council for Science Policy of the Brussels-Capital Region (CPSRBC) is an independent advisory body of the regional government.

BEyond is a high-level program for Belgian tech scaleups to become a global top-business player.On the initiative of the Pulse Foundation, 6 actors supporting the Belgian economy (Agoria, Sirris, IMEC, EY, DataScouts and Universem) take the challenge of helping Belgium’s most promising scaleups become world players in their sector. Pulse Foundation was able to launch BEyond with the financial support of the Fonds Baillet-Latour.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (in Dutch: Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen) is a government agency, charged with implementing the economic and enterprise policy in Flanders, the Dutch speaking northern part of Belgium.The Agency helps companies with the startup of their activities, the grow and continuity of their business, but also with the search for the right location, information on permits, financing, investments in innovation and ecological technologies, and other topics. In short, it confidentially guides entrepreneurs throughout the government landscape.Agentschap Innoveren en Ondernemen is the merger of AO and IWT. More info on www.vlaio.be.My tasks as a scientific advisor (in software engineering and ICT) included:- Due diligence R&D projects of Software/ICT companies and research organisations (R&D support for companies, SME programme, Baekeland mandates, strategic basic research projects, etc.); - Contact point for ITEA (EUREKA cluster programme supporting innovative, industry-driven, pre-competitive R&D projects in the area of Software-intensive Systems & Services);- Contact point for iMinds-ICON project evaluations;- Initiator of the first Call for Innovation with the Creative Industries (CICI).

Brussels Area, Belgium

IWT is the government agency for Innovation by Science and Technology. We help Flemish companies and research centres in realizing their research and development projects. We offer them financial funding, advice and a network of potential partners in Flanders and abroad.Advisor ICT at IWT:- Due diligence R&D projects of Software/ICT companies and research organisations (R&D support for companies, SME programme, PhD scholarships, strategic basic research projects, iMinds-ICON, MIX, etc.); - Contact point for ITEA (EUREKA cluster programme supporting innovative, industry-driven, pre-competitive R&D projects in the area of Software-intensive Systems & Services);- Initiator of the first Call for Innovation with the Creative Industries (CICI).

The goal of INNOVIRIS is to promote, support and valorize scientific research and technological innovation in the Brussels-Capital Region by providing financial support for projects presented by SMEs and large companies but also to educational institutions. As a scientific advisor I evaluate the project proposals for fundings and in particular those in the area of software engineering.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Researcher on AOSD-Europe, a European Network of Excellence on Aspect-Oriented Software DevelopmentResearch specialties: Software Evolution, Reverse Engineering, Dynamic program analysis, Declarative programming, Object-Oriented Programming, Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Logic Programming, Compilers/Interpreters

Researcher on the (IWT-funded - type GBOU) research project ARRIBA - Architectural Resources for the Restructuring and Integration of Business Applications.

Brussels Area, Belgium

I was involved in the following courses: Interpretation of Computer Programs I, Programming project, logic programming, etc. .Common mistakes/misspelling regarding my name Isabel Michiels: Isabelle, Isa, Michils, Machiels, Michielsens, Michielssens

Civil Engineer In Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering

Doctor In Sciences, Software Engineering

PhD dissertation title: A Goal-Driven Approach for Documenting and Verifying Design Invariants, August 2007 Promoters: Prof. Dr. Theo.

European Master In Object-Oriented Software Engineering (Emoose), Computer Science

I worked in the LIFIA lab to prepare my master's thesis as part of the international EMOOSE master programme. Thesis Title: "Teaching.

Master Of Science In Computer Science, Object-Oriented Software Engineering

EMOOSE - European Master in Object-Oriented Software Engineering

Licentiate Degree, Computer Science

Thesis title: "Using Logic Meta-Programming for Building Sophisticated Development Tools", July 1998 Promotor: Prof. Dr. Theo D'Hondt

Mathematics

Activities and Societies: WINA Mathematics

Science-Mathematics (8H Math)

Science-mathematics (8 hours of math)