Speaking opportunities

I love speaking at conferences and events. In the past, I was a speaker at events such as JavaOne / Oracle Code One (San Francisco, California), the Great Indian Developer Summit (Bengaluru, India), Devoxx (Antwerp, Belgium), SXSW (Austin, Texas), the Tech Startup Day (Brussels, Belgium), the ETDA Conference (Bangkok, Thailand), the Open Source India Days (Bengaluru, India), and The Big Squeeze (Brussels, Belgium). I was a guest lecturer at the Antwerp Management School, the University College Leuven-Limburg, and the Solvay Brussels School for Business & Economics.

Currently, I have some great presentations about valuation in practice (not the Math, but a real-world example), about going global with your business (e.g. where to open an office abroad, cultural differences), monetizing open source software, and obviously also about my book Entreprenerd.

2024

	Event	Topic
May/17	11:11 Philosophers Group, Remote from New Orleans and Los Gatos	Podcast: Open Source Success Story
May/5	SF convention 9000con, QLT, Sint-Amandsberg	Bruno was one of the organizers of the event

2023

	Event	Topic
Apr/19	Book presentation, "Brieven aan startende ondernemers", The Beacon, Antwerp	Three things I learned about business watching House MD.
Mar/26	Preview of the movie "Sea Sparkle", Cinema Sphinx, Gent	Short talk about investing in movies
March/16	Solvay Brussels School, Business & Economics, Brussels, Belgium	Guest Lecture about Valuation (Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Finance)

2022

	Event	Topic
June/28	Breaking the Silos: Neurodiversity Ghent, Belgium	Entrepreneurship in the Spectrum
June/14	Shake It / Make It: iText Customer event Online	Keynote: From FOSS to COSS, Shaking Software Business Models Since 1998
May/31	Smartfin Capital	Book Presentation "Entreprenerd"
March/24	Solvay Brussels School, Business & Economics, Brussels, Belgium	Guest Lecture about Valuation (Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Finance)

2021

	Event	Topic
Nov/19	Panel Discussion Key Figures, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium	From Start-Up to Exit: a discussion with Tom Van de Voorde (GIMV), Sara Lambrechts (Morrow Ventures), and Bruno Lowagie (Wil-Low). Moderator: Bright Obeng (Key Figures)
Oct/30	Morietur in Armis, Lexmond, The Netherlands	Book presentation of the book "Morietur in Armis" (an anthology of medieval stories, including my story "Sakura"); I talked about finding inspiration to write short stories about the Middle Ages.
Oct/6	Readers' Group, Library of Ypres, Belgium	Book presentation "Nijlpaard voor Kerstmis"; I held a long lecture about the writing and publishing process (working with a publisher versus self-publishing).
Aug/26	CIONet Summer Celebration, Kemzeke, Belgium	Keynote: "The Rise of the Entreprenerds"
Feb/23	Director's Day 2020, by Guberna, Brussels, Belgium	Member of the panel discussing personal experiences with a board of directors.

2020

	Event	Topic
Dec/18	Open Core Summit, California / Online	Breakout session about the upcoming book "Entreprenerd"
Nov/19	Director's Day 2020, by Guberna, Brussels, Belgium	Member of the panel discussing personal experiences with a board of directors. (postponed due to SARS-CoV-2)
Nov/4	Readers' Group, Library of Ypres, Belgium	Book presentation "Nijlpaard voor Kerstmis" (postponed due to SARS-CoV-2)
Oct/3	Et in Ventum, Kampen, The Netherlands	Book presentation writing contest Middle Ages: Anthology "Et in ventum" (featuring my story "Het land van de vrijheid")

2019

	Event	Topic
Dec/25	Library of Dilbeek, Belgium	Award Ceremony: Winners Fantasy writing contest(fourth place for my story "Jeremia 29:11")
Nov/17	Leidschendam-Voorburg, The Netherlands	Book presentation thriller writing contest: Anthology "Dood door onschuld" (featurning my story "De houdbaarheid van rattenvergif") / reading my story "Stamboom"
Oct/5	Kampen, The Netherlands	Book presentation writing contest Middle Ages: Anthology "Et Ille" (featuring my story "Jonker Galgenaas")
May/23	Gorcums Theater, Gorinchem, The Netherlands	Award Ceremony: Gorcumse Literatuurprijs
May/17	University College UCLL, Leuven, Belgium	Guest Lecture: Culture in Business
May/2	Solvay Brussels School, Business & Economics, Brussels, Belgium	Guest Lecture: Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Finance
Feb/28	The Big Squeeze, Brussels, Belgium	Speaker session: Building scalable companies
Jan/22	Belgium's Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Ghent, Belgium	Book presentation; short presentation of the chapter I wrote for this book.
Jan/17	Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival, Saarbrücken, Germany	World Premiere "Electric Girl" (Bruno Lowagie credited as "executive producer")

2018

	Event	Topic
Nov/22-23	CFO Conferenz, Cadzand, The Netherlands	Presentation: Blockchain: use cases for the future
Nov/11	UGent Legal Techaton: Gent, Belgium	Member of the jury
Oct/15	ING Innovation Night, International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium	Keynote: The Secret of Your Success
Sep/25	Bank Van Lanschot, Kortrijk, Belgium	Info session: An introduction to Blockchain
May/29	Agentschap Ondernemen / KPMG, Kortrijk, Belgium	Testimonial: Hoe pas je de nieuwe innovatie-aftrek toe? (bedrijfsgetuigenis)
Apr/25	GIDS 2018, Bangalore, India	Keynote: Blockchain, threat or opportunity?
Mar/11	SXSW, Austin, U.S.A.	Presentation: Startup Cities: Brussels, Belgium
Feb/12	University College UCLL, Leuven, Belgium	Guest Lecture International project week: Culture in Business

2017

	Event	Topic
Nov/6	Hoek af roadshow / Vlerick Venture Talks, Ghent, Belgium	Talk: Writing a table of contents for your business idea
July/27	ETDA Conference, Bangkok, Thailand	Info session: PDF standards, eTax invoices and ZUGFeRD, Blockchain for documents
June/26	Hoek Af roadshow, Ghent, Belgium	Talk: "Don't Believe the Hype"
May/29	Watt Factory, Ghent, Belgium	Presentation: Sales before funding: Bootstrapping your Business
May/18	University College UCLL, Leuven, Belgium	Guest Lecture: International Business Culture
May/16	PDF Days, Berlin, Germany	Presentation: Next-Generation PDF: Server-side applications - view presentation
May 1	B-DNA, Singapore	Presentation: Belgian Startups.be Mission: why iText started a company in Singapore - view presentation
Apr/25 - Apr/28	GIDS, Bangalore, India	Keynote: Why you can be like Zuckerberg - view presentation

2016

	Event	Topic
Dec/15	VOKA, Gent; Belgium	Presentation: Doing business in the US
Nov/21	University College UCLL, Leuven, Belgium	Guest Lecture: International Business Culture
Oct/22	OSI Days, Bangalore, India	Keynote: How can large open source projects be monetized?
Oct/21	OSI Days, Bangalore, India	Presentation: Open source: an introduction to IP and Legal
Oct/5	Eurostaff Connect, Gent, Belgium	Info session: How can large open source projects be monetized?
Sep/18-Sep/21	JavaOne, San Francisco, United States	Presentation: Oops, I broke my API
June/14-June/15	PDF Days, Berlin, Germany	Presentation: Disrupting the world of document creation & distribution
May/18	University College UCLL, Leuven, Belgium	Guest Lecture: Doing business in the US vs doing business in Europe
Apr/28	GIDS, Bangalore, India	Technical talk: PDF is dead; long live PDF!
Apr/26	GIDS, Bangalore, India	Technical talk: what's new in iText and iTextSharp?
Apr/26	GIDS, Bangalore, India	Keynote: PDF, from simple to powerful
Mar/13	SXSW, Austin, Texas	Participant Global Innovation Forum (panel)
Feb/18	Tech Startup Day, Brussels, Belgium	Talk: StartUp! ScaleUp! MoveUp!
Feb/02	BRYO Sounding boards, Ghent, Belgium	Milestones & Challenges

2015

	Event	Topic
Dec/14	City of Ghent, VOKA, Ghent, Belgium	Discovering Silicon Valley: what to expect?
Dec/5	Singapore: Smart Nation, FIT, Brussels, Belgium	Why iText went East
Oct/25–Oct/29	JavaOne, San Francisco (CA), USA	IANAL: What developers need to know about IP and Legal
Oct 19–Oct/20	Technical PDF Conference North America, San Jose (CA), United States	ZUGFeRD: the Future of Invoicing; panels discussions: "Who's Afraid of XFA?" and "PDF 2.0 and the Future of PDF"
Aug/28	Masterclass Investor Readiness, Antwerp Management School, Antwerp, Belgium	Guest Lecture: "Hare Corp. and Tortoise LLC; fables and facts"
Jun/08–Jun/09	PDF Days, Cologne, Germany	Who's afraid of XFA?
May/20	Guest lecture at the UCLL, Leuven, Belgium	Doing business in the US vs doing business in Europe
Apr/02	eaZySign (Zetes), Ruisbroek Castle, Belgium	Digital signatures, how it's done in PDF
Mar/12	Tech Startup Day, Brussels, Belgium	Keynote speech, 'Four failures and one hit'
Mar/10	National Digital Invoice Forum (FNFE), Paris, France	ZUGFeRD, an overview
Jan/27	What's Next (CIONet), Vilvoorde, Belgium	How startups think
Jan/ 05	Founder Institute, Brussels, Belgium	Startup legal and IP

2014

	Event	Topic
Dec/11	PDF Days, New York City (NY), USA	How standards drive business
Dec/10	PDF Days, Washington DC, USA	How standards drive business
Dec/06	Startup Weekend, Ghent, Belgium	Bruno Lowagie, Unplugged
Nov/10–Nov/13	Devoxx, Antwerp, Belgium	The founder's dilemmas
Sep/29	JavaOne, San Francisco (CA), United States	PDF is dead. Long live PDF... with Java
Sep/16	GlobalSign XChange, Leuven, Belgium	Digital signatures: how it's done in PDF
Sep/05	Business success in the US, VOKA East Flanders, Belgium	Doing business in the US: Yes, you can!