VRT Sandbox: How The Public Flemish Broadcaster Accelerates Innovation Via Startup-Driven Solutions

Innovators Insight with

Mathias Teuwen

ScaleUp Coordinator at VRT Sandbox

15 March, 21:30 SGT/14:30 CET/9:30am EDT

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About the session

Today we make media differently in the metaverse and with the help of AI. We distribute media differently via an overload of (streaming) platforms and podcasts. We consume media differently on demand and on the road. Great content is just not good anymore to win.
As the public broadcaster for Flemish television and Radio, the VRT needs to follow the increasing innovation pace in the changing media market. Therefore, VRT launched 7 years ago 'VRT Sandbox' = the front door (literally) for startups to enter the VRT. The incubation and acceleration model became a blue-print for other media organizations and other industries (Flemish Government, B-Post...)

How do you create your own startup-driven experimentation sandbox?
What did we learn from 7 years Sandbox, both on entrepreneurship and interapreneurship?
To focus on startups or scaleups? Or both?

About the speaker

As ScaleUp Coordinator at VRT Sandbox, Mathias bridges the gap between scaleup founders and corporate leads within VRT or in the VRT media ecosystem. He actively scouts the startup scene to find new technological and creative opportunities that fulfill the needs of the media creator or consumer.
Once a startup has entered the VRT corporate walls, Mathias coordinates the process from beginning to end. After a successful collaboration, he finds new ways to share the startup-inspired innovation story with the outside world to keep the 'VRT Sandbox heartbeat' pumping.

With previous startup experiences at What's In the Box?, Cloud, and FLAVR, Mathias is also not shy about an entrepreneurial adventure.

Would you like to attend this session as part of Innov8rs Learning Lab on Startup Collaboration & Ecosystem Engagement, 14-16 March 2023? Apply to join the program here.

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