SPEAKERS
The best PropTech specialists
RE-Smart has invited the best speakers to lead high-level conferences, and offer visitors an unparalleled level of expertise and feedback
Our Speakers
RE-Smart 2023 presents all its stakeholders
Corinne Cahen
Ministre à la Grande Région
Corinne Cahen first entered the government as Minister for Family and Integration and Minister for the Greater Region in 2013.
Following the legislative elections of October 14, 2018, Corinne Cahen was again appointed Minister for Family and Integration, Minister for the Greater Region on December 5, 2018 in the coalition government.
Stéphane Bagat
Project Director
Architecte DPLG de formation.
Entre 2003 et 2020 – Architecte et chef de projet sur les projets tel que le siège BGL BNP Paribas et le complexe Infinity.
Depuis 2020 – Project director en charge du projet Brooklyn et The Bridge
Roland Y. Billeter
Johnson Controls- Vice President & General Manager Continental Europe
Careers highlights :
– Johnson Controls, VP&GM BT&S Continental Europe
– Tyco International, President Continental Europe
– Proficiency Group, GM & MD EMEA
Siemens I&C Business – Development/Strategy
– Siemens Business Services, Marketing/BD
Mollie Claypool
Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR) – CEO
Mollie’s background includes an Associate Professorship in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She co-wrote Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation and authored the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future” (2019). She has been a Visiting Professor at the Cluster for Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture at the University of Stuttgart and was faculty at the AA School of Architecture.
Philippe Courtoy
wood shapers – Head of Quality, Expertise & Innovation
Engineer, active in wood construction for 35 years
Specialist in low-carbon off-site construction
Idriss Goossens
Proptechlab
I.Goossens is the president and founder of PropTech Lab, the network of real estate innovators in Belgium.
In 2019, Idriss co-founded Proptech House, the European PropTech Association, which organizes the PropTech Start-up & Scale-Up Europe Awards every year
In 2020, Idriss founded RELEVATION, the Global Digital Fundraising Summit for PropTech
He also co-founded RECAP.World, a gas pedal for a resilient city
He is co-chair of the ULI RE Technology Product Council.
Ekaterina Grib
KEWAZO – Co – founder, CFO & Head of Busines
Ekaterina Grib is a co-founder, Head of Business & Board member of KEWAZO. Over the past 7 years, she has been focusing on the topics of construction automation, robotics, startup management, fundraising, sales, and finance. Currently, Ekaterina is working on and finds inspiration in the subject of scaling up construction robotics startups.
Harold Grondel
WonderWalls – CEO
After a 20 years career creating SME’s, I renovated 2 houses during Covid. I had a revelation : renovation had to be done in a better way. I then studied the social and environmental role renovation of our homes will play in the cominng years. I want to play a key role in the change the EU Renovation Wave must have on society and human settlings.
Manfred Heid
Realyze Ventures – Managing Partner
Manfred has successfully realized global venture capital & private equity investments with a volume of +150m EUR. Additionally, he has developed two technology concepts at the intersection of FinTech & PropTech before Co-Founding BitStone Capital as one of the most active Real Estate Venture Capital investment platforms in DACH.
Sandra Huber
Group Chief Development Officer
As Group Chief Development Officer at IKO, Sandra successfully led the Rout Lëns real estate development project in Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg, which embodies the company’s values of sustainability and inclusion.
Sandra Huber aligns IKO’s business objectives with social and environmental needs, and brings a strategic perspective to the company as head of development, marketing and sales. Sandra holds a dual degree in Urban and Environmental Planning and Political Science.
Nicolas Legay
ManyMany – Co-founder & partner
After my engineering degree, I spent 10 years in the finance sector on organisational, transformation and digital topics, in several cities in Europe.Freshly landed in Luxembourg, I quickly understood that the challenges related to real estate were numerous. So I created Cocoonut, which has now become Many Many, with my business partner Aurélien, to offer a flexible and turnkey housing offer.
Jean-Nicolas Montrieux
INOWAI Group- Managing Director
Jean-Nicolas joined INOWAI in 2010 to create the residential branch as COO. He set up a multidisciplinary team of transaction, condominium and rental management. Partner since 2015, he becomes Managing Director of INOWAI Group in 2021.
He graduated from the University of Liège, holds a Master in “Political Sciences Po & Public Administration”, RICS, member of the IPI and member of the Board of LuxPropTech since January 2020.
Philippe Raynaud
Progetis – CEO & Founder
Philippe has been a real estate technology entrepreneur for over 20 years.
He founded EasySolutions in 2003, which has since become Progetis, the first Proptech in Luxembourg.
With a degree in Computer Science and a Master in Management, Philippe has developed software for brokers, trustees, managers and developers.
He has been a member of the LuxPropTech Board since its creation.
Laurent Rouach
LuxProptech
Laurent has founded several engineering consultancies focusing on construction in Luxembourg, Belgium (Brussels) and France (East) and the first engineering consultancy specialising in sustainable development in Luxembourg in 2000. He then headed up the RE Sustainability practice at PwC Luxembourg and participated to various activities from ESG strategy deployment at a RE funds level, carbon emissions management, to GRI sustainable reporting. Laurent is Engineer and is an expert in the Proptech field as investor and advisor.
Julie Sacré
Developer
After a first professional experience as a landscape architect in Belgium, I joined the real estate world in Luxembourg in 2017. Initially Innovation & Sustainability manager at IKO Real Estate, I have assumed different roles over the years, including real estate project developer and marketing manager. At Eaglestone Luxembourg since September 2021, I am in charge of the development of real estate projects specialised in office buildings, the marketing strategy of the local office, and I lead the ESG strategy of Eaglestone Group.
Jennick Scheerlinck
Hoplr – Founder & CEO
Hoplr – pronounce «hopler» – is a Belgian initiative that was founded in 2014 by Jennick Scheerlinck and Jonas Heirwegh based on a common vision and conviction. In contrast to the increasing individualization and globalization, Hoplr focuses on local community building. In this way Hoplr connect people with each other and with their environment.
In October 2021, Hopler made its arrival into the Luxembourg market by expanding into the municipality of Strassen. Over the months, municipalities such as Hesperange, Betzdorf, Bettendorf, Mertzig, Junglinster and more recently Luxembourg City have joined the movement.
Bram Seeuws
Autodelen.net – Policy director
I have been working as policy coordinator for Autodelen.net – Carshare Belgium since 2018. I’ve been working on the physical and digital integration of mobility hubs for more than 5 years, as well as the integration of shared mobility in housing developments
David Stegmann
Ask Nestor – Founder
David is passionate about startups and creating better tenant experiences. He is an engineer turned B2B marketer and has been with brands such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers or Engie before launching Ask Nestor.
Nico Steinmetz
Steinmetzdemeyer – Architect partner
Nico Steinmetz was born in New York in 1963 and has lived in Luxembourg since 1967. In 1988, he graduated from ISA St-Luc Brussels with the mention “Great Honors”. The following year, he founded his architecture and urban planning studio, which became STEINMETZDEMEYER in 2001 when he partnered with Arnaud De Meyer. Nico has worked on projects of varied scope and complexity, always committed to transmitting his principles and values based on sustainable development and circular economy, with constant questioning to be as in line as possible with the current issues and the well-being of users.
Sara Svedjedal
Brunswick Real Estate – Head of Change Management
With innovation and change management as the common denominator, Sara’s experience covers Swedish disruptive technology unicorns and smart city developments in Middle East and Africa. She presently heads the change management role of the Nordic investor Brunswick Real Estate, where sustainability and innovation is at the heart of the business model.
Jeremy Thomas
Evenenisto- Co founder
As a User & Customer Experience expert since 12+ years, he’s always evolved with the mindset of a Design-thinker, solution-maker and an experience- builder…After being graduated from the College of Art & Design in 2010, he’s spent 10+ years in agencies and consulting companies to end up until end 2019, Managing Partner of Digitas Benelux (a Publicis Groupe company) acting as an Experience Director and a member of the Board of Directors.Since then, he co-founded Evenisto together with my sister-in-crime. And last, but not least… he’s a proud dad of 2 who both best represent the King’s choice.
Hélène de Troostembergh
BuildUp – CEO
Hélène is convinced that buildings are a pillar of the energy transition, but also of economic recovery. There are many global challenges around building: carbon neutrality by 2050, accompanying population growth with numerous – and affordable – homes, the necessary transition to renewable energy. It created the BuildUp approach in 2018, determined to create circular homes that reduce the carbon impact of construction and respond positively to these challenges.
Gabriel Uzgen
BESIX RED – CEO
Gabriel Uzgen is the CEO of BESIX Real Estate Development (BESIX RED), the real estate subsidiary of BESIX Group.
Gabriel Uzgen is a strategic, creative and visionary leader with a 30+ years experience within the European real estate industry. A genuine real estate passionate, he is driven by his appetite for innovation and new challenges internationally.
Since June 2018, he is a member of BESIX Group’s Executive Committee. In July 2021, he was appointed Chair of ULI Belgium & Luxembourg for a voluntary two-year term.
Sofie Verstraete
Revive – Chief Development Officer
“A good city is like a good party – people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.” from Jan Gehl is my favorite quote. Having a background as a civil engineer architect working for oa Stephane Beel Architects and Elemental Chile (Alejandro Aravena Pritzker Price winner 2016) on projects from small to large scale, I am passionate about architecture and collective spaces. From the love of urban planning and creating social impact, I started working as a project developer at Revive on mixed urban regeneration projects to create new vibrant neighborhoods. Since last year I am coordinating complex regeneration projects in masterplan phase as Chief Development Officer together with a magnificent Revive team.
Rustom Vickers
Blueground – Head of Development, EMEA
Rustom Vickres is Vice President, Head of Develoment for Blueground covering the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He brings 20+ years of diversified experience in hospitality & real estate, having been on all sides of the business; from operations to consulting and from real estate ownership – development / investment – to hospitality platforms.
Previously he has been in Devlopment roles for Choice Hotels & Resorts in operations. A graduate of Les Roches Hospitality Management School in Switzerland, Rustom furthered his education with an MBA from Bayes (formelery Class) Business School in London.