Stijn Christiaens
"The 4 billion euro session"
Together with Matthias Geeroms (Lighthouse), Sébastien Deletaille (Rosa) & Alessandro Mazzocchetti (Odoo).
Summary
One truth: culture scales what strategy starts.
They’ve built companies worth over a billion euros, but their real secret isn’t strategy, it’s culture.
In this unique panel, four Belgian unicorn founders share how their obsession with culture became the catalyst for scaling faster, leading stronger, and staying grounded while growing beyond imagination.
Forget the textbook playbooks. This is real talk from the people who built billion-euro businesses, and the culture that holds them together.
Biography
Stan leads Collibra’s Data Office and is responsible for overall data strategy, data infrastructure and translating internal learnings into value for our customers and partners. He is also Collibra’s product evangelist and drives future innovation. Previously, Stan launched various departments within Collibra including Product, Presales, Postsales, Partnerships, Marketplace, and Research and Education. Prior to cofounding Collibra, he was a senior researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he focused on application-oriented research in semantics. Stan holds a Master's of Science degree in Information Technology, a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate in Industrial Corporate Governance from Europese Hogeschool Brussel. He is a sought-after expert resource, industry speaker and author on the topic of Data Intelligence.