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Building the Next Generation of Privacy: Highlights from LFDT Belgium’s April 30 Meetup

On April 30, 2025, Howest’s Cyber3Lab hosted a virtual LFDT Belgium Meetup exploring next-gen privacy for the EVM. Talks covered decentralized identity, zero-knowledge proofs, and LFDT Lab’s Paladin framework. Highlighting practical, privacy-preserving tools for real-world use.

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Representing Howest at Connect 2024

Yesterday, Kyra, Cesar De Greve, Lorik andThijs attended Connect 2024, a conference about APIs organized by API Community Belgium. In this edition of Connect, we focused on both APIs in general as APIs to integrate AI models in applications.

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Tech&Meet: Q-Day Is Coming: Are Your Systems Ready?

Tech&Meet: Q-Day Is Coming: Are Your Systems Ready?, 2 maart 2027 (19-20u30), Howest Brugge. Tom Wittevrouw (Palo Alto Networks) explores the emerging field of Post-Quantum Security and explains why the transition to quantum-resistant cryptography has already begun.

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Tech&Meet: Think before you click: human vs phishing

Tech&Meet: Think before you click: human vs phishing, 23 februari 2027 (19-20u30), Howest Brugge, with Simon Bauwens (co-founder of Outkept). He explores the human side of cybersecurity and explains why awareness remains a critical defense against phishing attacks

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Tech&Meet: Securing the Media: Cybersecurity Challenges at a National Broadcaster

Tech&Meet: Securing the Media: Cybersecurity Challenges at a National Broadcaster. 8 December (19-20h30), Howest Gebouw A. Gerben Dierick, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at VRT, provides an insider's perspective on cybersecurity within one of Belgium's largest media organizations

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OT Security of Critical Infrastructure: practical OT security lessons from the energy and chemical sectors

OT Security of Critical Infrastructure: practical OT security lessons from the energy and chemical sectors. 1 December (19-20h30). Nick Foulon (NVISO) analyses the December 2025 attack on Polish energy infrastructure, and Tijl Deneut (e-BO Enterprises) simulates a live OT cyberattack on a chemical plant

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Tech&Meet: Het masker van AI

Tech&Meet: Het masker van AI, 17 november (19-20h30), Howest Brugge, met Wim Casteels (AP Hogeschool), auteur van het boek Het masker van AI, die ons mee neemt voorbij de hype en de technologie, aan de hand van herkenbare voorbeelden toont hij hoe AI onze samenleving, economie, arbeidsmarkt en democratie beïnvloedt.

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Tech&Meet: From Mythos to open models: the real state of AI security

Tech&Meet: From Mythos to open models: the real state of AI security, 27 oktober (19-20h30), Howest Brugge with AI researcher and engineer Niels Rogge (ML6/HuggingFace), who takes a critical look at the ongoing debate around AI security, open-source models, and the claims made by leading AI companies

Tech&Meet: Van code naar compliance: de AI Act voor developers en IT-teams

Tech&Meet: Van code naar compliance: de AI Act voor developers en IT-teams, 13 oktober (19-20h30), Howest Brugge. Privacy- en AI-specialist Olivier Sustronck (Mr. Franklin) vertaalt de nieuwe wetgeving naar de dagelijkse praktijk van developers, softwareprojecten en IT-organisaties

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From VMware to Proxmox VE: Strategies for a Successful Migration

Join this free meetup on moving from VMware to Proxmox VE, with practical migration strategies, platform insights, and real-world considerations for IT teams.

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Trusted AI Agents: Architecting Identity and Granular Access for the Agentic Web

As AI agents gain autonomy, trust, identity, and granular access are key to responsible adoption. This Meetup explores agentic identity, delegation, and Agentic Wallets™. Enabling secure, human‑centric multi‑agent systems with persistent, consent‑driven data access.

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Flutter Belgium meetup @Howest

Howest will be hosting the Flutter Belgium's Meetup #18 for potentially their largest meetup to date!

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Join us for the Hyperledger Belgium Meetup on March 14

We're excited to invite you to our next Hyperledger Foundation Belgium Meetup on March 14 at our new campus in Bruges, from 6PM until 9PM. The topic is 'European Web3 Flagship Projects', and we're excited to have amazing speakers from KBC, SettleMint, Protokol and Howest sharing their impactful work.

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Generatieve AI voor HR Professionals

Welke nieuwe mogelijkheden bieden generatieve AI tools ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, ... in typische HR taken en processen? Leer hierover meer tijdens de meetup "Generatieve AI voor HR Professionals" op donderdag 22 februari (18-21u) in het gloednieuwe gebouw van Howest.

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Successful first Hyperledger Belgium Meetup at Howest Bruges

On November 30 we revived the Hyperledger Belgium Meetup group by organizing an event at our campus. Titled 'Web3 Evolved: The European Shift to Decentralized Digital Infrastructure', there was a specific focus on European projects.

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