Erik Mannens

Erik Mannens is a professor at imec – UGent – IDLab, a research group conducting fundamental and applied research on Internet technology and Data Science. Since 2008, he is paving the Open Data path in Flanders. He stood at the cradle of the first hackatons and is a founding member of the Open Knowledge Foundation (Belgian Chapter). He is frequently invited as Open Data evangelist at national and international events and actively participates in W3C’s eGov and Data On The Web working groups.