Open Belgium 2017 took place on 6th March 2017 at BEL Brussels. It's an annual community-driven gathering on open knowledge and open data in Belgium, organised by Open Knowledge Belgium.

1. Hosted by
06-03-2017 - BEL Brussels

2. Open Belgium 2017 was:
● Affordable for everyone
● Inspiring for all different stakeholders
● Trending for 8 hours on social media all over Belgium
● 41% bigger in terms of attendance compared to last year
A big success!

3. Attendance Open Belgium 2017
263 Tickets
251 Shows
Extremely high show-up rate (95%)
Community tickets
Company tickets
Partner tickets
128
102
33

4. 44 Speakers
18 Sessions
Programme Open Belgium 2017

5. All presentations, notes and visuals are available
online in order to keep the discussion going
http://2017.openbelgium.be/presentations

6. 1. Overview of attendees
Who attended Open Belgium 2017?

7. Which stakeholder category do attendees belong to?
We achieved what we aimed at:
gathering industry, research,
government and citizen
stakeholders. All of them were
well represented.

8. Expanded view of attendees and their background
Like in all previous editions, we have put a lot of effort into attracting different
stakeholder groups.

9. Division of government attendees
As this year’s theme was ‘Open
Cities, Smart Data’, it’s easy to
understand why more than 90%
of our government attendees
were federal, regional and
municipal representatives.
Nevertheless, we’re glad to gain
international momentum
(inside and outside European
borders) and hope for more
visibility in the coming years as
Belgium climbs up the European
open knowledge ladder.

10. Which stakeholder category do attendees belong to?
We made an open call for
speakers and, after an open
organizing committee meeting,
we managed to have equal
representations from the private
and public sectors.
This helped us give our attendees
varied content, varying from
research projects to
community-driven initiatives.

11. 2. Feedback from 41 attendees
What did attendees like the most?
And what could have been better?

12. Overall rating Open
Belgium 2017
We sent out a feedback
form to all attendees just
after the event and got
feedback from 41
attendees (16%).
95% of our respondents
rated Open Belgium 2017
as good or excellent;
satisfying numbers.

13. Likelihood of attending
Open Belgium 2018
4 out of 5
respondents are
likely to attend
Open Belgium 2018.

14. Strengths and improvements
Open Belgium 2017
Strengths
- Enthusiasm of volunteers and participants
- Networking opportunities
- Variety of themes discussed
What we will do better next year
- More time for Q&A (interaction with attendees)
- More detailed description of the different sessions
and workshops
- Some small website improvements

15. 3. Open Belgium 2018
What to expect from our next year’s edition?

16. Open Belgium and its road to more open
knowledge and open data in Belgium

17. We're ready to welcome more than 300 visitors
in 2018. The community is ready. Are you?

18. Thank you!
Want to discuss Open Belgium 2018 or get more
information?
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Dries at +32 474 26 56 18
dries@openknowledge.be
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