Conferences

9 October 2025

Petite philosophie des catégories inévitables

Librairie Filigranes · Bd de Waterloo 25, 1000 Bruxelles

Book signing at 6.30 pm for the book’s release.

5 December 2024

The Art of Thinking in a Digital World

BAM Marketing Congress 2024 (Belgian Association of Marketing) · Brussels Gate, Groot-Bijgaarden

Keynote: “technology is an obligation to think more”.

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30 November 2024

De la logique à l'éthique, un dialogue philosophique sur l'IA (with Louis de Diesbach)

UOPC bookshop (« Lisez-vous le belge ? » campaign) · Auderghem, Brussels

Dialogue with Louis de Diesbach about « Bonjour ChatGPT » (Mardaga), for which Luc de Brabandere wrote the foreword.

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21 August 2024

La créativité ne sera jamais artificielle

Compagnie Arts Nomades – tournée « Charlatans Imaginaires » · Château de Louvignies (Soignies)

Talk at 7.30 pm as part of a touring theatre programme in Wallonie picarde.

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14 May 2024

Être créatif dans un monde numérique (in French)

UDA – Université des Aînés (UCLouvain) · Louvain-la-Neuve

Creativity: the human ability to step outside our own logic and stay one step ahead of machines.

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5 December 2023

Platon & Aristote Alumni Night: presentation of « Petite philosophie des algorithmes sournois »

AILouvain (UCLouvain engineering alumni) · Musée L, Louvain-la-Neuve

Serge Quoidbach presents Luc de Brabandere’s new book, followed by a discussion and networking.

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9 November 2023

Petite philosophie des algorithmes sournois

Librairie Filigranes (« Lisez-vous le belge ? » campaign) · Brussels

Book signing at 6 pm for the book’s release.

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11 October 2023

Qu’est-ce qu’un modèle d’entreprise ? Entreprise privée et entreprise publique, nouvelles hybridités

CEBRIG (ULB) – cycle « Modèles d'entreprise »

Discussion “What is a business model?” with Caroline Franckx (CHU Brugmann).

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April 2023

The Joy of Thinking: A Conversation with a Corporate Philosopher – Luc de Brabandere at Cranfield

Cranfield School of Management

Conversation “The Joy of Thinking” with the Cranfield audience on thinking and corporate philosophy.

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15 September 2022

Internet, comment discerner le vrai du faux ?

UDA – Université des Aînés (UCLouvain) · Avenue de l'Assomption, Woluwe (Brussels)

Start-of-year talk on truth, falsehood and the tools to tell them apart in the Internet age.

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April 2022

Cultiver la joie de penser

Learn to Be asbl (Design for Change Belgium)

Workshop for school heads and teachers: teaching young people “how to think” rather than “what to think”.

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16 December 2021

In Digital We Trust !

NRB – In Digital We Trust!? (avec Sudinfo, RTBF, Trends-Tendances…)

Il anime en direct le débat final « In digital we trust!? » avec un panel de personnalités (version française).

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1 December 2020

Territoires en transition : Quelques repères dans un monde qui change - Smart Inspiration Days 2020

Smart City Institute (ULiège) – Smart Inspiration Days 2020

Online talk “Territories in transition: a few landmarks in a changing world”.

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November 2020

La créativité, ou changer de regard (Learn Everywhere)

Coorpacademy · En ligne

Webinar on creative thinking: being inventive, seeing things differently, following your intuition.

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October 2020

Penser l'innovation en temps imprévisible

Prompt (Québec) · En ligne depuis Bruxelles

Talk based on Petite philosophie de la transformation digitale, for Quebec’s business community.

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October 2020

Entrepreneuriat et Transition 2020 - Atelier Innovation

Entrepreneuriat & Transition 2020

Lunch session on innovation and the common good in business, with Marc Van Den Neste (AGC) and Peter Bertels.

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August 2020

Apprendre à penser avec Platon et Aristote

AILouvain (Alumni ingénieurs UCLouvain) · Domaine W, rue Quenestine 2, 1480 Saintes (Tubize)

Six-session seminar on “applied philosophy” over two days, open to engineers, their families and friends.

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25 June 2020

La créativité comme ressource pour construire un Nouveau

Liège Creative (ULiège) · En ligne

Closing talk of the 9th season, with Fabrice Bureau (ULiège) and Pascale Delcomminette (AWEX/WBI).

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10 October 2019

L'intelligence artificielle, une parmi beaucoup d'autres

Antenne interuniversitaire UCL-ULB de Waterloo · Salle Jules Bastin, Maison communale, Waterloo

A computer can recognise a face but cannot find it beautiful: AI is just one form of intelligence among others.

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21 November 2018

La pensée créative pour les professions économiques

Forum for the Future (congrès des professions économiques)

A vision of “creative thinking” for the economic professions at the congress’s opening session.

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16 October 2018

Vers un changement de paradigme

Forum Addiction et Société · Flagey, Brussels

Opening session and common thread of the forum (16-17/10/2018).

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October 2018

Nous sommes entrés dans une nouvelle ère (« Architects of the Future » plenary)

Biennale Réseau Entreprendre 2018 · Bruxelles

Talk at the plenary session of the Réseau Entreprendre Biennial.

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7 June 2018

Sortir de la boîte

Colloque Créativité – IMT Mines Alès · Alès (France)

The thinking process and the need to change one’s frame of reference in order to be creative.

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29 November 2017

Comment être créatif dans un monde numérique ?

USI Events – 1re matinée #USIConnect · Paris

Luc de Brabandere launches the USIConnect format: stepping outside the frame is still necessary, but imagining new digital frames is even more so.

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5 October 2016

Leçon inaugurale - UCL Mons, le 05 October 2016

UCLouvain FUCaM Mons

Inaugural lecture “The fabulous destiny of homo informaticus” at UCL Mons.

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January 2015

Is Technology Making Us Stupid (Luc de Brabandere, Boston Consulting Group) | DLD15

DLD Conference (DLD15, Munich)

Talk “Is Technology Making Us Stupid?” on the impact of digital technology on the way we think.

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November 2014

Cité de la réussite 2014 - L'éducation : l'audace de tout changer.

Cité de la réussite 2014 (Paris)

Debate “Education: the audacity to change everything” with Jacques Biot and Marc Drillech, moderated by Thierry Keller.

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July 2014

DLDwomen14 - Thinking in New Boxes (Luc de Brabandere)

DLD Conference (DLDwomen 2014, Munich)

Keynote “Thinking in New Boxes” on mental models and creativity in business.

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June 2014

Second discussion with Prof. De Brabandere

MOOC « On Strategy » (CentraleSupélec / Coursera)

Second Q&A session with participants of the MOOC “On Strategy”.

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May 2014

Discussion with Luc de Brabandere

MOOC « On Strategy » (CentraleSupélec / Coursera)

Live Q&A session with participants of the MOOC “On Strategy: what managers can learn from great philosophers”.

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23 January 2014

UITP New Year Reception

UITP (Union internationale des transports publics)

Keynote “Think the public transportation of tomorrow” at the UITP New Year reception.

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September 2013

Thinking in New Boxes... | Luc de Brabandere & Alan Iny | Talks at Google

Talks at Google

With Alan Iny, he presents “Thinking in New Boxes” and the method for changing one’s frame of thinking.

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8 December 2012

STIMA Marketing Congress Luc De Brabandere

STIMA (International Marketing Congress, ICC Gand)

Talk at the STIMA marketing congress, “The Survival of Optimism”.

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2012

Luc de Brabandere - Quand les contraintes rendent créatif...

Fondation Benoît

Talk “When constraints make you creative” for the audience of the Fondation Benoît.

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