Hey all,
for our meet-up in Bilzen next week, I asked if you had any specific questions. And yep, you do …
So I’m thinking of not doing a traditional ‘speech’, and replace it by a conversation. Again, it’s a small gathering of about 20 people – and it looks like it’s gonna be fun. So we’ll probably start with the following, and I’ll go deeper into whatever you find interesting.
Quesions I received until now:
- is it true that you are going back to Skynet ?
Hi all,
I’m actually in Belgium – and really giving a speech next week in Bilzen (a town between Hasselt and Tongeren, in Limburg / for the non-Belgians).
Got quite some questions (are you in the country?, bilzen?, huh?), so here we go.
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(from: www.flyingchaz.com )
Hi all,
yes it is true – I will no longer be operationally active at Netlog, and will stop in the coming days.
I know it is quite sudden for most – but seen the sms’s and mails, I guess the news is in the open.
Some more information will follow in the coming days. All other activities continue.
Enjoy the w-e,
bart
Hello everyone,
What I had explained to my colleagues some months ago, has been officialised today: I will not move permanently to Munich, and hence will leave the ProSiebenSat1 group at the end of 2007, but I will remain linked to this great company as an advisor. Here you can find the official press release. And finally, I am very happy with my succession: Thomas Houge, one of my trusted colleagues who is also in charge of new media in Norway, will take over. He survived a Muse concert with me, so the rest should be easy J
When ProSiebenSat1 acquired SBS Broadcasting, I was very grateful to have been appointed Senior Vice President for New Media and Innovation for Scandinavia, CEE and the Benelux. But from the start I explained my doubts into the relocation, and the different compromises this meant to me. John Goossens, who unfortunately passed away a little over 4 years ago but who remains a guide for me, once made me swear to always follow my heart and dreams and give it all. Munich isn’t the city Femke and I want to be at this moment in our lives, and by moving there I have to give up to much of the things I believe in, while being too far from the ones I love.
Some months later, I confirmed my destiny is elsewhere. It has been a truly amazing year, and if the last 18 months made something clear – it is that I want to keep on working internationally in the domains of technology, media and communication. Where exactly I want to live is not that important, as long as it is Brussels, New York, California, Milan, Paris, London, Rio or Madrid/Barcelona. Courtesy of my Femke 
Do I already know what I will do next?Well, it is getting form and should be concrete very soon, possibly even tomorrow morning. It will be a mix of things, with 1 specific focus. But more in a next post.
And now, back to preparing the birth of our son.
He’s already late at his first appointment. That promises 
Bart