Koen Vervoort

Koen Vervoort is the Senior Stakeholder Strategist at ENoLL. He has a heart for Living Labs and stakeholder engagement and creating added values via connecting people and opportunities. After 13 years of managing teams within Mc Donald’s, Nike, IKEA, and his own private business, he took his first steps in the open innovation landscape during the first ever living lab project in Belgium, i-City, back in 2006. As from 2009 he gained more experience by the creation and management of a new team of Living Lab colleagues within IBBT, iMinds and imec, a Flemish R&D hub for digital technologies with a focus on Living Labs. In 2020, he became ENoLL’s Network Builder, focusing on co-creating & -developing added values for all the members of ENoLL and interested organizations. Today, as Senior Stakeholder Strategist, he advises the Secretariat and Executive board of ENoLL concerning the strengthening and expansion of the ENoLL network. Next to this he developed a harmonized evaluation framework for all diverse types of Living Labs. He has large experience in leading teams & managing complex stakeholder ecosystems to guarantee the sustainability of networks.