Why this Evening Event about Vibe Coding ? 

The way developers write code and approach projects has changed dramatically since Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" in his Feb. 2, 2025 post on X.

Today, AI-powered platforms like Bolt, Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Vercel v0, Windsurf, and very recently Claude Code, want to create a seamless and joyful development experience. 

Vibe coding refers to a development style that emphasizes natural language-driven creation, flow state immersion, and AI collaboration. Rather than manually writing every line of code, developers describe what they want to build in everyday language, and AI tools generate much of the scaffolding, design, and logic implementation.

Full Programme of this Evening Event: 

19:00 - 19:05 Welcome & Setup

• Quick intro: who is Howest, what are Tech & Meet events, why do we organise them
• What you'll learn tonight (from discovery to delivery)

19:05 - 19:45 Vibe Coding: How AI Democratizes Building Software (and Why It Changes Everything) - Frank Damen (3volve Consulting) 

• AI as a “co-builder”: from coding to creating
• Building faster - and building to discover, not just to ship
• The modern toolchain for vibe coding
• Where this is heading: implications for teams, roles, and products

19:45 - 20:15 From Vibe to Value: Reinventing a Custom Software Companies Business in the Age of AI - Kenny Dendauw (Starfisk)

• 10 years of building software on spec - and why that model is under pressure
• The tools, patterns, and guardrails that actually work in a delivery context
• Repricing, repositioning, and resetting client expectations - the honest version

20:15 - 20:30 Q&A 

20:30 - Networking: Meet the speakers, other participants, exchange ideas, compare tool stacks, share use-cases, and last but not least: have a drink!

Speakers at this Tech & Meet Evening Event

Frank Damen is a product manager with 12 years of experience transforming digital ambition into focused strategy and impactful products.

At ASTRID nv, he shapes the strategy and roadmaps behind the 112BE app and federal police control room solutions. As Founder at 3volve Consulting, he helps organizations understand their users, build the right things, and build them right. In his unique AI coding training, he teaches non-technical IT-professionals how to maximally harness the power of “vibe coding”, building tangible prototypes that help advance from idea to alignment blazingly fast. His philosophy: Think. Build. Agree. Instead of endless debates and costly misinterpretations between stakeholders about page-long texts, early prototypes create an early understanding between all involved parties, dramatically reducing lead times and accelerating innovation. 

That is the power of “Build for agreement: from Ideas to a Working Application with AI” training workshop that he presents regularly in English or Dutch (also in-house by the way).

Kenny Dendauw is managing partner at Starfisk, combining 15 years of deep experience building web applications with a genuine - and in his own words, entirely justified - fascination for what AI makes possible today.

Starfisk is a custom software company with around ten years of experience building digital products that truly matter. With a small but technically strong team, Starfisk works with venture builders validating and scaling SaaS ideas, companies digitalising business-critical internal processes, and organisations building ecosystems that connect clients, partners and systems. No grand promises - just solid architecture, clear communication and a genuine commitment to the success of the client.