Strategy and Innovation Challenge: Strategy and Innovation Challenge: From LikeMe to Creative Powerhouse – What can you learn from this?

Get an exclusive look behind the success of entertainment studio Fabric Magic, the creator of the popular youth series #LikeMe, which acted as an accelerator for the successful careers of pop stars such as Pommelien Thijs and Camille.

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Fabric Magic’s success did not come without challenges. The dream factory faced a wide range of innovation hurdles related to financing models, leadership, talent development, technological changes such as AI, and much more.

Innovation in the entertainment sector offers valuable lessons for challenges every industry faces:

• Can you innovate in a hyper-competitive market while remaining financially agile?

• How do you build an ecosystem that continuously fuels new business and creative ideas?

• How do you maintain purpose and inspiration when budgets are under pressure?

• How do you discover talent — and how do you nurture it?

Engage in dialogue, learn, and network with experts and peers during this Strategy & Innovation Challenge by Antwerp Management School.

Programme

18:00 – Welcome with a sandwich

18:30 – 21:00 – Strategy & Innovation Challenge

• Keynote + Q&A: Ben Vetters & Thomas Van Goethem reveal how Fabric Magic is future-proofing its business model, talent ecosystem, and financing

• Challenge tables: Choose a position around four sharp “how might we” questions and exchange ideas

• Panel + academic reflection: Professors Robin De Cock, Geert Scheipers, and Wouter Van Bockhaven place the group insights alongside cutting-edge research

21:00 – 22:00 – Networking reception (Open Bar)

Speakers

• Ben Vetters – CFO & Co-founder, Fabric Magic

• Thomas Van Goethem – Creative Director & Co-founder, Fabric Magic

• Robin De Cock – Academic Director, Master in Innovation & Entrepreneurship; researcher Innovating Strategies & Operating Models

• Geert Scheipers – Program Director, Master Class Business Strategy and Leadership; Academic Director, Master Class Management in Healthcare, Delaware Consulting

• Wouter Van Bockhaven – Professor of Strategy & Innovation Ecosystems; researcher Smart Ecosystems & Networks

Tickets

Are you a frontrunner who wants to launch a new concept today?
Or a financial realist who only accelerates once ROI, risk, and governance are crystal clear?
Or do you balance somewhere in between — determined to grow both purpose and business results?

Reserve your spot now! Tickets are limited.

• €45 (excl. VAT) for AMS alumni

• €65 (excl. VAT) for non-alumni

Questions? Feel free to contact ina.averhals@ams.ac.be.

Location & Accessibility

Location: Antwerp Management School, Boogkeers 5, 2000 Antwerp

Please note: There is no parking available on site, but several parking garages are nearby. The closest one is Interparking Oudaen. The venue is easily accessible by public transport.

More information

Every two years, Antwerp Management School connects academic insights with real-life corporate dilemmas. This edition of the Strategy & Innovation Challenge focuses on Organizing for Innovation, a short executive programme designed to make innovation succeed within your organization.

Like the programme itself, the challenges connect five building blocks for strategic agility, directly applicable to your organization.