In pursuit of the golden egg
Being ‘disrupted’ can be a stressful experience if you happen to earn your bread in the industry being disrupted. Ask the advertising and marketing folks, who are trying to figure out to how (re)engage the digitally liberated consumer. But disruption is also about innovation. The right response is not to fight it; on the contrary, one should embrace the potential of the disruptive technology (the internet and all it implies) and use it to your advantage. Look at what the music industry is finally doing. But to stimulate innovation you need the right ecosystem. You need a system that brings people from various disciplines together, where ideas are shared, that in turn lead to new ideas, and where infrastructure and money is available to turn those ideas into projects and new business. Alain Heureux, boss of IAB Europe (the digital marketing trade association), is building such an ecosystem in Brussels, and it’s called the Egg. The point: to create golden eggs.
Can you tell us a little about the Egg and how it came about?
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About Alain Heureux

Alain Heureux is President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe), the trade association responsible for promoting the growth of the interactive advertising markets in Europe. He has more than 20 years pan-European marketing experience having established several marketing services companies across Europe: the CPM Group specialising in field and direct marketing and sales promotion, Virtuology, a web agency active in Brussels, London and Paris, and Tagora, an integrated marcom agency. He is currently working to set up the House of Communication (The Egg) in Brussels that will be dedicated to Creativity, Innovation and Technologies in media and marketing.
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