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Every Thu & Sat · Open Lab

OpenLab @ The Vessel

Visit our open lab in AI & Robotics, build your own project or help us with our engineering initiatives.

Wednesday, September 16

Public AI Hackathon · Antwerp

One day building AI tools with the people who serve our communities. With the Province of Antwerp and AP Hogeschool, builders take on real public-sector challenges, mentored by the officers who run them.

Where we’ve been

OpenAI Build Week Community Hackathon - Brussels

OpenAI Codex Community Meetup — Antwerp

OpenAI Codex Community Meetup

Hackers & Ravers

TechXperience: OpenClaw Workshop

Benelux Robotics Meetup

ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon (Community Edition)

Agentic Payments Hackathon with Stripe

Tectonic

Future In Bloom Pt. I

Kids AI Vibecoding Hackathon

AI Hackathon III

SIGNAL II

Robotics Hackathon I

SIGNAL I

AI Hackathon II

AI Hackathon I

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Stories

Filip Nowak · March 11, 2026 · 4 min read

First open Robotics and AI Lab in Belgium

The Vessel is an open robotics and AI lab in the Antwerp port area. Think of it as a forever hackathon.

Filip Nowak · December 31, 2025 · 7 min read

The Cost of Connection

Brain drain breaks the chain of people lifting other people up. How do we ignite Belgium's tech ecosystem?

We ♥

Google

NVIDIA

Port of Antwerp-Bruges

Wintercircus

Brucon

Autodiscovery

EWOR

Our friends

Hugging Face

ElevenLabs

Lovable

LeRobot

Karel de Grote Hogeschool

iMagineLab

Nerdlab

Dwengo

Brubotics

WeSTEM

Tectonic

Campus 19

E6K

Creative STEM

WAT

Young Engineers

La Grand Poste

AP Hogeschool

AISO

Let's build it together