Now that Claude Code is writing our software, what are you doing with all that free time?
Here's an idea: come spend it with us at the next Belgium NLP Meetup! Our next event will take us back to BeCentral, Brussels' prime digital campus, where we're hosted by our friends at Campfire AI.
Go ahead and schedule that long Claude job for the evening of May 5th.
Doors open at 7pm for pizza, talks are planned between 7.30pm and 9pm, and after that there's more time for networking and drinks.
The first two talks of the evening are already confirmed. The final presentation will be added in the coming weeks.
Building AI‑native agentic extraction for commercial leases: the grown‑up path
Frederik Durant (Reavant)
The art of agentic engineering is transforming the software development life cycle at an unprecedented pace. In this new arms race, AI engineers, software architects, and DevOps practitioners are expected to deliver 10x the impact without compromising quality or accountability. In this talk, Frederik will candidly describe his human experience so far navigating this professional identity shift. Additionally, he will show how his company Reavant built an agentic extraction system for complex tenancy documents, and what this taught him about going truly AI‑native.
Why NLP is More Alive Than Ever in the Age of LLMs.
Tomas Staelens & Jean-Charles Nadé (Campfire AI)
The hype surrounding Generative AI has led many to believe that traditional NLP is a thing of the past, but the reality on the ground is different. In this talk, Tomas and Charly dive into why "just prompting it" often fails in enterprise environments where cost and ROI are non-negotiable. They will showcase the synergy between NLP and LLMs and argue that the future belongs to a hybrid architecture. Finally, they will share practical patterns for using NLP as a guardrail and optimizer for AI workflows.
