BRAINBOOST - AI for non-techies
Practical
Thursday, May 12, 2026
12:00 pm arrival with lunch
12:15 pm start
2:00 pm end
Location: De Hoorn, Skybox King, Sluisstraat 79, Leuven
Lunch included
This BrainBoost will be guided in Dutch
Participation is free, registration is required via 'tickets'
It sometimes feels like everything today revolves around AI. Those of us who are not very tech-savvy can occasionally get a slight wave of panic when the name Claude comes up. Fortunately, there is plenty of value to be gained for non-techies as well! What can you, as a non-technical person, do with AI today?
In this BrainBoost, we provide a concise and practical overview of what YOU can already do with AI today. From writing texts and building websites to creating your own dashboards or even full software solutions — and all without any programming knowledge. We will also cover “AI agents”: we will show how MindWave Mike can help with scheduling meetings.
This session is not intended for tech experts, but rather for anyone who wants an accessible introduction to AI. Do you have your own idea for useful software? Feel free to share it (we might even build it together during the session).
P.S. This text was of course also created with the help of AI.
Contact: naig@dehoorn.eu
BrainBoost: a series of inspiring lunchtime sessions in which a different topic is discussed each time. With BrainBoost, we aim to bring Leuven-based companies closer together and encourage exchange. Participation + sandwich is free.
This BrainBoost will be hosted by Johan Nagels. Johan is the founder and CEO of MindWave, a team of around 40 senior IT consultants in Belgium and Greece. He likes to describe himself as someone with a technical background: in 2001, he started as a Java programmer analyst.
Today, his focus is strongly on AI, both out of interest and because the IT sector is undergoing major changes as a result. At MindWave, AI is now used extensively, both in the solutions they build and in the way they work. And that latter point applies not only to their software developers.