Jasna Rokegem

Jasna Rokegem is an award-winning young and energetic pioneer combining innovative fashion and cutting-edge technology. She founded Jasna Rok, the first FashionTech design studio in Belgium, which was created to reconcile advanced technologies with interactive fashion and does so by collaborating with technology partners globally. Her visionary thinking helps decision makers in different industries imagine how to come up with more sustainable solutions.

She is an artist in residence at Nokia Bell Labs, worked with Volkswagen and OnePlus, has been awarded Young Innovation leader 2019, Global Entrepreneur 2017 at GES in India, been named Women Leader in STEM by the US embassy and most recently she was the youngest, and the first Belgian, to speak at NASA’s Cross-Industry Innovation summit. This year will also see her debut at SXSW in Texas.

Her dream is to go to the moon and to become a pioneer in interplanetary communication."

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