Manu Vollens

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30-day microSaaS sprint

ImpactGenie

Co-Founder

Kill the Dinosaur

Helping mission-driven founders in launching & growing new business opportunities.

Founder

Airborn

We’re on a mission to support and fund impact driven startup founders.
Rome wasn’t built in a day… expected to launch soon

Co-Founder & Venture Partner

ClimateCamp - hiring!

Decarbonising the food industry and its supply chains by making it easier for companies & their suppliers to exchange carbon data.

Member of The Board of Advisors

Dripl

Venture Coach

Aquafin

New Business Developer - Riothermie

switchrs

Switchrs is a multidisciplinary innovation collective that focuses on social-circular economy.

At switchrs we believe in sustainability as a positive story. That's why our focus is on designing positive impact. We make, show, facilitate and talk about things that regenerate our planet, society and economy.

bundl

Long term collaboration as a Strategy Designer for the Bundl team and its network of clients.

(*) via Kill the Dinosaur

Sr. Corporate Venture Builder (*)

Thea Swing

Thea swing is a design product that gives children with a disability the chance to experience swinging in a safe way, mountable on any classic swing! To swing in a free, safe and comfortable way; that's what the Thea swing stands for.

www.theaswing.com

Co-founder

Launching Impactful Micro-Businesses 🌱🌎 I Venture Building👷 I Circular Economy ♻️ I AI for Good 🤖 I Angel Investing 💸

I’m not a productivity guru.
I’ve launched 10+ ventures, started 100+ side projects, and abandoned at least as many.

Like many creative generalists, I live between sticky notes, Notion docs, WhatsApp reminders, and new startup ideas that always feel more exciting than the last.

So I’m doing what I do best: building for the mess I live in.

For the next 30 days, I’m building a micro-SaaS focused on one core challenge:
Helping creative generalists (like me) stay focused without feeling boxed in.

I’ll be building and sharing in public.

Follow me for transparent updates, lessons learned, and real progress from someone who’s deep in the chaos (and finally doing something about it).

WaterMark

WaterMark can guide & inspire you to set your goals, find your path, work out an actual project and learn tactics, methods & principles along the way. So you can focus on kickstarting your regenerative future.

By listening first and helping you do the “right” things and then doing things “right‘.  Jumping into such an adventure takes a certain mindset & courage, but also tools & processes  that I can arm you with to make it a success!

WaterMark blends natural intelligence with known practices of future foresight, innovation and systems thinking  into hands-on workshops to help you achieve successful regenerative, sustainable or circular projects/initiatives. 
Nature shows the way and has done so for more than 3.8 billion years, imagine what we can learn!

I believe in learning-by-doing & a tailored approach, because every path is unique!

Self Employed

Made Design & Innovation

De werkagenda Bio-economie wil met hernieuwbare biogrondstoffen de circulariteit in  verschillende sectoren versnellen. Als programma manager hou ik me bezig met de coördinatie & opstart acties, organisatie events​, connecteren van stakeholders en actietrekkers​, communicatie, verbinding met andere werkagenda’s en hefboomtrekkers & het helicopterzicht te bewaren. 
De bio-economie is een essentieel onderdeel van de duurzame circulaire Vlaamse economie, en kan een substantiële bijdrage leveren om onze afhankelijkheid van import van grondstoffen te reduceren.

De bio-economie vormt ook een belangrijke schakel in de transitie om onze economie koolstofneutraal te maken. Dat kan door nieuwe waardeketens te bouwen die zorgen voor een gesloten koolstofcyclus. De bio-economie kan ons -mits de juiste stimuli- van biogebaseerde alternatieven voor 'fossiele producten' voorzien, met een minimale klimaatimpact.

Programmamanager Werkagenda Bio-economie iov Vlaanderen Circulair

TomorrowLab

Future foresight & strategy: experienced in foresight techniques, more specific scenario planning, and innovation methodology.  By empowering your team with the appropriate skills and mindset, we guide them through the process of change and prepare them for innovation. 

Innovation Designers are lateral thinkers, able to navigate the complexity, inspire, reframe, embrace ambiguity and prototype solutions. We need more of these people to meet the needs of the future — helping to transform products, services, business models, organizations, institutions and systems."
Future research in all kinds of domains: technology, mobility, food, energy, people, ...

Scenario planning: creating insights in plausible future scenarios. 

Facilitating workshops with a big focus on "doing and experiencing"​ instead of "one-way talking"

Business modelling: designing new business concepts and value propositions.

Innovation management: helping organisations to focus on the right aspects of innovation & largest needs they have according to the innovation Masterplan methodology by Langdon Morris.

Organising SPRINTS, future trend talks, hackathons, stakeholder events, experiences, and all that jazz.

Innovation Designer

IMDC

I am Passionate and Pioneering in Natural Waters. For more than 15 years I have been immersed in Marine & Coastal Consultancy professionally, always trying to discover, facing new challenges by using knowledge, experience and technology in an innovative way. 
Right now I am organising Innovation & a knowledge eco-system company-wide. I help shaping a long term strategy, next to my technical work.
I am very interested in Systemic Approaches for Climatic and Societal Challenges with New or Old Forgotten Technology and a lot of Cross-Disciplines using new Economic & Organisational Models. Get in touch with me, if that makes you smile!

For the WaterPros
Closely involved in Hydro-Informatics, Remote Sensing, Dredging Projects and Offshore Works and Renewable Energy. Conceptual setting up of  Online Real-Time Decision Support Systems, Forecasting of dredge plumes, water quality, Hydrodynamics, Waves, and online visualisation systems, Ports, Estuarine and Coastal studies.  
Environmental mgmt and performing sediment plume studies for tenders/planning and execution phase in capital dredging projects, maintenance dredging projects, marine gravel dredging, coastal protection and harbour extensions. 
Involved in complex metocean measurement campaign organisation and data processing, interpretation and reporting. 
Project manager in various offshore, coastal, estuarine and ports projects.

Innovation Manager

Online Real-Time Decision Support Systems, Forecasting of dredge plumes, Hydrodynamics, Waves, and online visualisation systems. Involved in capital and maintenance dredging projects for LNG and other marine infrastructure works, estuarine and coastal studies. Focus on  multidisciplinary environmental aspects of marine projects, numerical modeling, measurement campaigns and data interpretation. Environmental mgmt and performing sediment plume studies for tenders/planning and execution phase in capital dredging projects, maintenance dredging projects, marine gravel dredging, coastal protection and harbour extensions. Involved in complex metocean measurement campaign organisation and data processing, interpretation and reporting. 

Project management of hydraulic design, supervision and measurement campaigns for coastal protection works, EIA's, water quality operational forecasting modelling. Organizing, coordinating, executing, processing and analyzing hydrodynamic, sediment transport and morphodynamic measurement campaigns in estuarine and coastal environments. Active in Remote Sensing and second opinions on EIA’s. Project Management level. International Experience (Africa, Europe, Central & South America, Australia).

Senior Engineer/Engineer-Advisor/project engineer

Commercial mgmt in Offshore, Dredging, Environment, Hydro-Informatics, Offshore and Estuarine Processes. Product Development for new products (DSS, online platforms, Hydro-Informatics. 
Product Development Manager.
Project work in LNG and other marine infrastructure projects: multidisciplinary estuarine and coastal studies, project management, numerical modeling, environmental management, measurement campaigns.  
Environmental management and performing sediment plume studies for tenders/planning and execution phase in capital dredging projects, maintenance dredging projects, marine gravel dredging, coastal protection, recirculation studies and harbour extensions. 
Project management of hydraulic design, supervision and measurement campaigns for coastal protection works, EIA's, water quality operational forecasting modelling. Organizing, coordinating, executing, processing and analyzing hydrodynamic, sediment transport and morphodynamic measurement campaigns in estuarine and coastal environments. Active in Remote Sensing and second opinions on EIA’s. 
Project Management level. 
International Experience (Africa, Europe, Central & South America, Australia).

Commercial Manager Offshore, Dredging, Environment, Hydro-Informatics & Product Development Manager

Product Development in Online Real-Time Decision Support Systems, Forecasting Systems: dredge plumes, Hydrodynamics, Waves, and online platforms for multi-source data and information (MAST). 
Commercial manager for all tenders in Dredging, Environment and Forecasting Systems.

Involved in capital and maintenance dredging projects for LNG and other marine infrastructure works, estuarine and coastal studies. Focus on  multidisciplinary environmental aspects of marine projects, numerical modeling, measurement campaigns and data interpretation. Environmental mgmt and performing sediment plume studies for tenders/planning and execution phase in capital dredging projects, maintenance dredging projects, marine gravel dredging, coastal protection and harbour extensions. Involved in complex metocean measurement campaign organisation and data processing, interpretation and reporting. 

Project management of hydraulic design, supervision and measurement campaigns for coastal protection works, EIA's, water quality operational forecasting modelling. Organizing, coordinating, executing, processing and analyzing hydrodynamic, sediment transport and morphodynamic measurement campaigns in estuarine and coastal environments. Active in Remote Sensing and second opinions on EIA’s. Project Management level. International Experience (Africa, Europe, Central & South America, Australia).

Product Development Manager & Deputy Commercial Manager for Dredging, Environment and Forecasting St

DREDGING INTERNATIONAL D.I

LNG Terminal and Navigation Channel Capital Dredging Works.

Operational function on site Wheatstone Downstream Project.  Deputy Environmental Manager for the DIAU Wheatstone Downstream Project: Coordination of Environmental Team, Environmental Impact of Dredging Works; Sediment Plume Behaviour and Impact on Coral Reef Sites; Real-time Water Quality and Ecological Monitoring System Mgmt & Analysis & Reporting ; Forecast Impact Modelling Tool Development; Waste and Oil Spill Mgmt;  Commercial, Operational and Contractual interface with Client and Subcontractors; Dredge Env Mgmt Plan and Procedures set up and implementation
Trainings: 
Permit to Work
Defensive Driver Alertness & 4WD Training
Zero Accident Plus
JSEA, STARRT & Take 5 Training
5 Why Training

Senior Environmental Engineer Wheatstone Downstream

Libost-Groep nv

Design, meetstaat opstellen en supervisie bouw en renovatie van waterzuiveringsinstallaties, recyclageplants, opstellen bekkenbeheersplannen.

junior ingenieur

I am Mark Bollen, founder of WaterMark, environmental engineer and pragmatic innovator & trainer. My mission is to accelerate the (regenerative) transition to a healthier planet & society guided by nature. How: starting up projects & building skills along the way that changemakers need to succeed!

After 15 years of engineering, consultancy & innovation in the waterworld (hence the name), I shifted my focus to innovation,  future foresight studies & facilitation of processes 5 years ago. I have worked with corporations, public partners, organisations & knowledge institutes as well as small & medium enterprises in various sectors. 

I have studied & worked on challenges related to water management, environmental impact, renewable energy, climate change adaptation, resource scarcity, new technologies, nature based solutions & circularity. I am a no-nonsense pragmatist that likes to help others realise their aspirations & dreams.

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