Speakers

Bertold Van den Bergh is CTO at MAHI, a Belgian leader in autonomous maritime navigation. With over a decade of experience in high-tech hardware, he holds a PhD in secure UAV communication and an MSc in electrical engineering. As a security researcher, he has published several papers on cyber resilience. Before co-founding MAHI, Van den Bergh worked on medical wearables at Byteflies and satellite modems at ST Engineering. He played a vital role in Project MAHI, enabling the first autonomous Atlantic crossing powered solely by solar energy, overseeing the development of the embedded and cloud control systems.