Robin Wauters, TechCrunch

Robin Wauters is an entrepreneur, blogger, conference organizer, social media consultant, startup advisor and allround web addict, based in Belgium, Europe.

He is a writer at TechCrunch and managing editor of Virtualization.com. He was one of the first writers to join blognation, an ambitious effort to centralize reports about Web 2.0 startups from around the world into one blog platform. He is mostly known for setting up Plugg, a one-day conference in Brussels aimed to raise awareness for European entrepreneurship as well as the continent's most promising Web / Mobile 2.0 startups. He's also the organizer of the monthly OpenCoffee Club Brussels meetups.

Wauters combines these efforts with startup life, as a Partner in Oxynade and social media agency Talking Heads.