Pieter-jan Pauwels
AI Program Manager at Eurocities
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolPieter-jan Pauwels is an AI Program Manager and seasoned digital innovation lead with 12 years of experience connecting policy, people and technology to drive public sector transformation in Ghent and across Europe. He specializes in the early "explore" phase—prototyping human-centred, technically feasible and financially viable solutions for govtech, smart cities and cultural data projects. A practiced translator between strategic, technical and operational teams, he secures funding, builds partnerships and runs collaborative experiments that turn foresight into tangible pilots. Active in Eurocities and leading city-scale AI initiatives, he blends design thinking, service design and futures methodologies to keep citizens central to tech adoption. Despite joking on GitHub about "knowing nothing about code," his track record shows deep practical leadership in launching civic tech and AI programs that prioritize societal benefit over market forces.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Sociaal Werk Sociaal Cultureel Werk, Bachelor Sociaal Werk Sociaal Cultureel Werk at HOGENTSecundaire Graad Economie - Menswetenschappen, Secundaire Graad Economie - Menswetenschappen at Koninklijk Lyceum GentMaster Communicatiewetenschappen New media and society, Master Communicatiewetenschappen New media and society at Ghent University
Github Skills (21)
census8
survey7
jekyll-bootstrap7
open-data6
bootswatch5
javascript5
crowdsourcing4
jekyll4
bootstrap4
liquid4
jekyll-theme4
html4
bootstrap-theme3
ride2
wordpress2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openknowledgebe/W4P
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
configurecrowdsourcing
openknowledgebe/datawijs
Jun 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 2 comments, 6 issues in 1 year 7 months
python
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