Dirk Paelinck is a serial entrepreneur in innovative real estate concepts and in Property/Construction Technology, and the Chairman of the European PropTech Association.
He is the co-founder and Chairman of the European PropTech Association, composed of 24 national PropTech associations in Europe with a total of 3000+ startups/scale-ups as members,
as well as all the largest European real estate corporates. The mission of the European PropTech Association is to standardize the fragmented European Property & Construction Technology market, to create a legal framework adapated to PropTech/Contech in Europe, to scale up cross border collaboration, to produce unique market insights and to facilitate access to funding.
Dirk is an expert on the EU sustainability legislations and how technological innovation enables the implementation of those. He is keynote speaker around the world
with +80 keynotes per year.
He organizes, with Prof. Revuelta of Finnova EU, the PropTech StartUp Europe Awards, supported and promoted by the European Commission and the European Parliament.
He is also the founder and CEO of the Belgian independent coworking space operator Interoffices and CEO of the international PropTech scale-up Workero, which has received the Seal of Excellence & funding from the European Commission.
