Heleen Wilbrink

Making life a bit more beautiful every day. That is my goal. I am a program manager at the Utrecht Archives and entrepreneur, leading projects that combine online, (linked open) data, culture, and often AI. I am specialized in the creation of online platforms and websites, working together with the cultural institutions, developers, designers, AI specialists, the customer and users. In addition to project managent, I focus on the validation with users, testing, crowdsourcing and AI training. I founded my own company Aincient to facilitate easier research using the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and created Cleo, the AI Egyptology platform (cleo.aincient.org). Trained as an Egyptologist and Marketer, I pursued a corporate career in the financial industry. I saw the potential of applying the latest technologies to the study of ancient cultures and decided to help building bridges between the tech world and cultural institutions. I have been using my experience ever since to create online platforms in the cultural sector. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, project management, Agile, digitization, heritage, linked open data, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Handwritten Text Recognition, Named Entity Recognition, Customer Journeys, Digital Humanities, Egyptology, Marketing, archaeology, cultural sponsoring, sales management, retail banking, classical music. Qualities: combination of IQ and EQ, entrepreneur, translator of tech to stakeholders and customers, analytical thinker, public speaker, strategic, empathic, creative, trendsetter, authentic, team builder & team player, daring.