title: Filip Maertens
text: # Filip Maertens
  
  Filip Maertens (born 1978) is a Belgian founder with a background in cyber-security and artificial intelligence. He was founder of Securax (1999), a Belgium-based cyber-security consulting company (acquired), and founder of Argus Labs (2011), an Antwerp-based artificial intelligence company.
  
  As a cyber-security researcher in 1999-2001, Maertens published multiple software vulnerabilities on Microsoft and Linux platforms, and was a global trainer on the Extreme Hacking courses.
  
  As a public speaker, Filip has been on TEDx, Cannes Lions, LeWeb, TheNextWeb, Strata and more.
  
  Maertens was named Belgium's Top 50 Entrepreneur (2014) and Innovator (2015).
  
  