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Dates 2026 to be announced

The Future of Entertainment

UNWRAP Festival explores creativity and technology in games, animation, VFX and music.
Listen to best practices and interesting insights from pioneers in the industry on how creativity and game tech shape entertainment industries. Meet peers, potential partners and investors at our network events and make sure to hire skilled interns or a future coworker at the Career Fair.

UNWRAP 2025

Thank you to everyone who made UNWRAP 2025 unforgettable! We can’t wait to see you back in 2026!

This year marked an exciting period of growth as we explored different topics and cases, and brought together voices from across industries.

UNWRAP Festival 2025
explored a variety of themes including: games, VFX, AI, animation, (game)tech, and music.
Here are some highlights from this year's edition!:

Industry days

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During the industry days, professionals, students, academics, entrepreneurs, and creatives active in the game, film and music industry gather for talks, networking and recruitment. A good dose of inspiration and business development, with a Belgian beer and some great music performances on top. UNWRAP is a festival after all.

Music Innovation

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A conference day focusing on the added value and potential of using game technology within the music industry. With Sonic City as the perfect finale to the day.

Sonic city

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Sonic City is a 3-day music festival focused on artistic freedom of the festival’s curator, a unicum in the music industry. It's not a rock festival, it's not a free jazz festival, it's not an electronic festival. But it very well could be. It’s a music festival for all.

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Industry days

During the industry days, professionals, students, academics, entrepreneurs, and creatives active in the game, film and music industry gather for talks, networking and recruitment. A good dose of inspiration and business development, with a Belgian beer and some great music performances on top. UNWRAP is a festival after all.

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Music Innovation

A conference day focusing on the added value and potential of using game technology within the music industry. With Sonic City as the perfect finale to the day.

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Sonic city

Sonic City is a 3-day music festival focused on artistic freedom of the festival’s curator, a unicum in the music industry. It's not a rock festival, it's not a free jazz festival, it's not an electronic festival. But it very well could be. It’s a music festival for all.

Connecting professionals and ideas

Industry Days

The UNWRAP Industry Days explore the potential of entertainment technology across games, music, film, and media. The festival's core consists of talks, networking and business development in the entertainment industry.

Career Fair

Our renowned Career Fair returns to link top talent with leading companies. Seeking a job, internship, or new career opportunity? This is the place to be! Companies looking to hire can secure an exhibitor booth for access to the scheduling tool and portfolios.

Music innovation

Music Innovation Day offers you a deep dive into how technology shapes creation, live performance, distribution, fan experience etc. for the years to come!

Aftermovie 2025

Speakers of 2025

Academic day

Industry days

Music innovation day

Zeke

 

Virant

Lead Game Designer at MachineGames

Academic day

Industry days

Music innovation day

Arne

 

Stalpaert

Project manager / developer / artist

Academic day

Industry days

Music innovation day

Frederik

 

Smolders

Founder/Developer

Academic day

Industry days

Music innovation day

Joris

 

Corthout

CEO of Prismax BV

Academic day

Industry days

Music innovation day

Tara

 

Beutels

Strategic and Commercial Expert at AMPLO

Academic day

Industry days

Music innovation day

Danielle

 

Udogaranya

CEO of EBONIX

Academic day

Industry days

Music innovation day

Dries

 

Deryckere

Teacher at Howest Digital Arts & Entertainment

Partners 2025