Dimitri Brosens is the Biodiversity Data Liaison Manager from the Belgian Biodiversity Platform in the Flemish Research Institute for Nature and Forest since early 2009. The ultimate goal of Dimitri is to get Belgium on the world map of biodiversity data. He has a particular interest in the publication, standardization and interoperability of biodiversity datasets.  In 2015 Dimitri organized the Empowering Biodiversity Research conference in Belgium, which can be seen as the start of a vivid biodiversity informatics community in that country.