Bob van Luijt

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Luijt, not Luijt.

Bob van Luijt (born November 15, 1985) is a technology entrepreneur, technologist,^[1] and new media artist^[2] from the Netherlands. He is the co-founder of Weaviate and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation.

Bob van Luijt
Bob van Luijt during Datastax's podcast Open Source Data with Sam Ramji
Born	(1985-11-15) November 15, 1985 (age 39) Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.
Nationality	Dutch
Education	Artez Institute of the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Harvard Business School
Alma mater	Artez Institute of the Arts
Occupations	Entrepreneur technologist
Organizations	Weaviate Creative Software Foundation
Known for	Weaviate Control(human, data, sound) The Core
Title	Founder, CEO, Weaviate Chairman of Creative Software Foundation
Website	txt.vanluijt.nl

Technology Entrepreneurship

Bob van Luijt presenting at TEDx

In March 2016^[3] Van Luijt started the open source vector search engine Weaviate.^[4][5][6][7] He has published^[8] and lectured^[9] about (open-source) software business models ^[10] and the positioning of broadly applicable infrastructure software (e.g., databases and search engines).^[11]

New Media & Arts

Kubrickology at the Dutch Design Week in the Van Abbemuseum

Van Luijt received a bachelor's degree from Artez Institute of the Arts. After completing his studies he worked on projects including his album The Core.^[12] He collaborated on harpist Anne Vanschothorst's album Ek is eik.,^[13] with Billy Martin and Florian Weber^[14] and with Yonga Sun and Cuong Vu.^[15]

Control(human, data, sound) (CHDS)^[16] was his first tech-based artwork and was selected as an awards Finalist for CREATE 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in the category art+technology.^[17]