Bepact - Belgian Public Affairs Community

What Bepact - Belgian Public Affairs Community does

Bepact (Belgian Public Affairs Community) is a non-profit membership association (V.Z.W./A.S.B.L.), formally founded on 16 February 2016 and headquartered at Lambroekstraat 5A, 1831 Machelen, Belgium (KBO/BCE BE0648.693.636). It is the primary Belgian professional community for public-affairs practitioners, bringing together approximately 80+ individual members and 50+ corporate and association partners from regulated industries including pharmaceuticals (Pfizer, Novartis, pharma.be, Gilead, J&J, BMS, Amgen, Bayer, Janssen), banking and financial services (Febelfin, BNP Paribas Fortis, KBC, ING), retail and consumer goods (Colruyt, Delhaize, Takeaway.com), energy and industry (TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil), technology (Microsoft, Agoria), and tobacco (JTI, Philip Morris Benelux). Bepact is the Belgian member of PACE (Public Affairs Community of Europe), linking it to parallel national associations across 11 European countries.

The association's core products are its two membership tiers — Individual Membership at €550/year (excl. VAT) and Corporate Membership at €1,900/year (excl. VAT), both of which auto-renew annually on 1 January and require adherence to the BEPACT Charter of Ethical Conduct. Beyond membership, the product portfolio comprises the annual multi-day Summer School (10th edition planned for August 2026 in Brussels, originally launched in August 2016 in cooperation with KU Leuven's Centre of Political Research), recurring Political Cafés featuring political figures, the Bepact Academy training programme (including courses like 'Belgium unwrapped: the Director's cut' delivered with partners Interel and Akkanto), workshops, and the annual General Assembly. There is no proprietary software or technology platform; the offering is event-, training-, and community-based.

The business model is straightforward: recurring annual membership fees supplemented by event and training revenue, with no disclosed external funding, no parent company, and no subsidiaries. The association is governed by a board of senior in-house public-affairs practitioners from companies such as PepsiCo (President, Jord Van Wassenhove), JTI, Novartis Belgium, BNP Paribas Fortis, Febelfin, Agoria, Takeaway.com, and SoWhatCommunications. Bepact operates with a lean team of approximately 12 employees and is actively growing its member base primarily through its existing network and event-driven engagement.

Name

Bepact - Belgian Public Affairs Community

Legal name

BEPACT V.Z.W. – A.S.B.L.

Website

https://bepact.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bepact is a Belgian non-profit membership association (founded 2016) serving public-affairs professionals through Individual (€550/yr) and Corporate (€1,900/yr) memberships, delivering the annual Summer School, Political Cafés, and Academy training, and representing the Belgian member of PACE.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Machelen

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Membership Fees: Individual membership is priced at €550 (excl. VAT) per year and allows one individual to sign up for all Bepact events.
2. Corporate Membership Fees: Corporate membership is priced at €1,900 (excl. VAT) per year, extending to all employees of the company with a maximum participation of 3 persons per free Bepact event. Corporate members also receive a 20% discount on the annual Summer School and trainings.

Pricing tiers

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Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Bepact is a Belgian non-profit membership association that organizes, promotes, represents, and supports public affairs professionals in Belgium. It sells individual (€550/year) and corporate (€1,900/year) memberships that grant access to networking events, the annual multi-day Summer School, Political Cafés with political figures, training courses (Bepact Academy), and the General Assembly. The association operates under a Charter of Ethical Conduct and is the Belgian member of PACE (Public Affairs Community of Europe).

Product overview

Bepact is a Belgian Public Affairs Community association organized as a membership-based professional network (V.Z.W. – A.S.B.L.). The organization offers two core membership tiers—Individual Membership and Corporate Membership—that provide access to a portfolio of programs including the annual Summer School, Political Café discussions, Bepact Academy training courses, and the General Assembly. The association is bound by its Charter of Ethical Conduct and is a member of the European-level PACE network. The organization does not offer a technology product or software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Individual Membership Allows 1 individual to sign up for all Bepact events, providing access to networking opportunities, training sessions, Political Cafés, the Summer School, and the association's professional public affairs community. Priced at €550 (excl. VAT) per year.

Named customers13 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• PACE (Public Affairs Community of Europe)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBepact is the Belgian member of PACE (www.paceurope.eu), the Public Affairs Community of Europe. PACE has been established as a common platform of all national organizations of European public affairs professionals and lobbyists. The founders of PACE committed to bring a solid contribution to a more transparent process of adopting public policies across Europe within frameworks which will consolidate participative democracy within member states. Effective members include: Austria (OEPAV), Belgium (Bepact), Bulgaria (BAPAS), Cyprus (LPAP), Czechia (APAA), Germany (De'ge'pol), Italy (il Chiostro), Romania (Registrul Roman de Lobby), Spain (APRI), and Switzerland (SSPA). Associate members include Greece and Portugal.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• il Chiostro: Italian public affairs association and PACE effective member offering networking, training, and an ethical framework for Italian PA professionals. Direct peer given shared PACE membership and analogous operating model.
• SSPA (Swiss Society of Public Affairs): Swiss national public affairs association and PACE effective member with analogous member-based programming, training events, and ethical code for Swiss PA professionals.
• OEPAV (Austrian Public Affairs Association): Austrian national public affairs association and fellow PACE effective member running similar member-led events and ethical charter for PA practitioners in Austria.
• APRI (Asociación de Profesionales de las Relaciones Institucionales): Spanish national public affairs association and PACE effective member. Provides the same membership-association model (events, training, ethical code) for public affairs professionals in Spain.
• De'ge'pol (German Society for Political Consulting and Public Affairs): German national public affairs association and fellow PACE member offering comparable membership, networking events, and ethical charter for PA professionals in Germany. Operates the same member-led community model in a larger market.

Broad incumbents

• APCO Worldwide: Global public affairs and strategic communications consultancy with significant Brussels operations. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering overlapping PA services to the same Belgian and EU multinational client base that Bepact's corporate members come from.
• EPACA (European Public Affairs Consultancies' Association): EU-level trade body representing public affairs consultancies. While it serves a different stakeholder base (firms rather than in-house professionals), it occupies an overlapping networking, standards-setting, and advocacy role across the European PA community.
• Hill+Knowlton Strategies: Global public affairs and communications consultancy with Brussels presence and deep pharma/healthcare practice. Competes for PA professional mindshare and serves overlapping Belgian/EU multinational clients, including former employers of Bepact board members.

Regional players

• Akkanto: Belgian public affairs and communication consultancy. Comparable as a regional PA service provider in Belgium; partners with Bepact to deliver training (e.g., 'Belgium unwrapped' courses) and shares the same Belgian PA talent pool.
• Whyte Corporate Affairs: Belgian public affairs consultancy advising clients in biopharma, energy, and food. Serves the same Belgian PA buyer (and is led by a Bepact board member), making it a regionally adjacent service provider with overlapping client base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

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