Scopernia
Jo Caudron
Transformation Strategist
Jo Caudron
Transformation Strategist
Jo Caudron
Transformation Strategist
Jo Caudron is a renowned keynote speaker, author, thought leader and transformation strategist with nearly 30 years of experience in digital innovation. As founder of Belgium’s first digital agency, he built over 25 companies focused on technology and change. Through his company Scopernia, Jo helps organizations across Europe and the Middle East navigate societal and technological disruptions. He has written six books, the seventh is on its way, which explore global trends and offer practical models for future-ready transformation.Jo’s passion lies in inspiring people with a clear, optimistic vision of the future—his true “why” of change.
Jessica Öztürk – van Orsouw
Media & Performance Manager
Jessica Öztürk – van Orsouw
Media & Performance Manager
Facing a “performance plateau” and still strive for ambitious growth targets, ICI Paris XL partnered with Mindshare and Choreograph to implement a Next-Generation Attribution model. Moving beyond traditional cookie-based last-click measurement, this approach utilized machine learning to value the entire customer journey, including “walled garden” impressions and enhancing these journeys with synthetical data. These insights allowed us to drastically optimize the media mix, resulting in a enormous digital revenue growth, exceeding sales targets, and sparking a fundamental data-driven culture shift within the organization.
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Steven Verbruggen
Co-founder and Managing Director
Steven Verbruggen
Co-founder and Managing Director
Hannes Van Roie
Data and transformation Manager
Hannes Van Roie
Data and transformation Manager
Facing a “performance plateau” and still strive for ambitious growth targets, ICI Paris XL partnered with Mindshare and Choreograph to implement a Next-Generation Attribution model. Moving beyond traditional cookie-based last-click measurement, this approach utilized machine learning to value the entire customer journey, including “walled garden” impressions and enhancing these journeys with synthetical data. These insights allowed us to drastically optimize the media mix, resulting in a enormous digital revenue growth, exceeding sales targets, and sparking a fundamental data-driven culture shift within the organization.
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About Hannes:
As Data and Transformation Manager on Mindshare’s (Part of WPP media) Strategy Team, I architect the future of our clients’ digital success. Leveraging data insights from attribution to analytics, and transformative projects that solve our clients’ most complex challenges. The ultimate goal is to deliver sustainable growth and build winning, long-term strategies for leading brands.
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Naomi Osorio Galan
Senior Manager, Media Operations Belux
Fanta partnered with Urban Media and Bauer Media Outdoor to create a Halloween activation inspired by Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice. Running from 9 to 20 September 2024, the takeover transformed Antwerp Central Station into a cinematic experience with an LED Wall XL, immersive sound system, cinema-style seating, and a holographic cube of limited-edition Fanta x Beetlejuice cans. Hostesses distributed over 15,000 Fanta samples while QR codes drove digital engagement via a dedicated app. This multi-sensory experience bridged physical and digital worlds, engaging commuters and leisure visitors alike. Emotion is what turns a space into a moment, and a campaign into a memory.
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Gregory Cosman
Taskforce Leader Serviceplan Group
Gregory Cosman
Taskforce Leader Serviceplan Group
Gold IAB Mixx Awards Winner – Digital MarTech & Innovation
As Head of AI & Transformation at Serviceplan Group Belgium,Gregory leads the integration of Data & AI across all agencies to turn it into a true competitive advantage.
With over 20 years of experience in digital transformation, data, and innovation, he combines strategic vision with hands-on execution to accelerate AI adoption. As an entrepreneur, Gregory has founded and led several tech companies, bringing a pragmatic and results-driven mindset to every initiative. His mission is to position Serviceplan Belgium as a leader in AI-augmented creativity ,scalable, future-proof, and deeply human-centric.
Zoe Dejager
Sustainability Coordinator
Zoe Dejager
Sustainability Coordinator
Zoë is the Sustainability Coordinator at Lidl Belgium and Luxembourg, where she works together with enthusiastic colleagues to drive measurable sustainability targets and strengthen the organization’s sustainable positioning.
She believes that transparent and credible communication towards employees, stakeholders, and customers is essential to reinforce that positioning. That’s why Lidl and Bubka joined forces to elevate their sustainability communication, resulting in their first sustainability magazine and video. Curious about what they learned along the way?
Bronze IAB Mixx Award winner – Digital MarTech & Innovation
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Victoria Carels
Account Manager
Bronze IAB Mixx Award Winner – Digital MarTech & Innovation – Virtual and Augmented Reality
Fanta partnered with Urban Media and Bauer Media Outdoor to create a Halloween activation inspired by Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice. Running from 9 to 20 September 2024, the takeover transformed Antwerp Central Station into a cinematic experience with an LED Wall XL, immersive sound system, cinema-style seating, and a holographic cube of limited-edition Fanta x Beetlejuice cans. Hostesses distributed over 15,000 Fanta samples while QR codes drove digital engagement via a dedicated app. This multi-sensory experience bridged physical and digital worlds, engaging commuters and leisure visitors alike. Emotion is what turns a space into a moment, and a campaign into a memory.
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Joachim François
Chief Innovation Officer
Gold IAB Mixx Award Winner – Digital MarTech & Innovation – Best Use of AI
“In this session, I’ll show how creative ideas become more powerful when they’re designed to work with technology, not despite it. Using Helan’s mental well-being campaign as a case, we’ll unpack how we combined human truth with creative tech (AI + motion capture) to tell an authentic story that people actually wanted to watch and share. The campaign helped break silence around mental health in Flanders by turning stigma into conversation, at scale and with care.”
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A practical framework for tech-enabled creativity and a a behind-the-scenes view of execution: how AI/motion capture, psychological guidance, and platform-native content can work together without losing authenticity.
Joachim is Chief Innovation Officer, leading innovation that bridges creative ambition and emerging technology to drive measurable brand impact. At AKQA, he scales the digital department and guides clients through digital transformation and creative technology, from De Tijd and Doctors Without Borders to Hyundai and Helan. He leads the digital team of 30+ specialists across performance, tech/development, and social content, contributing to two Digital Agency of the Year wins.
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Katharina Menegaldo
Account Manager
Bronze IAB Mixx Award Winner – Digital MarTech & Innovation – Virtual and Augmented Reality
Fanta partnered with Urban Media and Bauer Media Outdoor to create a Halloween activation inspired by Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice. Running from 9 to 20 September 2024, the takeover transformed Antwerp Central Station into a cinematic experience with an LED Wall XL, immersive sound system, cinema-style seating, and a holographic cube of limited-edition Fanta x Beetlejuice cans. Hostesses distributed over 15,000 Fanta samples while QR codes drove digital engagement via a dedicated app. This multi-sensory experience bridged physical and digital worlds, engaging commuters and leisure visitors alike. Emotion is what turns a space into a moment, and a campaign into a memory.
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Caro Peeters
Partner
Caro Peeters
Partner
Caro is a partner at Bubka, where she helps brands and companies drive sustainable growth. Based on research developed in collaboration with Ghent University, organizations gain sharp insight into which sustainability initiatives truly create impact, and how to translate them to their stakeholders. With the help of AI, these insights become easy to apply in practice, enabling brands to move faster and more effectively. From strategy to storytelling and concrete initiatives, Caro helps organizations turn their sustainable ambitions into credible and tangible progress.
1. Scientific credibility measurement at scale
Walk away with the five research-backed drivers that determine whether audiences believe your sustainability message—and understand how AI can analyze all your content.
2. Data as creative fuel, not creative constraint
See how objective credibility scores eliminate guesswork and subjective debates, freeing your team to focus on what actually works—backed by concrete evidence of improvement.
3. Why “human in the loop” is your competitive advantage
Learn the collaborative rhythm where AI measures and humans interpret—the only approach that delivers both data-driven effectiveness and authentic storytelling that connects.
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Claire Gyselinck
Sales Assistant & AI Prompt Strategist
Claire is passionated about data, automation and the practical use of AI in everyday work.
Within Groupe SEB – ROWENTA, she develop and implement internal AI tools that help teams save time and boost efficiency. She loves bridging the gap between technical innovation and real-world impact — making AI accessible, useful and a little bit fun.
SpecExtract: How AI Simplifies the Invisible Work
Behind every new product launch, there’s a lot of invisible manual work — collecting, checking, and structuring product data.
To prepare the launch of new Rowenta hair care appliances, I created SpecExtract, an internal AI assistant that automates the extraction of technical specifications from PDF files. This simple idea now saves our teams weeks of work per year and shows how AI can make everyday tasks smarter, faster, and much more human-friendly.
Peter Mittermayer
Team Lead Reddit Advertising & LCS, AT/BE
Peter Mittermayer
Team Lead Reddit Advertising & LCS, AT/BE
Generative AI is changing how people search, replacing long result pages with conversational answers grounded in real human experience. Large language models now often rely on Reddit conversations for timely, niche and trustworthy signals. For brands this means that what people say about you on Reddit can influence whether you appear in AI answers at key decision moments. In this session I will share fresh data on Reddit and AI search and show how marketers can turn community conversations into measurable impact.
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Understand the new search stack:
How AI search products use Reddit and why community conversations are so prominent in AI answers compared with traditional search content.
Turn Reddit conversations into AI visibility:
Concrete tactics for brands and agencies to structure paid and organic activity on Reddit so that they spark the kinds of discussions large language models like to reference, without falling into spammy behaviour.
Measure what matters in an AI powered world:
A simple framework that links Reddit ads and brand participation to downstream signals such as AI citations, high intent traffic and conversions, and how to explain this impact internally to marketing and data teams.
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Fabian Van De Wiele
Managing Director
From FOMO chaos to controlled AI implementation
Stop the hype. Make it concrete. Use cases for performance marketing across the AI maturity journey. What worked, what failed, and why.
This keynote explains our journey of the last 12 months implementing AI workflows and agents in our processes and solutions for our clients. We’ll go through the mistakes we made, how we handled them, and what the next steps are. We’ll explain the AI maturity map – a tool we built for ourselves to map the way forward, with concrete demos of each stage in the maturity journey.
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Roosmarijn Quartier
Ex-TUI
Roosmarijn Quartier recently left TUI Belgium & the Netherlands as Director Marketing & Distribution Support. The past couple of years she has been working a lot on digital transformation, omnichannel strategies with focus on customer journeys, and organisational optimisation. She values a data driven approach, innovation and strong collaborations as drivers for competitive advantage.
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Salim Benhoussa
AI Innovation Lead
AI Innovation Lead at Keytrade with extensive experience in data and artificial intelligence, particularly within banking, retail, and the startup ecosystem.
AI in Action: Redefining How Operations Serve Customers
AI is no longer a “nice to have” in banking operations; it is a core driver of efficiency, scalability, and customer experience. As customer expectations rise and operational complexity increases, banks must move from experimentation to value-driven AI adoption.
This session highlights how AI can unlock tangible impact across banking operations, with a particular focus on customer care and contact centre. Practical use cases, key lessons learned, and operational priorities will be explored. The discussion also looks ahead to the future of AI and innovation in banking operations.
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Felix De Clercq
Digital Strategist
Felix De Clercq is a senior digital strategist at delaware, helping B2B companies modernize their digital foundations for real business impact. With over 15 years of experience in e-commerce, data strategy, and digital customer experience, he focuses on pragmatic transformation: building the IT and data structures today that make tomorrow’s AI possibilities actually work.
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Patrick Kohnen
Head of Technical Operations
Patrick Kohnen is a results-driven digital and technology leader with deep expertise in analytics, data strategy, and marketing operations. As Head of Technical Operations at Programmads, he bridges the gap between technology and marketing to deliver scalable, data-driven solutions. Passionate about innovation and continuous learning, Patrick helps organizations turn complex data into real business impact.
Most organisations today are rich in data and dashboards, yet poor in tangible business impact. Insights are produced, shared, and discussed, but they too rarely translate into concrete actions that change how campaigns, products, or decisions are executed.
This session focuses on the missing link between knowing and doing with data. We’ll show how to move from insights to execution by starting with real business pain points, designing feasible data use cases, and enabling teams.
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George Lavric
Partner Sales Manager
George is an Experienced Digital Transformation Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the telecom, finance, and software industries. He is skilled in Digital Marketing, Content Management Systems (CMS), Content Creation, Teaching, and Public Speaking. He is a strong business development professional passionate about innovation and creativity.
AI Agents: They Work Hard, So You Don’t Have To
The next frontier of AI isn’t about tools; it’s about teammates. This talk reveals how Optimizely’s agentic AI workforce is changing the game. We’ll dive into practical examples of how these AI agents power everything from smarter experimentation to accelerated content creation, proving that the future of digital experience is collaborative, not just automated.
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Haroen Vermylen
Founder & CTO
Beyond Feedback: Building What No One Asked For
Haroen Vermylen speaks the language of engineers and product teams alike, because he’s one of them. As co-founder of Luzmo, he doesn’t just build data tools; he transforms clients’ data goldmines into powerful, actionable insights for end users. Haroen, crafts solutions that elevate user experience and unlock new revenue streams. Equal parts engineer and artist, he merges technical mastery with creative vision to make data not just handled, but harnessed.