Digital Excellence Connect

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Morning Workshops

9:00 - 10:00

Welcome & Breakfast

10:00 - 12:00

Workshops

Finding bounded contexts: hands-on domain architecture

Conference room area - Meeting room 'Merlot' (ground floor)

Eberhard Wolff

Eberhard Wolff

Head of Architecture and Co-owner SWAGLab

Swaglab
Vincent Verstraete

Vincent Verstraete

AE Enterprise Transformation & Strategist Architect

AE

Software security in times of Agentic AI

Conference room area - Meeting room 'Azul' (ground floor)

Bart Jonckheere

Rein Daelman

Security Researcher

Aikido
Jeroen Haegebaert

Jeroen Haegebaert

AE Enterprise Technology Architect

AE

Building data products with Microsoft Fabric

Conference room area - Meeting room 'Apricot' (first floor)

Guust Franssens

Guust Franssens

Microsoft Solution Engineer

AE
Jonathan Lessard

Jeroen Ruytings

AE Data Platform Lead

AI-augmented SDLC: from localised gains to system-level impact

Conference room area - Meeting room 'Meadow' (first floor)

Jonathan Lessard

Jonathan Lessard

President & Co-founder Axify

Axify
Maxim Verbiest

Maxim Verbiest

AE Strategic Solution Architect

AE

Main afternoon event

12:00 - 13:00

Welcome & Lunch

13:00 - 13:45

When agents decide. The agentic shift reshaping customer experience, work and corporate operating models.

Main Stage

Peter van Hees

Peter van Hees

Innovation Manager & Keynote speaker

13:45 - 14:15

AI Agents have joined your engineering team. Now what?

Main Stage

Valerie Taerwe

Valerie Taerwe

AI Thought Leader & AE Business Unit Manager Applications

AE
Jo Van Eyck

Jo Van Eyck

AI Influencer & AE Software Engineer

AE

14:15 - 14:45

Break

14:45 - 15:25

Breakout sessions

Lessons from Red Hat Engineering on AI-first software development

Main Stage

Eberhard Wolff

Jeremy Eder

Distinguished Engineer

Red Hat

Faster, Smarter, Stronger: Building AI-ready digital platforms with Storyblok

Conference Rooms

Franky De Schouwer

Product Designer Q8

Q8

Roshni Bhogaita

Strategic Customer Success Manager Storyblok

Storyblok

AI Transformation through a Private Equity lens: How Hg empowers AI across 50 companies

Small Room

Sophie de Kok

Senior Executive Data & AI

Hg Capital

From knowledge base to AI-assistent (BO)

Paerk

Tom Weyers

Product Manager Digital Solutions

BOMA

15:25 - 15:55

Break

15:55 - 16:35

Breakout sessions

Reaching the AI Frontier with Apps that Matter

Conference Rooms

Lillie Harris

Lillie Harris

Azure Business Lead, Western Europe

Microsoft

AI in Software Architecture: help or hype?

Main Stage

Eberhard Wolff

Eberhard Wolff

Head of Architecture and Co-owner

Swaglab

Transforming data into an AI-powered decision accelerator

Paerk

Jan Blondeel

CIO Vinçotte

Vinçotte

Journey to... AI First

Small Room

Ivan Verbesselt

Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer

Mediagenix

16:35 - 17:00

Break

17:00 - 17:45

Transforming ICT at Imec

Main Stage

Reginald Warlop

Reginald Warlop

CIO

Imec

17:45 - 18:00

Closing keynote

Main Stage

Christoph Neut

Christoph Neut

CEO

AE

18:00 - 2:00

Scrumrock

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  • Microsoft
  • Red Hat
  • Storyblok
  • Aikido
  • Axify