Digital Excellence Connect 2026 is just around the corner. We look forward to welcoming you on Friday, 5 June 2026 in Leuven.
The afternoon programme includes two breakout sessions. In each session, you can choose between customer caseswhere organisations share their real-world digital transformation journeys or technology sessions where our partners explore how innovations in AI, cloud and platform engineering are shaping the next generation of digital solutions.
Please submit your preferences before Thursday, 4 June so we can ensure the best possible experience for everyone.
14:45 - 15:25 Breakout session 1: discover your options
Customer case
Sophie de Kok Senior Executive Data & AI
In her session "AI Transformation through a Private Equity lens: How Hg empowers AI Aacross 50 companies", Sophie de Kok shares how Hg Capital, a world-leading private equity firm, turns AI into scalable business impact across their own organisation and portfolio companies. Parte joins the stage to bring that strategy to life with a concrete real-world case.
Customer case
Tom Weyers Product Manager Digital Solutions
BOMA, a wholesale distributor of cleaning products and machinery transformed fragmented product knowledge into a smart AI assistant that handles 200+ queries a day, saving every employee up to an hour of searching.
Tech session
Jeremy Eder Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat
In his session "Lessons from Red Hat Engineering on AI-first software development", Jeremy Eder offers business leaders and engineers a powerful new lens on how AI is collapsing the feedback loops that software organisations were built around, and the patterns that separate teams that compound their gains from those that quietly stall.
By leveraging Storyblok’s modern headless CMS, Q8 is building a fast, scalable and AI-ready digital platform that accelerates marketing velocity, increases business flexibility, and future-proofs customer experiences across channels.
15:55 - 16:35 Breakout session 2: discover your options
Customer case
Jan Blondeel CIO
Vinçotte transformed their data platform into an AI-powered decision accelerator, giving customers self-service access to inspection insights in plain language and eliminating days of lead time for data analysis.
Customer case
Ivan Verbesselt Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer
Mediagenix partnered with AE to move from scattered AI experimentation to a structured programme, complete with a validated use case backlog, role-based coaching and a scalable operating model.
Tech session
Lillie Harris Azure Business Lead, Western Europe, Microsoft
In her session "AI frontier apps that matter", Lillie Harris explores how frontier AI applications combine data, intelligence and agentic automation to solve high-value business problems. Learn how next-generation architectures and multi-agent systems enable organisations to move from insights to autonomous action.
Tech session
Eberhard Wolff Head of Architecture and Co-owner, SWAGLab
In his session "AI in software architecture: help or hype", Eberhard Wolff takes a pragmatic look at where AI genuinely supports software architects today and where its limitations become obvious. The session separates hype from value and shows why architectural trade-offs, context and long-term responsibility cannot be delegated to AI.
Whitepaper
Microsoft Fabric
Everything you always wanted to know about Microsoft Fabric… but were afraid to ask
