Svante Randlert

HRTECH.gala [06.10.2021, 18h00]

Over the past 10 years Svante Randlert has directly advised hundreds of organizations and thousands of bosses on how to become the first choice for the employees and customers of tomorrow.

Out of a field of over 1000 speakers, he is the only person ever to be three times awarded the maximum 5.0 rating by every single delegate at Sweden’s largest leadership network, Close.

He has also been given the highest ratings of all speakers at the largest employer branding event, World Employer Branding Day, Budapest. Just as he was at the Employer Branding Summit, Amsterdam, the Future of Work, Ljubljana, Recruitment Days, Oslo and Leadership Day, Stockholm.

Svante has also worked as Business & People Advisor for Academic Work, from 2009 to 2018. Academic Work has been voted Sweden’s best service sector employer for the last 3 years running, and as having Sweden’s most satisfied customers every year since 2010.

Philipp Kristian

Philipp Kristian is a global innovation and trust pioneer, change futurist and author of RESET and The Trust Economy. Philipp has driven innovation for Fortune 500s in APAC. He’s helped the CEOs of Singapore’s most successful startups reshape entire industries. His executive education masterclasses for a top Asian business school stand out with rave reviews. He’s a voice of change for digital Generations Y and Z.

Philipp encourages us to trust ourselves, and to trust others. When we do we collaborate, innovate and change for good. He is an innovation strategist at work, change evangelist on stage and eloquent rebel on the page. Philipp makes each keynote a bespoke, thoroughly researched experience. He loves inspiring transformation in over a dozen sectors on five continents.

Philipp has attracted the attention of media outlets including Business Insider, The Economist Intelligence Unit, Esquire, Haymarket, Forbes, Economic Times, Springer and BrandEins. He was made a St. Gallen Symposium Leader of Tomorrow (2015), Kairos Society Global Fellow (2016) and World Economic Forum Global Shaper (2018). In his free time, he is an avid yogi, sailor and matcha enthusiast

Cecile Cremer

Cécile Cremer is a trend and innovation expert, keynote speaker, author, but above all a child of the future. As a keynote speaker, she has appeared on over more than 100 international stages and is a source of inspiration in the field of trends and innovation worldwide. She stands at the helm of her company Wandering The Future, a Future agency that focuses on sharing trend insights and developing innovative concepts around international trends (including J.P. Morgan, Beiersdorf and E.ON, various municipalities & Dynagroup).

Cyriel Kortleven

For more than 20 years, Cyriel Kortleven has been inspiring organisations like IKEA, NASA and Unilever to approach Change with courage, confidence and enthusiasm. His pragmatic advice has earned him the nickname The Simplifier. In an increasingly complex world, we need new simple perspectives to enable us to navigate uncertainty and to turn problems into opportunities.

Be ready for practical tips & tools to help you as a leader drive behavioural change. Your audience will be armed with new language and a boost of energy to transform the fear of change into a positive attitude towards the goals you want to achieve. Cyriel uses interaction and humour to create a context where people think and feel differently to reignite their appetite for creativity, taking risks and achieving ambitious results. Don’t mind the change. Change your Mind. 

Stella Collins

Stella Collins is founder and Chief Learning Officer at Stellar Labs and one of the Brain Ladies.
She is an acknowledged expert on the practical application of science-based learning to business performance solutions and is author of Kogan Page’s sell-out book ‘Neuroscience for Learning and Development’, already translated into 3 other languages. She inspires audiences at international learning conferences and is regularly invited as a guest on round table discussions, webinars, podcasts and blogs.

Stella has a clear understanding of the challenges faced by people in organisations asked to deliver tough or technical training and applies principles from neuroscience and psychology to create practical solutions to transform learning cultures. She regularly consults, designs and delivers face to face, virtual and digital training herself, so she knows the principles work in the real world and deliver genuine return on investment. Stella has trained 1,000s of learning professionals in brain friendly principles in her more than 20 years in L&D. She has a BSc in Psychology, an MSc in Human Communication, is a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Occupational Learning and through Stellar Labs she returns to her roots in the IT industry.

Michael Y. Lee

Michael Y. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and studies novel and innovative approaches to organizing. His research focuses on how organizations can become less hierarchical and instead become more empowering and agile. One stream of his research explores the consequences and dynamics of companies that organize without a conventional hierarchical macro-structure, focusing on how they are able to sustain coordination without traditional management positions and also what types of individuals thrive in such structures. A second stream of research examines how groups can change deeply habituated hierarchical patterns of interaction and instead foster dynamics built on respect, openness, and connectedness.

He is passionate about translating insights from research into practical tools and for practitioners. He teaches a 2-day course on collaborative leadership at Harvard and also works with leaders and organizations to help them cultivate more effective, engaging and empowering work environments.

Michael has worked in a variety of organizational contexts and sectors. Most recently, he served as an engagement leader at a global management consulting firm where he advised corporate, private equity, and social sector clients on strategy. Michael earned his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, an MBA from U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and his AB from Harvard University (magna cum laude in Social Studies). He has trained in large group meeting facilitation and self-managed teaming as a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, and is an experienced student in Vipassana (Insight) meditation, having trained at Spirit Rock, one of the largest meditation centers in the U.S.

Riadh Bahri

Riadh Bahri was born in the summer of 1988. As a child, he grew up in Ghent, where he later studied language and literature at the university. Even during his studies, he voluntarily completed an internship at a public broadcasting corporation. Successively, Bahri worked for the Karrewiet youth news, Terzake and Het Journaal. In recent years, he has focused on reporting on tourism and aviation. Since 2020, Riadh has been working for the VRT NWS newsroom. He is also one of the regular radio newsreaders at VRT.

5 years ago he published his first book: 'Depressed? Loser! Over rock-hard falling and getting up again'. In this book, he tells about his own struggle with depression and shares the stories of other Flemish young people. Riadh has lived in Brussels for 10 years and is married to Niels.

Xavier Portet

Xavier is managing the business for Cornerstone in the Benelux and Nordics.

Working with Cornerstone clients, prospects and partners to navigate the new skills economy in global digitalization context by providing solutions to attract, onboard, develop, and retain the talent and skills they need to achieve their business objectives.

Charlotte Gréant

Charlotte Gréant is the general manager of Startups.be | Scale-Ups.eu, the biggest startup ecosystem in Belgium. The ecosystem is the leading growth platform in Belgium that connects Europe's most promising startups and scale-ups with our network of deep-pocket investors, corporate buyers, global partners, and relevant stakeholders. Its goal is to fast-track innovation and collaboration with high-tech companies.

Charlotte started her career in Benin as the manager of a public transport company called Baobab Express. Under her leadership, the company grew from 12 to 50 employees and became a high-performing and profitable local company. Before joining Startups.be | Scale-Ups.eu, Charlotte spent four years in the United States (San Francisco and New York), where she launched and grew the B-Hive US Hub, focusing on a variety of fields, including business development as a service for European startups and ecosystem building. 

Mitch Goovaerts

Mitch Goovaerts is responsible for the sales strategy in Belgium and Luxembourg for ATOSS Software and supports large companies in the optimization and digitization of their HR and Workforce management strategy. Previously, he gained more than 10 years of experience in the SaaS industry for enterprises through his work in services and delivering added-value software to multinationals in their process of digitizing processes and communications.

He will explain what is workforce management and what does it mean practically for companies in different sectors these days but also the impact for the workers in their daily life and their work/life balance. Workforce management is a big topic for a few years now but is even more in the spotlight due to covid, new generations, new ways of working, …

A deeper look will be made at the trends in workforce management for the coming years on a legal level, social level, technology level, and HR level.

Finally, Mitch will explain the challenges that these trends occur and how to tackle them in order to have the perfect integration between compliance, productivity, and humanity.

Arjan Vissers

As a Recruitment Evangelist, Arjan supports employers to optimize their recruitment process by providing insights into their campaign performance, the online job search, and the overall recruitment market in general. Arjan has worked at Indeed for over 5 years. In his previous role at the company, he was responsible for the strategy of Indeed in the Benelux, helping grow Indeed into the #1 job search engine in the Netherlands and Belgium. Prior to Indeed, Arjan has a background in HR and Online - providing various companies with strategic insights to fuel growth, among others creating a startup company; a marketplace for freelancers. 

Hans Mangelschots

Managing director of HR Tech Valley, a BeNeLux HR Tech Community who shares the belief in technology as a means that enables organizations to focus more on people.

On a mission to accelerate the digitization of HR towards an engaging digital employee experience by putting my network and knowledge to good use as an HR Tech Advisor, Mentor, Navigator, and Scout.

Monitoring the HR Tech Space as a curious HR Tech Market Analyst since 2013 and still learning new stuff!

Morgan Hyonne

Morgan Hyonne is 'Principal Behavioral Scientist' at digital coaching enterprise platform CoachHub. Previously he was the Learning and Development Lead at BCG Digital Ventures, the corporate investment and incubation part of the Boston Consulting Group, where he was chosen as the Employee of the Year. 

"Before joining CoachHub, my main job has been to train employees at start-ups on a number of themes at work, such as leadership and creativity. I observed skills developing before my eyes in participants who listened to shared theories and worked on practical exercises. However, for me and my L&D team, it has always been difficult to prove the learning achieved and thus to demonstrate the return on investment of our training courses. My pain was eased when I realized that coaching is in fact a much more effective method of human resources development, and is even more appreciated by employees."

Stefanie Broes

Stefanie has a master in biomedical sciences, a master in law (IP and ICT law) and a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences. Before starting moonbird with her brother Michael, who has an economics background, she worked in two other start-ups: a medical device company and Cowboy (e-bikes). Stefanie practised meditation and yoga for years. Because she experienced the beneficial effects of this herself, she wanted to make it more widely accessible. She also wanted to pull meditation and breathing out of the woolly, spiritual corner. Taking good care of your mental wellbeing could get a cooler image she thought: "With moonbird we want to be known as the brand that makes something attractive and positive of it."

About moonbird

moonbird is a health tech company started in 2019. moonbird is a compact, handheld device which, through expansion and contraction, indicates a rhythm that you should adopt with your breathing. moonbird helps you to breathe better, which helps you to control tension and stress.

It is our mission to make people feel better by breathing better. We have international plans, but above all, we want to build a very nice company where people like to work in order to make a positive impact on people, wherever they are on earth.

Tim Good

Tim is a Managing Director in Accenture Strategy & Consulting and leads Accenture’s Talent & Organization / Human Potential practice in Europe.

He has been with Accenture for almost 21 years and works closely with business executives around the world to design global talent and HR strategies, transform HR and other business functions, and create workforce experiences that engage and inspire.

As a thought-leader and guest speaker Tim is frequently asked to share his perspectives on trends reshaping the future of work and the workforce, and the implications for HR.

Born in the UK, Tim now lives with his wife and four children in Heidelberg, Germany. He was educated at the University of Oxford from which he holds an MA, and Trinity College of Music, London from which he holds an MMus.

Bart Auwers

For the last 15 years, I have been working with companies from different industries (Consumer Goods, Industrial, Banking, and Public Services) to transform their HR business into an Employee Experience focused, digital-enabled service.

Outside work, I am a passionate sportsman (swimming, running, and cycling) and a dedicated father of two kids.

Olivier Wouters

Olivier devotes much of his practice to advising and assisting companies on all matters related to labour and employment. He has strong expertise in subjects such as dismissals, company reorganization, collective bargaining, duties and rights of employee representatives, social elections, strikes, interim work, management agreements and “Gig economy”. He regularly represents companies before the Belgian labour tribunals and courts.

With respect to his areas of expertise Olivier is a frequent speaker at seminars and workshops and regularly publishes articles in legal magazines and books. He is, amongst others, co-author of the annual publication "Praktijkboek Ontslag" and the quadrennial publication "Case law Social Elections". He is a member of the editorial board of the law journal "Oriëntatie".

Inger Verhelst

Inger Verhelst is an attorney and Partner of the Antwerp office of Claeys & Engels.

She advises clients on a daily basis with respect to individual and collective labour issues and assists companies with redundancies, restructuring, acquisitions, and negotiations with the unions. She also closely follows developments with regard to end of career issues and regularly pleads before the labour courts.

Inger has a particular interest in questions concerning discrimination and psychosocial well-being at work.  She also frequently advises clients on the privacy and data protection laws, more specifically the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

David Ducheyne

David Ducheyne's work finds inspiration in the fact that many business strategies neglect human needs. Since 2018, he advises executives on putting strategy into action and building resilient organizations by applying what we know about human behavior. David has a background as an organizational psychologist and has worked as an HR and business leader in Henkel, Securex, Alcatel, Case New Holland. He's a (co-)author of books on leadership and customized work. 

Laurent Ledoux

Laurent Ledoux is founder, partner and Chairman of the Board of Phusis, a team of experienced managers specializing in collaborative governance.

Phusis Partners, who have typically implemented a collaborative governance (teal, liberated, agile, sociocratic,…) in the organizations they have managed, now share their experiences with and accompany organizations which also want to implement collaborative governance.

Laurent has a varied experience both in the private and the public sector and specialized in restructuring and modernizing business units and administrations.

He was previously Interim CEO for EurActiv; President of the Belgian Ministry for Mobility & Transports; Head of the Public Banking department and a member of the Executive Committee of Corporate & Public Banking for BNP Paribas Fortis; Chief of Staff of a Minister; Director for Personal & Administration of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs; Partner for Arthur D. Little – a management consulting firm; Restructuration Project Manager in Eastern Europe for the European Commission; Merger & Acquisitions officer for ING and HR Director in Mozambique for Médecins Sans Frontières.

He holds a Master in Economics from the Universities of Namur, Bologna & Madrid and a Post-graduate in Business Administration from Solvay (Belgium).

He lectures on Business Ethics, CSR and Leadership in various universities. He speaks fluently 7 languages.

He is also director, on a voluntary basis, of PhiloMa, of Face2faith, one of the founding members of Teach For Belgium and member of the boards of various associations and social businesses.

Caroline Iweins

Caroline Iweins is an occupational psychologist. She obtained her master and doctorate at the Catholic University of Leuven (UCL). Caroline Iweins worked for 4 years as a prevention advisor for psychosocial aspects in a large external service for prevention and protection at work in Belgium. She is now a visiting professor at UCL and a consultant in the field of quality of life at work. In particular, Caroline Iweins works for a UCL spin-off, Balencio, which specializes in tools for promoting human capital in companies. She has also recently published a book with Editions Mardaga entitled "Detecting and preventing burnout: Risk factors, assessment and prevention in companies".

An Geypen

An Geypen is national manager Assessment & Development Services at Randstad Risesmart and leads a team of consultants. She has over 15 years of experience in supporting organisations in competency- and talent-management and in helping employees in discovering their competencies and potential to raise their self-insight. She and her team are experts in helping organisations to determine the competency-profiles that their employees need to have, both now and in the future, in order to obtain the strategic goals of the company and in mapping the existing competencies and development potential that is present within organisations.

She also strongly believes in unlocking the potential of individuals and supporting their development by helping them to increase their self-awareness and self-knowledge through an objective evaluation of their strengths, development points and learning potential and linking these to their motivation and ambitions at work. She and her team strongly believe in a positive, constructive and people-oriented approach in assessment & development centers, as with Randstad Risesmart.

Jo Van Bellingen

Jo is driven to contribute to the development of organizations as well as employees. She has built up a broad experience in advising organizations on talent- and competency-management, in various sectors and job levels. As an expert in assessment and development centers, she loves to discover unique talent and maximum potential not only by objectively mapping individual competencies but also by searching for hidden potential.

Together with her colleagues, she offers support to organizations in mapping the existing competencies and development potential, and in clarifying which competencies are also needed (both short and long term), taking into account the strategic objectives of the organization. Jo gives individuals the opportunity to increase their self-knowledge, by objectively identifying their strongly present competencies, areas for development, and learning potential. Also, she helps them to link the outcome to their personal motivations and ambitions at work. Being the "matchmaker" between both organizations and individuals by using a thorough and thoughtful approach, is what Jo strives for every day and what fascinates her. She and her team strongly believe in a positive, constructive, and people-oriented approach in assessment & development centers, as with Risesmart.

Gretel Vlogaert

Gretel is a highly driven and passionate coach and trainer. She is fascinated by coaching, guiding, and discovering people and their talents. Her mission is that every individual finds his or her way to happiness at work and lifelong learning with a good energy balance. For more than 27 years, she has guided organizations in talent and leadership development. With a no-nonsense and pragmatic approach, she inspires participants in bringing out the best in themselves by using very concrete and recognizable examples.

At Randstad RiseSmart, we firmly believe that strong personal leadership is a positive force that stimulates and motivates people. Leadership is also a strong personal leadership. It is a process of positive influence. In organizations, we strive to ensure that this mutual influence between employees, whether in a hierarchical relationship or otherwise, contributes to the organization's mission as well as to the employees' happiness at work as much as possible. 

That is why it forms the basis and the core of our career and talent development offering.

She and her team advise and guide organizations in talent, leadership, change, team, and energy development. On the basis of a thorough needs analysis, they develop coaching initiatives for employees, managers, HR managers, and management teams in a co-creative process with the client.

Bernadette Laermans

Bernadette combines her experience as a people leader at Randstad RiseSmart and her passion being a yoga teacher. She’s an expert in working around themes such as dealing positively with perfectionism, building self-confidence, energy, wellbeing, building resilience and dealing with stress (and/or burn-out), She supports individuals in (re)gaining their energy in their work life and personal life. That's why her mission is to coach and to inspire employees, people leaders and organisations in energy and well-being at work (and beyond) based on four energy dimensions: physical, mental and emotional energy and meaning.

Stijn Quanten

It all started from a classical scientific education at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Carrick Institute for Clinical Neuroscience, including a doctorate for research into the impact of mental processes on human functioning and performance. 

Over the past 15 years, Stijn has translated and applied this knowledge in a quest to improve human performance from a mental and neuroscientific angle. He is a renowned human performance expert in both sports and business, including working with international top athletes (F1, soccer, cycling, tennis, …) and consulting for organizations regarding innovative wellbeing and L&D solutions. 

As an entrepreneur he is founder/partner of several innovative companies that all operate on the cutting edge of data and measurements on the one hand, and HR and L&D strategy on the other hand.

Guy Van Neck

Before starting MobieTrain, Guy worked for over 10 years with many large international retailers to improve their customer experience in his role as VP Europe for BARE International. During these years, he noticed there is a big knowledge gap between HQ and store associates in retail stores and the importance of closing this gap to turn employees in real brand ambassadors. That's why he founded MobieTrain, the microlearning solution which supports clients such as Vans, Timberland, Diesel and Decathlon to transfer knowledge 3x more effectively while increasing the speed of content development by 50%.

Karen Boers

Karen is a serial social impact entrepreneur. She co-founded and manages the disruptive coding school BeCode, retraining hundred of adults into skilled web developers no matter what their background or (lack of) degree & experience. Building on the experience from creating the Belgian and European startup associations Startups.be and European Startup Network as well as the unique tech education hub BeCentral, she strives to create scalable and sustainable projects with a societal purpose.

Spotting & developing digital talents 

Although there is a massive shortage of digitally skilled people in today's workforce, the problem is not a lack of talent and potential. The main issue lies in the mack of confidence and familiarity with the digital industries and the relative ease with which certain skills can be acquired today. At BeCode, we've identified close to 2.000 "diamonds in the rough" these past 4 years and trained most of them into talented developers, even if most did not see a line of code in their life. We will discuss how you too can create more general awareness on the potential of digital career paths, address the potential fears and concerns and how you can help motivated candidates venture out on that journey!

Philippe Tassent

Hello platform : creating value in the world of work!

“Employees are looking for seamless integrated user journeys that free them from boring HR admin transactions”

As you know we live in a highly fragmented HR tech landscape. Plenty of organizations invest organically in tools which solve a particular problem in a certain moment in time.

As an organization grows and evolves, the number of tools increase and so does the need and importance of sustainable interfaces and data transactions. Furthermore the needs of society, employees and thus employers change rapidly. Sustainability, performance, reliability and future proof are highly important key words.

At SD Worx we are working on a new and innovative solutions that provides an answer to the challenges of employers and employees and to bring them both closer together so they and their people can thrive.

Tom Vanpraet

Peter s'Jongers

Peter founded Protime at the age of 25. Today, he leads this internationally branched company active in workforce management.  Peter is passionate about the power of company culture and the value it brings.
As the CEO of Protime, he devised a method for measurable improvement of organizational culture.

Peter talks about a corporate culture that is more than a one-off campaign. A corporate culture that allows employees to find, engage and commit. Sharing experiences of a  ‘Great Place to Work’-company, you will find useful tips how technology can support your company culture.  

Omar Mohout

Glenn Walschap

Glenn Walschap has a profound interest in everything related to strategy, technology and data analytics. He started his career as an HR consultant with PZ and Deloitte and HR Tech & Analytics Manager at Brussels Airport Company. Glenn holds a Master in Psychology and a Master in Management, where he researched the maturity of HR Analytics in Belgium. He is also active as a guest professor and speaker for topics related to digital HR, technology and analytics and as an independent advisor for companies and start-ups. Glenn's mission is to increase the knowledge of HR Technology and Analytics in Belgium and embed this in the HR and organization's strategy for long-term success.

Inge van Belle & Klaus Lommatzsch

Inge van Belle is the Co-founder of Herculean Alliance, the Belgium and UAE based organisation that specializes in employee engagement. Inge has been active in 10 countries advising organisations to tackle the challenge of disengaged employees. Her team’s approach is based on consulting, events and an HR tech platform. During the Corona crisis, Inge’s company has started the Employee Engagement Awards initiative. Together with partners like Nespresso, Microsoft and ISS, they encourage companies, small and big, to submit their extraordinary stories of employees going the extra mile during these challenging times. Inge’s tagline is: “We rise by lifting others.” As the founder of Pink Ladies Games and Herculix Foundation, she is a strong advocate of social entrepreneurship. She actively supports and promotes the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, more specifically SDG 3 (Good health and Well-being) and SDG 5 (Gender Equality).

Klaus Lommatzsch is the co-founder of Duval Union, a 21st century marketing and communication services ecosystem. The collaborative network model combines the know-how of seasoned marketing services agencies with the ambitions of young marketing technology start-ups. Duval Union consults and executes on business, marketing and communications challenges by helping Brands prepare for and adapt to the new now; thinking more like start-ups to be agile, flexible—and effective. In 2019, Duval Union became a partner in Herculean Alliance since the key to change on the client side is the commitment of the people. Especially as per a recent Gartner survey, 90% of the companies want to compete on customer experience. And employee engagement drives customer experience. 

Klaus and Inge are the authors of the book “Employee Engagement, what else.” The book analyses the 12 drivers of employee engagement, illustrated by numerous inspiring customer cases. It also gives business leaders a useful toolkit to up their engagement game, by using best practices from other areas like marketing and technology. The book has been published end of January in Europe and is currently being translated and adapted to the UAE market with local cases and experts.

Hans Donckers

Hans Donckers started his career as a PhD researcher in moral philosophy at Ghent University. In 2007 he swapped the classroom for the board room and entered the world of business and HR as a consultant. In 2015, after having worked for several consultancy firms and an international bank, he co-founded Beanmachine, a boutique consultancy in leadership development and cultural transformation. In 2018 he co-founded JiGSO, bringing together the worlds of HR and machine learning. His mission is to help HR and business leaders make better decisions. No longer based on gut feeling but based on data-driven insights.

Sebastien Vercammen

Sebastien is one of o2o’s Bike Lease Experts for 2,5 years. He enthusiastically helps companies installing bicycle cultures and has lots of experience in the field of flexible rewarding and fleet management.

o2o was founded in 2016 by the brothers Wim and Koen Floré. They turned their passion for bikes into a successful company that in the meanwhile has grown out to be one of the big players on the market of bicycle renting. o2o has customers all over Belgium coming from very diverse sectors with one big common goal: to offer a great advantage to their employees without extra workload for the HR-team. Their vision is to make bicycle renting easy for all users involved (HR, employees, and bicycle stores). To accomplish this, o2o has developed a digital platform that allows all stakeholders to digitalize and automize every single step in the bicycle renting process. o2o has the knowledge and tools to integrate its own platform with internal payroll systems, flexible reward plans, and multimobility platforms. 

Andreas De Neve

Andreas is TechWolf’s CEO and co-founder.

For large organisations in transformation, the biggest HR bottleneck is the lack of insight into employee’s skills.

Together with co-founders Jeroen Van Hautte and Mikaël Wornoo, Andreas built TechWolf to solve that problem.

He’s passionate about his cat, basketball and building a great company. Not necessarily in that order.

Tim Leys

Tim has 20 years of experience in complex HRIS implementations, mainly in public sector. His key knowledge domains are core HR and payroll integrations. As an economist he is fascinated in means to improve efficiency and effectiveness of business processes and he keeps investigating in new and better ways to support those processes. Tim is a key player for the HR systems systems of the Flemish government, but he also an entrepreneur that wants to share his experience and knowledge with clients in private and public sector.

Digital transformers was founded in 2019 with the vision to help customers to get the most out of their HRIS implementation. Mature HRIS systems like Oracle and Workday offer all you need to succeed from a technological point of view. But nevertheless a lot of Digital HR Transformation projects tend to fail. This is where Digital transformers makes a difference. For starters we support our customers from a client side perspective during their HRIS implementation and after go-live, with a focus on aligning the business processes with the new system and integrating the new system with other existing systems. On top of this we identify business process steps that require a lot of manual and repetitive actions, in order to automate them by means of a digital robot. Time and labor intensive steps can be performed 24/7 by a digital robot in different systems in an intelligent way, allowing HR administrators to focus on “HR” in stead of “data entry”.

Brecht Kets

Brecht Kets is a purebred g-learning expert. After 10 years of teaching in higher education, he combines his training expertise with game development. This way he helps hundreds of companies to train their employees in an accessible and fast way via their game-based learning platform PLAY IT.

We are ‘Play It’, a young and ambitious team with a very specific blend of skills: game development expertise and a lot of experience in education. This enables us to build the ‘Play it Platform’, the #1 game-based learning and content platform that brings G-learning, the next landmark in efficient and easily accessible training, to organizations. Whether it is to train procedures, do onboarding or streamline internal communication, we offer a catalog of experiences as well as customizable experiences on mobile, web and VR. Within the Play it Platform, we offer several solutions for HR: Play it First, Play it Safe, Play it as a leader... 

Ine Moens

With her drive and sharp insights, Ine knows exactly how businesses in Staffing, Recruitment or Consultancy can stand out and powerfully engage with candidates, employees, suppliers and customers by using smart and innovative technology.

About Byner

Byner offers companies in Staffing, Recruitment and Consultancy a trusted platform for customer and talent engagement. With powerful workflows and automations which make work effective, easy and compliant from lead to invoice.

The App was built on the Salesforce Platform in co-creation with leading customers. Byner offers maximum synergy between Marketing, Sales, Recruitment, and Workforce & Project Management. All fully integrated with Finance & Payroll solutions.

Jan Govaerts

Jan Govaerts (45) – partner at theMatchBox responsible for the business strategy. In 2019, Jan became a partner at theMatchBox and the startup was able to further develop into the reference in everything that is search & matching for staffing professionals with many new clients such as Jobat, Jellow, Accentjobs, Continu and Talentus with its rock-solid technology. Advisory board member at Skedify and former startup entrepreneur at vee24.com. 

theMatchBox is “the new kid on the block” in automating recruitment and selection processes for staffing professionals. Using smart technology and unique quality monitoring, our clients such as Jellow, Continu, Connecting-Expertise, Let's Work and Absolutejobs succeed in automatically matching vacancies and candidates with the highest precision and transparency. As a new player, we differentiate ourselves with measurable quality, flexibility and transparency. No AI black box, but a solution that gives you full control and where we monitor quality to set up job alerts, onboarding processes, website search, matching within your ATS, automatic sourcing. Together with Jobdigger.be we have therefore created the Virtual Sales Recruiter that, in addition to matching, also fully automates lead generation for staffing agencies.

Hans Donckers

HR departments sit on a goldmine of data but oftentimes leave it unmined. However, the potential positive impact from moving to a more data-driven HR practice is enormous. Just like marketing does with customer data, HR can apply advanced analytics techniques to understand and predict employee behavior. Not to blame or to judge, but to create the best possible working conditions where people can thrive and, as a consequence, business can flourish.

Raf Seymus

Bring on the Learning Revolution!

Raf Seymus is an experienced entrepreneur with a passion for talent development, learning, and technology. With a background in educational sciences and throughout his career he has acquired in-depth expertise in implementing effective learning cultures and talent development programs in organizations.  He is also highly business savvy with the ability to build strong relationships and inspire confidence with businesses and investors alike.

In 2014 he founded Exellys, the Belgian Tech Talent Incubator which was acquired in 2019 as a multi-award-winning company delivering a total growth of 175% and a turnover of € 12 million. In 2019 he and Stella Collins co-founded Stellar Labs, learning technology and consultancy company.

Raf inspires and motivates the Stellar Labs team to innovate fast and deliver business-orientated solutions that enable clients to grow and perform.

Together with the Stellar Labs team, supported by the University of Antwerp, have developed a science-based, hybrid learning methodology and a data-driven platform to support organizations and professionals to adapt fast(er), increase performance, and support well-being. Stellar Labs is solving the skills gap by empowering people to learn crucial skills, behaviors, and competencies, with maximal transfer to the workplace, in a measurable, effective and enjoyable way.

Stellar Labs also offers L&D audits and designs & implements roadmaps for organizations to transform their learning culture and align it with business strategy for maximum ROI.

If you’re ready to grow your business through your people, get in touch with us and become part of the learning revolution!

Maroussia Colette

Founded in 2018, Skipr is an all-in-one corporate mobility solution supporting the corporate world in their transition to more sustainable means of mobility for both employers and employees.

In order to veer towards a new mobility standard for companies, an application, a management platform and a payment card are used. The combination of these three products centralises all aspects of corporate mobility, from planning and paying to managing and reviewing. 

The app gets its users to their destinations using a combination of public, private and shared mobility. The payment card grants you access to all services and payments throughout Europe. The management platform allows you to decide on budgets for employees while integrating payroll information, mobility packs and expenses.

Implementing this solution for companies creates flexibility for the mobility of corporate teams while lowering CO2-emissions.

Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens

Looking to rapidly future-proofing your organization and empowering your people. Come and listen!

Bruce's life purpose is to help people discover and leverage their full potential. After 10 years at McKinsey & Company, Bruce joined the Belgian chemical company Solvay with a mandate to rethink the way of working, culture and HR. Together with the employees, a “talent experience platform” was developed through co-creation to make a new culture visible and tangible. This success led to the creation of huapii (human happy) with one mission: to truly empower employees to use their full potential and make companies “future proof”. Bruce has also been Chief Talent Officer at Euroclear and is part of Belgium's 40 under 40. He disconnects with his life partner Julie, their 7-year-old daughter Emily and is passionate about doing sports, healthy food, and learning about the mind and emotions.

Batist Leman

Azumuta is a modular online platform that helps people in a factory environment to increase productivity and quality of production by better communication and technological support. Azumuta assists manufacturing companies with driving performance by enabling factory workers to learn, solve issues and offer information progressively on the factory floor. Our software connects operators, supervisors and managers to every single manufacturing aspect, and supports a culture of constant improvement.

Lieven Bogaert

The next wave of digital transformation is aimed at those without desks

Lieven Bogaert has over 20 years of experience in developing ERP platforms and communication tools for the industry. Together with co-founder Bob Van Cauwenberghe, he founded Alundi in 2017 to offer a solution to the communication challenges of companies with a blue collar workforce. In the course of 2019, Alundi was implemented at the first industrial beta customer and in early 2020, Alundi was officially launched.

Blue collar workers are a very distinct target group and their online/digital behaviour also differs profoundly from what can be observed in knowledge workers. Understanding what the digital gap is for these people and how it can be bridged is the central message Lieven wants to convey. The pandemic has made the urgent need for this digital transformation clearly felt by many company managers. After all, it should be said that during this crisis, many workers were able to keep the economy going, while knowledge workers were able to work from their safe home offices.

Patrick Depauw

Learnings about the huge impact of an employee advocacy program

Employer Branding? Interesting, important or crucial? After more than 7 year deploying employee advocacy programs for more than 300 customers worldwide, we share insights on the huge impact of engaged co-workers sharing your messages.

After more than 20 years as commercial director in several international companies, Patrick decided to launch Social Seeder with his partners 6 years ago. The reason was that we all underestimate the gigantic power of word of mouth. Along the way, companies forgot how to really communicate with impact.

It’s all about having relevant and authentic messages.

Today, Social Seeder is helping over 250 organisations in their employee advocacy program, and whow…they have learned a lot; the failures, the quick wins, the do’s and don’ts on how to create an authentic footprint as an organization.

Sharing these insights is Patrick's real passion.

Colin Verhaegen

The Age of Wellbeing

Wenite, stands for “We Unite”. We unite employers and employees through data. Our smart, science-based, and simple to use wellbeing platform delivers bite-sized insights and personalized solutions to managers and employees. 

Wenite technology makes it easy for companies to shift from a slow and reactive wellbeing approach to a dynamic, personalized, and preventive one. We do this by unburdening HR teams of tedious data related tasks and instead provide them with a holistic overview of the wellbeing of their people. Dimensions such as stress, leadership, engagement, job satisfaction, and much more can be monitored closely. With Wenite, organizations can focus on workforce wellbeing with the right data and insights, and with programs and interventions that truly matter for the employee ánd the employer.

Colin strongly believes that when one feels well, one does well. Which is why he’s now one of the co-founders of Wenite, a digital wellbeing management platform that puts employee wellbeing at the heart of organizations. Colin seems to have found a way to combine many of the things he really loves such as sales, entrepreneurship, technology and (self-) improvement. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, sports and traveling and he also leads an international book club called EBBC. 

Bart Massin

The question is not “if” but “how” you will electrify your fleet.

Bart is an engineer with 15 years of professional experience in the energy sector where he headed the Regulatory Affairs Department for Engie in Belux, making him a reference in the field of energy. In 2016 he worked on a joint venture project between Leasco ALD Automotive and energy supplier Engie to launch the leasing of electric vehicles. He founded Stroohm end 2017 to help companies to make the switch towards electric mobility. Begin 2019 Stroohm Services was launched to install charging infrastructure at offices and home locations for fleet customers. Stroohm became a start-up with 25 employees and is still growing fast.

Stroohm is a leading company in the electrification of professional fleets as they are independent experts combining both energy- as automotive know-how. Everything starts with a well-founded analysis of both the financial impact as the technical feasibility of your employees and office to charge an electric fleet. We advise the best charging infrastructure for your needs at the office or home charging for your employees depending on your company opportunities to optimise the electricity costs. We have experienced own installation teams that also execute maintenance and reparations to offer the best service. This makes Stroohm a very known company in this domain for many Belgian SMEs as multinationals.