Lead the change, don’t chase it. Organisations are redesigning operating models, rethinking workforce composition, and recalibrating what leadership actually means. HR can’t afford to react, it has to set direction.
This journey zooms in on workforce strategy that drives measurable impact, governance models that enable agility instead of slowing it down, and leadership that connects people decisions directly to business performance. Expect honest lessons from transformations that worked, and from the ones that didn’t.
10:30 – 11:00
Breakout room Leadership & Strategy
Atoss
Alexander Handcock
Raised by English and German parents in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the Welsh village with Europe’s longest — and arguably least pronounceable — place name, Alex has spent much of his career trying to make marketing, technology and business a little less complicated.
A political scientist by training, he began his career working on content projects for the German Foreign Office, before deciding that marketing and technology moved considerably faster than politics. He went on to develop multichannel campaigns in the creative agency world for brands including Microsoft, Allianz and AMD, before moving in-house to lead marketing and PR at German tech start-up tyntec.
Alex later joined Selligent Marketing Cloud, where he was part of the leadership team that helped scale the business across Northern Europe and globally, culminating in an acquisition. At Speexx, he spent four years helping reposition and grow the company into a leading global People Development Platform. Along the way, he co-founded the Speexx AI Lab and became a regular speaker at marketing, technology and L&D conferences across Europe.
Today, Alex is Managing Director, Marketing at ATOSS, leading the global marketing function and serving as a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team. His focus is on accelerating growth through AI-powered marketing transformation, customer journey orchestration and category leadership — with a simple principle: the work can be complex, but the message should be clear.
Alexander Handcock
The Intelligence Era: A New Kind of Monday
Nobody loves Monday morning. The weekend is over, calendars are full, demand has shifted, people are absent, schedules need adjusting — and decisions are already waiting.
Today, managers start by finding out what happened. In the Intelligence Era, the system already knows what’s happening — and is already helping you decide what to do next.
Workforce Intelligence takes us from reporting to insight, from insight to recommendation, and from recommendation to action. Issues are identified earlier, their impact is understood faster, and routine decisions can increasingly be handled automatically — within defined guardrails.
Monday mornings will never be the same.
11:00 – 11:30
Breakout room Leadership & Strategy
FRANKLINCOVEY
Glenn Vergoossen
Glenn Vergoossen is Head of Consultancy at FranklinCovey Benelux. He works with HR, Talent, and leadership-development leaders to help organisations build the behaviors, clarity and leadership capability needed to turn strategic change, including AI adoption, into lasting performance.
He is also a recognised thought leader in the Netherlands and host of the Over Spreken Gesproken podcast, where he explores leadership, communication, and public speaking with leading voices and experts in the field.
Glenn Vergoossen
AI Works When People Do: The Leadership Playbook for AI Adoption
AI tools are everywhere, yet consistent adoption and meaningful value remain
uneven. In this practical breakout session, FranklinCovey explores why organisations
with the same technology can achieve very different outcomes, and why leadership
makes the difference.
Discover the human behaviors that turn AI uncertainty into confidence,
experimentation into shared practice, and access into responsible performance.
You will leave with a practical lens for helping leaders build the confidence, clarity,
capability and adaptability required for AI to work in everyday practice.
11:30 – 11:45
Breakout room Leadership & Strategy
KOSY
Anthony Koljaj
Anthony Koljaj has developed into a driven entrepreneur with a clear vision.
After studying management at ICHEC, which he completed in 2021, he decided to turn his ideas into concrete projects.
In 2020, he founded WeNap, through which he developed ‘quiet cocoons’ to promote wellbeing and balance in the workplace.
Three years later came Kosy Booth, an innovative and 100% Made in Belgium concept of acoustic booths that bring tranquillity and focus to modern workspaces.
Driven by his passion for travel and sport, he strives to make the business world more people-centred, convinced that this is where the seeds of major social change lie.
Anthony Koljaj
Silence Shouldn’t Be Permanent — Why Office Acoustics Is a Leadership Problem
In Belgium, 40% of workers are on a hybrid schedule — but office attendance concentrates on just two days, Tuesday and Thursday. The result: saturated open-plan floors and an invisible concentration cost — up to 23 minutes to refocus after a single interruption. This talk explains why noise should be tracked as a genuine HR metric, and why the usual structural fix (permanent walls) is actually riskier than a modular one. The Kosy cabin on-site at the show — turned into a podcast studio for the occasion — serves as a live demonstration.
11:45 – 12:00
Breakout room Leadership & Strategy
SONOR
Quinten Briers
Quinten Briers is the founder of Sonor, a Belgian studio that automates HR processes.
He arrived in HR by an unusual route. After starting — and leaving — seven different
degree programmes, he built a cleaning company staffed entirely by students,
deliberately flexible and well paid, on the theory that people who enjoy the job do it
properly. He then joined a company installing oxygen cylinders and concentrators in care
homes and private houses, and that is where he worked out what he actually wanted from
a job: helping people and to make things easier for the people doing them.
His first assignment at De Cronos Groep was digitising the HR department’s paper archive
by hand — opening old files, removing staples, scanning page after page, then naming
and filing every document one at a time. It was planned as four months of work. Three
weeks in, he had built an offline OCR tool that recognised, split, named and filed the
documents on its own, and the assignment was done.
He stayed in HR. He automated his own administrative work first, showed his colleagues
how to do the same, and the department’s way of working changed with them rather than
around them. In 2025 that became Sonor, built on something he had run into again and
again: IT does not speak HR, and HR does not speak IT.
Quinten Briers
Don’t start with AI. Start with Tuesday morning.
Don’t start with AI. Start with Tuesday morning — with the task that ate two hours and
shouldn’t have.
A lot of what gets sold to HR as AI today solves a problem that a simple automation, or a
workflow finally written down, would have solved: cheaper, safer, and with far less to go
wrong. Sonor sits between HR and IT. We start from one task that costs too much time,
map the process underneath it — shadow spreadsheets and inbox-as-to-do-list included
— and only then ask what it actually needs. Sometimes that’s AI. Often it isn’t. And the
people who map it are the people who build it.
At Vokans it was AI: a knowledge assistant, twelve consultant days, information found
around 70% faster, onboarding time down 60%. Including what went wrong along the
way.
13:30 – 14:00
Breakout room Leadership & Strategy
United consulting
Kristof Stevens
Kristof Stevens is Tech Relations Expert at United Consulting, where he advises clients on choosing the right technologies to support their business goals. He began his career at NorthgateArinso as a project manager for SAP HR. In 2017, he founded Lab900 and co-founded huapii, talent management platform acquired by SD Worx in 2022. Since 2025, Kristof bridges technology and business, ensuring innovation translates into real impact at United Consulting.
From spreadsheets to AI, HR technology is reshaping the way organizations operate. Some teams still rely on Excel, while others are already taking their first steps with artificial intelligence. Based on the HR Tech layers, Kristof Stevens explores how HR leaders can assess their current position, identify the right technology to become a driver of real business value. Expect practical insights, examples, and a clear framework to move from manual processes to future-ready HR.
Kristof Stevens
How can HR lead in the AI era
AI doesn’t just change how people work, it changes what work is. This requires a reset of how organisations are designed, in which workforce management, reskilling and change management are crucial. In order to be successful, HR needs to be the driver of this redesign. Which is why becoming AI-enabled is not an IT project.
But how do you start your journey?
Kristof Stevens (United Consulting) shows how to take the first step: which processes to redesign first, where the low-hanging fruit actually is, and how to get all your employees on board.
14:00 – 14:30
Breakout room Leadership & Strategy
EY
Jean Nahimana
Jean is the People Consulting Leader at EY Belgium and a trusted advisor on workforce transformation, skills-based organizations and the future of work. He works with executive teams at the intersection of technology, talent and business strategy, helping organizations build the capabilities needed to accelerate transformation and drive sustainable growth. With a particular interest in the rise of shared intelligence between humans and AI, Jean focuses on a critical leadership challenge: how can organizations continuously develop, mobilize and scale capabilities in a world where change is constant and competitive advantage increasingly depends on adaptability?
Jean Nahimana
Lisa Meyvis
Lisa is a Director in FSO People Consulting, specializing in people, skills, and workforce transformation across the financial services sector. She helps organizations make capabilities visible and connect people, work, and strategy, enabling leaders to mobilize the right skills as AI reshapes how work gets done and value is created. Her expertise spans job architecture and skills frameworks, workforce planning, organizational design, performance management, change leadership, and AI adoption. Drawing on her experience leading complex transformation programs, Lisa supports organizations in aligning mindset, skillset, and toolset to build effective partnerships between human judgment and machine intelligence.
Lisa Meyvis
Skills at core: the human side of AI
AI is reshaping work, but how do organisations turn potential into value? Join this interactive session to explore real-world examples of skills-based transformation, workforce intelligence and AI-enabled work design. Discover how leading organisations are combining human and machine capabilities to build agility, unlock talent and accelerate business outcomes.
14:30 – 15:00
Breakout room Leadership & Strategy
DEEL
Scaling Global Teams With
Confidence
Scaling globally isn’t just a business strategy, it requires an effective people strategy. In this talk, Sven Mol shares lessons from Deel’s hypergrowth journey: expanding from 1,928 to 7,000+ employees across 110 countries while staying fully remote.
Discover how to decouple roles from locations, build remote culture at scale, and lead distributed teams with confidence. Learn the practical frameworks Deel uses for global hiring, onboarding, communication, and feedback: turning the challenges of distributed work into one of your greatest leadership opportunities.
