Make learning stick, and make it fun. Because skills expire, curiosity doesn’t. Organisations that win are those that embed learning into the flow of work, personalised, adaptive and connected to real outcomes.
This journey explores AI-powered upskilling, immersive learning tools, microlearning that sticks, and development models that empower employees to own their growth. Less tick-box training, more measurable capability building.
10:30 – 11:00
Breakout room Learning & Development
Cevora
Paul Diepenbrock
In his role as Learning Expert at Cevora, Paul helps strengthen learning impact
through a wide range of educational projects across the organisation. His
diverse background in education, with a particular focus on adult learning,
combines experience in corporate training with a hands-on perspective gained
as a language instructor.
Paul Diepenbrock
Make AI your (L&D) Thought Partner
AI can write, summarise and plan. But did you know it can also help you think
more clearly?
This presentation highlights the value of using AI as a sparring partner in L&D
and across the wider organisation. You will discover how AI can help sharpen
ideas, challenge assumptions and support better decision-making. A concrete,
practical method will be introduced to use AI more consciously, critically and
effectively.
11:00 – 11:30
Breakout room Learning & Development
FLEXSO FOR PEOPLE
Eline Jacobs
Eline Jacobs is Teamleader Business Intelligence
Eline Jacobs
Data-driven HR: From insights to skills and talent decisions
Most organisations have plenty of workforce data, but gaining a reliable
view of skills and future capabilities remains a challenge.
In this session, Port of Antwerp-Bruges shares its journey of connecting
HR Data & Analytics, SAP SuccessFactors Talent Intelligence Hub and
Strategic Workforce Planning to support better talent decisions for the
future.
Rather than presenting a finished success story, this session offers an
honest look at the choices, challenges and lessons learned along the way.
Discover how the foundations are being built for more targeted
development, internal mobility, recruitment and workforce planning.
11:30 – 11:45
Breakout room Learning & Development
EGYM WELLPASS
What if wellbeing actually worked?
Wellbeing shouldn’t be a nice-to-have, it’s your smartest business decision. Discover EGYM Wellpass: the sport and wellness platform that turns employee wellbeing into measurable impact.
11:45 – 12:00
Breakout room Learning & Development
13:30 – 14:00
Breakout room Learning & Development
FLOWSPARKS
Sean Arijs
Sean is a key Customer Success Manager at FLOWSPARKS, supporting a diverse portfolio of clients with their corporate digital training initiatives across various industries. With a background in pedagogy, he brings a deep passion for learning and development to every project.
Sean Arijs
Why do we still give everyone the same training?
Most e-Learning delivers the same content to everyone, regardless of what they already
know. People sit through what they already know, attention drifts, and the organization
loses time it can’t a?ord. Adaptive design fixes this, saving time and keeping learners
engaged with what they actually need. Using the design philosophy behind FLOWSPARKS’
FASTLANE template, this session explores adaptive testing, mastery-based progression,
and di?erentiated learning journeys, with practical examples and a look at the measurable
impact, making the case for adaptive learning as a strategic instructional design approach,
not just a technical feature.
14:00 – 14:30
Breakout room Learning & Development
FENIX CONSULTING
Ellen Neirynck
Ellen Neirynck is CEO of Fenix Consulting, a Belgian talent consultancy helping organisations identify, understand and develop the talent they need to grow.
She works at the intersection of psychometrics, behavioural science, leadership development and technology. Her focus is not on collecting more data about people, but on turning relevant insights into better conversations, stronger leadership and observable behavioural change.
Known for her direct, energetic and pragmatic style, Ellen challenges comfortable assumptions about talent and development. She believes that people do not grow through judgement or endless validation, but through meaningful challenge, honest reflection and the opportunity to practise new behaviour for real.
Ellen Neirynck
Your AI Coach Is Too Nice
We are rapidly turning AI into a coach, a sounding board and a practice partner. But there is a problem: generative AI is designed to be helpful, agreeable and pleasing. Research shows that AI models validate users significantly more often than humans do, even when challenge would be more valuable than encouragement.
For leadership development, pleasant is not necessarily effective.
In this interactive keynote, Ellen Neirynck explores why development requires more than knowledge, good intentions and personalised feedback. Real growth happens when people encounter relevant friction, make choices under pressure, see the impact of their behaviour and get the opportunity to try again.
Drawing on psychometrics, behavioural science and real leadership practice, Ellen presents a different vision for AI enabled development: technology that does not define people, but makes observable behaviour visible and turns insight into focused practice and real world transfer.
14:30 – 15:00
Breakout room Learning & Development
Antwerp management school (ams)
Magali Van Coppenolle
Magali Van Coppenolle bridges the academic and business worlds at
Antwerp Management School, where she leads the development of the
Impact Academy, a corporate learning model built around co-designing
training with clients’ real internal business challenges rather than
generic curricula.
Before AMS, Magali spent 7 years as Head of Sales & Marketing at Blink
Charging, where she was part of the management team and helped drive
the company’s growth from roughly 30 to 120 employees in Belgium,
alongside international expansion into the Netherlands, UK, Ireland and
Greece. That combination of hands-on scale-up leadership and academic
rigor now shapes how she builds learning experiences that hold up in a
real boardroom, not just a classroom.
She holds a Master in Business Engineering from Solvay Brussels School
of Economics and Management, and is known for being pragmatic,
entrepreneurial and focused on reaching maximum business impact by
crafting the right learning journey.
Magali Van Coppenolle
Beyond the classroom: embedding accountability to make L&D impact actually stick
For many organizations, building a high-impact learning culture remains a
broken promise. Sending employees to fragmented, one-off courses and hoping
for behavior change is a high-cost, low-yield strategy. Whether managing a
lean scale-up or a global enterprise, HR leaders struggle with the same core
failures: siloed learning, rapid regression to old habits, and unprovable
business value.
