Nicolas Van Zeebroeck,

Nicolas van Zeebroeck is full-time professor of innovation and digital business at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management(Université libre de Bruxelles). He started his career as an e-business consultant at Capgemini before obtaining his PhD in Economics and Management at ULB in 2008. Since then, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at FNRS and a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research and teachings focus on the economics and strategy of innovation and digitization. He looks more specifically at how digital technologies can be leveraged to transform business processes and business models, with a particular emphasis on their contribution to R&D and innovation. His research has appeared in leading international scholarly journals such as Research Policy and Management Science. Nicolas also advises different companies and institutions in shaping policies and strategies for the digital transformation.

Nicolas Van Zeebroeck will be speaking during the Plenary Session on why Digital Transformation is different.

Ann Mettler,

Ann Mettler is the Head of the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), the in-house think tank of the European Commission, which reports directly to President Juncker. In this capacity, she also serves as Chair of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS), an inter-institutional project aimed at strengthening the EU's foresight capacity and anticipatory governance.

Prior to assuming this position in December 2014, she was for eleven years Executive Director of the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank she co-founded in 2003. From 2000-2003, she worked at the World Economic Forum, where she last served as Director for Europe.

Ann Mettler holds Masters Degrees in political science and European law and economics, and graduated with distinction from the University of New Mexico, USA, and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn, Germany.

Ann Mettler will be speaking during the Plenary Session on what Digital transformation means for Society.

John Higgins,

John Higgins CBE was appointed Director General of DIGITALEUROPE, the association for the digital technology industry in Europe, in November 2011 following nine years leading its UK member association, Intellect. He is the public face of the digital sector in Europe and speaks regularly on platforms and at conferences throughout Europe and indeed world-wide. John served as a member of the governing body of the University of Warwick for 12 years until 2015 and now chairs its European Advisory Board. John is President of the European Commission's Strategic Policy Forum (SPF) on Digital Entrepreneurship; over a two year period the SPF has worked to identify how Europe's economy and society could best take advantage of the digital revolution.

John Higgins will be speaking during the Plenary Session on what Digital Transformation means for Business.

Philippe Trichet,

Philippe Trichet is Digital Expert Director at the Boston Consulting Group. He leads the Digital Transformation Accelerator partnership entity at the BCG Paris office. In the last three years, he led several consulting missions on digital accelerated transformation, for various industries: automotive, energy, bank, logistic and services, manufacturing. He built an actionable framework addressing the 5 key dimensions of an high speed digital transformation: prototype the strategy, build in agile, roll-out and manage change at large scale, design flexible IT architecture, and orchestrate large programs.

Prior, as Digital Customer Experience Sr VP by Schneider Electric (25 B€, manufacturing), Philippe led several worldwide digital programs for growth, in e-commerce, cloud-CRM, web, while developing disrupting management approaches to drastically accelerate value creation and succeed on time. One these programs became a case study at MIT/Sloan.

Philippe holds an engineering diploma in automation and signal processing (INPG - Grenoble in France), and an MBA.

Bonnie Cheuk,

Mrs. Bonnie Cheuk is Director, Global Head of Digital, Knowledge & Collaboration at Euroclear. Bonnie is a strategic, hands-on, business & results-driven executive with strong digital transformation, digital channel management, information & knowledge management, collaboration, social media and Enterprise 2.0 expertise. 20 years of international working experience with multinational corporations in HK, Singapore, USA, UK and Europe. Ability to blend change management, communication/facilitation skills with deep understanding of the latest technologies to deliver business solutions and drive change. Currently partnering with business and technology leaders to establish a Digital Workplace vision and refreshing the web, social media, digital strategy to improve Digital Client Experience for a global financial services company. Bonnie is the author of “Social Strategies in Action: Driving Business Transformation” published by Ark Group in 2013.

Connect with Bonnie on:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonniecheuk
Brief: http://bonniecheuk.blogspot.co.uk/
Twitter @bonniecheuk

Dragan Pendić,

Dragan Pendić is a business technology consultant, avid coffee connoisseur and security evangelist who's been in the industry for more than 20 years. Over those years Dragan worked in a variety of industry sectors and along the way acquired a range of useful skills to keep up with the technology changes and a tremendous paradigm shift in how we do business today, interact, consume application and access data. He is a regular speaker at leading industry forums and loves conversation about any topic that would involve Technology, Security, Identity and world of APIs. At the moment Dragan is a Head of Digital and Data Trust at RelianceACSN and advises Business Leaders how to become Digital Business Enablers and position Digital Security and Privacy capabilities as competitive differentiators to drive revenue and growth. When not working Dragan is a keen runner, skier and fan of Murakami.

You can connect with him at
http://dragan.strikingly.com
or on Twitter: @DraganPendic

Mark Leiter,

Mark Leiter is Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Leiter & Company. The firm serves as a holding company for Mark's strategy consulting, venture investing and board memberships (board of directors and advisory board roles).

Mark recently served as Chief Strategy Officer of Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN), an S&P 500 company that delivers information services to 20,000+ clients in over 100+ countries around the world. During his tenure at Nielsen, Mark provided global leadership for product and client service organizations while playing a central role in designing Nielsen's growth and go-to-market strategy. He is part of a team that raised Nielsen's enterprise value 200% (from ~$9 billion to ~$27 billion) as part of a private-equity led buyout in 2006, followed by a return to the public markets in 2011.

Mark spent the first decade of his career as a management consultant, primarily with McKinsey & Company. He served on McKinsey's marketing practice leadership team, where he co-founded McKinsey's B2B marketing and branding practices. He was subsequently a senior partner at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Mark started his career at Bain & Company as a charter member of the firm's customer loyalty practice.

Mark is Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Demand Institute, a non-profit think tank that examines shifts in consumer demand. He serves on The Conference Board's Global Advisory Council and as a Global Counsellor. He is a Member of The Committee for Economic Development (CED). Mark serves on a Board of Overseers for Bard College and is a Director of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Mark concurrently serves as a Partner at Pereg Ventures, a Nielsen-sponsored venture capital firm based in New York City.

Mark was a research fellow at Harvard Business School, an M.A. from Harvard University and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany.

Mark Leiter will be speaking during the Break-out Session on Cashless Payments.

Louise Keely,

Louise Keely is President of The Demand Institute. She is a founding member of the organization and most recently served as Chief Research Officer. Louise concurrently serves as a Senior Vice President at Nielsen, one of The Demand Institute's sponsoring organizations.

Prior to joining The Demand Institute, Louise was a leader at The Cambridge Group, a Nielsen division that specializes in helping Fortune 500 companies drive growth strategies that are grounded in a deep understanding of consumer demand.

Before joining The Cambridge Group in 2005, Louise was a faculty member of the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a research fellow in economics at Oxford University and at the Brookings Institution. She has published articles in several peer-reviewed economics journals. Louise started her career as a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston.

Louise is the co-author of The Shifting Nature of U.S. Housing Demand (2012), A Tale of 2000 Cities: how the sharp contrast between successful and struggling communities is reshaping America (2014), Sold in China: transitioning to a consumer-led economy (2015), and No More Tiers: Navigating the future of consumer demand across China's cities (2015).

A noted expert and speaker on the topic of consumer demand, Louise's perspectives have been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts, including Bloomberg, CNNMoney, The Financial Times, NPR, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Louise earned a PhD in economics and an MSc in econometrics from the London School of Economics, where she began graduate studies as a Marshall Scholar. Louise earned a BSc, summa cum laude, in international economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Louise Keely will be speaking during the Break-out Session on Cashless Payments.

Brian Anderson,

Brian Anderson is an Associate Program Director at The Demand Institute. In this role, he has worked across a range of research programs. Most recently, he was a co-author of The Demand Institute's 2015 reports, Sold in China and No More Tiers, and his research on American Communities appeared in the 2013 report, A Tale of 2000 Cities.

Prior to this role, Brian worked as a Specialist Consultant for The Cambridge Group, a division of Nielsen focusing on consumer-driven demand strategy for Fortune 500 companies. He was responsible for developing and executing proprietary intellectual capital to help clients drive profitable growth, with an emphasis on advanced statistical techniques and consumer research.

Before joining The Cambridge Group, Brian was a graduate student at Northwestern University, studying macroeconomics and macro-econometrics. He has a MA in Economics from Northwestern University, and a BS in Economics, with distinction, and a BS in Mathematics from The University of Washington.

Brian Anderson will be speaking during the Break-out Session on Cashless Payments.

Jacquelyn MacLennan,

Jacquelyn MacLennan offers a wealth of experience for clients worldwide, representing leading multinational corporations, governments and trade associations.

She focuses on EU competition law, and clients benefit from her experience and insight in developing strategy and running major international cartel investigations, as well as advising on complex distribution problems and licensing arrangements, abuse of dominance cases, mergers and joint ventures.

She also advises on EU customs and trade law, as well as EU regulatory requirements, notably in respect to product safety and environmental regulation.

With an impressive track record of experience and know-how, Jacquelyn litigates regularly before the EU and UK courts, and represents clients before the European Commission.

Jacquelyn has accumulated substantial management experience over her career; she is currently a member of the Partnership Committee (the main governance body) of White & Case, and a former Member of the Executive Committee (responsible for the firm's strategy) and Executive Partner heading the Brussels office. In October 2015, she became the Global Pro Bono Practice Leader.

Clients describe Jacquelyn as "excellent - an industry leader in antitrust matters" and "commercially-minded and solution-oriented." (Chambers Europe, 2016)

Lindsey Canning,

A partner in the Firm's Global Intellectual Property Practice, Lindsey has extensive experience advising clients on intellectual property and technology matters in the context of M&A transactions, IPOs and joint ventures. She also frequently advises clients, on both the customer and supply side, on a wide range of commercial agreements, both in relation to business separations and on a standalone basis. These include agreements for the transfer and exploitation of intellectual property, IT and business process outsourcings and system integration and other transformational IT projects. Lindsey also has a particular focus on privacy and cybersecurity, helping clients to navigate the increasingly complex regulatory landscape in this area.

Lindsey represents both strategic and financial clients in a broad range of industries, including technology, financial services, automotive, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

Lindsey joined White & Case from another leading international law firm, where she was head of their US transactional IP and commercial practice based in New York, having relocated from their London office in 2011.

Bertrand Liard,

Bertrand heads White & Case's Intellectual Property and Information Technology Practice in Paris. His client list is extensive, varied and truly international, spanning sectors such as transportation, social media, luxury brands, pharmaceuticals, mining and industry. He also represents clients from the financial sector, including financial technology (fintech) companies. His corporate clients are often multinational, and face complex cross-border concerns.

Bertrand applies his vast experience in supporting clients with issues relating to their intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT). His work includes protection, use and development of IP rights, as well as enforcement action against IP infringement and piracy. He supports clients with both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Bertrand helps to unravel the complexities of doing business over the Internet, providing litigation support in relation to sourcing and outsourcing. Moreover, with regulators increasingly inclined to clamp down on lapses in IT security and breaches of personal data and privacy protection laws, he delivers know-how and client comfort on IT regulatory matters.

Bertrand also advises clients on their complex contractual arrangements, including strategic alliances and partnerships.

Bertrand is a frequent speaker, author and commentator on privacy, technology and fintech issues. He was recently appointed member of the Strategic Orientation Committee of CashWay, a fintech company. He is also a member of the European Outsourcing Association (EOA).

Mark Powell,

Mark has been advising clients on competition law issues for more than 25 years. His practice has a particular focus on the interface between competition law and sector-specific regulatory requirements, in such areas as telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, energy, the media and transport.

Clients benefit from his considerable experience handling regulatory clearance for complex mergers and acquisitions. His work on a recent merger was so persuasive that it resulted in the European Commission clearing it in a Phase II proceeding- the first time that it had cleared such a deal, having previously prohibited it.

In addition, Mark has developed a significant track record representing and advising clients involved in cartel investigations, in areas including nucleotides, synthetic rubber, candle wax, calcium carbide and power cables.

Executive Partner of the Brussels office, he has helped clients to make successful appeals to the European Commission regarding matters ranging from infringement decisions to the re-negotiation of fines. Based in Brussels and London, he is able to advise international clients on both European and UK market investigation and merger cases.

Mark was singled out for recognition in the first edition of Euromoney's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers. He has been described by clients in The Legal 500 EMEA as "very knowledgeable with a pragmatic and commercial approach... [and] a convincing style and self-confidence which... is very persuasive." Chambers has noted that clients value Mark as "a charismatic lawyer with terrific business sense" who is "practical and savvy" and "enjoyable, hard-working and client-friendly".

Kieran Conlon,

Based in Dublin, Kieran Conlon joined Globoforce in 2000 and is responsible for all sales and account services throughout Europe. He manages a range of employee recognition programs for Globoforce's blue chip European clients. Prior to Globoforce, Kieran was with Milton Holdings (New York and Dublin), where he was Executive Vice President of Marketing. Before this, he held various sales and marketing roles with international corporations, including Johnson Matthey PLC (New York), where he was Sales and Marketing Manager. Kieran holds an MBS in Marketing from University College Dublin and Fordham University, New York.

Philip Weiss,

Author of 'Hyperthinking', Phil Weiss is an entrepreneur and strategic thinker who has been working with leading corporations for the past two decades. He speaks for corporate and business audiences around the world on range of topic related to disruption, innovation and technology.

He founded ZN (http://znconsulting.com/ ) the leading digital agency working with companies, political institutions like the European Commission and Parliament and organisations on how to use the Internet to integrate and transform business and communication. He works with such household names as Toyota, Microsoft, Sony, Sanofi Pasteur, UCB and various industry associations. His Hyperthinking model was developed to enable the ZN team and their clients manage rapid change and innovation to adapt their strategies and structures to the age of networks.

Whilst studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, Philip Weiss launched two college magazines, started the first student radio station on a full FM licence in the UK, and received the Young Achievers Award from HM the Queen.

In 2009, Philip helped co-found TEDxBrussels (http://tedxbrussels.eu). He was chairman of IABC Europe (International Association of Business Communicators: http://europe.iabc.com/) in 2012 and organised Eurocomm, the regional conference of the organisation in Brussels.

In 2012, he wrote the book 'Hyperthinking', defining the mindset needed to survive and thrive in the age of networks. Information on the book can be found at http://www.hyperthinking.net.

In 2013 he spoke at TEDxGateway in Mumbai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kFziFmP_-k) and at TEDxULB in Brussels in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgTivMHlfpc).

Specialties: Hyperthinking, e-campaigning, strategic thinking, internet communication

Connect with Philip on LinkedIn:https://be.linkedin.com/in/pcweiss

Martin Curley,

Martin Curley is founder and co-director of the Innovation Value Institute, a broad industry-academic open innovation research consortium and he is Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University. He is the chair of the EU Open Innovation and Strategy Policy group which is driving the further development and adoption of the Open Innovation paradigms in Europe. He is a member of various advisory boards including the EU CAF and the Smart London Board.

Previously he was vice president at Intel Corporation and director of Intel Labs Europe, the company's network of more than 40 research labs, development centers and open innovation collaborations in the European region. He also served as a senior principal engineer at Intel Labs Europe. Curley led Intel's research and innovation engagement with the European Commission and the broader European Union research ecosystem. Previously Curley was global director of IT innovation at Intel. Earlier in his Intel career, he held a number of senior positions for Intel in the United States and Europe. Before joining Intel in 1992, he held management and research positions at General Electric in Ireland and at Philips Electronics in the Netherlands.

Curley is the author of several books on technology management for value, innovation and entrepreneurship. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the British Computer Society and, the Irish Computer Society.

Curley has a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and a master's degree in business studies, both from University College Dublin, Ireland. He earned his Ph.D. in information systems from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He was previously a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan Centre for Information Systems Research

Martin Curley will be speaking during the Plenary Session on what Digital Transformation means for Innovation.

Richard Hughes,

Richard Hughes is Director of Social Strategy at BroadVision, global provider of social business solutions, focused first and foremost on real people and how they work.

During his 18 years at BroadVision, Richard has been integral in guiding product development, market strategy, business development and the success of BroadVision's customers, and has advised major international companies such as British Telecom, O2, Vodafone, DSG, ABN AMRO, and Ericsson.

Richard has a BSc in Computer Software Technology from the University of Bath, and lives in Oxfordshire.

David Dab,

David Dab, joined ING Belgium in September 2014 as Chief Innovation Officer. His role is to enable, facilitate and accelerate innovation across the bank, whether it concerns incremental innovation our more disruptive innovation.

Prior joining ING, David was a Senior Vice President / Partner at McKinsey Solution, an internal venture-capital-like unit of McKinsey&Company that develops innovative businesses that are adjacent to the consulting business.

Before working at McKinsey Solution, David was the CEO of Corporate Banking Lens, a start-up and 50/50 joint venture between McKinsey and SWIFT.

Prior leading Corporate Banking Lens David had been with Euroclear for about 8 years where his last responsibility was in Strategy. Prior to this last role, he (1) was the head of the Post-Merger Management Office, a unit driving / supporting the integration all the Euroclear group acquisitions; (2) launched a major transformation program to improve operational efficiency in Euroclear Bank (Lean); (3) was the head of the Global-Pricing, Research and Common Services Department in the Product Management Division; and (4) developed the business case of two major IT investments - the Single Settlement Engine (SSE) and Euroclear Settlement of Euronext-zone Securities (ESES) projects. David was also involved in a large transformation programme in IT.

Prior to joining Euroclear, David Dab had been a consultant with McKinsey & Company for 7 years. At McKinsey, he played a key role in the development of the European Payment Practice. His clients included large international payment institutions, individual banks, shared utilities of domestic banks, as well as specialised technology players. He also served firms active in the securities industry.

David Dab holds a PhD in Physics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. As a researcher he first worked at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He published articles in leading journals and worked with several labs across the world (both academic and corporate labs). One of his areas of specialisation was non-linear dynamics and cooperative behaviours.

Wim De Waele,

Wim De Waele is CEO at Eggsplore, which he founded in September 2015 with Jurgen Ingels, serial entrepreneur and former founder of Clear2Pay. Eggsplore is an organization that acts as coordinator and catalyst for the FinTech ecosystem, by providing a number of business and logistical services and by providing a face for the community through educational and network events, a yearly FinTech conference and a Brussels based entrepreneurial hub that houses FinTech organizations and companies. Eggsplore connects the dots in Fintech.

Prior to founding Eggsplore, Wim was the founder and Chief Executive Officer at iMinds(www.iminds.be), a digital technology research center and incubator which started in 2004 and that he grew to a 50 Mio Euro organization by 2015. iMinds specializes in interdisciplinary research and development in the software sector, working with companies and other partners on the newest technologies in domains such as networking, media, security and healthcare. Under his management iMinds built a successful seed fund and incubator, which got him nominated as one of the top 100 most influential accelerator leaders.

Wim De Waele obtained his master degrees in Economic Sciences and Computer Sciences at the University of Ghent in 1987. He started his career as scientific researcher at the university in the area of artificial intelligence in industrial applications. He continued this work at Siemens R&D in Belgium and München. After that he built the European consulting organization of the Canadian software company Numetrix, specialized in planning software for the consumer packaged goods and process industry. In 1994 Wim joined i2 Technologies as Services Director for Europa, where he also built the European organisation from zero. He then was promoted to vice-president of consumer goods and retail, and moved to i2 headquarters in Dallas. Upon his return to Europe in 2001, he became Chief Technology Officer of the distressed Real Software Group. After the turn-around and sale of the company to a private equity group, he left Real Software for IBBT on august 1, 2004.

Wim De Waele is also involved in public initiatives such as the new media center De Waalse Krook (www.dekrook.be) and start-up companies such as NewsAnglr and Angel.me (http://www.angel.me). He is a member of the supervisory board of the early stage VOLTA Venture Capital Fund and is active as a business angel.

He lives in his town of birth, Ghent, in Belgium. In his spare time he enjoys music, travel and culinary experiments that he carries out himself.

Joshua Jost,

Josh Jost is chief storyteller at Anderson Walsh Spencer, a leadership and inclusion consultancy that works at strategic levels with organisations such as the Bank of America, Oxford University and the London Metropolitan Police Service.

Josh will be sharing on the challenges of creating inclusive and highly engaged organisations and societies, when were are becoming more lost in our own technology space and virtual realities. How do we create teams and communities that transcend geographic barriers and social prejudices? What can the evolution of technology and virtual reality teach us about the future of organisations and structure? Is there a new model for organisational leadership that isn't limited to the confines of hierarchy and process but supported by a social operating system that is intentionally engineered to produce unimaginable levels of creativity, innovation and growth?

Explore the answers to these questions and many more in this session on the future of organisations.

Andrea Bonime-Blanc,

Dr. Andrea Bonime-Blanc is the chief executive officer and founder of GEC Risk Advisory, a global firm that provides strategic and tactical governance, risk, ethics, compliance, corporate responsibility, reputation and crisis advice to boards, executives, investors and advisors (http://www.gecrisk.com) in a wide variety of sectors. She is author of The Reputation Risk Handbook: Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Hyper-Transparency (http://bit.ly/1284TMR) and the 2015 Conference Board Research Report, Emerging Practices in Cyber-Risk Governance (http://bit.ly/1LO0MI5). In 2015, for a second year, she was named an Ethisphere "100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics" in the Thought Leadership category.

She served for two decades as a global corporate executive, including as general counsel, chief risk, ethics, compliance, audit, InfoSec and corporate responsibility officer, at several international companies (Bertelsmann, PSEG, Verint) in energy, technology, media and professional services. She began her career as an international transactional attorney at Cleary Gottlieb, a leading global law firm. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Director Member of the National Association for Corporate Directors and was named a 2014 100 Top Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business. She is chairman emeritus of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative and currently serves on several boards including NYC- - based, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Madrid-based Corporate Excellence - Centre for Reputation Leadership and UK-based Ethical Corporation Magazine.

Dr. Bonime-Blanc is an Adjunct Professor at New York University and a frequent global keynote speaker. She is an extensively published author of books and articles (http://bit.ly/1ctFvSh) and has been interviewed by or written for the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, the BBC, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, El Pais, El Cronista, Expansion and Jornal do Commercio. She holds a joint Juris Doctor in law and PhD in political science from Columbia University, was born and raised in Germany and Spain, and lives in New York City.