Bert Meuris is a senior integration consultant at I8C (Integr8 Consulting) with 12 years of experience in IT. Throughout his entire career, Bert focused on integration in all aspects. He has substantial experience with Service Busses and worked with SoftwareAG webMethods, TIBCO BusinessWorks, and SAP PI/PO, among others. For the last couple of years, Bert has focused more on API’s and all aspects that come with it: from API design to API management (Axway API Management) and API governance.

Regine Dhaene, Practice Lead GDPR, Regine holds more than twenty years of experience in several sectors and has held various executive roles in her career. Among these are COO, business- and information architect, program- and project manager, business analyst, line manager and management consultant.

Guy Crets is a Business Integration Architect and Partner at I8C. I8C itself is part of the Belgian Cronos Group with a headcount of well over 4000. Guy is a leading consultant and speaker with more than 25 years of experience in the area of application integration and SOA. He spoke at many international conferences and user groups, presented workshops and moderated panel discussions.
In Belgium, Guy regularly presents workshops for SAI (similar to NGI in the Netherlands).

William McKnight takes corporate information and turns it into a bottom-line producing asset. He’s worked with companies like Fidelity Investments, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Scotiabank, Samba Bank, Pfizer, France Telecom and Verizon — 17 of the Global 2000 — and many others.

Wayne Eckerson has been a thought leader in the data warehousing, business intelligence, and performance management fields since the early 1990s. He has conducted numerous in-depth research studies and is the author of “Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business.”

Sander Hoogendoorn is an independent mentor, trainer, software architect, programmer, speaker, and writer. He is a highly appreciated catalyst in the innovation of software development at his many international clients.

Rutger Rienks is the author of “Predictive Policing: Taking a Chance for a Safer Future”. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Twente in The Netherlands and is a well-known enthusiastic speaker.

Rick van der Lans is an independent analyst, consultant, author and internationally acclaimed lecturer specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence, and database technology. Rick helps clients worldwide to design their data warehouse, big data and BI architectures.

Pieter den Hamer has 20+ years of experience in the area of big data, analytics and business intelligence, working as consultant, manager and researcher. Currently, he is a strategist at Alliander, focusing his expertise mostly on themes like the smart grid and the energy transition. He is also associated with the Copernicus Institute at Utrecht University.

Mark Madsen, president and founder of Third Nature, is a well-known consultant and industry analyst. Mark is a former CTO and CIO with experience working for both IT and vendors, including a company used as a Harvard Business School case study. He now advises companies worldwide on data strategy, technology and management, and designs and builds analytics systems.