Assita Kanko
Assita Kanko (July 14, 1980) is a Belgian politician and known as writer. She is regularly in the media.
Kanko grew up in Burkina Faso and was mutilated at the age of five. In her native country she was between 1998 and 2001 a journalism student and activist for human rights.
In 2001 Kanko emigrated to the Netherlands and to Belgium in 2004. After several temporary jobs she worked for International Paper Europe. Since 2010 she is a member of the think tank Liberales. The following year (2011) she went to work at a bank. In 2012 she is a candidate in municipal elections in Ixelles for the MR. In 2013 she obtained a Master in International Politics with Ceris. Since 2015 she is working for an international family company.
Working at Carrefour since almost 20 years now, Laurent Baert has exercised different functions, allowing him to get to know the distribution trade from every possible angle : StoreDepartment Manager at Market, Manager at Hypermarket, Project Manager in the context of the introduction of the Euro, Project manager ‘Organization & Systems’ with the installation of a new back office system and SAP, Loyalty Manager and finally CRM manager.
10 years ago, Carrefour started its Media Sales House and in 2015 Laurent Baert became the responsible for the Merchant Services (phone, B2B gift cart, theme parcs,…)
Claudine Knop - DBM
Claudine startte haar carrière in de Call Center branche respectievelijk bij Infotrade en later Mariën & Gybels. Daarna werd ze commercieel directeur bij Sopres/Wegener DM om later de rol van CEO binnen WDM (Bisnode-groep) op te nemen. Na een korte ervaring in de agentschapswereld (BBDO Data) , is ze nu actief als CEO van DBM- Data for Better Marketing, een game changer op de Belgische datamarkt.
Stefaan Claes - Kinepolis
Stefaan Claes started working in advertising as a media strategy expert and ended that period as the media director for McCann-Erickson Brussels. Stefaan Claes has been on a number of very early digital projects in that period, but from 2000 on he focused completely on digital marketing and started working for General Motors as a CRM and digital marketing expert. The last 7 years of that period he was working in the Netherlands and was involved in a number of European and global digital projects for GM. In 2010 he left the automotive industry and started working for Kinepolis as their international CRM and digital marketing director.
Louis Schoofs - Tende
Louis Schoofs is partner, chairman and founing father of Consensio cvba. Throughout his career he has helped brands such as Schoenen Torfs, Boss Paints & Colora, Aquilae makelaars, Messer, VRT, Triodos, tende and many other companies to further elaborate their concepts into projects, processes and day-to-day implementation.
Steven Vanhoegaerden - Tende
Steven Vanhoegaerden, a third-generation member of the Peeters Dekor family-owned business (founded in 1932) had the entrepreneurial spirit and strong sense of aesthetics running through his veins at birth.
As one of the co-owners of Luxhome, he started a business exporting luxury interior concepts and items to China and to the United Arab Emirates. And he is founder & owner of Sliding Glass, with production facilities here in Belgium.
Last but not least, Steven is also CEO of Tende cvba.
Geert Somers - TimeLex
Geert Somers is partner at time.lex, a niche law firm specialised in IP/IT, data protection/privacy and entertainment law. In his daily practice, he concentrates on intellectual property in a digital context, e-commerce, ICT related contracts, media and entertainment, data protection and privacy, unfair competition and digital marketing. He is a regular speaker at ICT-related events, active publisher and involved in several legal working groups and professional organisations. For many years he was active as an affiliated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI).
Stefan Van Camp - TimeLex
Stefan Van Camp is counsel at time.lex. In his daily practice, he concentrates on marketing law, product law, ICT related contracts, e-commerce, distribution and commercial law in general. He is a regular speaker and active publisher in these legal domains.
