Regional Conference BeLux 2022

Albert Kerézéon
  • Ways to make your IT GREEN
Ann DOOMS
  • The Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Bart Renard
  • Can a zero Trust Approach protect against Ransomware?
Danny Cuyt
  • Opening Notes
  • Your Sources for AI Z-Skills
  • Closing Note
Danny Roefflaer
  • Observability with AI
Dmitry Goloubew

Dmitry is Principal Engineer at Cisco’s Business Critical Services Innovation team. Dmitry holds Cisco CCIE #5435 in Routing and Switching and focuses on discovering and applying Machine Learning and AI capabilities to Cisco Product and Service offerings. Dmitry is an author of many patents and publications on knowledge engineering, anomaly detection, reliability, intelligence augmentation and other applied Machine Learning topics.

  • Cisco’s approach to Cognitive Collaboration Technology and Responsible AI
Eric Michiels

Eric Michiels is Executive Architect at IBM, applying innovative technologies to solve business and societal challenges. Eric has a background in IBM Z, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing and Quantum Computing. At this GSE Conference, he will focus on the latter and bring the audience up-to-date with the latest evolutions in Quantum Computing. You can reach him via Eric_Michiels@be.ibm.com or 0475 252130.

  • Recent evolutions in Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Machine Learning
Frank Van de Wall

Frank Van Der Wal is currently working in the Northern European market as Distinguished IT Specialist focussing on helping mainframe customers in their Digital Transformation journey to best explore the platform.

  • Hackathon
  • How Z Open Automation Utility can help make z/OS seen as a Cloud Operating System
  • Hackathon Closing
Henrik Collin
  • Can a zero Trust Approach protect against Ransomware?
Jan Samohyl
  • Untangling Business Applications and How to Identify Them
Jan Tits

Jan Tits is a zSystems brand technical specialist at IBM.

  • What's new with IBM Z16 and LinuxONE
Joachim Schaefer
  • Quantum Risks & Crypto Agility
Johan Suykens

Johan A.K. Suykens is a full professor at KU Leuven. He is an IEEE Fellow and ELLIS Fellow. He has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant 2011 and 2017. He is currently serving as associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. He is author and editor of several books in the areas of neural networks, support vector machines, kernel methods, and learning theory. He is currently program director of Master AI at KU Leuven.

  • Trends in AI Algorithms
Michal Kramaric

Michal Kramaric is Product Owner for Mainframe Topology and Data Science at Broadcom. He oversees product development of Mainframe Topology, a new product allowing users to map their mainframe estate as well as design of new advanced analytics capabilities for Broadcom products.

  • Untangling Business Applications and How to Identify Them
Pieter Rogge

Working as a Mainframe System Engineer @ Colruyt Group IT since Aug 2010. Interested in everything that lives on Z. Specialized in z/OS, z/OS Workload Manager, Mainframe Scheduling, Performance Management and Reporting, Scripting and others.

  • Intelligent Mainframe Reporting
Prof. Doktor-Ingenieur Mark Becker

Prof. Doktor-Ingenieur Mark Becker, Fraunhofer-Institut für Intelligente Analyse und Informationssysteme IAIS, Sankt Augustin

  • Artificial intelligence: the most important new trends
Rebecca Levesque

Rebecca Levesque is President of 21st Century Software, a mainframe software development firm and IBM IP partner. Rebecca is a sought after “Go To Expert” as an IBM strategic partner in the areas of mainframe risk, resiliency and optimization. For over twenty years she has traveled the world as an expert speaker on the drivers of the IBM Z ecosystem. She is a published author in trade journals, white papers, and industry forums.

  • Is your IT organization ‘Fit for Business Purpose’?
Stefano Delle Chiaie
  • Cyberresiliance with IBM z Systems