Prof Dr Marion Debruyne is Dean of Vlerick Business School. She holds a Civil Engineering degree and is Doctor in Applied Economics (Ghent University). She is also Master in Marketing (Vlerick Business School).

After obtaining a CIM fellowship she held positions as Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), Visiting Scholar at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management (Northwestern University) and Assistant Professor at the Goizueta Business School (Emory University).

Before her deanship professor Debruyne was Director for all Masters programmes as well as Academic Director of the Executive programme “Product Management”.

Her interests lie at the intersection between marketing strategy, innovation and competition. Her work has been published in Marketing Science and The Journal of Product Innovation Management among others.

“Nothing is as practical as a good theory”. Professor Debruyne loves bridging the academic world and the world of business practice. Her research focuses on the traps companies face when dealing with competitive attacks and fundamental industry shifts. She believes in market-driven organisations that innovate together with their customers to create real customer solutions and which build partner-ecosystems to bring these to the market.

Prior to joining Philips Lighting as CIO in 2013, De Ruwe was CIO of Bayer MaterialScience. He has received a Leader in the Digital Age (LIDA) award in the manager category at CeBIT, the largest computer trade show in Germany, in part for his work on a change-management project at Bayer in which he encouraged employees to contribute ideas regardless of their rank, expertise, or assigned silo. He has also held positions at Huntsman and ICI.

The Global Inspiration & Noble Purpose Institute is inspired on a daily basis by Olivier Onghena-’t Hooft, its founder. As the result of a life-changing accident, Olivier Onghena-’t Hooft realized that meaning and fulfilment in life come from discovering and pursuing that what is most important, that what really counts, that with what one can really make a difference to help Mankind, Society and the World progress. It’s something higher than oneself. He transferred this learning into the business and organizational world, focusing on helping (global) leaders, teams and organizations find ‘that one thing’ that matters most to them, and let them align strategy, organizational culture and leadership with noble purpose.

With more than 20 years’ experience with Coca-Cola, Sabine Everaet is the group CIO for EMEA and western Europe. Based in Brussels, she was named Belgian CIO of the Year in 2011. She also chairs the Coca-Cola European Women Leadership Council and is active in a number of networks to advance women in IT.

Prior to her time in Coca-Cola, Everaet worked as a consultant at PwC and KPMG.

Director at Amethix Technologies amethix.com 
Co-founder of fitchain.io the decentralised machine learning factory 
Former member of the Advanced Analytics Team of Johnson&Johnson

My interests range from applied math, machine learning, cryptography and blockchain technology. 
I have worked in domains such as healthcare and pharma, R&D in bioinformatics, and personal finance. For additional details, contact me directly.

Stephan Forseilles is the Chief Technology Officer of Easyfairs, advising the Group in his capacity as Managing Director of Binor SPRL. He is responsible for supervising the strategic development of the company's IT and digital marketing solutions.

Forseilles was previously Operations Director EMEA, Anti-Piracy, for the Motion Picture Association of America.

He worked for Belgacom from 1996 to 2003, first as Operations Director/IT & Network Director for Belgacom Skynet, then as Belgacom's Internet Services Director.

For two years Forseilles served as a Vice President of the Belgian Internet domain name registration organisation, DNS.be and he is member of UFI’s Digital Innovation Committee. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.