CDOIQ BeNeLux Symposium: Sustain the momentum of digital transformation with AI
Chief Data Officer & Information Quality symposium: Sustain the momentum of digital transformation with AI
Unique symposium
As AI innovations continue to develop at an impressive pace, businesses face the challenge to sustain the momentum of digital transformation with AI. In this third event we now have expanded CDOIQ NL to CDOIQ-BeNeLux, and we are happy to host the event at JADS – Jheronimus Academy of Data Science for this occasion.
This interactive seminar brings together senior professionals and academic leaders to explore how AI & Data can lead to sustainable new business and productivity gains.
This event offers an opportunity to engage across sectors—combining the practical insights of industry with insights from academic research. Through focused discussions, case studies, and collaborative sessions, participants will understand what measures and actions work profit and non-profit.
We are happy to introduce Collibra as our partner for this event. They will provide insightful presentations on AI & Data Governance and data quality.
Whether you’re leading data initiatives within a complex organization or conducting research, this event is designed to foster dialogue, surface challenges, and share proven approaches that bridge the gap between experimentation and execution. Join us to shape the future of data with purpose and precision.
The program committee
Jos van Hillegersberg – Erik Beulen – Wim Stolk
Program
- 14:00 Welcome by CDOIQ-Benelux by Jos van Hillegersberg
- 14:30 AI & Digital Transformation: Emma Pauw – Heineken
- 14.50 Ending the hallucination tax: Governing the backbone of enterprise AI: Wouter Mertens, Collibra
- 15.15 Sustaining AI implementation at Stedin, Marco Hoppenbrouwer, Stedin
- 15.45 Coffee break
- 16.15 An interview with Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad, BNP Paribas Fortis, by Erik Beulen
- 16.30 to be announced soon
- 16.55 Closing by Wim Stolk
- 17.00 Diner and networking drinks
- 19.00 End
About our speakers
Emma Pauw, Global Commerce Data Owner at Heineken
Data & AI are transforming business, but technology alone doesn’t create value. In this keynote, she will explore the realities of business adoption, on the approach of aligning stakeholder expectations with what data and AI can deliver, and the practical lessons learned from driving data-led transformation at scale.
Marco Hoppenbrouwer, Manager Data Office, Stedin
Marco Hoppenbrouwer is Manager Data Office at Stedin, seasoned data and AI leader in technology and transformation within large, complex organisations. Background at Shell, where he spent more than 30 years ending in senior leadership positions. Responsible for delivered mergers and acquisitions, strategic IT architecture programmes, integrated advise on C-suite challenges, established digitalization initiatives, and ultimately held the role of Chief Data Officer. Current position is @Stedin, one of the larger Dutch grid operators responsible for distributing electricity and gas to over 2 million customers.
Wouter Mertens, AI Governance CTO at Collibra
Ending the hallucination tax: Governing the backbone of enterprise AI
Every enterprise can get the same models. Agents are surging into production. And in every company racing to keep up, one person decides whether that AI can be trusted: the person who owns its data, its meaning, and its permissions. That’s you. This is the moment your work stops being back office and becomes the backbone of your company’s entire AI program. Join Collibra for a keynote on what to do today, this quarter, and this year to put yourself at the center of enterprise AI, and get a first look at the breakthrough capabilities that make governed context and control the foundation everything else builds on.
Unique symposium
This symposium provides a unique opportunity to engage with CDO’s, Senior Data Professionals and Academics. To be eligible for participation, applicants must have a minimum level of experience in the data field and be currently employed by an organization that is neither a data consultancy firm, nor a data tooling provider.
Symposium location: Jheronimus Academy of Data Science
Transportation: best way to get to JADS from Central station Den Bosch is by foot (less than 5 min walk). If you arrive by car, please use parking Stationsplein, it’s the nearest to our campus.