Liesbeth Debruyn, Sales Director at Elmos.

Bart Vanderwee, BICC Director at Belgian Post Group.

Bart started his career at Accenture in 1985 where he grew to senior manager in process and in Government & services (Utilities).

In 2000 he joined Bpost as a program manager and executed several projects in the Finance/Accounting department.
In his PMO role he coordinates different projects within finance & accounting, initiates master data initiatives and organizes the integration of all feeder systems towards a central accounting system.
Bart also introduced VAT and corporate taxes throughout the different financial flows.

Since June 2008 he became director BICC & Program Management Office Finance & Accounting.
As Director BICC he is strongly involved in Governance of BI and the development and monitoring of a corporate BI program.

Peter Lathouwers, European BI Manager at Nike.

Peter started working with Nike as a consultant in 2000 participating in the 1st datawarehouse project for the Nike European Logistics center and became a fixed member of the Nike ELC Application Engineering team in October 2002 mainly focusing on "reporting stuff".

After a few years he became the manager of the team he was part of and started growing the reporting team into a real BI-team.

Currently he holds the European BI Manager role and is responsible for putting together and deploying the Nike Europe BI Strategy and servicing all BI-related initiatives for Nike Europe Inc. Going forward, further evolving the BI-maturity level within Nike and integration of the affiliates (Umbro, Converse, Hurley, ...) is high on his priority list.

Oyku Isik, Assistant Professor, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School

Öykü holds a BSc degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and an MBA degree from Istanbul Bilgi Univesity in Istanbul, Turkey.

Öykü earned her PhD degree in Business Computer Information Systems from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Her PhD dissertation examined the phenomena BI success and how it is affected by different BI capabilities as well as the decision environment. Her main teaching and research interests are in the areas of Business Intelligence, IT management and Business Process Management.

Walter Vanherle, Independent Business and Technology Consultant and Entrepreneur

Walter is independent business and technology advisor to both Small and Midsize Enterprises as to Large National and Multinational Enterprises. He is currently managing start-up companies and advisor to SME's on business related matters like technology integration, marketing, innovation and innovation management. He is passionate about technology adoption as a business differentiator together with developing new services and market opportunities.

His background is about implementing end to end business innovation from idea, over market creation and early client adoption to product and service management. In his career he was responsible for client projects related to Enterprise Program Management, IT Strategy and IT Management, Enterprise Information Management and Large scale ERP implementations. He served throughout his career as business alliance director towards a large range of business partners.

Walter is Fellow of KU-Leuven FEB Faculty and member of the PDMA Association. He graduated in 1983 as Commercial Engineer in Business Administration and Applied Informatics at KU-Leuven and is an Alumni of IMD Business School. He started his career as consultant with Data Resources (McGrawhill group) and subsequently held various sales and business management positions with Wang Computers, Tandem, Ingres, Amdahl and Deloitte Consulting. He left Deloitte Consulting in December 2010 as Partner in Technology Architecture and Integration Services to start his own business.