Marc Carrel-Billiard is a Senior Managing Director at Accenture. He is the Global Lead of Accenture Technology Innovation. In his role Marc leads:

• Accenture Labs, the dedicated R&D organization of Accenture
• Accenture Ventures, which bridges clients with eco-system partners including incubators, accelerators, corporate venture capitalists, start-ups, academia
• Accenture Technology Incubation Group, which incubates applied R&D into business solutions (XR, Quantum Computing, Multiparty Computing, Robotics)
• and Accenture Liquid Studios, which prototype and scale incubated solutions at clients all over the world

Marc has been with Accenture for over 20 years and has worked across all the five industry groups that Accenture serves. Before taking on leadership of Technology Innovation, he was the global lead for the Emerging Technology practice. He has held several global leadership roles within Accenture’s technology group, He has worked across several cutting-edge areas of IT including voice recognition, knowledge-based systems, neural networks and quantum computing.

Koen started at Accenture in 1995 and is based in Belgium. He has been focused on implementing large scale ERP systems and Application Management and Development.

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In his role as global technology lead for resources, he has led large innovative AD / AM engagements. He has been working in all continents and advised large national and international accounts.

has been a member of the Proximus Leadership Squad since April 2021 where she acts as Chief Digital & IT Officer. Before joining Proximus, she was Group CIO and CDIO at the Danish TDC, Head of IT and Business Partner at Swiss Sunrise, and she had several roles in Swisscom and H3G Italy.

She is an influential IT leader with 20 years of international Telecom experience in leveraging technology to drive organizational growth, performance and profitability. She focuses on digital and agile transformation, the impact of leading-edge technology on business, technology and product innovation as well as IT and Telco transformation. She has worked in different European countries (Italy, Switzerland, Denmark and Belgium) and is a council member of Etis and member of the Italian Order of Engineers. Currently she also holds the VC Finance seat in the Board of Directors of Gaia-X and is chairwoman in the Board of Directors of Proximus Ada.

Antonietta Mastroianni studied Computer and Automation Engineering at the University of Siena and she is a member of the Order of Engineers of the province of Caserta. In 2022, Antonietta was awarded the Telco Women of the Year Award by NetworkX and was also named Telco CxO of the Year in 2021.

Jo Braeckman is the CIO and CHRO of the Claes Retail Group, Business Unit Director for CKS and Mayerline, and member of the CRG Board.

Jo is 54 years old and has held various positions in IT, always with a very strong connection to the business. In his current position with the Claes Retail Group Jo holds IT as well as business responsibilities. Jo has a change driven management style with a huge interest in the human aspects.

EMEA North – SalesforceDavid has worked with Salesforce since 2008 and is responsible for building the Architecture practice in the Northern EMEA Solution Engineering team. Before he worked on the consultancy side as both project manager, team lead and Managing Director at ABSI where the initial Salesforce partnership and Cloud Computing and CRM experience started back in 2002.In his Architect leadership role, David has developed a passion for bringing together people, technology and innovation in business and processes, helping companies move forward with their digital transformations.

In the course of my career, I gained multidisciplinary experience in Management, Restructuring, Re-Organization, Change Management, Sales, Production Automation, Field Force Automation, ICT and blockchain applications including Cryptocurrencies.

I started my career as a technician at Europdata Systems / Symbol Technologies, to then move on to The Coca-Cola Company as Chief Technology Officer for Europe, Eurasia and Middle East.

I started up IT development and -support groups and led several large transformation and outsourcing initiatives in different disciplines. I left the Coca-Cola Company in 2005 to start up my own IT and Executive Consultancy company, and several organizations since.

Having worked as CTO, COO, CIO in several organizations such as The Coca- Cola Company, Econocom, BECO Capital, CPU4Me, Corona Direct Verzekeringen during the past 20+ years, with major digital transformations on the agenda in each, it positions me exceptionally well to turn around organisations and companies in their digital transformation tracks.