Codit Connect 2022

Hans is the Program Manager for the Belgian Health Data Authority. Hans has bachelors in medicine and biotechnology. He has worked at the University of Ghent and has 15+ years’ experience in bioinformatics, software engineering and data science.

Hans is passionate about the combination of healthcare and data use. It is his mission to create more value for healthcare by using very large datasets, enabling better R&D and faster innovation. As an evangelist for the open and fair use of data, Hans is currently supporting the Belgian authorities in their desire to make the Belgian Healthcare System more data-driven.

The leading global distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients is headquartered in Belgium and is a leading global innovation service provider. They apply an innovative mindset to everything they do and owe their successes to a passion for inventiveness and their commitment to strong relationships with both customers and suppliers.

Azelis regards data as the power that drives the company forward. Therefore, they have adopted a cloud-first strategy in their journey to become a truly connected enterprise.

Jan is the CEO at Portima, a digital services company. They provide digital solutions and IT services to the community of insurance brokers, insurance companies and to the customers of the brokers.

By offering digital, secure and innovative solutions, as partner of the broker and the insurance companies, Portima increases productivity and sparks customer delight. Portima embarked on a large digital transformation project to ensure that their broker channel remains the leading insurance distribution channel in Belgium.

Peter Borremans is Codit’s Operations Manager and Integration Domain Lead. Within these two roles, he is both responsible for the operational efficiency of the local Belgium Business, and defines and implements the integration vision, strategy and service delivery within the Integration domain. He is Microsoft certified, and has worked at Codit for almost 15 years.

Mieke is Director AI at imec (IDLab). She holds a master’s degree in civil and industrial engineering and specialized in robotics and artificial intelligence. Over the last 25 years, she has worked at universities and for multinationals such as IBM, Microsoft, SAP and SAS. Her passion is to translate AI between engineering and business. It is her belief that apart from data and technology, our focus should be on people and processes.

The publisher of many articles in Belgian and international magazines and newspapers, Mieke has also written books on AI.

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Koen is the R&D Director at DUCO Ventilation & Sun Control. The company is located in an ultra-modern industrial facility in Veurne, Belgium, situated along the E40 Ostend-Calais motorway. DUCO is a leading European producer of ventilation and solar shading systems that guarantee a healthy, comfortable and energy-efficient indoor climate.

Koen and his R&D team are passionately looking for new techniques and innovative solutions to realize products that keep answering users’ needs, in close collaboration with industrial and academic partners.

Read about our DUCO case here: https://www.codit.eu/en/clients/duco-azure-iot-edge/.

Steven De Lausnay is Codit’s IoT Lead. He designs and delivers IoT solutions for several domains, focusing primarily on manufacturing and energy. He enjoys sharing his knowledge with customers and showing them how IoT can both bring them additional value and transform their business. He has a technical background with several years of practical experience, and is certified with Microsoft Azure.