Extra hygiene measures will be taken in order to ensure the safety of our visitors, speakers and staff during the event.
Presentation of a Covid Safe Ticket will be required at the entrance.
The BeCommerce Awards is an initiative of BeCommerce, a non-profit organisation, which wants to increase confidence in the e-commerce sector and represent the community of active web-shops in Belgium.
On October 13, 2021, the BeCommerce Awards will be presented for the 16th time in the historic site of Tour & Taxis in Brussels. Like every year, BeCommerce takes care of the organization and 100% financing of the event through sponsorship and ticket sales.
With the award ceremony, BeCommerce aims to make a positive contribution to the industry's self-awareness.
For further details, please visit Becommerce.be - Becommerce Awards
Lies started her rich career in the FMCG sector and held various management positions in a marketing career spanning more than 20 years. Lies started her career at Nestlé Waters, after which she worked for Alken-Maes for almost 10 years. Here, she held various positions, after which she chose Continental Foods for her next FMCG adventure. At Continental, she managed several award-winning campaigns for local A-brands such as Devos Lemmens, Royco and Liebig Delisoup. In 2019, Lies opted for a new adventure and made the switch to the automotive industry. Initially as Marketing Director for BMW Group Belux, and now as Managing Director of Polestar Belgium, the disruptive new kid on the block.
Els Breugelmans (PhD, University of Antwerp, 2005) is Professor of Marketing at KU Leuven, campus Antwerp, Faculty of Economics and Business. She is an expert in the domain of retailing and does scientific research on a variety of retailing-related topics, including multi- and omni-channel shopping, loyalty programs and retailer-manufacturer relationships. She conducts rigorous and managerially relevant research, resulting in a win-win for her academic peers and collaborating companies. Her academic work has been published in major academic outlets such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing and Marketing Letters. She is also often consulted by media, to elucidate on retailing trends, from her academic perspective.
Active for over 25 years in the field of ICT, Damien is an expert in e-commerce and e-marketing, certified "RENTIC" and "Fit4Digital". He heads the consulting firm RETIS. RETIS acts as a facilitator for the development of e-business projects for SMEs, starters and traders (both in Btoc and BtoB), acting as an "architect" of e-commerce projects (strategy and commercial development), being neutral in relation to service providers. He is also a lecturer and trainer in 4 high schools and universities in Belgium and France (e-commerce, e-marketing and digital law courses: www.prospectic.be). He has published "e-commerce: Best Practices for Success" (Editions Edipro).
I love helping brands with their Journey from Wholesale Brand to Direct-to-Consumer Retailer. Founder Frucon.net is an end2end cross-border e-commerce specialist.
Michel has been an Executive for more than 25 years in the world of finance, banking and telco. Successfully leading teams, organisations and projects around the transformation of industries, companies and functions has been at the core of his activities and competences. From 2005 till October 2017, he was CEO of Febelfin, the Belgian financial sector federation. Before (1996-2004), he was Secretary General, General Counsel and Head of the Staff functions at Belgacom (today Proximus); and prior to this telco experienced, he held similar functions at Cedel, today Clearstream, the international Clearing and Settlement Institution for internationally traded securities (1990-1996). Besides his business roles and responsibilities, he strongly believes in committing oneself for the common and greater good. As such, among other functions, he is the chairman of the classic music broadcast Klarafestival (since 2008), and since its inception 15 years ago, he is also independent board member of the Antwerp based Hospital Group, ZNA (Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen). Michel has also created his own consultancy firm, Alio Consilio offering alternative ways to find solutions for strategic, tactical, organizational or personnel challenges which organisations are facing in changing times. Amongst the Alio Consilio clients, one will find also new entrepreneurial so-called Fintech’s intending to offer innovative financial services solutions.
Clo Willaerts (°1970) is a Belgian marketing professional with a large social media following and extensive experience in digital business (communities, streaming media, portals, social media, digital transformation) for the travel, finance, automotive, media and telco industry. Her popular technology blog has been a go-to resource since 2004. Now, after working almost twenty years as an internet and media professional, she travels around the world as a consultant, speaker and author.
A digital media virtuoso, Clo never tires of teaching and learning about digital technology and the impact it has on our daily lives. She frequently lectures in Belgium on social media, online privacy, digital marketing, artificial intelligence and future technologies at Karel de Grote College, EHSAL Management School and Odisee, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and UBA Academy.
Edouard is the founder of Wepika (www.wepika.com), a Prestashop dedicated e-commerce agency (Wepika focuses on growing SMEs such as J&Joy, Kewlox, eFarmz, Chacon, ...). During his free time he also launched Café Numérique (Tech discussions between the conference and the bar), RueDuWeb (coworking space) and LeanFund (seed fund).
Expert and e-business, with a confirmed experience in e-marketing, e-commerce and project management. Certified PRINCE2® Foundation & Professional Scrum Master.Specialties: e-business, e-commerce, e-marketing, project management and secure technology.
Matthieu is a driven transformation consultant and general manager specialised in business growth and turnaround. He is passionate about opportunities created by technology in day-to-day business. He is managing director of Twinbox, delivering large transformation projects and newco developments in B2C and B2B2C industries. He is currently leading the major business & technology turnaround of Standaard Boekhandel & Club. Over the last years, the company has been working on the set-up and launch of Distriplus’ eCommerce platform and organisation, the development of the digital & CRM program of Delhaize, B2B eCommerce platform of Turbo’s Hoet Group, the customer interaction app of Ethias insurance, the card & payment strategy of Keytrade Bank, or the digital customer journey for Toyota Motors across Europe. Matthieu is co-founder of smartconnect.eu and one2three.be.
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