André Lapa is the Head of Digital Service Delivery & Content at AMA, the Portuguese agency for public administration modernization. He has over 10 years of experience in leading digital product development, user experience, content strategy, and open innovation projects for the government. Since 2019 he has been involved with the implementation and management of AI agents for public service delivery, most recently overseeing the deployment of a Generative AI pilot that is now being scaled at large. André is passionate about bringing together product management, content strategy, and customer experience for better public services.

At the moment, Reinhard is leading the digital policy team at Digital Flanders. He is presiding the digital strategy working group of the steering body ICT of  the Flemish government and coordinating a digital strategy for Flanders. He is also the Flemish coordinator of the EU policy programme digital decade. 

During 3 years Reinhard was Head of the Digital Area of Excellence on Digital Transformation within Colruyt Group. At corporate level, he supports the digital strategy and the tactical roadmaps of the 25 business units in Colruyt Group in order to increase their digital maturity (awareness, skills, agile organization, ecosystem, customer centricity, data driven decision making) and improve their digital services to better serve customer needs.

Reinhard Laroy was 5 years policy advisor to the minister of digital agenda, telecom and post and now prime minister Alexander De Croo. He was responsible for coordinating the telecom and digital agenda policy of the federal government.

During 4 years he was lecturer of the course 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on ICT and Media' of the postgraduate studies 'Advanced Master in Intellectual Property Rights and ICT Law' at the Faculty of Law of KU Leuven and he gives guest lectures from time to time.

Prof. Steven Latré, is VP R&D Machine Learning and AI and is leading the artificial intelligence and software research at imec, the R&D hub for nano-electronics and digital technologies. He leads an interdisciplinary team which focuses on combining sensor and chip technology with AI to provide end-to-end solutions in sectors such as health, automotive, greentech and smart industries. He also leads imec's activities that translate imec technology to large digital transformation projects with Flemish industry. Finally he's responsible for imec's embedded university groups in the field of AI and social science. Next to this, he is also a part-time professor at the University of Antwerp.