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Gain insights. Grow your network. 
And guide product teams to success. 
 25/09/2025
REGENTLAAN 7, 1000 BRUSSEL

How to lead next gen products, tech and teams into the future? Find out during Sync IT, a free networking and inspirational event for actual and future IT product team leads. 

With compelling keynotes from Kimberly Hermans, Director AI & Data Science at Sopra Steria, and Alain Peirens, CTO & Head of Business
Transformation Office at AXA Belgium. 

Practical

Program (17h30-21h30)
  • 17h30: Welcome drink
  • 18h15: Keynotes from Kimberly Hermans & Alain Peirens
  • 19h00: Panel discussion with 3 product leads
  • 19h30: Food & Networking activities
  • 21h30: Closing 

Keynotes

The planning is set. Requirements have been written. And the designs are near final. These speakers are now developing their keynotes with a great UX. Get ready for deployment on 25 September.
Kimberly Hermans Kimberly Hermans is Director of AI & Data Science at Sopra Steria Belgium. She helps public and private organisations realise tangible business impact through digital transformation. With over a decade of experience in AI strategy and implementation, data science, and program management, she has successfully led complex initiatives, coordinated and shaped projects and supported her expert team at companies like Nike, Telenet, Lantis, KBC, UCB and so on.

Kimberly is valued for her no-nonsense, impact-first approach and her ability to bridge the gap between business goals and AI capabilities, always staying pragmatic. She is often asked to speak or brainstorm about topics such as responsible and scalable AI, building sustainable AI roadmaps or to talk about spearheaded projects like the meemoo initiative, applying facial recognition to millions of archived images in Flanders.
Connect with Kimberly on LinkedIn
Alain Peirens 
Alain Peirens is head of Business Transformation Office and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at AXA Belgium. After several missions in Consulting and being self-employed architect, he joined AXA in 2003. He is our CTO since 2012. Together with his team he is responsible for the shape and design of our business transformations while defining the technology and enterprise architecture strategy of AXA Belgium.


Known for his leadership in business and technology transformations, he is also chairman of AXA Group business and IT architecture. He also serves as Board member of Liantis and holds a master degree in Applied Economics at Ghent University.
Connect with Alain on LinkedIn

Get to know our IT product leads

After the inspiring talks of Kimberly and Alain, three of our IT product leads at AXA will dive deeper into the topics during an interactive pannel discussion. Let us briefly introduce them: 
Dragan Conic
Within service excellence, my team and I support three key initiatives: Service reliability engineering, IT service continuity management, and recently, engineering excellence.
I lead efforts to enhance service performance, ensure ongoing operational resilience, and foster engineering best practices across teams.
Connect with Dragan on LinkedIn 
Virginie Brants
I am a product lead within the IT teams managing projects regarding Inbound, Storage and Records activities.
I oversee product development strategy while guiding and supporting my team to achieve their best performance and growth
Connect with Virginie on LinkedIn 
Stanislas Verwilghen
I oversee the development of a new application for underwriting non-live insurance contracts.
As a product manager, I focus on managing the product, coordinating the project, and supporting the multidisciplinary team’s collaboration and progress.
Connect with Stanislas on LinkedIn
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