ME Executive Day
An invisible, powerful force is lifting the world to new heights! Everything is becoming digital now and to succeed in this world people need to embrace technology. More than ever, everybody knows that to stay relevant, they must use technology to be more efficient and meet demands. But ­digital transformation is just one part of the equation. We have reached a point where data analytics are giving us the necessary understanding to drive transformation, whereas the importance of people and modern IT might not be underestimated as well.

How do you lead your business in a fast pace changing world and how do you keep up with all these rapid changes?
24th May 2023
09:00 – 17:00 CEST
Fokker Terminal, Den Haag
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Emmelie Zipson
Emmelie Zipson

Featured Speakers

Anneke Keller
Anneke Keller
Former Chief Technology Officer, Wehkamp, Jumbo & Coolblue
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Bart Delmulle
Bart Delmulle
Chief Digital Officer, PostNL
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Fleur van Beem 240523
Fleur van Beem
Executive Director Strategy, Insights & Digital Transformation, VodafoneZiggo
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Jeroen Scheer 01
Jeroen Scheer
Leader Architecture & Data Innovation, Shell
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Jurrie van Rooijen 02
Jurrie van Rooijen
Chief Technology Officer, Bol.com
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Marga Hoek
Marga Hoek
ESG Leadership Speaker
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Maarten Mies 02
Maarten Mies
CIO, NN Inkomen Collectief
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Thomas Mulder
Thomas Mulder
Executive Director HR, VodafoneZiggo
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What is ME Executive Day?

ME Executive Day was built on the idea of creating an extended face-to-face knowledge-sharing and networking experience.

Bringing together decision-makers from top500 companies in The Netherlands, we provide a platform for leading industry experts to connect, establish lasting business relationships and share memorable conversations in a more casual setting.

Elevate your networking experience, as we gather CXOs and Directors in charge of IT, Data and Digital related functions to explore best practices, share inspirations, and co-transform.

During ME Executive Day, we will be hosting the following sessions in a parallel program.

Agenda

LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE 
The Value of a Sustainable Business: How to Create a Positive Impact on the World Whilst Unlocking Business Opportunities
Marga Hoek, Thought leader in global business and investment. Chairman/ Board member, former 3-time CEO, multiple-awarded speaker, and author of several books including “New Business Economy” and “The Trillion Dollar Shift”

Climate change is a crisis of the unprecedented magnitude that threatens to multiply a broad range of sustainability risks. Organizations are under increasing pressure to respond. Many will need to sustainably transform their business models to find new opportunities and avenues for growth for their future businesses.

Pressures toward sustainability are reaching a tipping point. But how can your businesses accelerate the sustainability transformation to find new opportunities and avenues for growth? Marga Hoek will dive deeper into:
    • How to lead sustainable transformation
    • The challenges for the boardroom
    • The power of ICT and advanced technologies for a better world

BUSINESS CASE
The Cherry Model: Four Seasons of Innovating Technology Organisations
Anneke Keller, Former Chief Technology Officer, Wehkamp, Jumbo & Coolblue

The gap between digital companies and companies that still need to make this change has widened in recent years. Bridging this gap is hard and needs persistence. Anneke Keller, previously CTO at Wehkamp and Head of Software Engineering at Coolblue and Jumbo, has led several digital transformations. She helped scale tech teams and technology to be able to accommodate growth (TomTom, Coolblue and Jumbo Online), single brand to multi-brand (Wehkamp), and modernize the technical architecture (all of the above). These experiences taught Anneke that technology teams, entire companies even, need a certain rhythm to adapt to change. A certain method that you can follow as a leader to support your team in growing to innovation.

During this session, Anneke Keller will share the story of the different phases of change using the metaphor of a cherry tree, purely based on experiences from both Anneke and co-author Tim Meeuwissenout.

BUSINESS CASE
Getting Ahead of the Digital Game: How ABN AMRO Verzekeringen Enables Modern Data Sharing in a Joint Venture World
Maarten Mies, CIO, NN Inkomen Collectief

Managing data and creating insights is not enough to accelerate digital business transformation. These activities must deliver measurable business impact. Statistics have shown that organizations that successfully increased data sharing were 1.7 times more effective at showing demonstrable, verifiable value to D&A stakeholders.

Maarten Mies, CIO at ABN AMRO Verzekeringen (NN), will share insights on:
    • Establishing sources whereby all parties have the trust to share the data
    • Preparing the IT environment for data sharing
    • Tools and technologies enabling data sharing
    • Challenges and risks in data sharing and how to overcome them
    • Expected value on the short and long term

BUSINESS CASE
Ensuring Perfect Energy: The Power of Data and AI @ Shell
Jeroen Scheer, Leader Architecture & Data Innovation, Shell

The energy landscape will drastically change in the forthcoming years and decades. This must be seen in a larger perspective regarding rapid urbanization, impactful new technologies that are adopted faster and more massively, empowered individuals, evolving communities, smart mobility, increasing awareness of climate change, and economic power shifts. Data and digitalization is a key enabler and catalysts of this transition. Due to the required scale and smartness, AI and ML are pivotal in this data-centric journey.

During this session, Jeroen Scheer, Leader of Architecture & Data Innovation, will dive deeper into Shell’s data and AI/ML initiatives to accelerate the energy transition and decarbonization. Learn more on:
    • The pivot role of data in the energy transition and Shell’s strategy
    • How a one size fits all approach does not help
    • How Shell finds value in applying AI and Machine Learning at scale
    • The main risks and challenges and how to overcome those

BUSINESS CASE
Delivering more Value Faster to Customers: Amplifying & Accelerating PostNL’s Digital Transformation and Building the Organization’s Digital DNA
Bart Delmulle, Chief Digital Officer, PostNL

PostNL has invested heavily in increasing digital knowledge among its employees. The lack of knowledge within senior management proved to be a brake on digital transformation. In 2019 PostNL started the Digital Next Academy.

Our headliner, Bart Delmulle, CDO at PostNL will share insights, failures, and lessons learned on:
    • How and why they started the Digital Next Academy
    • How they align the ‘digital academy’ strategy with their business objectives
    • The expected value of the project in the short and long term
    • The main risks involved in implementing the program and challenges that came forward
    • The investments needed to make the digital academy work

BUSINESS CASE
Navigating Hybrid Work in a Digital Era: How Bol.com Transformed Its Organization and gets the Best out of their Staff
Jurrie van Rooijen, Chief Technology Officer, Bol.com

Effective collaboration across dispersed teams is one of the most challenging problems facing organizations today. This is particularly accurate for hybrid work models, where many companies have yet to precisely define how, where and when work will take place. Bol.com has successfully transformed its organization and makes hybrid work possible:

Our headliner, Jurrie van Rooijen, CTO at Bol.com will tell you more about:
    • Their response to the current disruptions and how they align the hybrid working strategy with future objectives
    • What value hybrid working delivers in the short and long term
    • What digital tech and tooling are implemented to make connected working work
    • How new digital tech and tooling are influencing the way of hybrid working and strategy forward
    • The main risks involved in (digital) hybrid working for the organization
    • The investments needed to make hybrid working work

BUSINESS CASE
Rebalancing and Succeeding in Uncertain Times: How VodafoneZiggo is Building a Network of the Future by Scaling Agility and Resiliency
Fleur van Beem, Executive Director Strategy, Insights, and Digital Transformation, VodafoneZiggo
Thomas Mulder, Executive Director HR, VodafoneZiggo

The more flexible your company is and the faster it can adjust to inevitable industry changes, the better prepared it will be to win market share, improve organizational efficiency, and boost customer satisfaction and loyalty. While future events may not take the same shape as the pandemic or inflation, they will require organizations to navigate profound disruptions nimbly and effectively.

During this business case Fleur van Beem, Executive Director Strategy, Insights, and Digital Transformation, together with Thomas Mulder, Executive Director HR at VodafoneZiggo, will dive deeper into the following:
    • How they respond to current disruptions and created a so-called ‘playbook’ for the future
    • How they aligned the strategy with future objectives
    • What expected to value their new strategy will deliver in the short and long term
    • The main risks involved in implementing the new strategy and the investments needed to make it work
    • How to measure organizational agility

TALKSHOW
Key Takeaways with All Speakers About Most Pressing Topics
Hosted by Emmelie Zipson

LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE
Speaker to be announced

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Anneke Keller

Chief Technology Officer, Wehkamp
Anneke has been working at Wehkamp since January 2021. Wehkamp is a fast-growing online department store. The company was founded in 1952 and started as a mail order business. In its very early years, Wehkamp sold mattresses and bed textiles via advertisements in magazines; it has since grown into one of the largest e-commerce players in the Netherlands. Today Wehkamp have more than 400.000 products and more than 2000 brands on our website and app.

Wehkamp would like to be #1 in the heads and hearts of families in the Netherlands. Developments in (online) retail go very fast.

Bart Delmulle

Chief Digital Officer, PostNL

Fleur van Beem

Executive Director Strategy, Insights & Digital Transformation, VodafoneZiggo
Fleur van Beem has been Executive Director Digital Transformation since October 1, 2021. Before that, Fleur was a partner at strategic consultancy Bain & Company, advising Dutch and international organizations in the telecom and financial sector.

Jeroen Scheer

Leader Architecture & Data Innovation, Shell
Jeroen Scheer joined Shell in May 2019, after spending more than 20 years in the European power and gas industry as digital leader, with companies like Alliander, Vattenfall, Nuon and Essent.

Jeroen Scheer is worldwide recognised as one of the core digital leaders and architects managing the transition of the energy sector and the grid in a transition that brings one of a very complex ecosystem from a rather mechanical entity to the age of digital. His main focus has always been the translation of market and business dynamics (e.g. liberalisation, energy transition, renewables, smart grids) in flexible and cost-effective data-centric digital solutions. Leveraging the global scale Shell has, enabling its Powering Progress Strategy with innovative solutions, and building strong ecosystems is at the core of his day-to-day work.

Besides, he is active on various universities on the topics energy transition and digital transformation. He initiated and catalysed several international (data and interoperability) standards to ensure perfect energy. He chaired various international bodies for Smart Energy Ecosystems and led the EU Reference Architectures and Design Standards for the European Innovation Partnership Smart Cities – Open Urban Platforms.

Jurrie van Rooijen

Chief Technology Officer, Bol.com
As CTO of Bol.com, Jurrie van Rooijen is responsible for all technology within Bol.com. Together with a team consisting of specialized engineers, he works every day to make the organization agile and flexible.

Marga Hoek

Global voice and leadership speaker on ESG, Non-Executive Director, and Triple Former CEO
Marga Hoek is a member of Thinkers50, she is that rare combination: a true visionary on sustainable business and capital and a successful, innovative business leader who understands and applies the commercial realities of business. Operating at the highest level with ministers and presidents, Marga is a global voice for G20, G7 Climat Change and if Cop 23; an award-winning author and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and other prestigious media.

She is a non-executive director for various, international companies after a successful CEO, and executive career as well an appreciated and sought-after boardroom advisor. As the most appreciated speaker on sustainable business and capital and a multiple-awarded author, she is considered one of the most influential thought leaders leading the way in the transition towards a sustainable world.

She is unique in demonstrating in how today’s ICTs and technological innovations can be a huge force for good and has a strong track record in the financial sector.

    • Ranked by Thinkers 50 as one of the top 30 new management thinkers in the world
    • Awarded gold medal for both bestseller books The Trillion Dollar Shift & New Economy Business
    • Best speaker available on sustainable business and capital
    • Unique in demonstrating how ICT and advanced technology can be a force for good via disruptive, sustainable business models

    • Maarten Mies

    CIO, ABN AMRO Verzekeringen

    Thomas Mulder

    Executive Director HR, VodafoneZiggo
    Thomas Mulder is Executive Director HR for VodafoneZiggo since July 2018. He joined Vodafone in January 2012 from Accenture where he was HR Director for the Benelux countries. He led the acquisition of Cable & Wireless Worldwide and the launch of Vodafone Group Enterprise from an HR perspective.

    End of 2013, Thomas moved to Germany to complete the acquisition and integration of Kabel Deutschland as their HR Director.

    In 2015, Thomas went back to Vodafone Netherlands as HR Director to lead in the due diligence of Ziggo. After completion of the VodafoneZiggo Joint Venture he was appointed Global HR Director for Vodafone Business in December 2016. Thomas holds a Global Executive MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management.

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