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Gemma Joyce
Head of Content
Gemma Joyce
Head of Content
Gemma Joyce
Head of Content
Zoe Dejager
Sustainability Coordinator
Zoe Dejager
Sustainability Coordinator
Zoë is the Sustainability Coordinator at Lidl Belgium and Luxembourg, where she works together with enthusiastic colleagues to drive measurable sustainability targets and strengthen the organization’s sustainable positioning.
She believes that transparent and credible communication towards employees, stakeholders, and customers is essential to reinforce that positioning. That’s why Lidl and Bubka joined forces to elevate their sustainability communication, resulting in their first sustainability magazine and video. Curious about what they learned along the way?
Bronze IAB Mixx Award winner – Digital MarTech & Innovation
François Pliester
Content Strategist Lead
François Pliester
Content Strategist Lead
Late to TikTok, First in Culture
Basic-Fit Belgium launched its national TikTok account with one clear ambition: enter the audience’s culture immediately, using concepts that feel native to the platform.
We designed a 3-step launch with three videos built around anticipated audience reactions because we already knew the community codes, the jokes, and the pain points.
By leaning into bold creative choices (including intentionally using an “old” trend and making the iconic Basic-Fit bag a central character), we triggered instant engagement and debate.
Result: a confident launch, fast cultural relevance, and a strong follower base from day one.
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My name is François Plister, and I’m a Creative Strategist at Socialsky (4 years). I started my career helping artists grow their presence on social media. When TikTok exploded, I realized that “anyone” could become a star with the right content without budget or heavy strategy because the platform rewards entertainment and authenticity.
That’s when I shifted my focus to applying strategic creative thinking to brands, with a TikTok-first approach: turning advertising messages into content people actually want to watch.
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Mathieu Peyronnaud
Lead Growth
Learn how to break down silos between SEA, SEO, social, and retail media to create a single, integrated “Total Search” ecosystem that mirrors the consumer’s fragmented journey.
Gain actionable strategies for achieving “AI-readiness,” including optimizing content for LLM Search and leveraging advanced Google Ads features like PMax, value-based bidding, and AI Max for future-proof growth.
Understand how an integrated Total Search strategy directly translates to significant business impact, exemplified by Nespresso’s +17% YoY orders, +34% ROAS, and +189% Amazon sales, all with stable budgets.
As the Growth Lead for the Search team at WWP, my goal is to help brands turn Search data into real answers, not noise. After 10+ years in PPC, I now lead various projects related to advertising, including designing search products, workflows and AI-powered tools that improve decision-making and accelerate performance. Google, Meta, Pinterest or whatever the platform we use, I believe our mission as marketers is to connect Brands’ answers to Consumers’ questions.
Giacomo Citton
Marketing & Insights Consultant
Giacomo Citton
Marketing & Insights Consultant
Giacomo Citton is a Marketing & Insights Consultant at Brand New Day, a social media marketing agency based in Belgium. With a background in performance and contemporary dance, and a degree in International Economics, he brings a rare combination of analytical rigor and cultural sensitivity to brand strategy. He works across audience research, competitor intelligence, and social media content strategy, supporting clients in sectors such as retail and automotive. His work focuses on helping brands strengthen performance and relevance through data-driven insights, platform expertise, and creative strategy.
When Leapmotor entered the Belgian market, it didn’t face indifference.
It faced haters. A new Chinese electric brand, entering a saturated market filled with doubts about quality, safety, and reliability. Skepticism wasn’t a side issue, it was the main barrier.
Instead of ignoring the negativity, we made it part of the strategy. We used data to understand where the resistance came from, who was actually ready to drive electric, and who would never be convinced.
By focusing on the right audiences and real-life value, not hype, we turned criticism into a filter, and skepticism into traction. This case is about how embracing resistance helped a challenger brand break through and perform.
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Joachim François
Chief Innovation Officer
Joachim François
Chief Innovation Officer
In this session, I’ll show how creative ideas become more powerful when they’re designed to work with technology, not despite it. Using Helan’s mental well-being campaign as a case, we’ll unpack how we combined human truth with creative tech (AI + motion capture) to tell an authentic story that people actually wanted to watch and share. The campaign helped break silence around mental health in Flanders by turning stigma into conversation, at scale and with care.
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Joachim is Chief Innovation Officer, leading innovation that bridges creative ambition and emerging technology to drive measurable brand impact. At AKQA, he scales the digital department and guides clients through digital transformation and creative technology, from De Tijd and Doctors Without Borders to Hyundai and Helan. He leads the digital team of 30+ specialists across performance, tech/development, and social content, contributing to two Digital Agency of the Year wins.
Vincent Pierquet
Country Manager
Vincent Pierquet
Country Manager
A new era of advertising and content creation
Vincent Pierquet is a Country Lead at TikTok for Business in Belgium for almost 5 years, driving a team of 5 people that helps and supports more than 200 top belgian advertisers to thrive on the platform.
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Marek Mrázik
CEO
Solving the Social Media Manager’s Time Crisis – not only with AI
Real-world insights from working with social media managers and marketers. What actually saves time, what doesn’t, and how AI boosts output without adding noise or complexity.
Tech entrepreneur and CEO, Marek is the founder of Kontentino and Allfred.io – SaaS products helping agencies worldwide bring clarity, structure, and collaboration to their daily work. With over 15 years of experience at the intersection of creativity and technology, he also co-founded TRIAD Advertising, a 100+ person agency awarded multiple “Agency of the Year” titles and more than 100 international awards, including Cannes Lions.
Driven by a passion for building tools that turn chaos into clarity, he focuses on rethinking how agencies work, collaborate, and scale in a fast-changing digital world.
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Charlotte Deprez
Content Creator & Strategist
Charlotte Deprez
Content Creator & Strategist
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Wahiba Yachou
Social Media Strategist
Wahiba Yachou is a social media strategist and cultural marketing expert,
With over 15 years of experience, she supports brands, media and institutions in building high-impact social media and content strategies rooted in culture, real audience behaviors and community insights.
She previously led and shaped the digital strategy for Tarmac at RTBF, contributing to the launch and growth of youth-focused media platforms.
Her expertise covers culture-first marketing, ethnic marketing, personal branding and social media activations across sport, lifestyle, food, media and live events.
She regularly speaks and trains on social media trends, audience evolution and the business opportunities driven by underrepresented communities.
Why cultural relevance now drives reach, trust and performance on social media
This talk will focus on how cultural signals, identity, context and community dynamics increasingly influence social media performance often more than formats, tools or platform mechanics alone. It will bridge strategy, content and real-world cases to help brands and social media professionals better understand what truly resonates with audiences today.
Yasmin Vantuykom
CEO & Founder
Yasmin Vantuykom
CEO & Founder
Who’s the boss? You, or your notifications?
We live in a world where everything demands our attention—notifications, meetings, messages, urgency.
This keynote exposes the real mental cost of constant accessibility, and why it quietly erodes focus, energy, and connection.
You’ll discover how small, deliberate choices—clear boundaries, smarter communication norms, and visible leadership—create calm and clarity again.
Not a digital detox sermon, but a shift toward leadership over attention—because people don’t follow words, they follow behaviour.
The impact: more peace, better decisions, and stronger human connection at work and at home.
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Yasmin Vantuykom is the Founder of Quyet, a physicalproduct and community of experts that helps families and companies be more mindful about their screentime, an entrepreneur and keynote speaker on attention, focus, and conscious digital habits. Author of Scrollaholics and Workaholics. She brings a highly relatable story—success on paper, but the turning point of realising what constant “always-on” living costs—and translates it into practical leadership choices that teams can apply immediately.
Founded and Exited the influencer agency Efluenz.
Caro Peeters
Partner
Caro Peeters
Partner
Caro is a partner at Bubka, where she helps brands and companies drive sustainable growth. Based on research developed in collaboration with Ghent University, organizations gain sharp insight into which sustainability initiatives truly create impact, and how to translate them to their stakeholders. With the help of AI, these insights become easy to apply in practice, enabling brands to move faster and more effectively. From strategy to storytelling and concrete initiatives, Caro helps organizations turn their sustainable ambitions into credible and tangible progress.
Fabian Delhaxhe
Consultant Growth Marketing & LinkedInTM
Fabian Delhaxhe
Consultant Growth Marketing & LinkedInTM
Fabian Delhaxhe is a growth marketer and entrepreneur.
He has been in digital for more than 20 years. He has worked for established brands as for start-ups in several industries in Belgium and France: Ethias, KBC, Century 21, Monizze, Smovin, Carmeuse, RTL Belgium, Actiris, CFE Group, NRJ, …
Fabian is the founder of La Super Growth Boite (2022), a “company of one” that helps Belgian entrepreneurs grow their business relying on growth marketing and organic social media strategies.
Fabian Delhaxhe is one of the most qualified Linkedin experts in Belgium. Favikon listed him #1 Belgian Linkedin content creator in the “Growth & Lead Gen” category ranking.
From Organic Reach to AI-Driven Social Media: How Algorithms Have Changed Everything
Social media has changed more in the past 3 years than in the previous decade. Organic reach is shrinking, paid distribution is becoming essential, and AI-powered algorithms are reshaping how content is delivered.
This shift can be seen clearly, from Meta’s GEM and Andromeda to LinkedIn’s new Qualified Audience Model.
In this session, Fabian Delhaxhe will break down the evolution of social algorithms, explain why the era of free reach is over, and show how companies must adapt their social strategy in 2026. You will discover a clear roadmap: what to change, what to stop, and how to leverage AI-driven platforms to stay ahead.
If you want to stay visible in 2026, this talk is for you.
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