Roeland studied biological and cognitive psychology at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and finished his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the Erasmus School of Economics. Roeland publishes regularly in internationally renowned scientific journals. 

As co-founder/scientific director at Alpha.One, Roeland helps companies with insights obtained through techniques adopted from neuroscience to better understand how information is processed andvalued in the brain, and how this leads to decision making.

Roeland regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps

Lennert de Jong has been the commercial director for citizenM - one of the most disruptive and customer centric hotel chains out there - since its inception in 2006. He leads the company's digital marketing, demand management and sales strategy. He is involved in the start-up of a revolutionary data platform for the hotel industry called Snapshot, and on the Revenue Management Advisory Board of HSMAI Europe. Lennert is a passionate speaker about hotel marketing subjects and enjoys strategic subjects such as customer-centric thinking, brand versus distribution and ROI-driven advertising. Mantra: what gets measured, gets done.

Lennert regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Axelle had been an HR and communications entrepreneur for 10 years when she discovered the power of (live) visual storytelling for corporate purposes. Since that day,  She has been combining her passion for drawing with her skills as a facilitator in a uniquely energetic way.

Axelle regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Rik is a renowned thought-leader, worldwide keynote speaker and author of business bestseller “Managers The Day After Tomorrow”. He’s a trusted advisor on the topics of extreme customer centricity, innovation in the digital era, business model change, sales, marketing and leading companies on their journey to their very own Day After Tomorrow.

With more than 15-years of experience in the big 4 consultancy firms and as a former Director of Technology Consulting, Annick has a true passion for bridging business and IT. Her in-depth knowledge of IT strategy, roadmap design and creative pragmatism are a perfect match to detect our clients’ challenges and transform them into actionable “Day-after-tomorrow”-plans. Annick is a motivating business speaker. She has energized many workshops, roundtables, boardroom sessions and corporate events with eye-opening presentations and workshops about Customer Centricity, Customer Engagement, Customer Service and other technology-related business subjects.

With over 20 years of experience in IT and training, amongst which five years working for Microsoft in the Netherlands and Europe, Nancy has always and above all passionately focused upon people: how technology influences their behaviour, how it helps them to share knowledge and how it enables them to create and innovate. 

She is a highly rated and motivating international business speaker. She has energized many roundtables, boardroom sessions and corporate events with bold presentations on the topics of digital transformation, extreme customer centricity, disruption, AI, business model change and leadership. She loves inspiring others about how they can organize their companies for The Day After Tomorrow and push their business models to the next level.

Omar is a tech entrepreneur turned advisor and mentor. As an advisor he tries to practice a "hands-off unless requested" approach. If required, he has hands-on experience with executing go-to-market, with a major focus on scaling cloud and web based services.

Nicolas holds masters in Electromechanical engineering and Operations Research. Being a huge data geek, Nicolas started Datatonic Belgium right after graduating cum laude. Now, Datatonic is applying machine learning techniques to solve the hardest business challenges. Datatonic was elected global google cloud platform services partner of the year by Google.

Nicolas regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Raymond has been an entrepreneur for over 10 years and has experienced both success and failure as an entrepreneur. He has Co-Founded his current company Vita.io almost 4 years ago with the purpose to make everybody happy at work. 

Jelle van Veenen (PhD) has an extensive background in both Artificial Intelligence and Law. He works as a Legal Service Designer and lecturer, and co-founded Dutch Legal Tech, a leading community platform for legal innovation.

Bram is a professor in robotics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is focussed on developing a new generation of robots that will physically and socially support humans in the form of prosthetics, exoskeletons, co-workers and social robots, with direct applications in the healthcare sector and the manufacturing industry.

Levi is a trailblazer: ‘the first person to do something or go somewhere, who shows that it is also possible for other people’. Levi currently develops new impact-models at youth care organization Spirit and is PhD candidate on collaboration between formal and informal networks.

Leen Gorissen, Ph.D. in Biology, is specialized in ecology, transition science, regenerative development and bio-inspired innovation. She is the author of the recent book ‘Building the Future of Innovation on millions of years of Natural Intelligence’ and the founder of Centre4NI, a catalyst that helps organizations and businesses to innovate like nature. She is a frequently asked evaluator of innovation projects by the European Commission, a thought leader on innovation-beyond-the-usual, a strategist and business innovation process facilitator. She has worked for a broad range of clients and organized bio-inspired innovation sessions in cities across the world. From 2009-2017, Leen worked as a Transition Research Coordinator at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO Belgium). 

Arno has been working in tech strategy and innovation for almost 20 years. Early 2005 he started exploring the topic of distributed computing and blockchain for Royal Philips. He was the initiator and head of the Philips Blockchain Lab researching and building Proofs of Concept for the use of blockchain technology in Healthcare. 

Guy is a renowned advisor on innovation strategy for large, established corporations, while offering back what he learns through the mentoring and advising of start-ups. Prior to that, he worked for 23 years at the Coca-Cola Company, where he was, among other things a Senior Vice President and Chief Technical and Innovation Officer. His training and early career as architect was key to bringing a holistic thinking approach into every role he ever had.

Xavier van Leeuwe has over ten years of experience as a marketing executive at news groups NRC, Telegraaf Media Groep, and de Persgroep. At the Amsterdam-based news organisation NRC, Xavier lead the transformation of his team by building a customer-centric and data-rich culture at a news organisation with 189 years of heritage. Prior to being a media executive, he worked for several years as a financial and political journalist in the Netherlands. Xavier started his career as a researcher for the United Nations in Geneva. He has been a speaker at several conferences in Europe, the United States and South America. Xavier is an active marketing tech blogger for INMA.org and publishes a weekly free newsletter you can subscribe to at Changemediaforgood.com. Xavier holds a cum laude master’s in Business Administration and a degree in journalism from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Public speaking expert & renowned actress Ianka Fleerackers trains and coaches people in bringing their message, vision or story to the public in a passionate, charismatic and authentic manner that delivers real impact. 

Ianka regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.

Public speaking expert & renowned actress Ianka Fleerackers trains and coaches people in bringing their message, vision or story to the public in a passionate, charismatic and authentic manner that delivers real impact. 

Ianka regularly speaks at the nexxworks innovation bootcamps.