On 23 January, the ‘Pioneers in digital leadership’ conference was held in Brussels, an event organized by INNOCOM in collaboration with Febelfin, Agoria and the Singularity University. During this one-day meeting, several internationally renowned top speakers of the Singularity University focused on how leadership will influence exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics and digital biology.
For 16 years already, the Trends editorial department has selected 200 Trends Gazelles. Trends Gazelles are fast-growing companies that are an integral part of our economic landscape. All of them competitors who positively influence the business climate in their region. They are sources of innovation and employment. An inspiring role model for other companies!
Wouter D’Hondt, one of the youngest Enterprise Architects at INNOCOM, is today steering the football club RSC Anderlecht towards better fan engagement via an INNOCOM project. Wouter, who graduated in 2014, is a great advocate of the unique learning opportunities that HEAT offers. Wouter is one of our youngest architects, yet he is fully in charge of this major project.
INNOCOM’s CEO Johan Van Looy was interviewed by De Tijd together with Marco Croon, CEO of Vinçotte. INNOCOM had been contacted by Vinçotte, Belgian specialist and advisor in inspection, certification and education. One of the challenges of Vinçotte was that there were a lot of software packages for specific departments. This caused them to be held back by their IT and its customized ERP when they wanted to improve the company’s efficiency.
INNOCOM’s CEO Johan Van Looy has a passion for music and loves playing the guitar. Impressed by what he saw at live shows as a teenager, he took up the challenge of teaching himself to play. This led to him playing a couple of shows himself, an experience that has helped him in life and throughout his career: “Being on stage taught me how to share something with a group of people – not easy as I'm a bit of an introvert,” says Johan.
CEO Johan Van Looy has written an opinion piece about digital transformation and reveals the differences between large and small companies. Contrary to public opinion, Johan thinks that coaching and training are not enough to succeed and true digital transformation requires a two-track approach.
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This year the IC Institute launches the Hands-on Enterprise Architecture Training for budding Enterprise Architects. Also known as HEAT, the Hands-on Enterprise Architecture Training merges theoretical knowledge with practical experience by building upon the IC Institute’s well-established Master of Science in EA (MEA) as a foundation, and complimenting it with a variety of professional work-placements where various professional and soft-skills will all be finely tuned.
Our CEO Johan Van Looy had a nice chat with Bruno Leijnse, journalist of Trends. The result was a piece about Johan's past, present and ambitions, published on October 12th 2017. Come and get to know our CEO a little better.