THIRD EDITION
Vision 2030
Explore the Future of Work with BDO and TomorrowLab
Sharpen your vision with insights into companies’ innovation roadmap and projects. Tune in with the hands-on sessions.
Inspiration
Dive deep into AI supported innovation with our interactive sessions, highlighting promising projects and roadmaps from firms served by BDO and Tomorrowlab. Experience the future of technology today, including a focus on an emerging technological phenomenons, like AI and Quantum Computing, and see how it’s set to revolutionise the business landscape.
Discover
Choose the Client Stories that align most closely with your interests, and tailor your experience with hands-on How-To sessions that match your professional scope.
Interact
At our annual Vision 2030 event, we bring together senior business leaders and transformation directors to sharpen your strategic outlook and foster a rich exchange of insights and practical knowledge.
The program permits you to select your preferences
12:30 | Welcome
13:00 | Program briefing
13:30 | Stories
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13:30 – 14:10: choose between:
In 2010 Securitas and BDO Digital embarked on a joint data and application integration project with a roadmap to simplify and optimise the data flow within their organisation. In 2019, Robotic Process Automation was introduced as an accelerator from the perspective of the Security Operation Center to address supplier and customer services. Integration with the security services of external partners was a new opportunity that has now been fully embraced.
All this is done by daisy-chaining previously separate actions into streamlined man/machine activities supported by robot software technologies that embed the newest technologies like generative AI.
Learn how to think big, start small, and scale up while capitalizing on the possibilities created by a forward-looking mindset, adopting agile/versatile technologies, and working with internal and external partners.
A dual company presentation with Anne Caremans (Client Care Management) from Securitas and Jan Vermeersch, Partner BDO Digital and Steven Laeremans, Senior Manager BDO Digital.
In 2016, Q8 invited TomorrowLab to help them explore the company’s future. “Although Q8 also had a number of non-fuel activities, it was still a traditional oil company,” says Ehsan Karimi Rad, Strategy and Innovation Consultant at TomorrowLab. “Q8 wanted to know how it could better compete with existing and emerging energy providers and whether its strategy was robust enough to meet the challenges of the future.”
In 2023, as part of its ongoing transformation program, Q8 International focused on enhancing its core competences in innovation, digitalisation, and agility. Their primary goal was to develop new capabilities in these crucial areas, foster a common language and promote collaboration across departments and units. In partnership with TomorrowLab, the Q8 Innovation and Digitalisation Training was born.
Dual presentation by Peggy Lachman, Career Development Coordinator at Q8 and Ehsan Karimi Rad, Strategy and Innovation Consultant at TomorrowLab.
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14:20 – 15:00: choose between:
With the merger of the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge, the unified port has become the largest export hub in Europe and is leading the transition to a sustainable future.
By creating four challenging societal scenarios, TomorrowLab and the Port of Antwerp Bruges, with research support from BDO, conducted a stress test of its current strategy. The objective was twofold: build expertise in foresight to futureproof the long-term strategy against potential challenges and grasp future opportunities.
Stress testing is a way to challenge our fitness for the future, breaking through internal and external barriers. This allows organisations to confidently take on opportunities to create sustainable growth. Advanced AI tools, such as generative AI software, create visuals and videos that bring these stories to life.
Dual presentation by Hanna Van Kraaij, funding desk manager at Port of Antwerp Bruges and Isabel Vermeulen, Strategy and Innovation Consultant at TomorrowLab.
Today, considerable time is spent searching for and retrieving building materials information for proposals, customer inquiries, building management, and maintenance operations. Data must be gathered and converted into the destination format manually or semi-automatically.
But what if you could talk to your building documentation using AI? Matching companies’ (private) building and construction material data with manual and automated chat functionalities is a relatively new practice but one that shows great promise.
Project BOMMA (Building Operation Material Manuals Automation) from Schüco, Xella, and BDO explores the possibilities and value this approach can generate. The rise of generative artificial intelligence solutions is relentless, and this is an example of putting genAI to the best possible use.
You’ll see the chain of thought, the steps taken from idea to prototype, and the actual Minimal Viable Solution that acts as a foundation, all the while keeping data safety front and center.
A three-hander presentation by Joep Römgens, Head of Service, Marketing, and Product Management at Schüco, Peter Lesage, Group IT Manager at Xella, and Walter Vanherle of BDO Digital.
15:00 | Reflection break
15:30 | Practical sessions: (you’ll attend only two sessions)
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15:30 – 16:10: Practical session 1
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16:20 – 17:00: Practical session 2
In the future we’ll work more intensively with international flash teams. The competition for talent, the global increase in freelancers, and the continuous advances in digital technologies (such as AI, VR, AR) allow us to recruit the right profiles internationally and collaborate via technology synchronously or asynchronously.
During this VR demo, you’ll experience how this process works. Three teams will join forces on a project in the metaverse, where they’ll interact virtually. Using AI, the right competences are matched to specific tasks, and virtual teams can be formed.
Key aspects covered in this demo include:
- Health (mental and physical)
- Agility and innovation
- Lifelong learning
- Proliferation of freelancers and collaboration in flash teams
- Digital connectivity through AR and VR
- Metaverse and AI technology
- Synchronous and asynchronous working
What AI tools can you use in the design process? In this hands-on workshop, we’ll introduce some great tools, and you’ll experience for yourself how they can benefit your innovation process.
They can define personas and bring them to life, reveal hidden assumptions, challenge your problem statement, refine your value proposition and challenge your business models. And we’re excited to introduce our brainstorm buddy! See for yourself how they can add value during this interactive session.
During this session you’ll discover your strengths and growth opportunities by conducting a zero rating of the innovation capabilities of your organisation using the Innovation Maturity Scan.
For innovation to pay off, your organisation must do more than just define its innovation projects. Innovation needs to be anchored in the DNA of your company. This means you have to determine various factors.
How will you use innovation to achieve your strategic objectives? Which challenges do you need to tackle as a priority? Which projects will you or won’t you start? Which methods and processes will you follow? And what are your sustainability and digital maturity levels?
Gain insights into your organisation and share your insights and experiences with your peers.
How will AI impact your business model, and how can you use artificial intelligence to improve it? During this session you’ll learn more about Business Model Innovation, focusing on the opportunities and challenges of AI.
Attendees will gain insights into how AI can transform traditional business models, presenting both new opportunities and challenges. The discussion will cover practical examples and case studies, illustrating the innovative ways AI can be deployed.
In the future, digital assistants will be able to execute tasks even faster and more reliably, day and night and with a more human touch. Training these digital assistants to do this will become more straightforward, comprehensive, and versatile.
You’ll gain an understanding of the approach and learn from example business cases what type of assistants are possible and how they are brought to life (i.e. put into operation).
The business cases include:
- Asset management. Turning equipment inspection and certification documents into digital information to insert into asset management systems. All while using generative AI prompts with intelligent text object detection.
- Customer experience management. Extract online feedback information from Google Maps and turn it into actionable management KPIs. Use generative AI-enabled prompts with sentiment analyses, translation services, and reasoning.
Learn about the possibilities of the next wave of Generative AI: agents. The takeaway(s) will inspire you to take on your own business cases, using the tooling matched with different approaches.
Every business is different when it comes to materials, services, facilities, transport, interaction with clients and suppliers, etc. However, the need to address our carbon footprint in a strategic and compliant way is universal.
In an interactive, guided manner you’ll explore how you can use the Carbon Accounting Guiding Assistant (generative AI technology) to help determine the items in scope one, two, and three emissions, followed by the setting of ambitions and potential action plans.
You’ll learn about the ideation capabilities and information extraction possibilities of generative AI in the sustainability management space, tailored to your situation and company.
Turning data into instant, one-off information for insight and even foresight is already on the features list of multiple tools. The manipulation of the structured source data into business visualisations is often practical. Giving verbal instructions is not standard but sometimes possible.
But what about unstructured data? How do you question a document, an image, an Excel file, or a CSV? We’ll demonstrate how you can talk to data with multiple practical and experimental use cases. We’ll also provide learnings related to data safeguarding.
Part 1: Clarify and demonstrate modernised reporting and management of materialised operational risks. Explain how free–format reporting via email or other channels is handled with the application of Generative AI techniques.
Part 2: Manage risks today with the expected evolution of Quantum Computing. (*)
Quantum computers are highly likely to be able to break encryption schemes using Shor’s algorithm or another. Shor’s algorithm can efficiently factor large integers and solve discrete logarithm problems. This means that data theft with the ambition for future quantum computer decryption is actual. Decrypting encrypted data transmitted over networks is possible in the (near) future. Countermeasures are to be envisioned.
(*) The panel discussion will focus on what makes quantum computing an important technology with its possibilities and threats.
17:00 | Panel discussion: The Future of Computing with Quantum Processing
- Ariane Chapelle, BDO Partner Risk Advisory Services, Author and coach of several banks and insurance companies
- Frank Callewaert, Microsoft Chief Technology Officer – Belgium, Luxembourg & European Union Institutions
- Eric Michiels, IBM Quantum Technical Ambassador
- Isabel Van Mele, CIO KBC group
- Jan Sonck, President Quantum Circle, Proximus
17:40 | Networking reception
About last year…
Last year’s event was a great success!
The goal of this year’s Vision 2030? To inspire you to think about the future of your organisation.
Reserve your seat for Vision 2030
Registrations for this event are no longer accepted. However, if you want to be on the waiting list, contact karolien.dumont@bdo.be.
This event is reserved for clients and partners of BDO, TomorrowLab, and Living Tomorrow. Due to limited capacity, there may be a limit to the number of tickets available to a single organisation. BDO reserves the right to refuse admission.