Geert holds a Master in Engineering and started his career in 1994 with Belgacom Mobile, a former joint venture of Belgacom and Airtouch (later Vodafone), which launched Proximus as the first Mobile network in Belgium.

He developed his career through various managerial roles in the areas of operations, network engineering, IT, and product development.

After the integration of Belgacom's fixed and mobile activities in 2006, he focused primarily on the development of platforms and solutions for convergent services, and innovative developments of the TV platform.

Before joining Proximus as CIO, he spend 3 years with BICS, a successful Proximus subsidiary which plays a leading role in providing international services to operators. As a member of the Management Committee and CTO/CIO, he developed a future-proof IT and network environment.

Christian Palomino, Meliá Hotel’s Global IT Vice President, joined the company 23 years ago and has been leading the IT and data strategy and operations since 2013.  His mission is to drive digital transformation – empowering Meliá Hotels to use data and technology to provide amazing experiences to their guests, add value to their stakeholders, enhance their brands values and products, and to execute processes efficiently. By embedding IT teams in the business, he ensures agility benefits go beyond software development and the IT function is able to change alongside the business and environment. Christian is certified CGEIT, CISM, and non practicioner CISA by ISACA and serves in Hospitality Technology Next Generation.

Carlo Bozzoli has been appointed Chief Information Officer of Enel in July 2014. 

Since January 2020 he’s also CEO of Enel Global Services.

He started his professional career in Enel in 1984, at Turbigo’s power plant in Italy, and in the central direction until 1999, where he mostly dealt with business process reengineering.

From 2000 to 2009 he covered many different roles in the ICT direction, where he led the first introduction of SAP in Enel, the smart meter project, the IT Planning and the Strategy, Performance & Quality Management division. Lastly, he has been the responsible for the ICT functions of Demand and Delivery for Infrastructure and Networks, Power Generation & Energy Management, Corporate Staff and Service Function.

Before taking the current position, he has been responsible of the commercial function of the Infrastructure & Networks Italy division for the metering activities, energy balance, traders’ relationships, customers’ and producers’ connections, invoicing, credit, commercial quality and customer care.

He is in the advisory board of the most relevant ICT international vendors, EuroCIO, CIONET, CIO AICA Forum and of the Management Academy of ICT Executives of Polytechnic of Milan.

He was born in Modena in 1962, graduated in Economical Science, he’s married and he has a son.

More than two decades devoted to technology and looking at ways for improving business.

I moved along the whole software production cycle from analysis, coding, testing and supporting. With time and maturity, I started to lead teams and manage projects with a mindset of always add value to whom I was delivering a piece of technology.

Today I am fortunate to be driving a highly skilled, large and multifunctional team in a highly competitive environment, using technology as a main value driver.

If asked, I would say that what still drives me today is the enthusiasm of a nine year old and knowing that 30 years from now when I'll look back I can say that I went to the maximum of my capabilities.

Hans is a passionate and driven Digital Leader with broad international experience (25 years) continuously looking for opportunities to raise the bar. Being part of Global IT Leadership teams he has been responsible for developing and driving strategic global IT plans and professionalizing IT functions. Hans has a passion for driving digital initiatives by motivating and inspiring people around him. Next to his current role as CIO of VTTI (one of the world’s fastest growing global tank storage providers) he is a visiting lecturer at the Business School Netherlands, teaching Information Management and supporting graduates in their dissertations with topics like agile, e-health, high performing IT organizations and data management. Hans has an MSC and MBA degree and has several certificates from institutes like INSEAD and IMD.

Tomasz Blicharski has served as Executive Vice President of the Management Board and Managing Director of Żabka Future since January 2021.

Żabka Future is an important pillar of the Żabka Group, responsible for its innovation and development. Tomasz Blicharski brings together a team of people responsible for researching, creating and developing new business areas and technological solution meeting the challenges the industry faces.

Before taking up his current position, he simultaneously held two posts: Vice President of the Management Board of Żabka Polska for Development (since 2017) and Vice President of the Management Board of Żabka Polska for Finance (since 2015). He has been involved with Żabka Polska since 2011, as a member of the Board of Directors.

He has extensive experience in investment banking and finance gained in Poland and abroad. He was associated with international banks ABN Amro and BNP Paribas, as well as Procter & Gamble. Since 2007, he held the position of director at Mid Europa Partners fund, where he was responsible for investments in Central and Eastern Europe (including Norican Group, Polskie Koleje Górskie and Żabka Polska).

In 2018 and 2020, he was awarded in the Digital Shapers’ annual survey of outstanding digital and new technology personalities in the “digital transformation” category.

He is an alumnus of Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Warsaw School of Economics.

Åshild Hanne Larsen, Vice President Subsurface Excellence & Digital, is an award-winning technology executive with broad experience as CIO and from leadership roles primarily within IT, HR and most recently Subsurface, where she currently holds global responsibility for the subsurface improvement portfolio, digital projects, data and information, technology implementation, work processes, subsurface IT toolbox, quality assurance and subsurface technical ladder across Equinor. During her career she has led major corporate projects, large-scale organisational change efforts and company-wide IT/digital transformation programs and initiatives, giving her extensive experience from leading and navigating in a global corporate context. Her strong professional experience coupled with an ability to engage, have made her widely recognized as a thought leader and public speaker within the IT/ technology area – often focusing on the intersection point between technology, people and data. She is also well-known as a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech. Ms. Larsen holds a specialist MBA from Heriot Watt University in the UK, as well as a Master of Arts degree from Universität Bielefeld in Germany. She serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees at the International School of Stavanger. She is a 2021 Global CIO 100,  winner of the 2020 Executive GRIT awards, CIO of the Year Europe 2019,  Leader of the Year 2019, and one of Norway’s 50 leading Women in Technology 2019

Robbert van Rutten became the Shell Downstream CIO & Senior Vice President on April 1st 2020. In his previous role, Robbert was the CIO for Global Functions & Information Risk Management and in that capacity Chief Information Security Officer for Shell. He has been a member of the Shell IT Executive leadership team since 2016. 

He has nearly 30 years experience with Shell in both Upstream and Downstream worked in many of the different functions including Finance, Commercial, Technology and IT.

In his current role, Robbert leads the Downstream Information and Digital Technology organisation, ensuring maximum business value delivery through the execution of a broad digital agenda for Shell Downstream.

Robbert has a background in Business Economics and holds an MBA from Tilburg University. 

Robbert is based in London. He and his wife Sandra are the proud parents of Tess and Mick. Some of his interests are travelling, skiing, spending time with friends and family, and you can find him at the local football club at Saturday’s coaching his son.

I am currently the Head of Infrastructure and Service Management for the John Lewis Partnership. Having joined the Partnership 7 years ago to lead a digital transformation -
moving from a project to product model with DevSecOps releasing change on demand, I
went on to lead all IT Operations for Waitrose until 2019 when I took on my current, pan
Partnership role which has enabled me to lead a further transformation of our operating
model and underpinning technology. This has involved consolidating to a single strategic
infrastructure vendor and establishing a shared Partnership Cloud Platform capability.
The Partnership, as a co-owned business, is a special place to work where our purpose;
Working in Partnership for a happier world, is at the forefront of our decision making. As
someone who specialises in building high performing and motivated teams, aligning behind this purpose where everyone has the ability to share in the success is incredibly rewarding. Prior to the Partnership, I worked for 15 years at Marks and Spencer in a variety of roles
covering Service Management and delivery.
I am 45 years old and live in Crowthorne in Berkshire with my wife Claire and our 3 children Freya, James and Billy. Outside of work I coach my sons Under 9s football team at Finchampstead FC and enjoy taking family walks with my black labrador Sully.