John Elder chairs America’s most experienced Data Science consultancy. Founded in 1995, Elder Research has offices in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Washington DC, and London. Dr. Elder co-authored 3 award-winning books on analytics, was a discoverer of ensemble methods, chairs international conferences, and is a popular keynote speaker. John is occasionally an Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia.

Martine George holds a PhD in Physics from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and a Master of Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School, UK.

Martine has had more than 20 years work experience in different companies and industries. Her domain of expertise has been always around marketing analytics & research, strategic data-driven business, data mining, knowledge management, business intelligence and campaign management. She has occupied different functions as analyst, data scientist, middle manager and today as director in Banking, Energy, Telco’s, Logistics, Financial Services industries. She is a practitioner, an advocate and a team maker in Business Analytics. Martine is currently Director, Head of Marketing Analytics & Research at Corporate & Public Bank at BNP Paribas Fortis, Belgium.

Martine is also an ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and a dialogue facilitator. She has currently a particular interest in talent management and organizational development in Business Analytics.

Martine has kept a strong collaboration with the academics through several interventions as invited lecturer, thesis supervisor and as fellows. She is an invited speaker in Business Analytics conferences in Belgium and abroad.

Wil van der Aalst is an Alexander-von-Humboldt professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group, and also the Chief Scientist at Celonis. He is better known as the "Godfather of Process Mining" and one of the most cited computer scientists in the world (top-10 worldwide, according to research.com). Van der Aalst has published over 275 journal papers, 20 books, 630 refereed conference/workshop publications, and 85 book chapters. Van der Aalst is an IFIP Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, and is considered to be one of the leading experts in process mining, business process management, and workflow automation.

Véronique Van Vlasselaer graduated magna cum laude as Master Information Systems Engineer at the faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven (Belgium). For her master thesis topic “Mining Data on Twitter”, she received the best thesis award from the faculty’s student branch.

In 2012, Véronique started as a Ph.D researcher with prof. Bart Baesens at the Faculty of Business of Economics at KU Leuven, department of Decision Sciences and Information Management. Her main research topics include social network analytics, fraud detection and net lift modeling.

Lukas combines industry experience in online experimentation and Data Science with an academic background in computing science and machine learning. Highly motivated, quick-witted, eager to learn, coach and teach, and able to think outside of any given box, Lukas has excellent analytical skills, communicative abilities and technical dexterity. He can unravel the problem, explain the answer and build the solution.Currently employed by Booking.com, the world's leading accommodation website, Lukas is responsible for the internal tooling and training that helps product development improve the customer experience in measurable steps through thousands of experiments.

Dr Geert Verstraeten is Programme Chair of Predictive Analytics World London 2012 and Managing Partner at Python Predictions, a Belgian niche player with expertise in the domain of Predictive Analytics. He has 10 years of ‘hands-on experience’ in different industries such as retail, mail-order, telecom, banking, utilities, fundraising and subscription services. More specifically, his interests lie in delivering highly performing yet interpretable predictions of future events in marketing, risk and operations.
In 2005, Geert obtained a PhD in Applied Economics at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published different scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals, and has presented on a large number of business and academic conferences. Python Predictions was founded in April 2006, and currently active in retail & distribution, telecom, financial services, utilities, fundraising and postal services.

Phil Winters is known internationally as The Father of Customer Intelligence. An independent business advisor, author,  keynote lecturer and workshop leader with 35+ years' experience working with some 300 companies, he focuses on Customer Intelligence and championing the customer perspective to help organizations raise customer value through outstanding customer experience.