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Lea-Ann Smith
Media Lead Netherlands
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Lea-Ann Smith
Media Lead Netherlands
Lea-Ann is a Senior Media Lead with a strong marketing background across global FMCG brands. Her work focuses on aligning brand strategy with data‑driven paid media execution, using measurement and optimization to drive tangible business results. Brining a programmatic mindset to marketing, championing informed experimentation with new formats — such as the Prime Video launch in the Netherlands — to test, learn, and scale beyond traditional media in response to evolving consumer behaviour.
Bringing the success of Prime Video ads to our Belgium advertisers.
As Prime Video ads prepares to launch in Belgium, this session explores how advertisers benefit from its proven success. Together, Danone and Amazon Ads will present a case study conducted in the Netherlands, where Danone leveraged Prime Video inventory through programmatic pipes to drive impactful results. By sharing key learnings and outcomes, we aim to demonstrate how Belgian advertisers can unlock similar opportunities and maximize performance from day one.
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Gauthier Mine
Sales Director Benelux
With several years of experience in digital and advertising agencies in Brussels, Gauthier Mine has developed solid expertise in programmatic advertising and the Belgian market. Before joining Displayce, he built his career at Dentsu Aegis and the media agency Biggie (formerly Gamned), where he gained strong experience in programmatic DOOH and a thorough understanding of market dynamics. As Head of Sales Benelux at Displayce, Gauthier plays a key role in the company’s expansion, helping to grow its presence across Europe. He works closely with agencies, media owners, and technology / adtech partners to integrate programmatic DOOH into campaign strategies, making Displayce a leading reference in the region.
Context build creativity: rethinking programmatic DOOH
DOOH is one of the few media channels that lives in the real world: where brands can connect their message with the place, the moment and what is happening around people.
Because of this unique context, it opens up far more creative possibilities to build a true experience rather than simple visibility. Yet many campaigns still rely on static creatives replicated across screens.
This session will explore how advertisers can rethink their approach to DOOH by using context and dynamic creative strategies to design more engaging campaigns. Through industry insights and case studies, we will show how creativity can transform DOOH into a powerful storytelling medium within modern omnichannel strategies.
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Jo Delannoy
Managing Partner
Jo Delannoy is Managing Partner and Client Services Director at Programmads, which he joined in 2020. He oversees client services and plays an active role in the agency’s growth and development. Prior to joining Programmads, Jo held senior roles at Google, where he led the commercial development of Google Marketing Platform in the Belux region and was part of the management board of Google Belgium. He brings extensive experience in programmatic advertising, ad tech, and digital media.
Sarah Janssens
Retail Media & Marketing Expert
Sarah Janssens
Retail Media & Marketing Expert
Sarah is a communication and shopper marketing expert known for her strategic, results-driven approach and a passion for solving complex business challenges and creating value. With a steadfast commitment to authenticity and excellence, she empowers businesses to thrive within an ever-evolving marketplace.
Over the past 15 years, Sarah has held key roles within retail media for Carrefour Belgium and Unlimitail, building a deep well of expertise in the field. In this capacity, she laid the foundation for innovative strategies that effectively bridged the gap between brands and shoppers.
Since 2011, she has been helping brands craft impactful campaigns by leveraging shopper insights and retail media to build stronger connections and drive measurable value.
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Laura Jaeck
Client Lead
Laura is a Client Lead at Amazon, specializing in media strategy and programmatic advertising. Previously at Google, she gained deep experience in digital advertising and now works with agencies and advertisers globally, with a particular focus on the BLX region, to design and execute data-driven strategies that drive measurable business impact. She was part of the Prime Video ads launch team in the Netherlands and is excited to bring it to the Belgian market.
Bringing the success of Prime Video ads to our Belgium advertisers.
As Prime Video ads prepares to launch in Belgium, this session explores how advertisers benefit from its proven success. Together, Danone and Amazon Ads will present a case study conducted in the Netherlands, where Danone leveraged Prime Video inventory through programmatic pipes to drive impactful results. By sharing key learnings and outcomes, we aim to demonstrate how Belgian advertisers can unlock similar opportunities and maximize performance from day one.
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Yves Van Der Haegen
Media & Marketing Specialist
Yves Van Der Haegen
Media & Marketing Specialist
Yves Van der Haegen is a media and marketing strategist with 15+ years of experience across major agency networks and advertisers. Having started his career in offline buying (TV and radio), before moving into programmatic. He has worked across brands such as Belfius, Proximus, Stellantis, Mondelez, MediaMarkt, Continental Foods and AS Watson. Independent consultant since 2019, he now advises international and local clients on media strategy and digital execution.
The Future of Programmatic: Data & Performance in a Changing Landscape
As the digital advertising ecosystem evolves, advertisers are facing increasing complexity. Data fragmentation, privacy regulations and the shift towards a cookieless environment are reshaping how brands approach targeting, measurement and performance.
In this context, programmatic advertising is no longer just an activation channel, but a strategic lever to leverage first-party data, build identity frameworks and drive performance across the customer journey.
Bringing together leading brands such as Proximus and TUI, this panel will explore how advertisers are adapting their strategies to this new reality, from leveraging first-party data and CRM to activating audiences across channels in a privacy-first environment.
The discussion will focus on how brands maintain performance despite increasing constraints, how they connect data to activation, and what practical approaches are emerging to navigate this new ecosystem.
A conversation grounded in real challenges, use cases and learnings on how to turn data into measurable business outcomes.
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Adrien Van Damme
Sales Director
With several years of experience in digital and advertising agencies in Brussels, Adrien Van Damme joined Vistar Media after building his career through several companies (GumGum, Ogilvy.Social Lab, Immoweb).
In charge of the Belgian market expansion, he works closely with agencies, media owners and partners to integrate programmatic DOOH into campaign strategies.
He makes sure to provide high-touch service and continuous guidance. And he makes it a priority to educate and support clients daily, knowing that this human investment is the true driver behind the long-term success of their media strategies.
Capturing Attention in Programmatic DOOH
In today’s hyper-connected landscape, generating impressions is easy, but earning true attention is the ultimate challenge. Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) is one of the few media channels that lives in the real world: a physical canvas where brands can align their message with the exact place, the precise moment, and the real-time environment of their audience.
DOOH offers limitless creative possibilities. It allows brands to build visually striking, attention-grabbing experiences rather than settling for simple visibility.
This session will explore how advertisers must rethink their approach by putting creativity back at the forefront of pDOOH. Let’s discover how 3D or DCO creatives and how the audiences or the context can make the difference for your campaign.
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Gaelle Toussaint
Media & Innovation Manager
Gaelle Toussaint works at Samsung in the marketing and advertising division. She is passionate about how technology and innovation can help brands build more meaningful connections with their audiences. Through her work, Gaelle explores the evolving media landscape and the ways data, creativity, and media strategies come together to shape modern marketing.
In an increasingly fragmented media landscape, capturing attention has become more challenging than ever. While digital channels continue to evolve, Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) offers a unique opportunity to engage audiences in real-world environments at scale.
For brands like Samsung and Brussels Airlines, the challenge is not only to be visible, but to be relevant, reaching the right audience at the right moment, in the right context.
Programmatic DOOH is unlocking new possibilities by combining the impact of large-format screens with the precision of data-driven targeting. But how can brands effectively integrate DOOH into a broader programmatic strategy? And how can it contribute to both brand impact and measurable performance?
Bringing together Samsung and Brussels Airlines, this panel will explore how leading advertisers leverage data, contextual signals and automation to:
A conversation focused on real use cases, practical insights and how programmatic DOOH is redefining the role of outdoor advertising in today’s media mix.
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Cobe Babylon
Digital Marketing Manager
Cobe Babylon is Digital Marketing Manager at Brussels Airlines, responsible for all digital campaigns in the Belgian home market and digital revenue performance across global markets. He also the representative of Brussels Airlines on digital within the Lufthansa Group. With a background in scaling a startup, he brings a performance-driven mindset to brand-led programmatic advertising.
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Alexandre Devleeschouwer
Digital Media Strategist
Alexandre Devleeschouwer
Digital Media Strategist
Alexandre Devleeschouwer is a digital media strategist at DPG Media Advertising Belgium. He works with brands and agencies to help them grow through smart, data-driven programmatic advertising. Deeply embedded in Belgium’s local media ecosystem, Alexandre focuses on bringing together premium media, first-party data and technology to deliver effective advertising solutions.
Today, he will explain how it supports the local media ecosystem while giving advertisers more control, transparency and better results in a changing programmatic market.
Building a trusted local digital ecosystem
The Trusted Web is DPG Media’s answer to challenges such as lack of transparency and loss of signal in the digital advertising ecosystem. It offers a safe, local alternative to the opaque global supply chain, combining premium content with powerful first‑party data.
Through DPG Admanager, we put a safe ecosystem at your fingertips. Our self-service platform now includes AI‑powered tools that make campaign optimization smarter, optimizing targeting easier and help you drive superior results more easily.
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Roosmarijn Quartier
Marketing Director
Roosmarijn Quartier recently left TUI Belgium & the Netherlands as Director Marketing & Distribution Support. The past couple of years she has been working a lot on digital transformation, omnichannel strategies with focus on customer journeys, and organisational optimisation. She values a data driven approach, innovation and strong collaborations as drivers for competitive advantage.
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Benjamin Sekkai
CMO Benelux
In conversation with experts: navigating the automotive customer journey
The automotive customer journey is one of the most complex in today’s digital landscape. From early research and comparison to dealership visits and final purchase, consumers engage with multiple channels over an extended period of time.
In this context, programmatic advertising plays a key role in helping brands identify in-market audiences, nurture intent and drive qualified leads, while connecting online interactions with real-world outcomes.
Bringing together industry experts, this panel will explore how automotive players are leveraging data, automation and media strategies to better understand and influence the customer journey, measure impact beyond clicks, and adapt to a market that is rapidly evolving with new mobility models and technologies.
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Nicolas Elshout
Head of Digital
As Head of Performance Marketing & Attribution at TUI Germany, Nicolas Elshout drives digital efficiency through organizational change and technical innovation. He has a proven track record of establishing in-house agency models and leading multi-market RFP projects for global tech stacks. From creating modular video frameworks to managing high-scale performance budgets, Nicolas focuses on making complex digital ecosystems work for the business. He blends technical expertise with a pragmatic, results-oriented leadership style
The Future of Programmatic: Data & Performance in a Changing Landscape
As the digital advertising ecosystem evolves, advertisers are facing increasing complexity. Data fragmentation, privacy regulations and the shift towards a cookieless environment are reshaping how brands approach targeting, measurement and performance.
In this context, programmatic advertising is no longer just an activation channel, but a strategic lever to leverage first-party data, build identity frameworks and drive performance across the customer journey.
Bringing together leading brands such as Proximus and TUI, this panel will explore how advertisers are adapting their strategies to this new reality, from leveraging first-party data and CRM to activating audiences across channels in a privacy-first environment.
The discussion will focus on how brands maintain performance despite increasing constraints, how they connect data to activation, and what practical approaches are emerging to navigate this new ecosystem.
A conversation grounded in real challenges, use cases and learnings on how to turn data into measurable business outcomes.
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Edouard Mombaerts
Digital Account Manager
With over a decade of experience in the Belgian media market,Edouard Mombaerts has developed solid expertise in digital advertising and the OOH landscape. Before joining Bauer Media Outdoor, he built an extensive career across the industry, where he gained strong experience in strategic account management and a thorough understanding of market dynamics.
As DOOH Programmatic Lead at Bauer Media Outdoor, Edouard plays a key role in the company’s digital transformation, leading thecommercial development of DOOH and programmatic DOOH (pDOOH). He works closely with agencies and advertisers to integrate automated, data-driven solutions into their campaign strategies, making Bauer Media a leading reference for innovation in the region.
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David Lu
Senior Director, Inventory Development
As programmatic Digital Out-of-Home continues to develop across Europe, Belgium stands at a pivotal moment in its adoption. While the promise of flexibility, data and precision is well established, questions remain around market maturity, measurement, and long-term value.
Moderated by Bauer Media Outdoor, this panel brings together experts from Displayce, Vistar, and The Trade Desk to explore the current dynamics of pDOOH in Belgium. Through a candid discussion, they will examine adoption drivers, persistent challenges, and the strategies that enable brands to fully leverage this channel. The session will conclude with a forward-looking perspective on the next phase of growth for pDOOH in the Belgian market.
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Alain Mayné
Transition Strategist
Alain Mayné is a business transition and brand strategist, speaker, and board member. He works at the intersection of transitions in technology, media, and society — focusing on a simple but often overlooked question: what are our systems really producing?
In highly optimized environments, where performance, data, and efficiency dominate, Alain brings a different perspective. His work challenges organizations to step back and examine the invisible decisions embedded in the systems they rely on and the consequences these decisions have beyond their immediate KPIs. Rather than questioning technology itself, he explores how it is used, what it amplifies, and what it leaves aside. Because when systems optimize perfectly within their own logic, they can also drift away from meaning, alignment, and long-term value.
Alain also created the 50 Shades of Optimism series on LinkedIn, exploring how individuals and organizations can contribute to more constructive and forward-looking attitude, projects and narratives.
We’ve built one of the most powerful media machines in history.
Programmatic advertising is often described as automated media buying. In reality, it is a system making millions of decisions, deciding who sees what, where, and at what cost.
As these systems grow in power, they don’t just execute strategy. They increasingly shape it.
And what happens in programmatic reflects a broader pattern: systems that optimize perfectly within their own logic… but without always aligning with a bigger picture.
In a world undergoing multiple transitions – ecological, digital, social – this raises a fundamental question:
when everything is optimized, what are we optimizing for?
Often described as a “permacrisis”, this moment might instead be a “permamorphosis”: a deep transformation of our models.
The challenge is not to slow down technology but to reconnect it with intention.
Programmatic advertising is not just a tool. It is a signal of what we do right, what we do wrong, and how we can make better, more intentional decisions.