Danone
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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Sarah Janssens
Retail Media & Marketing Expert
Sarah Janssens
Retail Media & Marketing Expert
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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.
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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.
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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
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
In conversation with experts: from inspiration to booking
How programmatic drives the travel journey
In the travel industry, the customer journey is anything but linear. From the first spark of inspiration to the final booking, travellers interact with multiple touch points, platforms and messages, often over an extended period of time.
In this context, programmatic advertising plays a key role in helping brands reach the right audience, at the right moment, with the right message. But how can it truly support such a complex and fragmented journey?
Bringing together leading travel players such as TUI and Brussels Airlines, this panel will explore how brands are leveraging data, automation and programmatic strategies to engage travellers, drive performance and create more relevant experiences, without overwhelming users.
A discussion focused on real challenges, practical insights and what it really takes to turn inspiration into conversion in today’s digital landscape.