At an unparalleled gala in Brussels with 520 guests, Bjorn van de Velde (VRT) and Raul Alvarez Barrera were voted CDO of the Year 2025.
Bjorn Van de Velde, head of digital products, was honored for integrating all public broadcasting channels into a single platform, thereby accelerating the transformation of VRT. Raul Alvarez Barrera, global vice president of digital, was praised for surpassing major tech platforms such as booking.com through extensive personalization.
There was also a particularly inspiring speech by Karin Van Hoecke, general manager of digital transformation at KBC, on the future of virtual agents as a means of interaction between users and banks.
And the presentation by Pascal Coppens of Nexxworks was a real eye-opener on how China has a completely different strategic approach and wants to become the number one in the field of digital and artificial intelligence.
