Willem van Gemert is the deputy Head of Unit of the Data and Formats Standardisation unit in the Publications Office of the EU. He is actively involved in the development of a policy for reference data management in the European Commission including the corresponding governance, best practices and reference data assets. Passionate about reference data in general, he contributed to the Publications Office becoming an important actor for reference data management in the EU context and was at the basis of the creation of the EU Vocabularies website. Other passions are open data (he has chaired the revision of the DCAT-AP application profile) and interoperability. Favourite citation "Interoperability leads to interdependence". He is very excited about the prospects of semantic automatic tagging which will be a game changer in the reference data domain.

Saskia Van Uffelen has been working in the sector of information and communication technology (ICT) for over 25 years. She has held national and international sales and marketing functions in leading companies such as Xerox, Compaq, HP, Arinso, Bull, Ericsson and the French ICT group Inetum.

Since 2012, the federal government appointed Saskia Van Uffelen as 'Digital Skills Leader' for Belgium representing the European Commission. Saskia leads the National Coalition for Digital Skills & Jobs for Belgium. In this role she focus to skill/re-skill all talents to maximize the activation of everybody in the changing employment market going forward (DigiSkills Belgium).

For Agoria (Federation representing the technology companies in Belgium) she leads Digital team managing all the members of the technology, Digital and Telecom sector.

Besides she is also actively promoting BeTheChange program leading to a talent transition in a sustainable world.

Professionally active in government digital transformations. PhD Candidate in business platform models and self-directed services. Following the rise of commercial business platform models (BPMo), governments are also starting to deploy them for certain citizen services, such as employment, education, social services, (health) care, etc. Governments mostly operate in a model where citizens must request each service and wait for approval before enjoying benefits like money or assistance. With the platform model emerging and governments looking to adopt it, this established way of working is challenged. Today's digital citizens demand personalized and proactive services with immediate ratification from governments, much like commercial platforms already provide today. In other words, citizens' expectations are changing. My research involves designing a governance framework to become a platform organization. This means implementing new technologies while simultaneously introducing a different way of serving digital citizens, using industry partners to deliver the actual services.