2023 audience
Take a sneak peek behind the scenes of our inaugural edition and discover key figures that defined the success of the event.
Managers
International Audience
Decision Makers
Remember the Speakers
Margriet Leemhuis
Ambassador of The NetherlandsMargriet Leemhuis has had an impressive carreer and has had various positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad. She was Cultural Attaché in Pretoria, Deputy Ambassador in Slovakia and the UK, and Ambassador to Mexico and Belize. She has many years of experience working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became Ambassador to Portugal as from August 2022.
Margriet Leemhuis
Ambassador of The NetherlandsAntoine Craske
CIO - Grupo LusiavesCIO at Grupo Lusiaves. Passionate about digital, architecture, transformation with more than 12 years of experience in the software industry from engineer, project director, engineering director, architecture director, Chief Architect, CTO. Convinced about the need for a systemic approach to software production enabling business and technology alignment for sustainable transformation and innovation.
Antoine Craske
CIO - Grupo LusiavesDavid Sopas
Co-Founder e COO - Char49David is an experienced security researcher with a wide range of expertise. As COO of Char49, he has played a key role in driving the company's success. He is also a sought-after speaker, having presented at numerous conferences sharing his knowledge around the world. His exceptional work includes being the creator of MindAPI - an open-source API security methodology, which has gained recognition within the industry.
David Sopas
Co-Founder e COO - Char49Eric Lansbergen
Service Delivery Manager at IlionxEric Lansbergen is living in Lutten since 5 years, and moved away from the busy western part. From 1999 up 'till 2018 developer/technical product owner of the Airport Service Bus at Schiphol Airport. He joined Ilionx 5 years ago and is responsible for Operations at PostNL. Since last summer again back at Schiphol for the operations part of the Airport Service bus.
Eric Lansbergen
Service Delivery Manager at IlionxFrank Steffens
Head of Product Management & Business Development in the Homeland Security DivisionFrank works at Secunet Security Networks AG, Germany's leading cybersecurity company.
He and his team have been developing products around the topics of biometrics, identity documents, border control, and PKI. Through his years of involvement in software development, he knows both the enthusiasm for new technologies and the challenges of using them.
Frank Steffens
Head of Product Management & Business Development in the Homeland Security DivisionHendrik Siegeln
CEO Integration MattersHendrik Siegeln is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Integration Matters, a Salesfive company. The IT consultancy focuses on enabling faster, more agile business processes through the adoption of cloud strategies, enterprise integration and automation. Partnerships with Salesforce, MuleSoft, TIBCO and the award-winning nJAMS observability solution provide the toolsets to implement the digital visions of leading brands and hidden champions.
Hendrik Siegeln
CEO Integration MattersHugo Pascoalinho
Head of Delivery - PolarisingAs Polarising’s Head of Delivery, he has 20 years of experience in IT, with great focus and knowledge on project delivery and software architecture.
He holds a degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from ISCTE and in his free time, he enjoys doing sports such as CrossFit and jogging, while also spending time with family & friends.
Hugo Pascoalinho
Head of Delivery - PolarisingJoão Vieira da Luz
COO - PolarisingJoão Luz is passionate about thinking about solutions to reduce costs and simplify IT activities. His mission is to help connect everyone through integration solutions. He is specialized in Team Management, Customer Engagement, Software Architecture, Design Patterns. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico and, when he has spare time, he is addicted in playing Padel.
João Vieira da Luz
COO - PolarisingJorge Oliveira
Senior Account Executive - MulesoftJorge has 30+ years of experience working in the Information and Communication Industry, Security and Cybersecurity delivering Consulting and Sales expertise in EMEA, North and South America in corporations like Siemens, NEC, Oracle and Salesforce/Mulesoft, as well as previously owned Cybersecurity startups.
Jorge Oliveira
Senior Account Executive - MulesoftLars Schöttker
Digital Solutions Director - TUILars is an API evangelist with over two decades of experience in software engineering within the tourism and hospitality sector. He successfully led several international integration projects from airliners, hospitality, or tour operators. Currently, together with his team, he is modernizing the world of hospitality with TUI Group by creating their own combined digital platform for hotel operations and guest experience.
Lars Schöttker
Digital Solutions Director - TUIManuel Novais Gonçalves
Country Lead - TIBCO SoftwareA seasoned professional with over three decades of experience in IT, Financial Services, Telecom, and Consulting. With expertise in sales, marketing, and general management, he has successfully established businesses in EMEA. Notable achievements include opening operations for Acxiom Corporation, Informatica, and relaunching TIBCO in Portugal. His passion lies in value generation, surpassing expectations, and creating win-win scenarios for all involved.
Manuel Novais Gonçalves
Country Lead - TIBCO SoftwareMarc Vierveijzer
Senior Consultant - IlionxMarc Vierveijzer is born, raised, and still living in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. For more than 15 years working in the integration area, seeing it changing from point-to-point to microservices (via SOA). He's working for Ilionx for over 5 years, doing 'the integration job' at the customer (maintenance/'making changes in adapters work'), but also involved in the 'integration compass' to help customers to look at their integration landscape in a different way in order to make it more DevOps ready.
Marc Vierveijzer
Senior Consultant - IlionxMarco A. Marquez
Solutions Engineering Manager - Kong Inc.Marco is a Solutions Engineering Manager at Kong. During his time at Kong, he's been a critical part of growing the company from less than 30 employees to the now 500+ employees. Prior to Kong, he worked at Box and New Relic - two unicorns that went through an IPO.
Marco A. Marquez
Solutions Engineering Manager - Kong Inc.Nuno Vilar Moreira
CEO - PolarisingExperienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology industry. Strong combination of software and business development experience throughout Europe. Nuno has a degree in Software Engineering from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has lived and worked in several European countries. He also enjoys water sports and traveling with his family and friends.
Nuno Vilar Moreira
CEO - PolarisingPaulo Silva
Security Researcher - Char49Paulo is a security practitioner with a solid background in software development, who has spent the last decade focused on identifying critical vulnerabilities and breaking software. Paulo is a long-time OWASP volunteer and co-leader of the OWASP API Security Project, where he advocates for secure API practices and contributes significantly to mitigating security risks in the API landscape.
Paulo Silva
Security Researcher - Char49Raphaël Sublet
Account Executive Iberia & SEMEA - Kong Inc.Raphaël is a passionate API advocate. At Kong he advises and helps customers in the Iberian peninsula to be successful with their API Strategy and challenge the status-quo. Prior to Kong, Raphaël worked at Sprinklr, Adobe and Microsoft, giving him a broad understanding of the software market today.
Raphaël Sublet
Account Executive Iberia & SEMEA - Kong Inc.Samuel Vandecasteele
Managing Partner - i8c, de Cronos GroepSamuel Vandecasteele is an Integration Architect and Managing Partner of i8c. He helps organizations in designing and building their enterprise integration capabilities. Focusing on Application Integration, API Management, and Event Driven Architectures. He has a strong technical background that spans multiple integration technologies and cloud ecosystems.
Samuel Vandecasteele
Managing Partner - i8c, de Cronos GroepYvonne Kubbinga
Country Manager - Polarising NetherlandsYvonne is a true connector, with a getting things done mentality, who makes a difference in complex circumstances. She is an experienced IT director in multiple industries, both from a service provider and a business perspective, having worked for international companies like Ahold Delhaize and Maersk, but also for Atos. Co-leading the Digital Circle for the Chamber of Commerce of the Netherlands in Lisbon.
Yvonne Kubbinga
Country Manager - Polarising NetherlandsWelcome Coffee
Opening Speech
A warm welcoming from Polarising CEO, Nuno Vilar Moreira, where he is going to to talk about Integration and where to eat the best Pastéis de Nata in Lisbon.
Connecting the Dots
TUI is one of the world’s leading tourism groups. The broad portfolio gathered under the Group umbrella consists of strong tour operators, 1,200 travel agencies and leading online portals, five airlines with around 130 aircraft, over 400 hotels, 16 cruise liners and many incoming agencies in all major holiday destinations around the globe. To maintain its market positions, TUI has always used state-of-the art integration platforms to ensure the speed of functions, development quality and data integration of its various divisions. By entering the new era of MACH development principles and cloud-native technologies, TUI enables its teams to rethink approaches to data integration and create an innovative environment to accelerate digital transformation. In the hospitality industry in particular, digitizing tedious and flawed operational processes and creating new guest services is a key driver for growth and differentiation in the future.
Quality applied to Integration
As the business world becomes increasingly interconnected, the need for seamless integration across systems and platforms is becoming more critical than ever. The cloud has ushered in a new era of event-driven, fast-paced integration that demands high-quality, efficient engineering practices.
Quality Engineering is emerging as the key structuring change in this ecosystem, providing the essential processes, tools, and strategies for building successful resilient, flexible, and scalable integration platforms.
In this keynote talk, we will explore the Next Frontier of Quality Engineering and the Future of Integration. We will examine the challenges and opportunities of this fast-changing landscape, sharing how Quality Engineering can help organizations achieve higher levels of quality, speed, and efficiency.
Panel discussion: The role of integration
The panelists will discuss how integration enables businesses to connect disparate systems, data, and processes, leading to better decision-making, improved efficiency, and enhanced customer experiences. The panelists will also highlight the challenges organizations face in integrating their systems and share best practices for successfully implementing integration initiatives.
The discussion will offer valuable insights into how businesses can leverage integration to accelerate their digital transformation outcomes and stay ahead in an increasingly competitive landscape.
Host: Nuno Vilar Moreira
Speakers: Lars Schotter, Antoine Craske and Manuel Novais Gonçalves.
Coffee Break
Enjoy our amazing «pastéis de nata» while connecting with the attendees and the speakers.
Ambassador of The Netherlands
The Importance of Nearshore Companies. Portugal as an IT supplier country and its importance for both markets.
A journey through Ilionx's landscape
Devops the battle - in the 'older days' it was a struggle to synchronize the cooperation between the team responsible for the development, and the team responsible for operations. Often you heard 'they from development or 'them from operations. How can we bring these groups together in order to optimize the software delivery and what are the pitfalls?
Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is gaining momentum because of its ability to handle the increasing complexity of modern highly integrated IT environments. In a world of numerous distributed, modular, and real-time software systems, EDA might be the way to interconnect this heterogeneous spiderweb. But how does it fit into your existing Enterprise Integration Architecture?
Panel discussion: The power of Nearshore
The participants discussed the benefits of this collaboration, including access to a wider talent pool, cost savings, and increased competitiveness.
One of the main topics was the importance of cultural compatibility between the two countries, which can facilitate effective communication and collaboration. The participants emphasized the need for mutual respect and understanding of each other's working cultures, values, and business practices.
The panel also discussed the challenges faced in the nearshore services industry, such as the availability of skilled professionals and the need for continuous innovation. They emphasized the importance of investing in training and development programs to ensure the workforce has the necessary skills to stay competitive.
Finally, the participants concluded that cooperation between IT companies in Portugal and the Netherlands can create a win-win situation, providing opportunities for growth and development for both countries. By working together, they can leverage their strengths to provide high-quality nearshore services to clients across Europe and beyond.
Host: Yvonne Kubbinga
Speakers: Samuel Vandecasteele, Marc Vierveijzer and João Luz
Lunch
Enjoy the buffet lunch and take the opportunity to engage with the speakers and while enjoying the amazing view of Lisbon.
Opening Speech - Hands-on
A welcome back from Polarising where we will do an introduction to the second half, focused security applied to integration, and some amazing technical demos.
API Security glimpse
APIs play a central role in today's economy, powering the exchange of data and services between applications and businesses. However, with great power comes great responsibility, and API security is more critical than ever. In this 20-minute session, we will introduce the OWASP API Security Top 10, a comprehensive guide to the most critical API security risks. We will then dive into two real-world examples of API security issues that were discovered by our team, providing a detailed analysis of the vulnerabilities and the impact they had on the affected organizations. By the end of this session, you will have a better understanding of the importance of API security and the steps you can take to protect your organization's APIs from attack.
Panel discussion: Security aplied to API's
The panel discussion will focus on the importance of cybersecurity in the context of integration. The panelists will discuss the risks associated with integrating disparate systems, applications, and data sources, and how these risks can be mitigated through effective cybersecurity measures. They will also share their experiences and insights on cybersecurity best practices, such as data encryption, access control, vulnerability testing, and incident response. The discussion will offer valuable insights into how organizations can ensure the security of their integrated systems and data, and protect themselves from cyber threats. The panelists will also explore the latest trends and technologies in cybersecurity and integration, and discuss the future of cybersecurity in the context of integration.
Host: Nuno Vilar Moreira
Speakers: David Sopas, Frank Steffens and Jorge Oliveira
Understand how to ship APIs faster, while allowing your developers more freedom to build applications in any desired configuration in any cloud, hybrid, Kubernetes or on-prem deployment. Plus, discover how to uplevel customer experiences in a low-risk environment through secure, reliable, and performant APIs.
In this talk, Marco Marquez, Solutions Engineering Manager and Raphaël Sublet, Account Executive Iberia & SEMEA will discuss speed through lifecycle harmonization and share lessons from financial institutions.
You can measure the performance and productivity of your applications and integration platforms to always know the status of your IT services. But greater value comes from systems that monitor and control the complete business process. We will discuss how to define and control metrics that matter for operational efficiency and customer experience.
Closing Speech
It's always hard to say goodbye.
Networking
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