Opening event

Begin July Ometa has moved to a brand new office in Wommelgem. This cannot go by without an official opening. The opening night will be unforgettable. Therefore Ometa offers three interesting keynote speakers, show cooking and ofcourse a look in our new office.

Where? Uilenbaan 59, 2160 Wommelgem

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Program

• 18h00: Reception with live music
• 19h15: Three keynote speakers give their vision on working together
  • Prof. Van Grembergen, Executive Academic Director in UA en UAMS
  • Paul Baan, Chairman Noaber Foundation
  • Steven Stokmans, Director Small and Medium Solutions & Partners for Microsoft Belux
• 20h00: Tour in our new office
• 20h30: Dinner

 

 

About our guest speakers

 

Prof. Van Grembergen

Executive Acadamic Director in UA en AUMS

 

Wim Van Grembergen is professor and Chair of the Information Systems Management Department at the Economics and Management Faculty of the University of Antwerp (UA) and executive professor at the University of Antwerp Management School (UAMS).

 

He was previously a guest professor at the University of Leuven (KUL) and had teaching assignments at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and the Institute of Business Studies in Moscow. He teaches information systems at undergraduate and executive level, and researches in business transformations through information technology, audit of information systems, IT performance management and IT governance. From 1989 to 1995 he served as Academic Director of the MBA Program of UFSIA (now UA) and presently he is academic coordinator of an IT-audit master program and an E-business master program.

 

Dr. Van Grembergen presented at the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) in 1997 and 1998, at the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Conferences in 1998, 1999 and 2000, and at the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) in 2001, 2002 and 2005. He was Track Chair on IT Evaluation for the IRMA-conference (2000 - 2003) and is Minitrack Chair IT Governance and its Mechanisms for the HICSS-conference since 2002. He published articles in journals and several publications in leading Belgian and Dutch journals. He also wrote several books. Professor Van Grembergen serves on several editorial boards.

   

Professor Van Grembergen is engaged in the continuous development of CobiT, the leading framework for IT control and IT audit. He presented papers and conducted workshops at ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) international conferences. He is also member of the Academic Relations Task Force of ISACA and is currently conducting research projects for ISACA on IT Governance. Dr. Van Grembergen is a frequent speaker at academic and professional meetings and conferences and has served in a consulting capacity to a number of firms. He is a member of the Board of Directors of IT companies including an IT consultancy firm and an IT firm servicing a Belgian financial group.

 

Recently he established at UAMS the ITAG Research Institute that aims to contribute to the understanding of IT Alignment and Governance through research and dissemination of the knowledge via publications, conferences and seminars.

   

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Paul Baan

Chairman Noaber^(*) Foundation

 

Paul studied architecture and earned his degree in economics at the University of Groningen. Paul his career started at a construction company, where he eventually became director. From 1981 on he and his brother managed the software company Baan Company, where he had several management and executive positions in the internationally growing company. In 1986 he left Baan Company to start a new initiative: the nenburg Group, an investment company. Four years later he, and his wife Mineke Baan-Pas, founded the Noaber Foundation.

The Noaber Foundation is a foundation under Dutch law with a public beneficial goal. The organization consists of two parts. Noaber Philanthropy funds projects by providing donations. Noaber Ventures invests in companies. The common feature of the projects and investments is that they have a solution to a social problem.

In the tradition sense, Noabership has two sides: the demand for help and the offer of help. The risk is creating dependency. They want to break this mutual dependency by applying a new form of Noabership, which promotes autonomy and independence. We do this by acting as a venture philanthropist. This is a form of entrepreneurial philanthropy: methods and techniques from the world of ordinary investing are being used. We live in a world that has become a global village, where people (noabers) live and work together. The Noaber Foundation wants to support this and cooperate. We think the best way this can be done, is in an entrepreneurial way, which creates durability.

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Steven Stokmans

Director Small and Medium Solutions & Partners for Microsoft Belux

Steven Stokmans is responsible for the department of SME and the partner channel in Belgium en Luxembourg. As a director he mainly develops a broad partner channel to absorb questions of customers and to reach as many sectors as possible.

At this moment Microsoft Belgium works together with 4500 partners. They are the turntable of the business model Microsoft uses to put its products and solutions on the market. Listening to the market en asking feedback are the most important goals to respond perfectly to the needs of the local customers and to offer the maximum service. The partners make sure that the smaller companies can walk through the growing phase without any problems. This way they can have a stable platform that evolves with their company.

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