Thu 22 October 2026 | 12:00 - 21:00 | Lamot, Mechelen Fitce Mobile Congress
The Mobile Congress in Belgium

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Speaker details

Philippe Toussaint
Chief Technology Officer – Orange
Jan Manssens
Corporate Development Director – Proximus
Stefaan Vyverman
- Executive Board Member – BIPT
Arturo Torrealba
EURO-3C Project Coordinator – Telefónica
Anissa Sefsaf
Chief of Staff to the CEO - Proximus
Nicolas Chalon
Innovation lead - Isabel Group
Geert Standaert
Chief Technology Officer – Proximus
Joris Van Herzele
Director IT Security and Infrastructure, CISO - Umicore
Blago Gjorgjievski
VP Network & Wholesale – Telenet
Chantal Van de Looverbosch
Team Manager 3rd Party Services – Telenet
Meryem Simsek
Vice-President Nokia Bell Labs
Peter Hinssen
International Keynote Speaker
Bram De Valck
Product Manager B2B Mobile – Telenet
Ghada El Nikheli
Global business development Director, Mission Critical Networks - Ericsson
Early bird prices until Mon 07 Sep 2026
Standard: € 495,00  | Supporting Company Member: € 395,00  | Students: € 150,00

Event Schedule

12:00 Registration & Sandwich lunch 🌭

13:00 Welcome & Keynotes

  • A Distributed Architecture for AI Workloads – A Network Perspective in the AI Grid Orchestration – Meryem Simsek, Vice-President Nokia Bell Labs
  • EURO3C: Federating Europe’s Telco-Cloud-Edge infrastructure – Arturo Torrealba, EURO3D Project Coordinator and Telefonica 

14:00 The Never Normal – Peter Hinssen

15:00 Panel: Has 5G lived up to its promises - Use Cases

  • Home Delivery via 5G & remote operation – Bram De Valck, Product Manager B2B Mobile Telenet
  • Shell Lubricants EMEA choice for a 4G/5G versus OT WiFi – Shell
  • 5G for industrial use cases – Joris Van Herzele, Director IT Security and Infrastructure Umicore

15:45 Coffee break  ☕️

16:30 Innovations and Key Technology Enablers

  • Digital Airspace – Monetizing 5G/6G Beyond Ground Networks – Ghada El Nikheli, Global business development Director, Mission Critical Networks Ericsson
  • How the Network becomes Your Computer - rethinking the value of telco networks – Anissa Sefsaf, Chief of Staff to the CEO Proximus & Jan Manssens, Corporate Development Director Proximus
  • Unlocking Telco Network APIs: Standardization, Identity Services, and the Path to Monetization & Value Creation – Chantal Van de Looverbosch, Team Manager 3rd Party Services Telenet & Nicolas Chalon, Innovation lead Isabel Group

17:45 C-Level Panel

  • Philippe Toussaint (CTO Orange)
  • Geert Standaert (CTO Proximus)
  • Blago Gjorgjievski (VP Network & Wholesale Telenet)
  • Stefaan Vyverman (Exevutive Board Member BIPT)
  • Meryem Simsek (Vice-President Nokia Bell Labs)

18:45 Reception & Walking dinner 🥂🥗

21:00 End

Practical info

Date & time
Thu 22 October 2026
12:00 - 21:00
Location
Lamot, Mechelen Route description
Van Beethovenstraat 8/10, 2800 Mechelen
Tickets
Early bird tickets available until Mon 07 Sep 2026
Standard: € 495,00 excl. VAT
Supporting Company Member: € 395,00 excl. VAT
Students: € 150,00 VAT incl.
Buy early bird ticket
Registration is possible until Wed 14-Oct-2026 23:59
Tickets after 07 Sep 2026:
- Standard: € 585.00
- Supporting Company Member: € 410.00
- Students: € 185.00

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Fitce.be is the Belgium-based broadband connectivity and services organisation, that focuses on knowledge sharing and networking.
We bring together industry professionals and academics to exchange views and gain new insights into the developments and challenges related to the technical, regulatory, societal, and economic aspects of broadband – both fixed and mobile.
During our in-person and virtual events, we explore important trends in the field and discuss evolutions on the international stage, and how they translate to the Belgian content.

Fitce.be is the Belgian branch of the European Fitce.eu umbrella federation.

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