Tech Trends 2023

Engineer your tech-forward future

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Belgium Edition

Deloitte’s 14th annual Tech Trends report explores the impact of emerging technologies on groundbreaking innovations and foundational business areas. Stories of pioneering organizations show what’s happening now, describe what’s new, and project what could be coming next.

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Eyes to the sky: Three enduring eternities

The history of IT has been a steady evolution of pioneering innovations in interaction, information, and computation, the three enduring eternities of modern computing.

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Through the glass: Immersive internet for the enterprise

The metaverse and other immersive virtual experiences are quickly becoming valuable enterprise tools for new business models, training, and collaboration.

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Opening up to AI: Learning to trust our AI colleagues

While the value of AI is now indisputable, the question of how to best use it often boils down to how much workers and end users trust AI tools.

Computers were once seen as more or less infallible machines that simply processed discrete inputs into discrete outputs, whose calculations were never wrong. If a problem ever arose in a calculation or business process, it was definitionally caused by human error, not the computer.

But as machines encroach on ever-more humanlike tasks that go beyond basic number crunching and enter the realm of discernment and decision-making via artificial intelligence (AI), the business world is developing a new understanding of what it means to trust machines.

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Els Renders

Partner, Strategy, Analytics and M&A

Partner- Artificial Intelligence and data offering of Deloitte Consulting Belgium. Special passion and extensive experience in the public sector in various domains (foreign direct investment, regional marketing, city management, policing, education and public employment services, performance management, big data analytics, cognitive solutions, ...).

Leading project teams in various different roles and assignments: create vision and roadmap, translate functional and non-functional requirements to solutions, build, implement and manage technical solutions and support the client in the appropriate change management.

Focusing a lot on supporting clients to build their strategy in becoming more insight driven organisations.

Veerle Peeters

Director, Cyber Risk Advisory

Veerle leads the Cyber Governance capability within Deloitte Belgium. Together with her team, she drives all business around Cyber Strategy, Target Operating Model, Workforce Development and Enterprise Security Architecture.

Her specific expertise lies in the human side of information security, assisting clients in managing sustainable performance through learning, security awareness and cultural transformation projects. She helps organisations understand the maturity level of their security culture and to turn their desired security mind-set from aspirations into the way people actually behave in relation to security risks.

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Above the clouds: Taming multicloud chaos

To simplify multicloud management, many enterprises are turning to a layer of abstraction and automation that offers a single pane of control for multicloud enviroments.

The early days of cloud computing felt boundless. Freed from the limitations of on-premises servers, developers could build exciting new products and services tethered only by their imagination. Unconstrained by bureaucratic processes governing resource utilization, software engineers enjoyed an infinitely scalable palette that could seemingly manifest exactly what they needed at the push of a button. And as vendors began adding more and more capabilities providing advanced functionality like machine learning to their platforms, the cloud quickly became a one-stop-shop for all needs, everywhere.

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Patrick Callewaert

EMEA Leader for AWS Alliance, Deloitte NSE Cloud Transformation Lead

As a member of Deloitte Consulting’s executive team for North South Europe (NSE), Patrick leads Cloud Transformation and the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Alliance across the region. He works with our Country Leaders to develop consistent, high-quality delivery capabilities around business and digital transformation where technology is a key enabler. For more than two decades, Patrick has delivered engagements in Europe, predominantly leading customer and digital transformation in Banking, Insurance and Public Sector.

Patrick has also been instrumental in the success of many global engagements and cross-border collaboration. He is dedicated to the development of Deloitte’s innovation driven by technology, including fostering the development of our future leaders who deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients.

Thomas Kessler

Partner, Cloud Engineering

Thomas is a partner at Deloitte Belgium, focusing on Cloud Engineering. He has a strong experience in Technology Strategy and Cloud as he has been advising companies across various industries in their journey to the Cloud, ranging from initial business case, to operating model and architecture, to the actual migration. Prior to joining Deloitte, Thomas was leading the Cloud architects unit for Microsoft BeLux, where he has been driving leading edge Cloud migrations with large enterprises in the local market.

Bram De Schouwer

Core Business Operations, Cloud Engineering Leader

Bram is a Director in Deloitte's Core Business Operations practice and is leading the Belgian Cloud Engineering offering.

At Deloitte, Bram focusses on IT Strategy, IT Governance and Enterprise and Solution Architecture related assignments in the Cloud domain. On a daily basis, Bram is helping clients with the preparation and execution of their Cloud Transformation journeys.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Bram worked in different IT advisory roles and has been involved in several ventures. Bram holds a master degree in Computer Science Engineering (KU Leuven) with a focus on Distributed Software Systems and holds an MBA from Vlerick Business School.

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