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LISTEN TO THE Keynote Speakers
Marit van Egmond
CEO Albert Heijn at Ahold Delhaize
Marit van Egmond
CEO Albert Heijn at Ahold Delhaize
Last year, Marit became the CEO of Albert Heijn.
Philip Padberg
General Manager eCommerce at Albert Heijn
Gerhard van der Bijl
CIO Albert Heijn, Gall&Gall, Etos
Gerhard van der Bijl
CIO Albert Heijn, Gall&Gall, Etos
Gerhard is our CIO. His belief is that every organization can be dramatically improved if People work together, by applying a modern Company Operating Model with extreme focus on the Customer, Innovation and Ecosystem the Company is in. That is his mission at Albert Heijn Technology.
Sjoerd Holleman
Head of Strategy & Analytics
Sjoerd Holleman
Head of Strategy & Analytics
Sjoerd is an ambitious and results driven professional with 18+ years of experience in Finance, Strategy, Data Analytics, Investor Relations and Mergers & Acquisitions.
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Johan Pelgrim
Flutter Lead AH Compact
Johan Pelgrim
Flutter Lead AH Compact
First and foremost, I’m a husband and father of Mr. 9, Ms. 11 and Ms. 13. Secondly, I’m an enthusiastic Flutter developer and a real team player. I started as an enterprise Java developer in the 90s but switched to Android development in 2010. Loved Android so much that I founded The Dutch Android User Group in 2011 (currently 1361 members).
Early 2020 I jumped on the opportunity to work on a Flutter project at Albert Heijn and again loved that so much that I founded the Flutter Netherlands meetup group (currently 318 member). In my spare time I like fishing, playing the piano & guitar, watch movies and TV series.
Fun Fact: I do not hold back in a Karaoke bar!
Roel Willems
Sr. Manager Experimentation & Data Privacy
Roel Willems
Sr. Manager Experimentation & Data Privacy
I’m Roel, 36 years old and am working with Albert Heijn for the past 5,5 years. Before joining AH I worked extensively as a consultant on data analytics and experimentation projects.
Fun fact: I started out studying on the Willem de Kooning academy and still believe that working with data is as much art as it is science.
Stijn Verhoeven
Product Owner Conversational AI
Stijn Verhoeven
Product Owner Conversational AI
Former UX designer, now product owner.
Fun fact: Involved in conversational AI at AH from the very first moment.
Joost Hofman
Product Owner SRE - Digital Development at Albert Heijn
Joost Hofman
Product Owner SRE - Digital Development at Albert Heijn
Once an engineer, always an engineer.
Love innovative technology and use these to build awesome technology.
Fun fact: once I killed production with the historical sentence: Rotate 
Jelmer Offenberg
Machine learning engineer
Jelmer Offenberg
Machine learning engineer
I’m a data scientist gone software engineering, combining the best of both worlds. When I’m not writing code, I love to work out and play videogames.
Fun fact: unfortunately, too often I dream about lines of code. Luckily, once in a while I find the solution while sleeping.
Xander Menger
Senior Legal Counsel Privacy
Xander Menger
Senior Legal Counsel Privacy
Data privacy specialist with broad experience in applying data protection law to ad-tech and direct marketing, CRM-systems and customer loyalty programs, big data analytics, and IT-contracting and implementation.
Fun fact: Was known to walk around HQ with full kitesurf equipment.
Simon Grest
Data Scientist
Simon Grest
Data Scientist
Just like AH grapefruit I am a fresh import from South Africa. Until March I lived in Johannesburg where I had worked for ten years in different quantitative roles. I now live in Den Haag.
Fun fact: coffee is a priority - when I flew into Schiphol one of my bags had an 18kg coffee grinder in it.
Auke ten Hoopen
Lead Front-End
Auke ten Hoopen
Lead Front-End
My name is Auke ten Hoopen. I’m frontend developer. Started out with programming in ActionScript / Flash. During my study I created a library for Flash, which helped designers write code in a visual way. It was used in a design course at HAN (Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen). But later on switched to JavaScript. Since then, I have been writing everything in JavaScript.
Fun fact: finalist of Mario Kart tournament 201.
Stefan Bresser
Conversational (Software developer bij Albert Heijn)
Stefan Bresser
Conversational (Software developer bij Albert Heijn)
Backend Developer & Scrum master of Team Conversational AI & Customer Service.
Fun fact: enthusiastic back end developer interested in innovative projects.
Fransisco da Silva
OutSystems architect @ Center of Excellence / Guild
Fransisco da Silva
OutSystems architect @ Center of Excellence / Guild
OutSystems Ninja - Doer.
Fun fact: Music lover, guitar player. Once played for 7k people:).
Pim Nauts
Consultant in data & AI
Pim Nauts
Consultant in data & AI
Pim is a data science lead within Albert Heijn, and currently heads the team that is engineering our new Personalized Offer recommendations. Previously Pim was at bol.com where he built the Relevance product group that applies machine learning and experimentation in domains such as recommendations, personalisation and streaming data.
Fun fact: A girl once travelled from the Philippines to ask me out on a date (it was creepy and I said no)
Dajana Mitrovic
Integration Consultant at Devoteam
Dajana Mitrovic
Integration Consultant at Devoteam
Dajana is an Integration Consultant with broad experience gained working across multiple continents. She holds a MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is relying on her strong work ethic, resourcefulness, laser-focus and diverse skills to propel her forward in her carreer.
As a natural leader, she easily develops strong relationships with the clients and colleagues.
She is a dedicated and motivated consultant that takes the initiative and solves problems. Her experience and interest lie in designing and implementing complex solutions. Feels most comfortable working in the challenging and complex environments, where she can contribute to the complete stack of the solution. Floating between business and IT is what she enjoys the most. Working hard to become an Integration/Domain Architect.
Fun fact: Bringing myself in embarrassing situations by confusing Dutch words (please, don’t ask).
Bart Rijnders
Site Reliability Engineer
Bart Rijnders
Site Reliability Engineer
Product Owner of SRE Platform and Infrastructure team. Love shiny new tech, would run alpha releases in production
Fun fact: November 12th is my actual birthday.
Timo Snoek
Product Owner mobile
Timo Snoek
Product Owner mobile
My name is Timo. I live in Westzaan across HQ together with Britta and my daughter Jalou. Like to play in the waves with my kite, explore the mountains with a snowboard or mountainbike or play a good game of tennis. Currently I’m Product Owner on digital products where I started two years ago. My first project at AH team Ronin on Web. I switched some months later to the Blue Devils to work on the Belgium Appie and I started this year with Albert Heijn Compact.
Fun fact: If I drive somewhere, I never take the same route back.
Lonneke Eijdems
Data Scientist
Lonneke Eijdems
Data Scientist
Lonneke, born in Limburg, studied in Groningen, lives now in Amsterdam. Loves sports, specifically hockey, race cycling and snowboarding.
Fun fact: I always try to go at least 3 weeks a year to Austra for snowboarding.
Joost Krijnen
Head of User Experience
Joost Krijnen
Head of User Experience
Experienced Head Of Design with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Search EngineOptimization (SEO), Photography, Graphics, User Experience (UX), and Logo Design. Strong arts and design professional with a Graphic Design Honours focused in Graphic Design, Media Design from University of Lincoln.
Fun fact: born on April fools day.
Mattie van Steensel
SEO Specialist bij Albert Heijn
Mattie van Steensel
SEO Specialist bij Albert Heijn
I’m Mattie, live in Amsterdam, recognizable by my enthusiasm, my drive and my team spirit. I really like to research customer needs and behavior and act on it. That is why I started my career in SEO.
Fun fact: I’m chaotic, but well organized;).
Charlotte van der Scheun
Data Engineer
Charlotte van der Scheun
Data Engineer
I studied IT in Amsterdam and worked as a Data Engineer for the last (almost) 3 years. Next to work I like to paint!
Fun fact: I bought an electric scooter to go to the office, but never had to use it to actually go to the office.
Menno Kikkert
Domain Architect - Integration at Ahold Delhaize
Menno Kikkert
Domain Architect - Integration at Ahold Delhaize
Menno works as a Domain architect at Ahold Delhaize.
Roy Huiskes
SEO consultant
Roy Huiskes
SEO consultant
I'm Roy, before Corona I traveled to Zaandam from Enschede once every two weeks. I live in enschede with my girlfriend, two kids, two cats and German Shorthaired Pointer (dog). I used to play Rugby and Swim, but nowadays I do CrossFit and when I find the time and peace ride on my MTB.
Fun fact: I like to structure things. Sometimes.
Jannick Seelen
Data Scientist
Jannick Seelen
Data Scientist
Aerospace engineer turned data scientist from Brabant.
Fun fact: I love to listen true crime podcast.
Nauman Ali
Head of Data Technologies and R&D (Data Diff Platform)
Nauman Ali
Head of Data Technologies and R&D (Data Diff Platform)
Bringing a unique blend of extensive technical expertise with leadership experience. Experienced in leading organisational change through data including successful commercialization of data products. Worked with over 100 projects in over 25 countries across multiple hierarchies and industries
Fun fact: Once upon a time… Professional Fitness Athlete