Xeikon Café Graphic Arts 2022

Speakers

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Keynote speaker

Bernd Zipper

Bernd Zipper is a consultant, speaker and founder and CEO of zipcon. His focus is on e-business print, web-to-print, online print shops, mass customisation and interdisciplinary media projects. He develops concepts and strategies for the players involved in the print production process in a wide range of industries. He gained practical experience as a print stage manager and managing director before founding zipcon in 1998. From 2008 to 2014, he was a lecturer at the University of Wuppertal in the Department of Print and Media Technology. Bernd Zipper is highly regarded as a hands-on and critical technology and strategy consultant, industry innovator, speaker and moderator. The trendsetter’s visionary lectures are regarded as trend-setting management recommendations for the print and media industry worldwide.

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Subject Experts

Filip Weymans

Being Xeikon's expert on the label and packaging markets, Filip has built a wealth of knowledge to share on all dimensions of this fast developing market. Through Xeikon he evangelizes digital label printing for more then 20 years with the dedicated vision that any converter has a reason to digitize his manufacturing. You wonder how? Talk to Filip.

Jeroen Van Bauwel

Printing is by nature a very tangible business. However, nothing happens without digital workflow. Jeroen is Xeikon's thought leader when it comes to making the untangible tangible. Turning a good workflow into productivity gold, into spot on print quality, into another new real-time variable data application. Next favourite topic: the Xeikon workflow cloud and artificial intelligence. You're into digital printing? Don't make a workflow decision without talking to him.

Frank Jacobs

Good product management is a craft. It's finding the right balance on three legs between what the customer needs, what the R&D team dreams of and what makes economically most sense. Frank is a Xeikon veteran with many years of experience in keeping that right balance. He turns market intelligence into roadmaps and roadmaps into products and applications.

Dominique Delhees

Live your act. So true for customer satisfaction. He knows that the press is not the most crucial choice to make when moving into digital production. It's more important to choose the right partner who will help you following the right path to reach your productivity goals. Paul is heading a worldwide team of customer success managers who's very role is to make.

Lode Deprez

Xeikon's very own "Chief Environment Officer". Lode breaths sustainability with an industrial mindset. He's passionate and dedicated professionally as well as personally to keep our planet as a great place to live for everybody. An illusion? Not according to him, as long as we all contribute with one little step at the time. Lode can talk lively about these topics. Don't miss out on him.

Patrick Brouns

There is a solution to every problem. At least for digital print, that's what we believe at Xeikon. Patrick has spent his career between different printing markets and printing technologies. Patrick is Xeikon's expert to the magnificent world of digital embellishment techniques.He is dedicated to finding that right solution for any application.

Dimitri van Gaever

Dimitri has a rich expertise in the graphic arts industry and is a firm believer in a bright future for digital print. Xeikon's solutions for this market are often adressing niche applications with great value for the customer. Dimitri listens carefully and manages this "customer driven innovation" inside Xeikon to develop the right solutions for the future.

Iris Vanderzeypen

A printing press has a lifecycle on its own. At Xeikon we have specific support plans for every part of that lifecycle. On top, we have Iris, as an application guru she’s our customer’s compass in navi-gating through applications and monitoring success and growth at our customers. She knows all the solutions from the inside out and makes sure solution and application are a perfect match. To have and to hold.

Hans Verberckmoes

Hans currently is Xeikon’s resident expert on substrates and applications for all printing technol-ogies, dry toner as well as inkjet. Being responsible for Xeikon’s global innovation center before, few have printed more on a Xeikon press. He has actively worked with the machines across all types of applications for years. Like a tyre to a car, the substrate going through a printing press heavily influences the final quality of the printed product.

Patrick Helskens

Patrick has a rich track record of consistently taking variable data projects to the next level. In today's digital world, customization in print also has enormously evolved bridging very often connecting the online to the physical world. high-end variable data applications and security printing projects are daily on his plate.