Forum 2026: Scan, connect & trust

Alexis Caudron
Head of Order to Cash and Customer Facing - Nestlé
Chairman - GS1 Belgilux
📢 French

Discover the new GS1 Belgilux strategy for 2026–2028.
The main objective is to enable end-to-end data interoperability through smart and reliable data exchange.

What are the priorities and ambitions of GS1 Belgilux for the next three years?
What can you take away and apply in your own business?

Robin Goossens
Standardisation & data services Manager - GS1 Belgilux
📢 Dutch

Identifying locations can bring extra efficiency to your value chain. Whether it is to make sure your goods are delivered to the right place or to send an invoice to the correct location: GLNs are the solution.
And they are easy to create with our new tool, My Locations Manager.

Senne Van den Bergh
IT Director - GS1 Belgilux
📢 Dutch

Discover how GS1 is exploring different initiatives to correctly exchange product information by reversing the customer journey. By using AI, we aim to ensure that members no longer have to fill in everything themselves, but that GS1 provides you with recommendations.

Carole Van Herpe
Master Data Manager - Lutosa
📢 French

Lutosa, a well-known Belgian producer of potato products, recently switched to My Product Manager to manage its product information. The company also relied on GS1 for capturing its product data.
Discover why and how Lutosa took this step and how data plays a key role in its business strategy.

Tom Quets - Esther Van Parys
Agricultural Sector Lead - GS1 in Europe
Research on data sharing and digitalisation in the Agrifood sector - ILVO
📢 Dutch

The FoodDataQuest project aims to improve the health and sustainability of the European agrifood system through reliable data exchange and interoperability across the entire farm-to-fork value chain.
Within this project, a specific subcase focuses on the development of a proof-of-concept web application that provides product-specific insights into ecological, social and nutritional impact.

By developing both a retail and a consumer dashboard, this use case addresses key challenges such as fragmented data sources, limited transparency around sustainability and the lack of nutritional guidance.
A central element of this subcase is exploring the next generation of barcodes, GS1 identification keys and GS1 Digital Link to enable smooth data exchange throughout the supply chain.

This demonstrates how transparent, non-competitive data flows can improve sustainability management, traceability and consumer engagement. The project also illustrates how GS1’s global data exchange infrastructure can serve as the backbone for future food data spaces, with seamless farm-to-fork information exchange that supports both compliance and innovation.

Ruben Verborgh
Associate Professor - Ghent University
📢 Dutch

For years, the data economy has been based on a flawed assumption: a market of data that can be copied endlessly. As a result, it has become unclear what people really want and trust has dropped to a very low level. Today, digital interactions are often reduced to the “I agree” button. This button symbolises a world without trust, where some give, others take, but in the end everyone loses.
In this talk, Ruben argues that data technology is essentially trust technology. We can shift control over data from a burdensome obligation to a fundamental right. In this way, data can work for the individual, while companies can continue to innovate, to the benefit of everyone.

David Sorrentino
Managing Director - Orto
📢 English

Mike & Becky is a local SME chocolate brand specialised in single-origin chocolate bars and with a close relationship with its cocoa producers. Discover how Mike & Becky goes beyond regulations and uses GS1 standards, such as GLNs, the GLN registry and the GS1 QR code, to bring transparency to its supply chain and share this information with its customers.

Dirk Bansemer
Managing Director - Euro Plant Tray
📢 English

Euro Plant Tray is driving circularity in horticulture with reusable plant trays that replace single‑use packaging. They will share how standardization and GS1 identifiers enable better traceability and pooling of assets across the supply chain. A practical example of how reuse and data standards go hand in hand to scale sustainability.