OpenText Summit Benelux 2026
OpenText Summit Benelux 2026
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5 March  | 9:00 - 17:45  | Postillion WTC | Rotterdam

Discover all that’s happening at OpenText Summit Benelux 2026: inspiring keynotes, customer stories, hands-on demos, and deep-dive breakouts.

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OpenText Benelux Summit 2026 Rotterdam

8:00 - 9:00

Arrival and Registration

Start your day by checking in and picking up your badge. Take this opportunity to meet fellow attendees, grab a coffee, and get ready for an inspiring day of learning and networking.

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome to OpenText Summit Benelux 2026

In this opening session, we will outline the program, share our vision for the day, and introduce our partners who play a key role in driving success. Prepare for a day of thought leadership and meaningful connections.

Hugh Adsett Menno Heesbeen
Hugh Adsett, Ambassador of Canada to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Menno Heesbeen, OpenText

9:15 - 10:00

OpenText Vision & Strategy – From Hype to Practical Enterprise AI

Join Lars for a high‑level introduction to how OpenText is transforming AI into practical value for modern organizations. He will outline our vision for helping people work smarter through intelligent automation and trusted AI, enabling more efficient, secure, and connected digital operations. This keynote sets the stage for the session that follows, where live demonstrations will show how these capabilities reduce repetitive work and enhance everyday experiences across the enterprise.

Lars Drexler
Lars Drexler, OpenText

10:00 - 10:45

OpenText Roadmap and Innovation

Explore live demonstrations of OpenText technologies, from content management to cybersecurity, with Digital Experience and service management. These demos will illustrate how agentic AI and intelligent automation elevate people by freeing them from mundane tasks

Lars Drexler Maarten Raeymaekers Stefan Brié Timo Van Der Zande Tony Wright
Lars Drexler, OpenText
Maarten Raeymaekers, OpenText
Stefan Brié, OpenText
Timo Van Der Zande, OpenText
Tony Wright, OpenText

10:45 - 11:45

Break - Experience Area

Take a moment to connect with peers, engage with our partners, and meet OpenText experts in the Experience Area. Explore live demos, get your questions answered, and dive deeper into product capabilities.

11:45 - 12:30

Breakout Sessions

  • Content

    Rotterdam Hall

  • Cybersecurity

    Penn room 2

  • Application Security

    Veder room

  • Experience

    Mees 1

  • SAP

    Mees 2

  • OSM

    Leeuwen Room 2

  • DevOps

    Penn room 1

  • Business Network

    Leeuwen room 1

  • Analytics

    Goudriaan room 2

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Revolutionizing Content with AI-Powered OpenText Content Services

The future of work is here — and it’s intelligent. In this keynote, discover how AI-infused OpenText Content Services transforms the way organizations capture, connect, and control their information. From automating workflows to unlocking hidden insights, AI turns your content into a strategic powerhouse — boosting productivity, ensuring compliance, and sparking innovation. It’s not just content management. It’s content intelligence — faster, smarter, and ready for what’s next.

11:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Empowering Autonomous Agents with Trusted Identity and Governance

As organizations increasingly adopt autonomous agents to streamline operations, enhance decision‑making, and accelerate innovation, the need for trusted identity, security, and governance has become paramount. Autonomous agents—whether operating within enterprise workflows, distributed ecosystems, or AI‑driven cyber environments—must be verifiably authenticated, continuously monitored, and governed with precision to prevent misuse, drift, or compromise.

Laurent Strauss
Laurent Strauss, OpenText
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Cybersecurity Turbo Talk 2

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11:45 AM - 11:55 AM
Introduction AppSec Track
Arthur Kemme
Arthur Kemme, OpenText
11:55 AM - 12:30 PM
AI vs. AI: How Attackers Exploit LLM Applications and How We Fight Back

Every organization is racing to integrate AI into their applications. But with this rush comes an entirely new class of security vulnerabilities, including prompt injection, data poisoning, and excessive agency. At the same time, vibe coding is enabling anyone to create applications faster than security teams can keep up. This session examines the dual role of AI in application security: as an attack vector and as our most powerful defense. Discover how Fortify harnesses LLMs for intelligent vulnerability auditing, automated remediation, and natural language security workflows, matching the pace of AI-driven development.

Frans Van Buul Jan Wienand
Frans Van Buul, OpenText
Jan Wienand, OpenText
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Beyond Monologue: Interactive Communication That Drives Efficiency

OpenText™ Experience Cloud helps organizations deliver the right content at the right moment through an integrated, composable platform that unifies media, communications, messaging, and data. It enables teams to create consistent, personalized interactions across every touchpoint with support from generative AI, automation, and real‑time insights. This session explores how its modular architecture breaks down silos, streamlines operations, and ensures optimized, compliant content is delivered through the right channel at the right time. Learn how Experience Cloud strengthens loyalty, accelerates digital transformation, and powers seamless, scalable engagement across the customer lifecycle—from acquisition to retention.

Fabian Borchardt
Fabian Borchardt, OpenText
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
SAP Turbo Talk 1

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12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
SAP Turbo Talk 2

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11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Observability and Service Management keynote: Go beyond ITOps limits

Wondering what the future of IT operations looks like in an era of agentic AI, increasingly complex environments, and cost-cutting demands? Wonder no more. We're here to go beyond ITOps limits with OpenText™ Observability and Service Management. It’s not just about monitoring and tickets—it’s about connecting everything with composable flexibility, automating intelligently with AI that builds trust, and getting ahead of problems proactively. In this session, you’ll learn how to escape platform management and focus on outcomes, while delivering answers to users and agents faster without any loss of quality. We’ll show how to turn configuration limits into clarity—because you can’t manage what you don’t know—and how to reduce incidents before they happen. You’ll also see how service can expand across the enterprise to deliver more value in more places. It’s time to stop managing the madness and start leading with confidence. Say goodbye to chaos and hello to limitless IT operations.

Jacques Conand
Jacques Conand, OpenText
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
DevOps keynote: The agentic era: How AI rewrites the rules and buries brittle, bloated software delivery

Every escaped defect costs trust. Some cost millions. Audit fatigue, tool sprawl, and broken test cycles have long been treated as the cost of doing business. It’s time to rewrite that equation. In this strategy-forward session, see how OpenText DevOps Cloud puts agentic AI to work—generating tests, predicting defect leakage, and enforcing compliance across 250+ pipelines, from GitHub to SAP. You’ll get a front-row view of autonomous test bots, stability intelligence, and flow optimization—all running inside your policy guardrails. No rebuilds. No retooling. Just safer, smarter shipping. And a look at what’s next: fully autonomous build-test-secure loops that deliver clean code, continuously—without the firefighting.

Riccardo Sanna
Riccardo Sanna, OpenText
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Business Network Turbo Talk 1

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12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Business Network Turbo Talk 2

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11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Analytics Turbo Talk 1

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12:10 PM - 12:30 PM
Analytics Turbo Talk 2

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12:30 - 13:45

Lunch - Experience Area

Enjoy lunch while you connect with peers, engage with our partners, and meet OpenText experts in the Experience Area. Explore live demos, get your questions answered, and dive deeper into product capabilities.

13:45 - 15:15

Breakout Sessions

  • Content

    Rotterdam Hall

  • Cybersecurity

    Penn room 2

  • Application Security

    Veder room

  • Experience

    Mees 1

  • SAP

    Mees 2

  • OSM

    Leeuwen Room 2

  • DevOps

    Penn room 1

  • Business Network

    Leeuwen room 1

  • Analytics

    Goudriaan room 2

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
From Content to Action: Real Stories of Transformation with OpenText DigiGov

In this breakout session, brought to you together with our partners One Fox and Capgemini, you learn from two innovative customers who reimagined the way they work by combining the OpenText Content Platform and the OpenText AppWorks Process Platform — together known as OpenText DigiGov. Discover how they streamlined operations, boosted efficiency, and gained deeper insights by seamlessly connecting content with intelligent process automation.

From faster decision-making to smarter compliance, these stories will show how DigiGov turns information into action — and action into measurable results.

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Content Turbo Talk 3

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1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
IAM Without Limits: SaaS and Hybrid Strategies for Enterprise Agility

Enterprises navigating modern digital transformation require the flexibility to operate seamlessly across on‑premises systems, private clouds, and SaaS environments without compromising security or compliance. As identity becomes the new control plane, organizations must adopt IAM strategies that support hybrid IT while enabling rapid innovation, consistent governance, and resilient cyber defense.

Soren Pettersson
Soren Pettersson, OpenText
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Cybersecurity Product Session

Description available soon

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Best Practices implementing DevSecOps strategies

DevSecOps is easy to talk about and hard to implement. Many DevSecOps initiatives fail not just because of tools, but because of people, process, and timing. Based on hands-on experience with large enterprise organizations, this talk shares the best practices that consistently drive adoption and impact. The goal is about making DevSecOps stick for the long term, not just launching it.

Dominik De Smit
Dominik De Smit, Cyberella
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Banking on Security: Lessons from Scaling AppSec at ABN AMRO

Join this session for a candid conversation on what it really takes to scale application security in a large and regulated environment. In this interview, Herbert Geers sits down with Jon Taylor, to share practical insights from ABN AMRO’s AppSec journey as a Fortify customer.

In this session, you’ll hear about:

  • How ABN AMRO approaches AppSec at scale across complex development teams
  • Key challenges faced when the initiative was launched, and how they were overcome
  • The role of Fortify in supporting secure development and risk reduction
  • Lessons learned, best practices, and advice for organizations maturing their AppSec programs

A must-attend session for AppSec leaders and security practitioners looking for real-world banking insights, not just theory.

Jon Taylor Herbert Geers
Jon Taylor, OpenText
Herbert Geers, ABN AMRO
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Case study KvK: Continous Secure Coding training as the ultimate Shift-Left

When the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK) launched an organisation-wide Secure Development program a few years ago, the first step was introducing Secure Coding training. Proper training of developers was seen as the absolute basis for delivering more secure software. In this talk Sebastiaan Rijnbout will share how the Secure Coding training program was created, what impact it had on development security and share important lessons learned.

Sebastiaan Rijnbout
Sebastiaan Rijnbout, KVK
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Beyond Compliance: Preparing for the Accessibility Act with OpenText

Accessibility is here to stay—and it’s reshaping how organizations communicate. In this session, we unpack why accessibility matters, who benefits when products and services are designed to be inclusive, and what the European Accessibility Act (EAA) means in practical terms for enterprises. Together with our partner Nokavision we bring you insights into how we support organizations in delivering fully compliant, accessible customer communications at scale. Learn from a large Dutch insurance company about their approach. They share a real‑world journey and how they leveraged OpenText solutions to meet accessibility requirements—not just to comply, but to strengthen their brand and customer experience.

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Beyond CCM: CCM to CXM Transformation - Insights, Best Practices and your path!

Organizations are rapidly moving from traditional Customer Communications Management (CCM) toward AI‑driven, cloud‑based Customer Experience Management (CXM). OpenText is at the forefront of this shift—helping enterprises unify data, eliminate channel silos, and deliver hyper‑personalized, omnichannel interactions at scale. In this session, together with our partner TCF, we’ll explore how you can build on your existing OpenText platform and prepare for a successful CCM transformation.

Fabian Borchardt
Fabian Borchardt, OpenText
1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
SAP Turbo Talk 3

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2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
SAP Turbo Talk 4

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2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
SAP Product Session

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1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
Your network, your way: Cloud-hosted observability that works for you, not the other way around

You have enough to manage. Your network tools shouldn’t add to the load. OpenText™ Network Observability is built for teams that need visibility, stability, and flexibility without the overhead. It’s hosted in the cloud, easy to deploy, and managed by OpenText experts so you can spend less time patching tools and more time solving real problems. No hardware. No upgrade headaches. No surprises. Just a single, customizable solution that fits how you work and scales with what you need.

You'll also hear our plans for the future and how you can have real-time insight across your stack with OpenText one observability

Peter Golbach
Peter Golbach, OpenText
John Jackson, OpenText
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
From Tickets to Autonomy: Powering the AI-Driven Ticketless Enterprise

Learn how OpenText AI transforms service operations into a ticketless enterprise; shifting from reactive tickets to autonomous prevention, through total asset visibility, AI driven service mapping, autonomous incident prevention and AI-driven self-service for resilient, continuous reliable operations.

Joel Eijssen
Joel Eijssen, Opentext
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Observability and Service Management Panel discussions

Join this session to engage directly with our expert panel, ask your questions, and hear how customers are using OpenText solutions to advance their IT Operations.

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Quality at the core: governing software delivery at scale

In an era of accelerating business expectations and rising risk, organizations must balance agility, compliance, and visibility across teams, tools, and pipelines. Quality can no longer be treated as a tick-the-box exercise; it must act as a strategic accelerator embedded throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

This session looks at how a platform-based delivery approach combined with innovative AI capabilities supports day-to-day governance, traceability, and quality control across complex environments. We explore how teams can improve delivery outcomes by identifying risk earlier, maintaining consistent quality without adding friction, and aligning developers, testers, and product owners around trusted, shared delivery data.

Rather than bolting point tools together, this session shows how a platform-led strategy turns quality from a delivery constraint into a competitive differentiator, supporting team autonomy while maintaining enterprise-grade governance and control.

Safa Duendar
Safa Duendar, OpenText
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Intelligent automation at scale: functional and performance testing for modern delivery

Modern software delivery calls for automation that is not only fast, but intelligent, adaptive, and insightful. Traditional scripting and manual test efforts cannot keep pace with today’s expectations for continuous delivery, performance at scale, and compliance readiness. This breakout focuses on how modern and intelligent functional and performance testing changes the way teams approach automation in practice, significantly lowering manual effort, shortening feedback cycles, and focusing engineering capacity on higher-value work. Through practical examples, you’ll see how intelligent automation enables teams to validate application functionality and performance earlier and more consistently, helping delivery teams move faster with greater confidence, without increasing risk or overhead.

Jerry Saelemakers
Jerry Saelemakers, OpenText
1:45 PM - 2:05 PM
Business Network Turbo Talk 3

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2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Business Network Turbo Talk 4

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2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Business Network Product Session

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1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Trusted Data: The Foundation for AI Success

Every winning AI strategy starts with reliable, high-quality data. In this session, explore how OpenText Analytics Database (OTAD) delivers the secure, scalable backbone enterprises need to power AI-driven innovation. Discover how OTAD is built for AI, seamlessly integrating with OpenText Aviator for conversational insights and delivering an MCP Server to enable AI agents to access and act on enterprise data. Learn why trusted data isn’t just an IT concern: It’s a business imperative for creating intelligent, competitive organizations.

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Real World Insights

A top Benelux organisation sharing how they're leading in data modernization and keeping their business in shape for the future. Customer name to be announced soon.

15:15 - 15:30

Break - Experience Area

Take a moment to connect with peers, engage with our partners, and meet OpenText experts in the Experience Area. Explore live demos, get your questions answered, and dive deeper into product capabilities.

15:30 - 16:15

Inspirational speaker interview

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16:15 - 17:45

Networking reception - Experience Area

Wrap up the day with closing remarks, connect with peers and partners, and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and delicious finger food.

*Agenda subject to change.

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