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

    Mees 1

  • Application Security

    Veder room

  • Experience

    Leeuwen room 2

  • SAP

    Mees 2

  • OSM

    Penn room 2

  • DevOps

    Penn room 1

  • Business Network

    Leeuwen room 1

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
Evolving IAM at Argenta: Evolving IDM and IG, with IDM on Kubernetes

In this customer‑led session, Argenta shares how it built strong IAM foundations with OpenText™ Identity Manager and later expanded its governance capabilities with Identity Governance. We’ll discuss the architectural and operating‑model choices that proved effective in practice, including our sandbox‑first upgrade approach and a clear division of responsibilities between the internal IAM team and OpenText experts for complex incidents, upgrades, and product guidance.

We’ll also explain why we migrated Identity Manager to a Kubernetes‑based platform and how this improved stability, automation, and operational agility. To conclude, we’ll briefly highlight what’s next on our roadmap, including our plans for governing non‑human identities.

Redouan Taheri, Argenta
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM
Introduction AppSec Track

Arthur will briefly set the scene for the AppSec track, outline what to expect, and introduce the speakers who will share their insights throughout the day.

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 - 12:30 PM
Strengthening the Digital Core: SAP & OpenText for Better Business Outcomes

Join Hari Sharma for an insightful session on the strategic collaboration between SAP and OpenText. This session will introduce SAP BDC (SAP Business Data Cloud) and the incredible potential it can unleash to provide meaningful business insight through core processes such as payables management. 

Hari Sharma, SAP
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 - 12:30 PM
Beyond the invoice: navigating the new era of digital trade and compliance

European e-invoicing has reached a tipping point. As Germany enters Phase 2, France launches Phase 1, and the UK targets 2028, governments are legislating the entire supply chain—from e-orders (Italy) to logistics (Poland)—as "digital trade." Join OpenText to discover how our "white glove" managed service turns these mandates into a strategic advantage. We’ll explore how our Readiness Check and Trading Grid insulate your business from complexity, ensuring seamless ERP integration and proactive monitoring. Whether you need an accredited French PA or are preparing for the UK’s digital agenda, this session provides the blueprint to de-risk your operations and lead the transition to automated, compliant digital trade.

Vesna Soraic
Vesna Soraic, OpenText
Radhia Touat, Opentext

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

    Mees 1

  • Application Security

    Veder room

  • Experience

    Leeuwen room 2

  • SAP

    Mees 2

  • OSM

    Penn room 2

  • DevOps

    Penn room 1

  • Business Network

    Leeuwen room 1

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
Give your repository a brain — transforming content into valuable assets

In this breakout session, delaware and OpenText show how organizations can unlock business value from their existing content repositories by adding the A of AI to their information landscape. We explore how AI-driven enrichment and insight turn stored content into a more active business asset, supporting better decisions and more efficient processes. Delaware will share concrete results and selected proof-of-concept examples, illustrating how organizations move beyond storage and compliance toward information that actively contributes to business outcomes.

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
Securing the Future of Data: From Transparent Encryption to AI-Driven Privacy with Sentry

In an era where data spans complex hybrid clouds, legacy databases, and rapidly emerging Generative AI platforms, maintaining privacy without disrupting business logic is the ultimate challenge. Join us to discover how OpenText™ Data Privacy and Protection Sentry operates as a high-performance "data privacy broker," creating a secure zone for your sensitive information. This session will explore Sentry’s proven ability to transparently intercept and protect data in motion across HTTP/S, SMTP, APIs, and SQL protocols, using advanced Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) and Secure Stateless Tokenization (SST) to ensure compliance while preserving data utility.

Attendees will get a preview of Sentry’s upcoming AI-driven evolution. We will showcase how Sentry is adapting to the GenAI revolution with a new protection profile for ChatGPT, designed to intercept browser-based prompts and encrypt PII before it reaches the Large Language Model. Furthermore, learn about the future of automated security with our policy-based recommendation engine, which uses embedded AI services to analyse application traffic, automatically identifying sensitive fields and recommending precise protection policies. Discover how Sentry is moving toward a universal, "out-of-the-box" experience that future-proofs your data against both today’s breaches and tomorrow’s technological shifts.

Alistair Rigg
Alistair Rigg, OpenText
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!

In this session, together with our partner tcf., we’ll not only explore how you can build on your existing OpenText platform and prepare for a successful CCM transformation, but we also want to hear from you. Your experiences, challenges, and ideas are essential in shaping the next steps. We invite you as our valued customer to share your input so we can better align solutions to your needs and ensure your CXM journey is a success

Fabian Borchardt Arno Jellema Tim Hageraats
Fabian Borchardt, OpenText
Arno Jellema, tcf.
Tim Hageraats, tcf.
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Real Stories, Real Outcomes: SAP + OpenText in Action

In this customer breakout session, you’ll hear first-hand stories from organizations using SAP and OpenText together to support and improve their day-to-day operations. Customers will share how they applied this combination in real business scenarios, and how better access to trusted information helped improve efficiency, visibility, and control across core processes. This session offers a practical, peer-driven perspective on how SAP-centric landscapes evolve in the real world — focused on tangible outcomes and sustainable progress.

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Integrated Solutions for Finance, HR & Customer Experience: The SAP–OpenText Toolbox

In this solution breakout session, we take a focused look at how SAP–OpenText solutions such as SAP Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), OpenText Core for SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Document Presentment support and optimize core SAP-driven processes. The session outlines typical use cases, integration patterns, and the role these solutions play in improving efficiency, consistency, and control across finance, HR, and customer communications.

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Real-time insight across your stack with OpenText One Observability

Modern IT environments are complex, but visibility doesn’t have to be. Get a look at OpenText’s One Observability approach—unifying application, infrastructure, and network monitoring to deliver full-stack insight through a single, integrated experience.

This session we will discuss the latest developments and additions to our AI Operations Platform and our Network Operations Management platform.

Peter Golbach John Jackson
Peter Golbach, OpenText
John Jackson, OpenText
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Total Asset Visibility: See More, Control More, Spend Less

Do you have full visibility into your IT assets? Hidden assets and fragmented data create blind spots that increase risk, inefficiency, and unnecessary spend—you can’t manage what you can’t see.

Total Asset Visibility (TAV) provides a complete, unified, real-time insight across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments through automated discovery, reconciliation, and correlation. It turns scattered data into trusted, actionable intelligence that drives efficiency and reduces risk. 
With OpenText Universal Discovery & CMDB and Service & Asset Management, you gain a single source of truth that strengthens ITSM/ESM and IT&SAM governance.

Join this session to learn how AI-enhanced TAV delivers end-to-end control of your IT landscape, so you can see more, control more, and spend less.

Joel Eijssen
Joel Eijssen, OpenText
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 Dundar
Safa Dundar, 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 - 2:30 PM
Power up your supply chain collaboration

Supply chains today are anything but simple as success hinges on how strong your business communities are and how well they work together. That’s where OpenText Business Network comes in. Think of it as your all-in-one hub to connect with suppliers, customers, logistics partners, and banks securely, seamlessly, and smarter than ever. With built-in automation and AI-powered insights, you can speed up onboarding, stay compliant, and orchestrate processes from procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, treasury, and track-and-trace. Best of all, you’ll learn how to grow beyond managing your network to actually expanding it and turning connected communities into your secret weapon for resilience, efficiency, and innovation.

Vesna Soraic
Vesna Soraic, OpenText
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Roadmap: AI-optimized supply chain community playbook: How to win the supply chain game

The world isn’t waiting for you to catch up, and disruption is on overdrive. The next era of supply chain leadership will be won by those who can connect, collaborate, and optimize faster (and smarter) than everyone else. The secret weapon? Turning all that partner, system, and transaction data into AI-ready intelligence.  In this high-energy keynote, you’ll see how OpenText™ Business Network is flipping the script with an ecosystem AI data platform that bakes in intelligence, boosts visibility, and powers proactive decisions at scale. You’ll get a sneak peek at what’s coming next: from bulletproof multi-enterprise collaboration to real-time insights that supercharge procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and beyond.  This isn’t the same old supply chain session, it’s your backstage pass to building AI-optimized communities that turn chaos into competitive edge.  Let’s explore what’s possible and how to get there first.

Vesna Soraic
Vesna Soraic, OpenText

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

Sander is a journalist, writer, TV host, and social activist from Rotterdam who has travelled to many far-flung places. He is known for his work as a foreign correspondent and his humanitarian efforts in Africa, including shining a light on the exploitation of children working in the diamond mines in Sierra Leone. His TEDx talk may make you laugh, it may make you cry but it will certainly inspire you. For a sneak preview, see the video 

Sander De Kramer
Sander De Kramer

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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