Laurence Mathieu appointed Chair of Agoria's Digital Industries Committee

KEYES is pleased to announce the appointment of its CEO, Laurence Mathieu, as Chair of Agoria's Digital Industries Committee.

This appointment recognises her expertise and longstanding commitment to building a strong, innovative and sovereign Belgian digital ecosystem. It comes at a time when the major technological challenges facing our societies require, more than ever, a shared vision and stronger collaboration between businesses, public authorities, academia and research institutions.

Building bridges across the digital ecosystem

The Digital Industries Committee brings together the full diversity of Belgium's digital sector, including system integrators, software publishers, technology companies, start-ups, scale-ups and international players operating in the Belgian market.

For Laurence Mathieu, this diversity is one of the ecosystem's greatest strengths.

"The major challenges we face – artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital sovereignty, skills development and sustainability – are far beyond the capabilities of any single organisation. Our responsibility is to foster dialogue between the different areas of expertise and create the conditions for collective initiatives that will strengthen our digital ecosystem for the long term."

This vision is fully aligned with KEYES' ambition: building bridges between expertise, technologies and stakeholders to support the long-term digital transformation of organisations.

Advancing Belgium's digital maturity

As Chair of the Committee, Laurence Mathieu aims to help strengthen Belgium's digital maturity while supporting the development of a European digital model built on trust, resilience, pragmatism and sovereignty.

Among the priorities that will shape her mandate are digital sovereignty, the development of sovereign cloud services, artificial intelligence, open-source technologies and the evolution of the skills required for tomorrow's digital professions.

For Laurence Mathieu, digital sovereignty is not about isolation. It is about preserving the freedom to choose where our data is hosted, who operates our critical infrastructures, and under which trusted framework our technologies are deployed.

Preparing tomorrow's talent

Digital transformation is, above all, driven by the women and men who make it possible.

Laurence Mathieu therefore advocates stronger and lasting collaboration between academia and industry to better prepare future talent for technological change while developing the human skills that will make the difference in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.

She also intends to continue promoting greater diversity across the digital sector, convinced that a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives is a powerful driver of innovation.

This appointment reflects KEYES' ambition to actively contribute to the strategic discussions shaping the future of digital technologies in Belgium and across Europe, placing technology at the service of organisational performance, digital sovereignty and society as a whole.

Read Laurence Mathieu's full interview with Agoria here.