ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026: Full Schedule

13:30 CEST

Odin's Ravens: A VCF platform for Stormgeo

Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST

Limited Capacity seats available

In this session, we will break down the VCF implementation for Stormgeo. We will explore how VCF acts as the foundational platform powering their data analytics platform, providing the infrastructure required to handle the compute and orchestration demands of their weather and satellite image processing workloads.

Speakers

Stijn Vermoesen

Teamlead Galia, ITQ

Stijn Vermoesen is a Team Lead at ITQ, leading the consultants team in Belgiu,. He specializes in VCF and related technologies, helping organizations design and run reliable, scalable infrastructure.

Michaël Van de gaer

Cloud Native Consultant @ ITQ, ITQ

Hi! My name is Michaël and I've been tinkering in the world of IT for about 12 years now. I mainly focus on designing & building Kubernetes based Platforms and the Automation around it. When I'm not working you can find me hiking or riding a motor cycle. I also love automating everything... Read More →

Dirk-Jan Alken

Technologist Private Cloud, ITQ

Dirk-Jan Alken is Technologist Private Cloud at ITQ, specializing in VCF-based SDDC solutions. He’s passionate about sharing knowledge within ITQ and the broader VMware community.

Friday September 25, 2026 13:30 - 14:15 CEST
(3) Mestral 3 & 4 ITQ Hotel

Customer Case, Breakout Session - 40 minutes

Audience All Tech ITQers, Sales, Project Management
Subject Customer Case
Area Tech Level 200

14:45 CEST

Confessions of a Lazy Salesperson (And Claude That Enables It)

FULL

Friday September 25, 2026 14:45 - 15:05 CEST

(3) Mestral 3 & 4

Limited Capacity full
Adding this to your schedule will put you on the waitlist.

See how ITQ uses AI to turn customer conversations into tailored proposals. In this hands-on demo, we walk through our workflow: capturing meeting insights in Notion, using Claude to analyse transcripts, and generating offers that speak directly to what the customer actually said they need, not what we assumed.

Speakers

Ferdinand Stijn

Partner Manager, ITQ Consultancy B.V.

Ferdinand Stijn is an Partner Manager at ITQ Consultancy B.V. After five years deep in VMware/Broadcom licensing, he's now building ITQ's AI-practice sales motion around Dell, NVIDIA, Red Hat, SUSE, and VCF/AI platforms. He's motivated by growth and solving real customer problems... Read More →

Friday September 25, 2026 14:45 - 15:05 CEST
(3) Mestral 3 & 4 ITQ Hotel

Business Session, Demo Session - 15 minutes

Audience Sales, Project Management, All ITQers
Subject Demo Session
Area AI, Learn about ITQ, Personal Development

15:35 CEST

How a PoC becomes production and the scaling pitfalls of a PoC

LIMITED

Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 15:55 CEST

(6) Lobby 1

Limited Capacity seats available

Building an AI proof of concept today is surprisingly easy. With the right tools and platforms, you can get something working in no time.

But turning that PoC into a production system is where the real work begins.

Suddenly, it’s about privacy, scalability, reliability, cost, and automation. Tools that worked fine in a prototype start to show their limits.

In this talk, I’ll walk through what to consider in that transition based on a ‘how-not-to’ and how to move from a quick demo to a robust, scalable AI solution.

Speakers

Remco Stolwijk

Cloud Native Consultant, ITQ

Friday September 25, 2026 15:35 - 15:55 CEST
(6) Lobby 1 ITQ Hotel

Technical Breakout, Lightning Talk - 15 minutes

Audience Sales, Consultancy, Project Management, All Tech ITQers
Subject Technical Session

16:50 CEST

Compliance as Code: Automating Security Checks

Friday September 25, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST

(3) Mestral 3 & 4

Security and Compliance does not always require endless spreadsheets, PDFs, Docs and manual tasks.
In this session we explore how the MITRE Security Automation Framework (SAF) can support use cases which require a standardized, automated compliance pipeline. An approach to be able to scale with the infrastructure and remove human errors.

We will walk you through a use case auditing an environment which needs to fulfill special security requirements by extending VMware DISA STIG compliance checks.

You will be introduced to a framework built on open source tooling.

Your takeaways:
- Understanding of MITRE SAF
- How to extend existing STIG profiles
- A live demo of a framework built on open source toolsets

Speakers

Benjamin Schmitt

Consultant, ITQ

Hello there,
I am Benjamin located in Munich Germany and a VMware Consultant for almost half a decade. Always on the lookout for new technical innovations and to think outside the box.
Working with IT is fun but not everything in IT is technical. An important part of my work is to bridge the gap between IT and people. Successful projects are not achieved by technology alone, but through clear communication, shared understanding, and close collaboration among all... Read More →

Friday September 25, 2026 16:50 - 17:10 CEST
(3) Mestral 3 & 4 ITQ Hotel

Tech level 200, Lightning Talk - 15 minutes, Demo Session - 15 minutes

Audience Sales, Consultancy, Project Management, CTO Office
Subject Technical Session
Area VCF, Security

ITQonnect Days & ITQon! 2026

13:30 CEST

Stijn Vermoesen

Michaël Van de gaer

Dirk-Jan Alken

14:45 CEST

Ferdinand Stijn

15:35 CEST

Remco Stolwijk

16:50 CEST

Benjamin Schmitt

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