Compliance Connection Belgium 2026
📅 June 18, 2026
🕛 09:00 - 18:00 (incl. breakfast, lunch, drinks & networking)
🗣️ English
📍 Harmoney Office, Ghent (Belgium)
About the event
Compliance teams across Europe are navigating one of the most demanding regulatory cycles in a generation. AMLR is reshaping AML operations. Sanctions enforcement is intensifying. Digital identity is being redefined. And AI is changing both the threats and the tools available to compliance teams.
Compliance Connection Belgium is a full-day event designed for the professionals at the centre of these shifts. Three expert-led sessions, each focused on a topic that is front of mind for compliance and risk teams today, combining regulatory perspective, real customer cases, and open peer exchange.
No theory. No sales pitches. Just honest, practical conversation between professionals facing the same challenges.
Who is this for?
This event is free for compliance managers, AML and KYC specialists, risk managers, and senior decision-makers at banks, insurers, and wealth managers regulated by the NBB or FSMA.
Professionals with a commercial profile (vendors, consultants, technology providers) are welcome to attend at a participation fee. Contact connect@myharmoney.eu for details.
What to expect
- Three panel discussions tackling the challenges compliance officers face today: AMLR readiness, what to do when the regulator calls and the shift to new technologies in compliance.
- Three perspectives, one conversation: each panel brings together expert speakers from a financial institution representative, an industry expert, and a technology partner.
- Real case studies grounded in what financial institutions are actually dealing with today
- Peer exchange with compliance and risk professionals from across Belgium and beyond
- Networking all day long with breakfast, coffee breaks, lunch, and closing drinks
Sessions
Opening note: the compliance framework no longer holds
Compliance systems have been built incrementally. An AML tool here, a KYC layer there, more screening after each audit, more filtering after each new regulation, another tool after each fine. The result: no integration, fragmented workflows, and teams managing the stack instead of the risk.
This session asks the question no one has time to ask in the day-to-day: if we were rebuilding compliance from scratch today, what would actually look different?
Thomas Van Maele
CEO and co-founder at Harmoney
Johannes Thym
Risk & compliance director at Ayvens Belgium
Roundtable 1 // Preparing for AMLR: check-in and challenges
July 2027 is tomorrow. The technical standards aren't finalised. And yet, some institutions have already launched structural transformations. Why? Because supervisors won't only assess your final state of compliance. They'll assess the credibility of the trajectory.
This session is a candid check-in: what are financial institutions actually building right now, what are they still waiting on, and where are the biggest unknowns?
David Vantorre
AML Methodology Officer & Deputy AMLCO at Belfius
Christophe Olenaed
Head of Client & Business Activity at Edmond De Rothschild
Joan Carette
Partner in Fintech, Payments and Financial Regulations at Simont Braun
Jeffrey Goethals
Compliance Officer at Truncus
Sven Mannetstätter
Strategic consultant at Projective Group
Roundtable 2 // Navigating the supervisory inspection lifecycle
A supervisory inspection is rarely a surprise, but few institutions are as prepared as they assume. This roundtable takes a deep dive into the full lifecycle of an on-site inspection: preparing documentation, decisions, and rationale to withstand regulatory scrutiny; conducting the institution appropriately during the inspection; and structuring effective remediation afterwards.
We're bringing together compliance officers, law firms, and consultancies, drawing on practitioners who have managed the process from both sides of the table. The session is built around practitioner experience. What worked, what backfired, and what compliance teams wish they had known before the regulator walked in.
Marta Gonzalez Perez
Head of Sanctions and AML Regulatory Advisory at Euroclear
Kevin Seminck
Compliance Officer at Truncus
Philippe De Prez
Financial Services & FinTech Lawyer at Simont Braun
Philippe Mortreux
Director at NORRIQ Financial Services
Roundtable 3 // The new technology baseline in compliance: AI, digital identity & wallets, UBO integration
Technology no longer just supports compliance. It now defines what supervisors consider acceptable. eIDAS 2.0 is becoming an expected baseline. pKYC is emerging as the new standard. AI is already in use, by you, and against you. And many data sources can be integrated automatically.
As compliance frameworks evolve, fraud is industrialising: deepfakes at onboarding, synthetic identities, automated workarounds. This session looks at how financial institutions are responding: what's already working, what's still aspirational, and how compliance teams are getting IT to actually deliver.
Mathias Heyse
Senior Manager in Finance, Risk & Compliance at Accenture
Alexandra Hoen
Manager in Banking & Capital markets at Accenture
Pierre-Henri Janssens
CEO & co-founder at Topograph
Saar de Zutter
CEO at Dioss Smart Solutions
The Harmoney Circle: where compliance turns into action
No endless theory, no sales pitch. Just real-life experience, peer-to-peer exchange, and ideas you can apply from tomorrow.
Compliance Connection Belgium follows the success of the Paris edition, held in November 2025. Watch the recap to get a feel for the format, the conversations, and the atmosphere.