Bert Verdonck is the CEO of LNDS, a governmental organisation that builds data spaces in the public sector, based on the Gaia-X framework. He has a background at Philips, where he worked on health data sharing and data & AI strategy. He has expertise in business, marketing, sales, product management, clinical informatics, cloud, data and AI/AR, population health, and medical image processing. He explores the adoption of the Gaia-X framework, scouting for European initiatives with a potential to scale.