Erik Klewais Email & Phone Number

Brussels Metropolitan Area

Brussels Area, Belgium

Responsible for shaping the new AI and Analytics landscape within the digital transformation program of the Federation of Notaries (FEDNOT). Key responsibilities were: Introduction of the scalable AI organization to drive business challenges faster and more powerful with the added value of AI. Responsible for founding & managing an Data & AI team of 20 specialists & translators. Set up of a comprehensive data program over three years, building out a Data Lake, a reporting environment and Data Analysis environment with streaming analytics approach. Set up of a production AI environment for ML & DL models and associated data pipelines, orchestration and monitoring. Realization of several AI products: an LGB based real estate valuation model, a clause finder on anonymized notary deed data, AI based text extraction for intelligent document processing. Setting up a data governance framework to significantly increase the Data maturity of the organization. Within a Cloud first strategy, Google based.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Responsible for founding the VDAB AI team and growing the team to 15 specialists as well as setting up an Advanced Analytics platform as a building block for the digital transformation of VDAB. Realization of the predictive model 'Next Steps' that predicts how long jobseekers will remain unemployed and what counselling actions should be taken. Responsible for integrating the ‘Next Steps’ model as a key enabler within the Digital-First Contact strategy that VDAB officially rolled out in 2018. The Next Steps project made it very tangible for the first time what Big Data could mean for VDAB and how it is able to transform & drive its services and increase its societal impact. Other major analytic projects are Fraud detection in job-seekers behavior, Click Data analysis, Graph / Network Based recommender systems and the development of an AI driven Job Matching framework based on a deep neural network. Many of these artefacts are currently embedded within the digital tools & services provided by VDAB . Being a frontrunner in AI applications, the VDAB AI team won multiple awards and was able to inspire PES institutes across Europe.

Brussels Area, Belgium

The Innovation Lab has paved the way for the digital transformation of Flemish public employment service. A wide variety of Innovation projects were carried out. Development of the first VDAB Apps, new UX approaches, Customer Journeys, IBM Watson, App Job fairs, Otto, Vick Platform, Mentor, My Coach... It was during this period of experimentation that it became clear to the VDAB that the innovations needed to be data-first/data-driven in order to really have an impact on VDAB’s services. As such, the Analytics & AI team was born. VDAB-Lead of the Leerstoel CAReer Management Analytics, with faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven. Focusing on Recommender systems for vacancies.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Implementing Data Architecture principlesSolutioning Siebel as a Cloud ServicePoc Oracle Endecca

Brussels Area, Belgium

Technical lead VDAB Data Warehouse team. Responsible for building from scratch a corporate Data Warehouse & BI solution, Company wide, 1 000 plus BI users. Oracle Data Integration (ODI) , Oracle BI

Implementing and supporting Business Objects as a Real Time reporting Tool for operational reporting.

Brussels Area, Belgium

Responsible for BI reporting on VDAB Vocational training courses.

Master'S Degree, Political Sciences

High School, Science