Overview
Siska Lannoo founded Backbone Agency, a Belgian consulting and ecosystem-building firm. She was highlighted by David Du Pre as one of the key people responsible for Belgian tech success stories, pointing to her work in ecosystem building and her broader impact on the Flemish tech community.
In the news
- Quality people, your mid-week treat has arrived. 🍬 It’s a paper on food safety culture. It describes a pattern I see in almost every quality team we speak to: A corrective action is in a spreadsheet, the latest supplier information sits in an inbox, a customer requirement changed three weeks ago, and someone on the quality team knows how it all connects. Until they're on holiday. Food companies have more requirements and data than ever, but the way much of that information is managed hasn't really kept pace. The paper calls it
- Spread your wings and fly 🕊️ So proud of my ex team 🫶 Siska Lannoo, Julien S., Louis Opsomer, Bram Monstrey https://lnkd.in/ehcA_e6C
- The spreadsheet did a lot of heavy lifting this year. Yet, it didn't make the shortlist. backbone did 👑 We're officially a finalist for the **FDF Industry Awards 2026** in the **Manufacturing & Technological Innovation** category. We started Backbone because food manufacturers don't have a quality problem. They have an admin problem, and it's slowing product launches, delaying customer approvals, and creating avoidable quality issues. Some of the best quality teams we meet spend their days answering customer questionnaires,
- Before everyone disappears for the summer, one last session I'm looking forward to. On 30 June, I'll be joining quality leaders from AAK and LIPTON Teas and Infusions for an open AI panel on food quality and safety. The agenda isn't ours, it's yours. Every topic was submitted by quality professionals across the industry. The 100+ questions that came in are the ones people don't usually ask out loud, which is exactly why the session is worth doing. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/eCY_WC9b
- Salt is one of the oldest commodities on earth. ZOUTMAN decided that was no reason to run quality like it's 1995. Powered by backbone 💪🏼
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