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
- When backbone crosses the Atlantic, we always try to bring a little taste of home. And who better to bring along than one of our own customers? So this week in Chicago, our booth is stocked with Biscuiterie Jules Destrooper 🫶🏼
- Some customers sign up. Others bring their entire supplier network along. Rebecca Smith and I first got talking after she joined the webinar we ran with BRCGS. We clicked over our shared ideas about the future of quality, Belgian chocolate, and, of course, our dachshunds. Not long after, we were on a plane to Manchester to introduce backbone to all of J&K Confectionery Ltd's suppliers. Thanks for backing us and helping push the industry forward! Impact like this is why we started backbone. If you work in quality, you’ll
- This is one I've been looking forward to! Bringing together what's happening on the production floor with the bigger quality picture. Very happy to be teaming up with Polysense on this. Belgian force 💪 Yarne De Munck Jarne Bogaert #polybone #qualityoperations #food
- Buying AI is the easy part. Getting it to actually save your quality team from drowning in admin is where most companies fail. If you’re in food and tired of "AI transformation" hype while your team is still chasing documents and copy-pasting data by hand, this event is for you. On October 20th (12:00–14:30), backbone and BizzApps are hosting a practical Lunch & Learn at Wintercircus 🎪 in Ghent. No theoretical slides, but real ways to use AI on top of your Business Central ERP to: → Kill the admin: Automate specs, questionnaires,
- 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
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