{"id":3574,"date":"2025-07-21T09:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/speakers\/sofie-berns\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:51:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:51:36","slug":"sofie-berns","status":"publish","type":"speakers","link":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/speakers\/sofie-berns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofie Berns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Head of the DATA (Data &amp; AI Technology Accelerator) department, Sofie leads a fast-growing team of 80 data scientists, data engineers, and DevOps engineers. The department focuses on the short-cycle development of state-of-the-art AI algorithms and the Defense-wide data science platform. Sofie strives to enable Defense to innovate rapidly and thus stay technologically ahead; after all, coming in second is not an option! Examples of developed DATA applications include DefGPT, Digital Interpreter, and Agentic AI for command and control.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3045,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"event_category":[88,80],"class_list":["post-3574","speakers","type-speakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_category-government-en","event_category-insight-in-data-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevum.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}