17th of april 2025 @ Groot Handelshuis
Gomibo Conference
Are you in the final stage of your studies and looking to explore your next step? Or are you searching for a challenging part-time job where you can gain practical experience during your studies? Do you want to discover what you can contribute to the business world in Groningen?
a look behind the scenes
What’s it like to work at Belsimpel/Gomibo?
On April 17, 2025, we’re hosting the Gomibo Conference: a day where you’ll get to learn all about what it’s like to work at Belsimpel/Gomibo, our teams, and our mission. During the Gomibo Conference, you’ll have a unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes at Belsimpel. You can work on cases that match your interests, follow workshops that are normally reserved for Belsimpel employees, and network with colleagues from different teams. You’ll also have the chance to get a professional LinkedIn photo taken, join fun activities and games, and win amazing prizes!
Who is it for?
The Gomibo Conference is intended for students from a wide range of fields — from Economics and Business Administration to Computer Science and Data Science!
The Conference is specially designed to be interesting for everyone: even the workshops and cases are tailored to different interests and areas of study.
Program
14:30 – Walk-in
15:00 – Introduction by founder Jeroen Elkhuizen
15:45 – Workshops and office tour
17:30 – Job fair and networking drinks on our rooftop
19:00 – Expected end
- You can submit your workshop preferences via the form. Please note that you can attend only one case or workshop.
- For the conference, you will receive an email with your final case/workshop assignment and further details.
Gomibo Conference
Cases & Workshops
Commercial / Strategic case
The telecommunication market has been shrinking for some years now. To continue growing, Belsimpel has decided to walk two different roads.. Expanding the reseller-business into Europe as Gomibo, as well as bringing our own software to the market as a SaaS-platform for other telecommunication companies. This helped us to keep growing the last couple of years.
Now, we find ourselves in an interesting situation. Gomibo is now directly competing with a brand new company in Germany. This other company is using our software platform which means we also benefit by them generating more traffic and sales. However, this might mean that Gomibo will not grow as much as we would like to. In this case it is up to you to tackle this situation: what is the strategy that you would pick and what company would you focus on?
Technical case
Over the past few years, we have transformed the Belsimpel webstore into a full-fledged e-commerce platform. By productizing our software, we are able to support other telecom companies in setting up and/or improving their online customer journeys.
The transition from webstore to e-commerce platform did not go without a fight – we had to make key architectural changes to prepare our platform for this next step. In short, we transitioned from a monolithic to a service-oriented architecture, which effectively means that we’re splitting up key functions of our software (until then, a single codebase stored in a single repository) into separate, independent services.
We are now well on our way to realize this service-oriented architecture, as more and more services are going live. The biggest challenge that we still face, is how we are going to make our webstore pages configurable. Currently, this is still mostly hardcoded, meaning that our engineers directly control the look and feel of all pages. Whereas we want to go towards a situation where (business) users of the platform can configure the platform based on a predefined set of configurability options that we make available for them. Examples include: choosing the brand color, whether or not to show add-to-cart buttons in the offer list items, and whether or not to show recently viewed products at the bottom of a page.
It will be your task to come up with a technical solution to this problem.
Management Case
Step into the shoes of a Management Trainee and explore the various topics covered during the Traineeship! Whether you’re interested in HR or process optimization, this case challenges you to develop strategic solutions!
Workshop Presenting
Want to level up your presentation game and truly capture your audience’s attention? Whether you’re presenting a project, pitching an idea, or sharing your vision—how you tell your story makes all the difference.
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to structure your presentation using Simon Sinek’s powerful Why-How-What model. We’ll guide you through the key steps to make your message clear, engaging, and memorable.
You’ll discover:
How to define your why: the real reason behind your presentation
How to shape your story: what format best supports your goal
How to deliver your what: the core message that sticks with your audience
Expect practical tips, hands-on exercises, and personal feedback to help you grow your confidence and make your presentations truly impactful.
Workshop applying and CV check
While looking for a job you will have to compete with a lot of other people. That is why it is important to have a good CV and be fully prepared for the job interview. With this workshop you will boost your application skills! We will talk about do’s and don’ts, practice with job interviews and give you lots of tips and tricks. At the end you will also have the chance to get your CV or LinkedIn page checked by our colleagues of the Talent and Recruitment department.