State of Data 2025 - Dataminded Event

📅 When: April 3rd - 4th, 2025
📍 Where: Dataminded Office, Leuven

Why Attend?

- 🌟 Stay Ahead: Discover the latest trends in data products, platforms, and analytics.
- 🧩 Learn from Experts: Gain insights from industry leaders and hands-on practitioners.
- 🤝 Network with Peers: Connect with data leaders and engineers shaping the future.
- 🛠️ Interactive Sessions: Participate in engaging talks, real-world case studies, and an AI/ML game.

Event Highlights:

Day 1: Leadership Day (April 3rd): Focused on data strategy, governance, and case studies from industry leaders. Perfect for CDOs, data strategists, and decision-makers.
Day 2: Tech Day (April 4th): Designed for data engineers with technical talks, hands-on sessions, and an AI/ML game to flex your engineering skills.

Seats are limited – don’t miss your chance to connect, learn, and shape the future of data.

👉 Register now and secure your spot!

Content & Schedule

📅 April 3rd – Leadership Day

Focused on data strategy, challenges, and building data-driven organizations.

🕠 17:30 - 18:00 | Doors Open

🕕 18:00 - 18:35 | Building Data-Centric Organizations with Data Platforms
Speaker: Jonny Daenen, Cloud Data Engineer, Knowledge Lead & Partner at Dataminded

→ Learn how to build a scalable, self-service data platform that drives efficiency and ownership.

🕡 18:35 - 19:05 | The State of Enterprise Data 2025: Key Trends and Strategic Insights from 150+ European Data Leaders
Speakers: Pascal Knapen, CTO & Partner at Dataminded and Miruna Suru, Product Marketeer at Conveyor & Data Product Portal

→ Insights from 150+ European data leaders: top priorities, challenges & trends for 2025.

🕖 19:05 - 19:25 | Break, Networking & Drinks

🕢 19:25 - 20:25 | Panel: Enterprise Data in 2025 – Leading Belgium Companies
→ How can enterprises tackle AI demand, data literacy gaps, and governance challenges?

🕗 20:25 - 20:35 | Short Break

🕗 20:35 - 21:10 | Dell & McLaren Case Study: How Data Drives Performance
Speaker: Tom Van Daele, Field CTO, Dell

- Real-world lessons from McLaren’s data-driven success in F1

🕘 21:10 - 22:00 | Networking & Drinks

📅 April 4th – Technical Track

Deep dive into cutting-edge data engineering practices.

🕟 16:30 - 17:00 | Doors Open

🕔 17:00 - 17:25 | How Dataminded Looks at the Data World
Speaker: Pascal Knapen, CTO & Partner at Dataminded
→ A retrospective on past innovations & future trends in data engineering.

🕠 17:25 - 17:50 | Battle of the Metadata Catalogs: Unity vs. Polaris
Speaker: Niels Claeys, Lead Data Engineer
→ A deep dive into Snowflake & Databricks' open-source catalog solutions.

🕠 17:50 - 18:20 | How to Walk the Talk with Data Contracts - Jelle De Vleminck
→ Practical insights on implementing data contracts the right way.

🕖 18:20 - 18:30 | Networking Break

🕡 18:30 - 19:05 | dbt or Not dbt? -
→ Exploring dbt’s strengths, emerging competitors & what’s next in analytics engineering.

🕡 19:05 - 19:25 | Data Engineering is (Not) Software Engineering - Jelena Grujic, Data Engineer at Dataminded
→ Where do the two fields overlap, and where do they diverge?

🕢 19:25 - 19:40 | Networking Break

🕗 19:40 - 20:00 | MLOps Without the Overwhelm - Raghid Bsat, Data Engineer at Dataminded
→ A practical guide to implementing MLOps without unnecessary complexity.

🕘 20:00 - 21:00 | Dataminded’s Hack the Vault Game
→ A Cluedo-style challenge: Can you jailbreak the AI and crack the code?

🕙 21:00 - 22:00 | Networking & Drinks

Join us on April 3rd - 4th at our Dataminded office in Leuven for the second edition of our flagship event "State of Data 2025."

We can’t wait to welcome you!

Getting data done

At Dataminded, we empower organisations to unlock the full potential of their data and AI, transforming them into data-driven leaders.

With unmatched expertise in data strategy and engineering and a hands-on approach, we design and deliver sustainable, scalable data platforms and analytics solutions that drive impactful decision-making and long-term success.

Our consulting services cover the entire data lifecycle, from architecture and development of cloud-native data platforms to implementing pipelines and analytical applications.

Passionate about collaboration and delivering real value, we focus on mentoring teams, sharing learnings, and building lasting partnerships.

Let’s build your future—together. Learn more...

Two days. Two tracks. One goal: to elevate the world of data.

Why Attend?

Event Highlights:

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📅 April 3rd – Leadership Day

📅 April 4th – Technical Track

Getting data done