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dataMinds Connect

At a glance

Next event
Not announcedLast: Oct 12–14, 2026
Call for papers
Closed May 21, 20262026 call
Audience
Not published
Tickets
€225–€6256 prices, 2026
Sponsorship
Packages not published
Sponsors
22 in 2026▼ −4% vs 2025 (23)
Program freshness
87#111 of 143 · 17% reruns
Similar conferences
DataGrillen, Fabric February, Data Saturdays
Organizer
dataMinds VZW (Belgian Microsoft Data Platform user group, formerly SQLUG.be)
Category
Database
Website
datamindsconnect.be
Social
X / Twitter · LinkedIn
Typical place
Mechelen, Belgium
Topics
BI & analyticsData engineeringWarehouse & lakehouseGovernance & qualityStreaming

Volunteer-run Belgian conference focused on the Microsoft Data Platform (SQL Server, Azure data, Power BI, Fabric, Databricks), organised by the dataMinds user group (founded 2006 as SQLUG.be, rebranded 2016). Successor of the SQLUG.be 'SQL Server Days'; first run as dataMinds Connect in 2017. Held at the Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre in Mechelen in October: a precon/training day plus one conference day (2019, 2021-2023) or two conference days (from 2024). The 2020 edition (13 Oct 2020) was a free virtual event and is not recorded (online-only); the separate one-day 'dataMinds Saturday' events (e.g. the virtual one on 13 March 2021, and a Data Saturday in Mechelen in April 2024) are not recorded as editions. About page says more than 500 attendees attend the yearly conference and the group has 4000+ members. Social accounts are the dataMinds user group's. Speakers and talks come from the Sessionize embeds on the per-year agenda pages; affiliations are parsed from Sessionize taglines only where they name an employer.

Speakers it attracts

The 197 people who spoke at dataMinds Connect in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.

43%experienced speakers: talks at 3+ other conferences · more than 89% of conferences
18have keynoted another conference
35%no other tracked talks: new voices, or speakers from outside the circuit
Where they work (124 with a known employer type)Consultancies 58%Vendors 31%Other 6%Practitioners (end-user companies) 3%Universities & research 2%

Most established speakers

Events72019–2026
Sponsoring companies45137 sponsorships
Speaker appearances522

Activity by year

Sponsors

Sponsor companies per year

Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.

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Speakers

Speakers per year

Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.

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Events

DatesEventPlaceFormat / statusAttendanceSponsorsSpeakers
Oct 12–14, 2026dataMinds Connect 2026Mechelen, Belgium—2297
Oct 6–8, 2025dataMinds Connect 2025Mechelen, Belgium—2393
Oct 7–9, 2024dataMinds Connect 2024Mechelen, Belgium—2199
Oct 9–10, 2023dataMinds Connect 2023Mechelen, Belgium—2267
Oct 10–11, 2022dataMinds Connect 2022Mechelen, Belgium—2158
Oct 11–12, 2021dataMinds Connect 2021Mechelen, Belgium—1757
Oct 7–8, 2019dataMinds Connect 2019Mechelen, Belgium—1151

Attendance over time

No attendance figures recorded

Most frequent speaker companies

Microsoft78element6114U2U11Databricks8AE8Advancing Analytics7Lytix7Avanade7Sopra Steria6Polar Squad6Datashift5Cegeka5delaware5Data Masterminds5Redgate5

Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.

Similar conferences

Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.

  1. DataGrillen0.39
  2. Fabric February0.32
  3. Data Saturdays0.32
  4. SQLBits0.23
  5. DATA:Scotland0.22

6 Cluster: Microsoft · Avanade · Advancing Analytics crowd →

Sponsors over the years

Top 25 of 45 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.

  • Media
  • Other / unspecified
2019202120222023202420252026element61element61U2UU2UAEAECegekaCegekaLACOLACOLytixLytixBmatixBmatixdelawaredelawareMoninMoninKoheraKoheraSparkleSparkleCloubisCloubisDatashiftDatashiftMicrosoftMicrosoftMyrmidonsMyrmidonsTabular EditorTabular EditorInetum-RealdolmenInetum-RealdolmenRedgateRedgateTriFinanceTriFinanceKPMGKPMGMicropoleMicropolePlainsightPlainsightTillitTillitOrdinaOrdinaCartiereCartiere

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