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dataMinds Connect 2024
Oct 7–9, 2024 · Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre, Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Conference
- dataMinds Connect Database
- Dates
- Oct 7, 2024 – Oct 9, 2024
- Venue
- Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre
- Place
- Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datamindsconnect.be
- Recorded
- 21 sponsors · 99 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Format: precon/training day plus two conference days. Speakers: full Sessionize programme from the agenda page (full-day precons recorded with role 'workshop'; single-track opening sessions on conference mornings as 'keynote'); track = room. Sponsors: archived partners page (Nov 2024): Booth Package Partners and Media Package Partners, no ranking. Prices: archived registration page (Sept 2024; all ticket types shown sold out except precon-only).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference Day (Oct 8 or 9) | €200 | — | incl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Pre-conference Only (Oct 7) | €250 | — | incl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Conference Days (Oct 8 and 9) | €375 | — | incl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Precon + one Conference Day | €425 | — | incl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Full Conference (Precon + Conference), Early Bird | €550 | — | incl. VAT; only 50 tickets | web.archive.org |
| Full Conference (Precon + Conference), Standard | €600 | — | incl. VAT | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 21
Media 3
- Inetum-Realdolmen · Media Package Partners
- Monin · Media Package Partners
- TriFinance · Media Package Partners
Other 18
- AE · Booth Package Partners
- Bmatix · Booth Package Partners
- Cegeka · Booth Package Partners
- Cloubis · Booth Package Partners
- Datashift · Booth Package Partners
- delaware · Booth Package Partners
- element61 · Booth Package Partners
- EpicData · Booth Package Partners
- Kohera · Booth Package Partners
- LACO · Booth Package Partners
- Lytix · Booth Package Partners
- Micropole · Booth Package Partners
- Microsoft · Booth Package Partners
- Plainsight · Booth Package Partners
- Randstad Digital · Booth Package Partners
- Tabular Editor · Booth Package Partners
- Tillit · Booth Package Partners
- U2U · Booth Package Partners
Speakers and talks 99
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conor Cunningham | Microsoft | Keynote | Designing Data Warehouses For Modern Clouds | — |
| Liping Huang | Databricks | Keynote | Technical Keynote - Azure Databricks | — |
| Marius Panga | Databricks | Keynote | Technical Keynote - Azure Databricks | — |
| Silviu Tofan | Databricks | Keynote | Technical Keynote - Azure Databricks | — |
| Abhi Jayanty | Quorum | Speaker | The Sixth Sense: Using Log Analytics to Efficiently Monitor Your Azure Environment | — |
| Alessio Nigro | DataSense | Speaker | From Spotify to Smarter Insights: Exploring Databricks' Intelligence Features | — |
| Alexander Arvidsson | — | Speaker | Flight Planning - How Governance Can Save You a Fortune | — |
| Alexander Arvidsson | — | Speaker | Knee-Deep In Tech Live @ DataMinds Connect | — |
| Anastasia Salari | MDW | Speaker | Exploring the art of conditional formatting in Power BI | — |
| Andreas Geysegoms | AE | Speaker | dbt and Fabric - a match made in heaven? | — |
| Andrew Pruski | — | Speaker | Disaster Recovery Strategies for SQL Server | — |
| Anita Ambalavanan | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting more from your data with Power BI Copilot | — |
| Ásgeir Gunnarsson | — | Speaker | Monitoring Fabric, make do, buy or build | — |
| Bart Vernaillen | — | Speaker | How the length of character datatypes influences memory grants | — |
| Ben Ferry | International University of Applied Sciences | Speaker | Goodbye visual shite, hello vega-lite | — |
| Ben Mellaerts | Dataroots | Speaker | Developing user focused BI-dashboards for business adoption | — |
| Brian Bønk | — | Workshop | Build A Fabric Real-time Intelligence Solution in One Day | — |
| Cathrine Wilhelmsen | Evidi | Workshop | Build a Microsoft Fabric Proof of Concept in a Day | — |
| Cédric Charlier | — | Speaker | Help! My data product is invisible. | — |
| Cláudio Silva | — | Workshop | Writing T-SQL code for the engine, not for you! - The training day | — |
| Cláudio Silva | — | Speaker | X-Raying Schema Operations: Adding and Removing Columns | — |
| Conor Cunningham | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric Warehouse Query Processor Deep Dive | — |
| David L. Bojsen | Tabular Editor | Speaker | Get better (and actionable) alerts from your orchestration pipelines | — |
| Denis Selimovic | b.telligent | Speaker | Fishing for Insights: Exploring Fabric OneLake and DirectLake Mode in Power BI | — |
| Dennie Declercq | DDSoft | Speaker | Can Generative AI make the world more Inclusive? | — |
| Devang Shah | Microsoft | Workshop | Build A Fabric Real-time Intelligence Solution in One Day | — |
| Dries Gielis | Datashift | Speaker | I have a real-time streaming pipeline, nice! What now? | — |
| Els van Vessem | — | Speaker | Gender, beyond 0/1 | — |
| Emilie Rønning | Quarks | Workshop | Build a Microsoft Fabric Proof of Concept in a Day | — |
| Emilie Rønning | Quarks | Speaker | Become the ADF pipeline guru in your organization | — |
| Emily Tehrani | Microsoft | Speaker | Effortless Query Optimization: Exploring Fabric SQL Engine Mechanics and Performance Monitoring | — |
| Enrico van de Laar | Privinity | Speaker | Protecting and working with sensitive data in Azure | — |
| Erwin de Kreuk | InSpark | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric: Building a Data Ingestion and Processing framework to Drive Efficiency | — |
| Esa Denaux | Micropole | Speaker | Effective Data Quality Checks and Monitoring with Databricks and Pandas | — |
| Francisco Costa | Natixis | Speaker | Leverage Power Query to get data from Rest APIs | — |
| Frank Geisler | GDS Business Intelligence GmbH | Workshop | Build A Fabric Real-time Intelligence Solution in One Day | — |
| Giancarlo Costa | European Food Safety Authority | Speaker | EFSA implements a data mesh at scale with Databricks: practical insights | — |
| Gianluca Sartori | — | Speaker | SQL Server Infernals – A Beginner’s Guide to SQL Server Worst Practices | — |
| Grace O'Halloran | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Another Brick in the Firewall: How to Secure your Azure Data Platform | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Polar Squad | Speaker | A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Polar Squad | Speaker | Knee-Deep In Tech Live @ DataMinds Connect | — |
| Hélène Kielbowicz | — | Speaker | Help! My data product is invisible. | — |
| Hugo Kornelis | — | Speaker | Approximate functions: How do they work? | — |
| Jan Meskens | Sievax | Speaker | Data Strategy: Your First-Class Ticket to Data Nirvana | — |
| Jan Van Meirvenne | — | Speaker | EFSA implements a data mesh at scale with Databricks: practical insights | — |
| Jo David | — | Speaker | Fabric adoption roadmap: Napoleon's success story | — |
| Joël Vangrunderbeeck | Bmatix | Speaker | Embedding Power BI reports on your own portal | — |
| Joey D'Antoni | Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting | Speaker | A Deep Dive into Azure Automation | — |
| Johan Ludvig Brattås | — | Workshop | Build A Fabric Real-time Intelligence Solution in One Day | — |
| Johan Ludvig Brattås | — | Speaker | Real-Time Hub: Starting Point of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric | — |
| Johannes Vink | — | Speaker | A journey from classic data warehousing to data engineering based on a customer story | — |
| John Martin | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | The importance of data testing in data engineering. | — |
| Johnny Winter | Advancing Analytics | Workshop | Practical Agile Data Product Design: From Strategy to User Story | — |
| Karel Coenye | VLAIO | Speaker | Staying out of the datamess, unity catalog for data-mesh | — |
| Koen Verbeeck | AE | Speaker | Tackling the Gaps & Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions | — |
| Kris van der Mast | VaHa | Speaker | A gentle introduction to Python | — |
| Kristijan Shirgoski | Lytix | Speaker | With great power comes a great bill: optimise, govern and monitor your Azure costs | — |
| Kurt Buhler | — | Speaker | What Fabric means for your Power BI semantic models | — |
| Lauren Faber | Microsoft | Speaker | Getting more from your data with Power BI Copilot | — |
| Linda Torrång | Data Masterminds | Speaker | Multitasking for Mortals - How to Stop Multitasking and Start Getting Things Done | — |
| Liping Huang | Databricks | Speaker | Cost control and cross charge on Databricks using Power BI template | — |
| Magnus Ahlkvist | Transmokopter SQL AB | Workshop | Automation for DBAs and database developers | — |
| Magnus Ahlkvist | Transmokopter SQL AB | Speaker | Become a meta data driven SQL Server DBA | — |
| Marc Lelijveld | — | Speaker | Power BI refreshes - reinvented! | — |
| Marco Hansma | InSpark | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric: Building a Data Ingestion and Processing framework to Drive Efficiency | — |
| Maria Lys | Sopra Steria | Speaker | Beautiful and Smart: A User-Centric Approach to Data Visualization. | — |
| Marius Panga | Databricks | Speaker | Cost control and cross charge on Databricks using Power BI template | — |
| Mariya Ali | Microsoft | Speaker | Effortless Query Optimization: Exploring Fabric SQL Engine Mechanics and Performance Monitoring | — |
| Marthe Moengen | Sopra Steria | Workshop | Build a Microsoft Fabric Proof of Concept in a Day | — |
| Mathias Thierbach | — | Workshop | Upgrading Enterprise Power BI Architecture | — |
| Matt Gordon | Centric Consulting | Workshop | Build A Fabric Real-time Intelligence Solution in One Day | — |
| Matt Gordon | Centric Consulting | Speaker | Real-Time Hub: Starting Point of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric | — |
| Matt Gordon | Centric Consulting | Speaker | Ground to Cloud: Your Migration Success Checklist | — |
| Nick Verhelst | Plainsight | Speaker | Start 2 MLOps: From the lab to production | — |
| Nico Jacobs | U2U | Speaker | The Power of Paginated Reports | — |
| Parcifal Van Gucht | element61 | Speaker | Power BI CI/CD: Build your collaboration strategy! | — |
| Paulina Jędrzejewska | b.telligent | Speaker | The Sidekick's Guide to Supercharging Power BI Heroes | — |
| Peter van den Bos | — | Speaker | Optimizing Power BI: Enhancing Performance Through Data Modeling | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Speaker | What makes a good commit? Good Practices for Data Professionals | — |
| Robert French | — | Speaker | Why Am I Here? Dealing with Imposter Syndrome | — |
| Rui Romano | Microsoft | Speaker | Optimizing Power BI Development: Unleashing the Potential of Developer Mode | — |
| Sam Debruyn | Dataroots | Speaker | Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Sander Stad | Data Masterminds | Speaker | Saying no is OK | — |
| Sebastiaan Leysen | delaware | Speaker | EFSA implements a data mesh at scale with Databricks: practical insights | — |
| Silviu Tofan | Databricks | Speaker | Multi-Layered Isolation Protecting Your Data in Databricks Serverless | — |
| Simon Whiteley | — | Speaker | What's wrong with the Medallion Architecture? | — |
| Sophie De Waele | Dataroots | Speaker | Developing user focused BI-dashboards for business adoption | — |
| Štěpán Rešl | DataBrothers | Speaker | Level-Up your Power Query game with Custom Functions | — |
| Steve Campbell | Sunny BI Training and Consulting | Speaker | DAX fundamentals: what is filter context? | — |
| Steve Campbell | Sunny BI Training and Consulting | Workshop | Upgrading Enterprise Power BI Architecture | — |
| Thomas Kronawitter | — | Speaker | There is no talent shortage in Data & Analytics! | — |
| Tjomme Vergauwen | Acumen Consulting | Speaker | Staying out of the datamess, unity catalog for data-mesh | — |
| Tom Bouten | element61 | Speaker | The Renaissance of Microsoft Purview | — |
| Tonie Huizer | Promicro | Speaker | Database DevOps...CJ/CD: Continuous Journey Continuous Disaster? | — |
| Traci Sewell | — | Speaker | Talking about mental health for you and for them | — |
| Ust Oldfield | — | Workshop | Practical Agile Data Product Design: From Strategy to User Story | — |
| Ust Oldfield | — | Speaker | Data Modelling Showdown: Unravelling the Mysteries of Different Data Modelling Approaches | — |
| Wout Cardoen | — | Speaker | Optimize your Azure Data & AI platform for peak performance: rethink security and stability | — |
| Yvette Lovas | BI Consulting | Speaker | Design Thinking in the BI Product Lifecycle | — |
Sources
- https://datamindsconnect.be/agenda-2024-mechelen/
- https://sessionize.com/api/v2/znv3tzl8/view/Sessions
- https://sessionize.com/api/v2/znv3tzl8/view/Speakers
- https://web.archive.org/web/20241110215646/https://datamindsconnect.be/partners/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20240912021707/https://datamindsconnect.be/registration/