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dataMinds Connect 2025
Oct 6–8, 2025 · Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre, Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Conference
- dataMinds Connect Database
- Dates
- Oct 6, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025
- Venue
- Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre
- Place
- Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datamindsconnect.be
- Recorded
- 23 sponsors · 93 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 (Sept 2025): Booth Package Partners and Media Package Partners, no ranking. No archived 2025 registration page found, so no prices.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 23
Media 4
- delaware · Media Package Partners
- Monin · Media Package Partners
- Redgate · Media Package Partners
- TriFinance · Media Package Partners
Other 19
- AE · Booth Package Partners
- Bmatix · Booth Package Partners
- Cartiere · Booth Package Partners
- Cegeka · Booth Package Partners
- Cloubis · Booth Package Partners
- Datashift · Booth Package Partners
- element61 · Booth Package Partners
- Juvo · Booth Package Partners
- KPMG · Booth Package Partners
- LACO · Booth Package Partners
- Lytix · Booth Package Partners
- Myrmidons · Booth Package Partners
- Plainsight · Booth Package Partners
- Randstad Digital · Booth Package Partners
- Sopra Steria · Booth Package Partners
- Sparkle · Booth Package Partners
- Tabular Editor · Booth Package Partners
- Tillit · Booth Package Partners
- U2U · Booth Package Partners
Speakers and talks 93
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bogdan Crivat | Microsoft | Keynote | OneLake Security – The engine-independent granular security story of Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Cristian Petculescu | Microsoft | Keynote | OneLake Security – The engine-independent granular security story of Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Zoe Douglas | Microsoft | Keynote | Get insights from data and analytics faster than ever before with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Abhi Jayanty | Quorum | Speaker | Database Watcher: Figure Out What's Wrong and Fix It Fast | — |
| Agata Guziur | Avanade | Speaker | Once upon a time in Discovery Phase. | — |
| Alexander Arvidsson | — | Workshop | Turning insights into action: The art of data communication | — |
| Alexander Arvidsson | — | Speaker | Success Factors for Business Reporting | — |
| Anastasia Salari | MDW | Speaker | Semantic Models: Lighter, Faster, Smarter | — |
| André Kamman | — | Speaker | My top tips for continuous learning without spending every minute of your free time on it | — |
| Aniss Grabsi | element61 | Speaker | From Git Confusion to Clean History: A Pro's Guide to Rebasing, Squashing, and Effective Branching | — |
| Ásgeir Gunnarsson | — | Speaker | Fabric Monitoring Made Simple: Built-In Tools and Custom Solutions | — |
| Bas Land | — | Speaker | Don't Repeat Yourself, how custom Python modules in Microsoft Fabric give you back hours every day | — |
| Ben Weissman (he/him) | — | Workshop | Getting Data in and out of Azure | — |
| Ben Weissman (he/him) | — | Speaker | REST APIs, AI and Vectors in SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Bogdan Crivat | Microsoft | Speaker | AMA - Ask Bogdan and Cristian anything! | — |
| Ceren Morey | Sopra Steria | Speaker | Low-code Approach for High-Quality Data in Microsoft Fabric with Soda | — |
| Cláudio Silva | — | Speaker | Performance of a T-SQL query - The mystery, the investigation and the root cause! | — |
| Corné Potgieter | Sparkle | Speaker | Data Mesh Diaries: Confessions of an Early Adopter | — |
| Cristian Petculescu | Microsoft | Speaker | AMA - Ask Bogdan and Cristian anything! | — |
| Daan Humblé | Microsoft | Speaker | Optimizing Your Power BI Workflow with Project Files, Source Control, and TMDL | — |
| Daniel Hutmacher | Structured Concepts | Speaker | The Old Dog of Data Security — SQL Injection | — |
| Daniel Otykier | — | Speaker | Tabular Editor scripting magic | — |
| Dominic Godfroid | Devoteam | Speaker | Activate Your Data: Hands-on with Data Activator | — |
| Elin Hellström | Zington | Speaker | Why data culture matters | — |
| Emilie Rønning | Sopra Steria | Speaker | Demystifying Azure and the administrative structure of the cloud | — |
| Estera Kot | Clouds on Mars | Speaker | Fabric Spark performance tuning - what actually works | — |
| Esther Voituron | Data Organisation | Speaker | Visibility in the workplace for introverts (and other quiet data people) | — |
| Evgeniya Alekseeva | Daikin Europe | Speaker | Data Governance Is a Team Sport: How We Built a Data Community | — |
| Fabrice Deseyn | Cegeka | Speaker | Securing Data at Scale on Databricks: Beyond the Limits of Secret Scopes | — |
| Francesco Bergamaschi | Bologna University | Speaker | Understanding CALCULATE, the queen of all DAX functions | — |
| Frederic Van Kelecom | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric for ISVs - Develop multi-tenancy apps on Fabric | — |
| Frederik Declerck | delaware | Speaker | We're at capacity, now what? | — |
| Giulia Cancian | b.telligent | Speaker | Saving the Day with Data: Powerpuff Girls of BI, Automate, and Apps! | — |
| Glenn Colpaert | Zure | Speaker | Optimizing Azure CosmosDB for Enterprise Applications | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Speaker | Extended Events Live Data Window | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Bruvo | Workshop | Getting Data in and out of Azure | — |
| Hugo Kornelis | — | Workshop | Execution Plans in Depth | — |
| Hugo Kornelis | — | Speaker | Performance and execution plan improvements in SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Jan Meskens | Sievax | Speaker | Drawing: The Missing Link Between a Clear Message and a Memorable Story | — |
| Jasper Puts | Databricks | Speaker | From Code to Production: Building and Deploying Data & AI Apps on Databricks | — |
| Jasper Taminau | Datashift | Speaker | My Recipe for CI/CD in Power BI and Azure DevOps with a Flavor of Governance | — |
| Jess Pomfret | — | Speaker | Create the perfect morning checks report with dbatools | — |
| Jess Pomfret | — | Workshop | dbatools and dbachecks – Going Beyond the Book | — |
| Joël Vangrunderbeeck | Bmatix | Speaker | Friends Don't Let Friends Choose A Lakehouse Blindly: Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Joeri Maes | — | Speaker | No more ‘Oops, didn’t think of that’’: A practical guide to bulletproof Azure Architecture | — |
| Joey Dantoni | — | Speaker | Cloud Strategy in a Turbulent World | — |
| John Martin | — | Speaker | Of course I want to let Azure SQL manage my indexes, why wouldn't I? | — |
| Joline Jammaers | Microsoft | Speaker | Generative Data Quality: Using AI to Detect, Explain, and Resolve Data Issues | — |
| Jonathan Moeyersons | Lytix | Speaker | The laws of UX through the eyes of a toddler | — |
| Just Blindbæk | twoday | Speaker | Fabric Monitoring Made Simple: Built-In Tools and Custom Solutions | — |
| Justine Hanssens | element61 | Speaker | Reporting As Code: Data Visualization meets Data Engineering to Create Reporting Magic | — |
| Kasper de Jonge | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric security: everything you need to know! | — |
| Katrien Cloetens | KPMG | Speaker | Turning sustainability goals into action with Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Koen Verbeeck | AE | Speaker | Indexing for Dummies | — |
| Laura Graham-Brown | — | Speaker | Paginated Reports have had some love | — |
| Maaike van Gemert | — | Speaker | The human side of report development: and why curiosity is key | — |
| Maarten Van Stiphout | LACO | Speaker | Data Quality First: From Control to Impact on a Modern Data Platform | — |
| Marc Lelijveld | — | Speaker | Exploring Fabric Semantic Link for Power BI folks! | — |
| Marco Russo | SQLBI | Workshop | DAX - Beyond the Basics | — |
| Marco Russo | SQLBI | Speaker | Choosing Between Import Mode, DirectLake, and Composite Models | — |
| Margarita Neumueller | ALDI Sued | Speaker | The Power of „no“ - and why it helps your team | — |
| Matt Gordon | Apps Associates | Speaker | Database Watcher: Figure Out What's Wrong and Fix It Fast | — |
| Matthew Roche | — | Workshop | The Hitchhiker's Guide to Microsoft Fabric (pre-conference) | — |
| Matthew Roche | — | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric for the Power BI Amateur | — |
| Mattias De Smet | Axis 0 | Speaker | Weaving Data Tapestries: Orchestrating Fabric Data Workloads with Airflow | — |
| Michiel Van Nijverseel | element61 | Speaker | Fact or Fiction: Debunking 10 misconceptions about Databricks | — |
| Mike Carlo | Carlo Solutions | Speaker | Unleashing the Power of Translytical Taskflows in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Nathan Bijnens | Microsoft | Speaker | Generative Data Quality: Using AI to Detect, Explain, and Resolve Data Issues | — |
| Nicky van Vroenhoven | — | Speaker | Optimizing Your Power BI Workflow with Project Files, Source Control, and TMDL | — |
| Nico Jacobs | U2U | Speaker | What's new in T-SQL? | — |
| Parcifal Van Gucht | element61 | Speaker | Reporting As Code: Data Visualization meets Data Engineering to Create Reporting Magic | — |
| Paulina Jędrzejewska | b.telligent | Speaker | Saving the Day with Data: Powerpuff Girls of BI, Automate, and Apps! | — |
| Peter Kruis | — | Speaker | Two Developers, One Mission: Make a Test Database That Doesn’t Suck | — |
| Pieter Steenssens | — | Speaker | Friends Don't Let Friends Choose A Lakehouse Blindly: Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Pieter Vanhove | Microsoft | Speaker | Unveiling the new Security Features in SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Raphaël Voortman | element61 | Speaker | Fact or Fiction: Debunking 10 misconceptions about Databricks | — |
| Reitse Eskens | Axians Business Analytics | Speaker | SQL Copilot, what the query is this!? | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Workshop | dbatools and dbachecks – Going Beyond the Book | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Speaker | What makes a good commit? Good Practices for Data Professionals | — |
| Ruben Joosen | U2U | Speaker | Calculation Groups & Field Parameters: The Dynamic Duo of Power BI | — |
| Ruben Van de Voorde | — | Speaker | How I learned to stop worrying and love Excel | — |
| Sam Debruyn | — | Speaker | SQL Resurgence: Unleashing data potential with dbt | — |
| Sammy Deprez | — | Speaker | Guardians of the Promptiverse: Ensuring LLM Safety and Security | — |
| Sara Woltjes | — | Speaker | The human side of report development: and why curiosity is key | — |
| Sofie Theys | Plainsight | Speaker | Beyond the Hype: Building Retail Chatbots on Azure – RAG vs. Agentic AI | — |
| Sofiia Alieva | imec | Speaker | How to Use AI in Your Daily Data Job | — |
| Sujata Narayana | Microsoft | Speaker | Unleashing the Power of Translytical Taskflows in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Thomas Kronawitter | — | Speaker | From Data Swamp to Strategic Asset – Crafting a Purpose-Driven Data Strategy | — |
| Tonie Huizer | Promicro | Speaker | Two Developers, One Mission: Make a Test Database That Doesn’t Suck | — |
| Valerie Junk | — | Speaker | Next level Power BI tables and matrix visuals | — |
| Valerie Junk | — | Workshop | Turning insights into action: The art of data communication | — |
| Wolfgang Strasser | — | Speaker | Beyond a Data Catalogue: An In-Depth Tour of the Microsoft Purview Universe | — |
| Zoe Douglas | Microsoft | Speaker | Semantic modeling in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric to get the insights out of your data faster | — |