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dataMinds Connect 2026
Oct 12–14, 2026 · Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre, Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Conference
- dataMinds Connect Database
- Dates
- Oct 12, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026
- Venue
- Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre
- Place
- Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- datamindsconnect.be
- Recorded
- 22 sponsors · 97 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 from the live partners page (two groups: Booth Package Partners and Media Package Partners; no tier ranking, booth partners normalized as 'other'). Prices from the live registration page, all incl. VAT. FAQ: in-person only, no recordings.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Conference (Deep Dives + Conference), Early Bird | €575 | Jun 2, 2026 | incl. VAT | datamindsconnect.be |
| Conference Day (Oct 13 or 14) | €225 | — | incl. VAT | datamindsconnect.be |
| Deep Dives Only | €275 | — | incl. VAT; listed as sold out | datamindsconnect.be |
| Conference Days (Oct 13 and 14) | €400 | — | incl. VAT | datamindsconnect.be |
| Deep Dives + one Conference Day | €450 | — | incl. VAT | datamindsconnect.be |
| Full Conference (Deep Dives + Conference), Standard | €625 | — | incl. VAT; listed as sold out | datamindsconnect.be |
Sponsors 22
Media 3
- Bmatix · Media Package Partners
- Devart · Media Package Partners
- IRIS by Ignition Data · Media Package Partners
Other 19
- adesso · Booth Package Partners
- AE · Booth Package Partners
- Alistar · Booth Package Partners
- Cartiere · Booth Package Partners
- Cegeka · Booth Package Partners
- Cloubis · Booth Package Partners
- Datashift · Booth Package Partners
- delaware · Booth Package Partners
- element61 · Booth Package Partners
- Juvo · Booth Package Partners
- LACO · Booth Package Partners
- Lytix · Booth Package Partners
- Plainsight · Booth Package Partners
- Redgate · Booth Package Partners
- Scalefree · Booth Package Partners
- Sparkle · Booth Package Partners
- Tabular Editor · Booth Package Partners
- TriFinance · Booth Package Partners
- U2U · Booth Package Partners
Speakers and talks 97
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eun Hee Kim | Microsoft | Keynote | Power BI Unlocked: Vision, Innovation, and What's Next | — |
| Miquella De Boer | Microsoft | Keynote | What is new and next for OneLake, the OneDrive for data | — |
| Aditya Paliwal | Datashift | Speaker | Geo-Intelligence: Unlocking Insights Through Open-Source Geospatial Analytics | — |
| Alexander Arvidsson | — | Speaker | Digital Snake Oil - Data Literacy In An Age Of Easy Answers | — |
| Anna Lalova | — | Speaker | Learning to Read at 35: A Career Switcher's Honest Account of Entering the AI and Data Field | — |
| Anneleen Rummens | — | Speaker | When Will It Be Done? Estimating data work when uncertainty is part of the process | — |
| Arne Van Raepenbusch | — | Speaker | Why Questions Are the New Answers | — |
| Artur Vieira | Microsoft | Speaker | From Fast to Massive: Scaling Power BI to Hundreds of Users with DirectQuery & Fabric Data Warehouse | — |
| Ásgeir Gunnarsson | — | Workshop | From Chaos to Control: Orchestrating Lakehouse Workloads in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Ashley Warren | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | How to make your Power BI Semantic Models faster! | — |
| Brian Daza | element61 | Speaker | Fabric CI/CD Done Right: A Complete Deployment Workflow with fabric-cicd | — |
| Ceren Morey | — | Speaker | Data Contracts as Code on Azure Databricks | — |
| Cláudio Silva | — | Speaker | Is this the end of Index Maintenance? Introducing Automatic Index Compaction | — |
| Corné Potgieter | Sparkle | Speaker | The 'human in the loop' fallacy | — |
| Daan Humblé | Microsoft | Workshop | Fabric Capacities: Diving deep from Mechanics to Strategy | — |
| Daan Humblé | Microsoft | Speaker | Agentic Power BI Development: From PBIP to Pair Programmer | — |
| Daniel Hutmacher | Structured Concepts | Speaker | Good dates, bad dates: Mastering your T-SQL date and time datatypes | — |
| Danny de Haan | — | Speaker | Database Development with a Security-First Mentality | — |
| Danny Kruge | Schuberg Philis | Speaker | Data Platform Bingo: Deployment Edition | — |
| Elien Guillemyn | — | Speaker | Modern Data Ingestion Paths in Fabric | — |
| Emilie Rønning | — | Speaker | Beyond Source Control: Using GitHub Projects to plan and execute your data projects | — |
| Enrico van de Laar | Privinity | Speaker | From Convenience to Control: Breaking Free from Big Tech Data Platforms | — |
| Eun Hee Kim | Microsoft | Speaker | Semantic Models Galore! | — |
| Evert Augustyns | — | Speaker | Scalable Finance Reporting in Power BI & Fabric | — |
| Evgeniya Alekseeva | Daikin Europe | Speaker | Inside a Data Quality Dashboard That Actually Works | — |
| Fabrice Deseyn | Cegeka | Speaker | PlatformOps: Governance of Your Azure Data Platform | — |
| Flávio Fernandes | booldata | Speaker | Personalized Semantics with User-Context-Aware calculated columns | — |
| Frederik Declerck | delaware | Speaker | The ultimate decision guide: capacity strategies to optimise cost and compute | — |
| Gabi Münster | Microsoft | Speaker | From Fast to Massive: Scaling Power BI to Hundreds of Users with DirectQuery & Fabric Data Warehouse | — |
| Greg Baldini | — | Workshop | An Introduction to Agentic Development | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Bruvo | Workshop | No More Roadblocks: The Complete Guide to Networking in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Heini Ilmarinen | Bruvo | Speaker | Unraveling Networking for Azure Databricks | — |
| Helena Lecluyse | — | Speaker | Wrong degree, right mindset: How the Human Sciences belong in data | — |
| Ivana Pejeva | Microsoft | Speaker | From Semantic Models to Ontologies: The Missing Layer for Fabric Data Agents | — |
| Jan Meskens | Sievax | Speaker | The Dead Horse Theory: A Change Management Survival Guide for Data & AI Professionals | — |
| Jasper Commeijne | Savaco | Speaker | Managing your theme park with analytics: Combining Microsoft Fabric with Rollercoaster Tycoon | — |
| Jasper Puts | Databricks | Speaker | Lakebase: Accelerating Application Development in the Agentic Era | — |
| Joanna Hryniewicz | Orsted | Speaker | The Gym Membership Fallacy: Why Self-Service BI Adoption Fails (and How to Fix It) | — |
| Jon Vöge | Inspari | Speaker | Write-Back in Microsoft Fabric - The Ultimate Showdown | — |
| Jonathan Moeyersons | Lytix | Speaker | Roast our Power BI setup: When best practices hit reality | — |
| Joppe Wouters | DataSense | Speaker | Keeping the Fabric factory operational: turning cost knobs and building better monitors | — |
| Juliana Smith | Zure | Speaker | Ethos, Pathos & Logos: Aristotle’s Lesson for Ethical Data Design | — |
| Just Blindbæk | — | Workshop | From Chaos to Control: Orchestrating Lakehouse Workloads in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Karel Coenye | VLAIO | Speaker | From Notebooks to Living Documentation | — |
| Karianne Kies | PwC | Speaker | Customer Managed Keys in Microsoft Fabric: What It Actually Does (and Doesn't) | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Speaker | AI and Data Protection in Today's World: Data Democratization and AI Security in Microsoft | — |
| Kevin De Laet | Cegeka | Speaker | PlatformOps: Governance of Your Azure Data Platform | — |
| Koen Verbeeck | AE | Speaker | Spice up your SQL - Intro to Window Functions | — |
| Kurt Buhler | — | Workshop | An Introduction to Agentic Development | — |
| Kurt Buhler | — | Speaker | Beyond Power BI: Building Custom Reports in Fabric with Agents and Code | — |
| Lorenz Kindling | Scalefree | Speaker | From On-Prem SQL Server and dbt Core to Microsoft Fabric and dbt Cloud: A Real-World Migration Story | — |
| Luke Moloney | Microsoft | Workshop | Practical lessons in optimizing Data Engineering - Spark and Delta | — |
| Maarten Van Stiphout | LACO | Speaker | Beyond Dogma and Chaos: Fit-for-Purpose Data Modeling | — |
| Marc Lelijveld | — | Speaker | Mastering Fabric Data Agents: From Setup to Success | — |
| Margarita Naumova | Inspirit | Speaker | From Tables to Streams: Rethinking Data Change in SQL Server 2025 | — |
| Margarita Naumova | Inspirit | Workshop | SQL Server 2025 Deep Dive: Engine Performance and Modern T-SQL | — |
| Marilou Puissant | — | Speaker | We struggled with Copilot Studio so you don't have to | — |
| Mark Pryce-Maher (He / Him) | — | Speaker | From Fast to Massive: Scaling Power BI to Hundreds of Users with DirectQuery & Fabric Data Warehouse | — |
| Marthe Moengen | imeto | Speaker | Securing Your Data Estate with Purview | — |
| Merlijn Van Waeyenberghe | — | Speaker | Stop asking AI for answers. Start making it argue with you. | — |
| Michael Finlan | — | Workshop | Prompt-and-Pray Is Not an Architecture: Governing AI in Production Systems | — |
| Michelle Evjen Halvorsen | — | Speaker | A Practical Guide to the Databricks Analytics Experience | — |
| Miquella De Boer | Microsoft | Speaker | Open interoperability: integrating Azure Databricks and OneLake | — |
| Nadim Abou-Khalil | KI performance GMBH | Speaker | OneLake Security: Building a Unified Security Model Across Your Microsoft Fabric Data Estate | — |
| Nicky van Vroenhoven | — | Speaker | Agentic Power BI Development: From PBIP to Pair Programmer | — |
| Nico Jacobs | U2U | Workshop | Semantic Model Catch-Up | — |
| Nico Jacobs | U2U | Speaker | Switching from T-SQL to Spark SQL | — |
| Oliver De Vijt | AE | Speaker | Beyond Built-in Mirroring: Mastering Open Mirroring in Fabric | — |
| Olivier Van Steenlandt | Datashift | Speaker | Database Unit Testing for Data Professionals | — |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric Platform Governance - Where To Start | — |
| Paul McComish | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Cut Costs, Boost Speed: Optimising Your Azure Databricks Lakehouse | — |
| Paula García Esteban | — | Workshop | Unlocking Data Insights: A Deep Dive into User-Centered Power BI Report Design | — |
| Peer Grønnerup | Tabular Editor | Speaker | No More Workspace Wars: Git-Driven Collaboration in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Peter van den Bos | — | Speaker | Modeling Power BI with Code: Unlocking the Power of Semantic Link | — |
| Pieter Vanhove | Microsoft | Speaker | When AI meets your database: Securing sensitive data in Azure SQL in an AI-driven world | — |
| Reid Havens | Analytic Endeavors | Speaker | Beyond Power BI: Building Custom Reports in Fabric with Agents and Code | — |
| Reid Havens | Analytic Endeavors | Workshop | Master Power BI Refresh Optimisations and Metadata-Driven Frameworks in Fabric | — |
| Ruben Joosen | U2U | Speaker | Write Once, Use Everywhere: Falling in Love with DAX User-Defined Functions | — |
| Sam Debruyn | — | Workshop | The Polaris Papers: Inside the Fabric Data Warehouse | — |
| Santhosh Kumar Ravindran | Microsoft | Workshop | Practical lessons in optimizing Data Engineering - Spark and Delta | — |
| Sara Woltjes | — | Speaker | Keep Your Friends Close and Your Stakeholders Closer | — |
| Shania Spierings | Wortell | Speaker | Report Design With Intent: From Layers to Decisions | — |
| Simon Whiteley | — | Speaker | Finding Context in a Sprawling Unity Catalog | — |
| Sofiia Alieva | Microsoft | Speaker | From Semantic Models to Ontologies: The Missing Layer for Fabric Data Agents | — |
| Štěpán Rešl | DataBrothers | Speaker | Beyond Standard Use Cases: Exploring Microsoft Fabric with DOOM and Pokémon | — |
| Steve Campbell | Analytic Endeavors | Speaker | Designing Efficient Architectures: Best Practices for Governance, Security, and Sharing Policies | — |
| Steve Campbell | Analytic Endeavors | Workshop | Master Power BI Refresh Optimisations and Metadata-Driven Frameworks in Fabric | — |
| Teo Van Lier | — | Speaker | Do You Really Need Spark? How to choose the right execution model in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Thomas Kronawitter | — | Speaker | If Your Disaster Recovery Plan Doesn't Cover Panic, It's Fiction | — |
| Tom Huntley | CloudRede | Speaker | Accidental Data Engineer: A DBA’s First Data Pipeline | — |
| Tomasz Szreder | — | Speaker | Power BI Gateway Logs Unlocked: Find the Clues, Fix the Issues | — |
| Tonie Huizer | Promicro | Speaker | Data Platform Bingo: Deployment Edition | — |
| Uwe Ricken | db Berater GmbH | Workshop | SQL Performance Pitfalls: Identification and Optimization Lab | — |
| Valerie Junk | Wortell | Speaker | Report Design With Intent: From Layers to Decisions | — |
| Vitalija Bartusevičiūtė | — | Speaker | A Practical Guide to the Databricks Analytics Experience | — |
| Yaron Prigal | Microsoft | Speaker | Automating CI/CD processes in Microsoft Fabric: best practices and latest developments | — |
| Zoë Van Noppen | — | Speaker | Friends Don't Let Friends Deploy Agents Untested | — |