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dataMinds Connect 2026

dataMinds Connect is a three-day in-person IT event in Mechelen, Belgium, focused on the Microsoft Data Platform. The conference brings together data professionals for a packed program of sessions, networking, and community engagement at Lamot Conference and Heritage Centre. Attendees can expect presentations from industry experts and an opportunity to conne…

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30Speakers
22Sponsors
16On the bill · sessions
32Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at dataMinds, in alphabetical order.
Aditya Paliwal
Data Engineer, Datashift · Datashift
Ásgeir Gunnarsson
Ashley Warren
Advanced Analytics Senior Consultant at Advancing Analytics · Advancing Analytics
Daan Humblé
Eun Hee Kim
Principal Product Manager - Power BI, Microsoft · Microsoft
Fabrice Deseyn
Data architect and Databricks lead for Cegeka Data&AI · Cegeka Data&AI
Filip Popović
Microsoft, Senior Product Manager · Microsoft
Greg Baldini
Heini Ilmarinen
Ivana Pejeva
Cloud Solution Architect Data & AI - Microsoft · Microsoft
Just Blindbæk
Microsoft BI architect, trainer, speaker and MVP
Karel Coenye
VLAIO - Competence Centre Data - Teamlead & Data Architect · VLAIO
Koen Verbeeck
Senior Consultant @ AE - Former Data Platform MVP · AE
Kurt Buhler
Goblin guy
Luke Moloney
Margarita Naumova
Merlijn Van Waeyenberghe
@MerlinFromBE @bepowershell
Michelle Evjen Halvorsen
Data Intelligence <3 Sustainability
Nadim Abou-Khalil
KI performance GmbH, Senior Analytics Engineer · KI performance GmbH
Nico Jacobs
Power BI, Azure data stack and SQL Server trainer at U2U · U2U
Paula García Esteban
Paul Andrew
Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations | Microsoft MVP · Cloud Formations
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
U2UGold
adesso
AE
Alistar
Bmatix
Cartière
Cegeka
Cloubis
Datashift
Delaware
devart
element61
IRiS
Juvo
LACO
Lytix
Plainsight
Redgate
Scalefree
Sparkle
Tabular Editor
TriFinance
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Agenda

Selected from 16 sessions on the bill.
  • Mon 03:00 - 04:30

    An Introduction to Agentic Development

    It's now possible to use AI and agents to not just chat with your data, but build semantic models, dashboards, and end-to-end data solutions. However, this is an area that's advanc…

    Deep-Dive Session (2 * 90-minutes)
  • Mon 03:00 - 04:30

    From Chaos to Control: Orchestrating Lakehouse Workloads in Microsoft Fabric

    You have built a lakehouse in Microsoft Fabric. The notebooks are in place, data is flowing through the layers, ...

    Deep-Dive Session (2 * 90-minutes)
  • Mon 03:00 - 04:30

    No More Roadblocks: The Complete Guide to Networking in Microsoft Fabric

    Microsoft Fabric has become an exciting option to create a data platform solution in the cloud, but networking can quickly become the thing that slows you down or stops you complet…

    Deep-Dive Session (2 * 90-minutes)
  • Mon 03:00 - 04:30

    SQL Performance Pitfalls: Identification and Optimization Lab

    This interactive workshop presents realistic examples of bad SQL programming that often lead to performance problems in practice...

    Precon Session (Full Day)
  • Mon 03:00 - 04:30

    The Polaris Papers: Inside the Fabric Data Warehouse

    Polaris is the distributed SQL engine behind Fabric Data Warehouse, bringing SQL Server query processing into a stateless architecture over OneLake...

    Deep-Dive Session (2 * 90-minutes)
  • Mon 03:00 - 04:30

    Unlocking Data Insights: A Deep Dive into User-Centered Power BI Report Design

    Drawing inspiration from design thinking principles, I'll guide you through a comprehensive methodology aimed at streamlining the report design process within your organization...

    Precon Session (Full Day)
  • Mon 07:30 - 09:00

    Fabric Capacities: Diving deep from Mechanics to Strategy

    You thought you knew about Fabric Capacities, think again! In this session we'll cover everything related to those capacities that may be very near to your heart, or those capaciti…

    Deep-Dive Session (2 * 90-minutes)
  • Mon 07:30 - 09:00

    Master Power BI Refresh Optimisations and Metadata-Driven Frameworks in Fabric

    This session explains enhanced refresh techniques in Power BI, extending with end-to-end enterprise grade metadata driven pipelines in Fabric...

    Deep-Dive Session (2 * 90-minutes)
  • Mon 07:30 - 09:00

    Practical lessons in optimizing Data Engineering - Spark and Delta

    Based on experience working with some of the largest Microsoft Fabric deployments, this session walks through practical tips for optimising data engineering-focused Fabric environm…

    Deep-Dive Session (2 * 90-minutes)
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 32 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

32 companies. three are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
19Sponsoringsponsor only
10Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

AE·Datashift·U2U

Speakers by seniority

10% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite13%
  • Founder / Owner27%
  • Manager / Lead13%
  • Product27%
  • Engineer · IC930%
  • Advisor / Investor13%
  • Other roles1447%

Of 30 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01AESp1V
  2. 02DatashiftSp1V
  3. 03U2USp·G1V
  4. 04adessoSp
  5. 05AlistarSp
  6. 06BmatixSp
  7. 07CartièreSp
  8. 08CegekaSp
  9. 09CloubisSp
  10. 10DelawareSp
  11. 11DevartSp
  12. 12element61Sp
  13. 13IRISSp
  14. 14JuvoSp
Sponsors by tier
gold1
5% of 22
unspecified21
95% of 22
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