State of Data 2025

## State of Data 2025 🚀

📅 April 3-4, 2025 | 📍 Location: Dataminded, Leuven, Belgium
Join us for two days packed with insights from industry experts, covering the latest trends, challenges, and best practices in data leadership and data engineering.
🔥 Two Tracks:

• Day 1 (April 3): Leadership Day – For data leaders, decision-makers & strategists
• Day 2 (April 4): Technical Day – For data engineers, architects & ML practitioners

### 🔥 Leadership Day - April 3

17:30 - 18:00 | Doors Open
18:00 - 18:35 | Building Data-Centric Organizations with Data Platforms - Jonny Daenen
→ Learn how to build a scalable, self-service data platform that drives efficiency and ownership.
18:35 - 19:05 | The State of Enterprise Data 2025 - Miruna Suru & Pascal Knapen
→ Insights from 150+ European data leaders: top priorities, challenges & trends for 2025.
19:05 - 19:25 | Networking Break
19:25 - 20:25 | Panel: Enterprise Data in 2025 – with Leading Belgium Companies
→ How can enterprises tackle AI demand, data literacy gaps, and governance challenges?
20:25 - 20:35 | Short Break
20:35 - 21:10 | How Your Data Helps You Cross the Finish Line – McLaren Case - Dell
→ Discover how McLaren Racing uses data & AI to optimize performance on the track.
21:10 - 22:00 | Networking

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### ⚡ Tech Day - April 4

16:30 - 17:00 | Doors Open
17:00 - 17:25 | How Dataminded Looks at the Data World - Pascal Knapen
→ A retrospective on past innovations & future trends in data engineering.
17:25 - 17:50 | Battle of the Metadata Catalogs: Unity vs. Polaris - Niels Claeys
→ A deep dive into Snowflake & Databricks' open-source catalog solutions.
17:50 - 18:20 | How to Walk the Talk with Data Contracts - Jelle De Vleminck
→ Practical insights on implementing data contracts the right way.
18:20 - 18:30 | Networking Break
18:30 - 19:05 | dbt or Not dbt? The Future of SQL-based Transformations - Jos & Michiel
→ Exploring dbt’s strengths, emerging competitors & what’s next in analytics engineering.
19:05 - 19:25 | Data Engineering is (Not) Software Engineering - Jelena Grujic
→ Where do the two fields overlap, and where do they diverge?
19:25 - 19:40 | Networking Break
19:40 - 20:00 | MLOps Without the Overwhelm - Raghid Bsat
→ A practical guide to implementing MLOps without unnecessary complexity.
20:00 - 21:00 | Dataminded’s Hack the Vault Game
→ A Cluedo-style challenge: Can you jailbreak the AI and crack the code?
21:00 - 22:00 | Networking

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⚠️ IMPORTANT: RSVP on Meetup does not guarantee entry.
🎟 Register via the official event page to secure your spot – spaces are limited!
🔗 [Registration Link: https://event.dataminded.com/state-of-data-2025]
Looking forward to seeing you there! 🚀