🚀 Data Thursday - Automated Data Governance

# Data Thursday - From Spreadsheet Chaos to Automated Data Governance: 3 Days to 3 Minutes!

What if you could turn three days of manual data updates into just three minutes?

Sounds too good to be true? Not when Data Engineering, Automation and Data Governance come together!
Join us for another edition of Data Thursday, where we explore how technology, collaboration and smart data solutions can make a real difference.

### 🎤 The Talk: From Spreadsheet Chaos to Automated Data Governance

Speaker: Felicity Shiyu Fan
Imagine a pan-European network of more than 850 community foundations, collaborating through shared Excel spreadsheets. No automated notifications, limited transparency and no proper audit trail.
Sound familiar? 😉

Through CorrelAid, Felicity developed a collaborative data update pipeline for ECFI (European Community Foundation Initiative), transforming a fragmented manual process into an automated, governed workflow.

The result? Data update time reduced from three days to just three minutes! 🚀

During this session, Felicity will take us behind the scenes and explore:

• The challenge: Why traditional spreadsheet workflows struggle with collaboration, scalability and data quality.
• The architecture: How an automated data pipeline replaced manual Excel-based updates.
• Data governance by design: Creating transparency, traceability and accountability.
• Automation in action: Reducing repetitive work while improving reliability.
• Lessons learned: Practical patterns that can be applied to other organisations managing collaborative data.

Whether you're a Data Engineer, Data Architect, Data Scientist, Analytics Professional or simply interested in making data work smarter, this is a session you won't want to miss!

### 🌍 Why Data Thursday?

At Data Tribes, we organise Meetups because we truly care about sharing knowledge, both inside and outside our organisation.
We believe that bringing people together to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions and share real-world experiences benefits not only our own Tribe but the entire data community.

Connect. Create. Learn. Grow. Together.
And because great conversations deserve great company, we'll provide the pizza, drinks and plenty of opportunities to network! 🍕🍻

### 📅 The Agenda

18:00 // Doors open
18:30 // Drinks, pizza & conversations 🍕
19:00 // Welcome & introduction
19:15 // 🎤 Felicity Shiyu Fan - From Spreadsheet Chaos
to Automated Data Governance
20:00 // Discussion, Q&A & knowledge sharing
21:00 // Networking
21:30 // End of Meetup

### 📍 Location

The Jack | B. Amsterdam (B.3)
Johan Huizingalaan 400, Amsterdam
Come for the knowledge. Stay for the conversations. And perhaps leave with an idea that transforms your next data project.

From three days to three minutes. That's what we call turning data into action! 🚀

See you there!

Greetings,
Data Tribes Inc.