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dataMinds Saturday 2025

event date

22 Feb 2025

location

Thomas More Mechelen Mechelen, Belgium


Speakers must currently reside in Belgium. We're making this a locally focused event for speakers, but free to attend for anyone. 

dataMinds Saturday will be an in-person event, hosted on February 22nd 2025.
Most important of all, is that it will be free to attend for anyone. 

In the past years, we’ve noticed an upward trend in the number of data-related User Groups and conferences sprouting up in Europe and all over the world. The data community is a great community and there are a lot of talented international speakers ready to share their knowledge.

Recognition is key and there are not many opportunities for local talent to grow their acknowledgment as a lot of international speakers fill in speaker slots quickly. This doesn’t leave much room for the rising stars. With dataMinds Saturday 2025, we want to shift the focus and pass the mic along to local talent, granting them their place in the spotlight and offering them the opportunity to add more speaking experience to their portfolio.

dataMinds is therefore organising another edition of dataMinds Saturday on February 22nd 2025 with a focus on Microsoft Data & AI Platform enthusiasts residing in Belgium ready to deliver great content.

Throughout the year, and with our other events we welcome any speaker with open arms, but making sure our local talent can grow, is still one of our primary goals as a local user group in Belgium.

To conclude, a reminder that should be obvious to anyone. We believe that anyone should be able to attend our event, regardless of their characteristics.
We require everyone to adhere to our Code of Conduct, and will remove anyone that doesn't do so. 

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 8:45 AM

08 Oct 2024

Call closes at 11:59 PM

08 Dec 2024

Call closes in Romance Standard Time (UTC+01:00) timezone.
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The session length for all sessions is 60 minutes, in which 5 minutes are blocked for Q&A. Speakers are advised to not run over the allotted time, to allow the next speaker to prepare, and the attendees to take a small break.

The sessions will be held in 3 rooms throughout the day. Please submit your session to which of these tracks you think it's linked the most. If need be, the organisation can swap sessions to different tracks, if we deem it necessary.  

  • Analytics
  • Administration
  • Visualisation
  • Architecture
  • Engineering
  • Strategy

Sessions can only be submitted in English.

When in doubt, don't hesitate to contact us!


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52 submissions
Submitted sessions
Thomas Vissers, Tim Van hamme
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Jo David
  • Welcome to the PBI legion: a Power BI starters guide
Tom Van de Velde, Jasper Taminau
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Nico Jacobs
  • The How and Why of Fabric databases
  • Using Azure SQL as a vector database
  • What's new in T-SQL
  • KQL Know-how: Mastering the Art of Kusto Query Language
  • Deceptive DAX
Pieter Steenssens
  • The paradigm shift to analytics engineering
  • SQL vs Python for data work: language showdown
  • Dbt will make your life much easier
  • Bringing good software engineering practices to analytics
  • Building a data lakehouse on Fabric with dbt
Thibauld Croonenborghs
  • Local development of your Microsoft Spark job definitions
Koen Verbeeck
  • Building Effective Data Warehouses and Power BI Models - Intro to Dimensional Modelling
  • Table Maintenance for Improved Performance in Microsoft Fabric
  • Introduction to Azure Data Factory
Esli Van Acoleyen
  • Unlocking SQL Database Potential in Fabric
Abhilekh Verma
  • Abhilekh Verma's Gen AI Session
Kellyn Gorman
  • Unlocking the Benefits of Database DevOps and Automation
  • When to Leverage Relational Data with Azure Fabric
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Lou Segers
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Arkadiusz Skuza
  • Real-World AI Transformations: Case Studies in Data Collection, Product Redesign, Customer Support,
Omer Colakoglu
  • Performance tips to rocket your queries
  • Vector Search on Azure SQL and On Prem SQL Server with Performance
Jeroen Heerschop
  • AI + BI = CI (Combined Intelligence)
Andreas Geysegoms
  • dbt and Fabric - a match made in heaven?
Dennie Declercq
  • COPilotING my Autism in Tech
  • Copilot(s), MarkDown and a Medical Team to the Cure
Sarath Sasidharan, Fretz Nuson
  • Exploring Deployment Patterns in Fabric: Best Practices and Strategies
Olivier Van Steenlandt
  • Apache Spark for SQL Data Warehouse Developers
  • Database Unit Testing for Data Professionals
  • Migrating from SSRS to Power BI Paginated Reports
  • Database Deployment Automation using Database Projects & Azure DevOps
  • Database Projects & Azure DevOps - 101
Benni De Jagere
  • Troubleshooting Power BI Reports
  • Low friction data transformation and data movement using Fabric Dataflows
  • Using Lakehouse Data at scale with Power BI, featuring Direct Lake mode
  • Star Schema ALL the things! But why?
  • Understanding Fabric Capacities
  • Copilot in Fabric - Explained for the Administrator!
Joël Vangrunderbeeck
  • Embedding Power BI reports on your own portal
  • Creating an Agile work environment with DevOps for BI developers
Pieter Vanhove
  • Data Encryption & Integrity: Innovations in Azure SQL
  • Confidential development with Always Encrypted using enclaves
Chrissy LeMaire
  • Importing unstructured data from PDF to SQL Server
  • AI at Work
Sam Debruyn
  • Fabric Fortresses: Setting Up Microsoft Fabric for Your Enterprise Needs
  • From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine
  • Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer
  • From Flat to Sparkling: Monitoring Data Quality with Soda in Microsoft Fabric
Henny Speelman
  • How A.R.T. can help you communicate data