Knowledge resources
Sharing what we learn is part of how we work. We run free offline and online events, host two podcasts (one for data leaders, one for engineers), write about and share latest frameworks, tools and best practices in data and AI
Jun 24th: Data Dinners 2026
A co-hosted evening for data leaders on infrastructure, maturity, and agentic AI: talks, roundtables, and dinner.
Jul 30th: PyData Belgium July 2026
Join us at the third iteration of the rebooted PyData Belgium meetup. We have 3 super interesting data talks lined up.
Jun-Sep '26: Agentic AI In Production
The production story of an enterprise Agentic AI system, presented privately for senior data and AI leadership
Talk to your Data in Databricks: dbt, Metric Views & Genie Spaces
AI is only as good as the layer underneath it. In Databricks this is the Metric View: a semantic model that governs how data fits together.
Snowflake Intelligence: Just Ask Your Data
Snowflake Intelligence is a chat interface that turns plain English into SQL, giving business users answers without involving the data team.
AI Workflows in Agno: Building Deterministic Agents
Instead of letting a single agent roam freely across your data, Agno lets you build agents per data product.
Not Every Data Question Deserves a Full Data Product. And that’s okay
Why forcing every data request into a data product creates friction, and how Explorations make governed data access easier.
uv scripts: micro-production situationship
Learn how uv scripts bridge the gap between throwaway scripts and full Python projects with minimal overhead
Portable S3 security for EU clouds
Portable S3 security for EU clouds using JWT, OPA, and temporary credentials without hyperscaler lock-in.
Can We Outsource Thinking? AI, Education, and the Future of Knowledge Work
Frank Neven discusses Agentic AI, database engineering, education, and the future of human-AI collaboration.
The Data Challenge behind the Einstein Telescope
Tjonnie Li explains gravitational waves, the Einstein Telescope, and why the future of science depends on data engineering.
Scaling Data in Aviation: Inside Brussels Airlines’ Data Strategy
How Brussels Airlines transformed a broken data setup into scalable data products, enabling self-service and real business impact.
28 May 2026: Sovereign Data Platforms
How to design data platforms that are portable by default, using open-source components, with a live deployment demo on UpCloud.
Metadata By Design: Make Your Data Products AI-Ready
AI agents need metadata to work but catalogs are not usually successful. Our approach is through process design.
Agent-Ready Data Products: Evolving Data Architectures For The Age Of AI
2 April 2026: State of Data: Our Annual Flagship Event
A deep dive into the trends and building blocks shaping modern data-centric organizations.
2-6 Feb 2026: Data Engineering Winter School
Learn Best Data Engineering Practices to Industrialise Your Data Products
22 Jan 2026: Apache Spark Belgium Meetup
Apache Spark Belgium Meetup: distributed computing insights, Spark performance tuning, and cost optimization. Jan 22 in Leuven.
