DataDinners® 2026 – Belgium Edition

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A co-hosted evening with Equans for data leaders: two independent talks, an elevated dinner, and the conversations in between.

Welcome to DataDinners 2026

Welcome to Data Dinners

An evening built for AI & data conversations

Most organisations with real estate portfolios are past the point of wondering whether their building data matters. The hard part is wiring it into a real data platform, with the ownership and governance to combine it with the rest of the business, so a board-level number can actually be trusted.

This evening is for people who own that problem: senior data and data engineering leaders who need practical conversations with experts and peers.

Hear how two organisations, Equans and Dataminded, are tackling data engineering for buildings and the wider business, told by the people who built it.
Have real conversations with people who share your problems. Everyone talks, everyone contributes.
Meet 50 data leaders over dinner in a format where you'll remember names afterwards.

This evening is for people who own that problem: senior data and data engineering leaders who need practical conversations with experts and peers.

Hear how two organisations, Equans and Dataminded, are tackling data engineering for buildings and the wider business, told by the people who built it.
Have real conversations with people who share your problems. Everyone talks, everyone contributes.
Meet 50 data leaders over dinner in a format where you'll remember names afterwards.

Event details

Format

Free evening event with two talks, an elevated dinner, and drinks

Capacity

We keep it small by design.
Registration closes once all 50 seats are assigned.

Date & time

November 19, 2026,

16:30 to 21:00

November 19, 2026,

16:30 to 21:00

Location

[Location to be announced soon], Belgium

Submit your interest for the next edition

The first edition of Data Dinners took place in Amsterdam on June 24th, 2026, with a sold-out room. We're now bringing the format to Belgium, in partnership with Equans, on November 19th. Submit your interest by filling in the form.

This event is for heads of data and data engineering leaders at companies managing buildings or facility portfolios, especially where regulation like GACS, the EED and CSRD makes centralising that data heavier.

We’re encouraging each registrant to bring one colleague from the same organisation, so strategy and execution can hear the same discussion.

Seats are limited and assigned on a rolling basis.

We built this for senior technical leadership: head of platform, head of data, CTO, and comparable roles in complex organisations, especially where regulation, security, and distributed ownership make every data decision heavier.

Agenda

DataDinners 2026 Belgium Edition / Nov 19th

Data Dinners 2026

Data Dinners 2026:
Agentic AI,
Meet Data Infrastructure

Evening runs 16:30 to 21:00. Welcome and talks first, dinner after.

Note the two talks are independent of each other: Equans covers the

building-data angle, Dataminded brings a separate data engineering topic.

16:30

Walk-in & welcome

Arrive, settle in, grab a drink and an appetizer. Meet the other attendees before the programme starts.

17:00 – 17:15

Introduction

Equans × Dataminded

17:15 – 17:55

Talk 1: Beyond Smart Buildings, Richard de Ruijter, Equans

GACS systems optimise one building at a time, but CSRD and EED reporting needs a single company-wide number. Richard de Ruijter (Equans) on unifying data across multi-vendor building portfolios, from prioritisation to predictive maintenance.

17:55 - 18:35