Modern Cloud Data Architecture, Data Mesh & Federated DG, Data Warehouse Design using Gen-AI,  Data Modelling, Collaborative Data Platform, AI Act and Data Act, Testing Data & BI, Adaptive Data Governance Frameworks, Ensemble Logical Data Model

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The Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Summit covers trends, new technologies, emerging paradigms offered to you by thought leaders on these domains. It offers practical guidelines, tools and do’s and don’ts to support current and upcoming issues. You will meet well-known speakers and thought leaders from The Netherlands and abroad and representatives of large international organizations. Our line-up includes Alec Sharp, Nicola Askham, Winfried Etzel, Sjoukje Zaal, Linda Terlouw, Suzanne Kraaij, Victor de Graaff, Remco Broekmans, Wouter van Aerle and Jos van Dongen. This top-tier line-up of speakers is eager to share their knowledge and experience with you.

Some topics that will be covered at the conference:

• Modern Data Architecture in the Cloud Era
• Navigating the Changing Data Governance Landscape
• Building Data Warehouses with Gen-AI: A Glimpse into the Future
• Innovation within Regulatory Frameworks: the AI Act, Data Governance Act, and Data Act
• Data Mesh – Federated Data Governance – how to apply in practice
• Testing in a BI & Data landscape
• Packaged Software and Data Modelling
• Revolutionizing Research Through Open Data: Building Tomorrow’s Collaborative Platform
• Data is (Not) Dead: A New Perspective on Data Management
• Translating Business needs to an Ensemble Logical Model (Data Vault, Anchor, Focal Point)

Delegates also gain four months access to the conference recordings of April 2 so there’s no need to miss out on any of the sessions that we run in parallel.

Post-conference workshops by Alec Sharp, Nicola Askham and Winfried Etzel
Following the conference, on April 3rd, we will run several workshops by acclaimed international speakers. If combined with the conference you are entitled to a discount and you can easily register for these on the conference registration form. 

• Concept Modelling for Business Analysts. Practical tutorial on Concept Modelling by Alec Sharp (half day, English spoken)
• Federated Computational Data Governance by Winfried Etzel (half day, English spoken)
• Master Data Management and Data Governance door Nicola Askham (half day, English spoken).

You can, of course, also attend these workshops without attending the conference. Each workshop, in addition to being listed on this conference website, is also listed on the Adept Events website and registration is possible for each separately if desired.

Payment by credit card is also available for attendees. Please mention this in the Comment-field upon registration and find further instructions for credit card payment on our customer service page.

Who should attend?
The two day DW&BI Summit is geared to for IT Executives, IT Management and Architects, business intelligence and data warehousing professionals who wish to take a detailed and practical look at the latest developments in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. The following professionals should attend:

• IT executives and managers
• Sponsors of BI and DW programs
• Business technology managers
• BI/DW project managers
• Data warehousing architects
• Business intelligence practitioners
• Business analysts
• Data scientists
• Technology architects
• Data architects and data modelers
• Project and program managers
• Data integrators
• Developers of BI and DW systems
• Business and IT consultants.

Be sure to download the BI-Platform conference app on your smartphone or tablet.

This is the twelfth edition of DW&BI Summit in The Netherlands. This upcoming edition you can benefit from the expertise of Alec Sharp, Nicola Askham, Winfried Etzel, Sjoukje Zaal, Jos van Dongen and many others.
Each year will see key note presentations by the crème de la crème of the international data warehouse and BI community. Internationally acclaimed speakers like Bill Inmon, Claudia Imhoff, Chris Date, Donald Farmer, Nigel Pendse, Colin White, Mike Ferguson, Kent Graziano, Lawrence Corr, Nigel Turner, Keith McCormick, Wayne Eckerson, John O’Brien, Thomas Frisendal, Dave Wells, Mark Madsen, William McKnight, Richard Hackathorn, John Ladley, Dan Linstedt, Barry Devlin, Krish Krishnan, Daragh O Brien, Jan Henderyckx, Peter Boncz and Rick van der Lans have graced previous editions of this conference with their presence. Some speakers even spoke at the predecessor of this conference, Database Systems, that we first ran in 1994!