Dataminded

Five days, one small group, and agents that actually make it to production. We're planning our first Agentic AI Engineering Bootcamp in Leuven, aiming for the week of Nov 30. If your team is stuck between AI demos and production, let us know you're interested and help us set the dates. Save your spot (no commitment): https://lnkd.in/eYJXq_T8

"I have replicated some bugs just to satisfy stakeholders." That line from Raghid Bsat sums up a lot about data platform migrations. The legacy numbers had been treated as correct for years, so the business asked to keep them. Raghid moved them as they were, documented them, and handed them over. On the new episode of the Data Playbook podcast, Raghid and our CEO Kris Peeters walk through the Migration Guide Raghid wrote, phase by phase: vision, governance, discovery, execution and cutover. It is a properly technical conversation, and Raghid makes the case that a migration is 75% analysis and 25% execution. We cover source-to-target dependency maps, when to lift and shift and when to refactor, and how a migrator agent and a validator agent now turn a month-long QA cycle into hours. Great job, Raghid. If a migration is on the roadmap, start with the guide. 📘 Read the Migration Guide: https://lnkd.in/eErJXvJX 📺 Watch: https://lnkd.in/eJuh-xp4 🎧 or Listen: https://lnkd.in/eQPUb_5t 🌐 More at www.dataminded.com

Every team gets full access to company data, but the data team is still the bottleneck. Why? In this episode of the Data Playbook podcast, Andrew Jones (staff data engineer at LocalStack) explains that even where access is solved, the request queue stays long because the data is modelled in a way that only the data team can use. Andrew’s fix starts with data contracts. When a producer team marks a column as an email address in its contract, the platform deploys the quality check on its own and alerts the team in Slack the moment a value stops looking like one, without anyone writing a validation pipeline. Listen to the full episode to learn why data teams hold onto being the bottleneck, why the assumptions behind medallion architecture are worth revisiting, and what happens to data semantics once AI agents start asking the questions people used to ask. Watch or listen: YouTube - https://lnkd.in/eAicRtGx Spotify - https://lnkd.in/eW6MR3Ra 🌐 More at www.dataminded.com

⏰ It's happening tomorrow! The POA Summit kicks off September 16-17 at DPG Media in Antwerp, and Dataminded will be there closing out the summit with Katarina Milosevic on Agent-Ready Data Products: What Changes When Agents Become Consumers. Why your data products might not survive contact with an AI agent and why the tribal knowledge sitting in your team's heads needs to move into the product itself. Haven't grabbed a ticket yet? Still time 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e_TiAySh See you there! #DataProducts #DataMesh #AgenticAI #POASummit #Dataminded

Unlock Cloud Sovereignty in the EU Era! Join Niels Claeys at Big Data Conference Europe 2026 (Nov 24-27) for a deep dive into cloud strategy beyond hyperscalers. Discover what sovereignty really means for your organization, how to navigate business risks and regulations, and how to build a future-proof architecture. Explore practical patterns—from on-premises to sovereign public cloud—and learn how open source empowers transparency and flexibility. Get actionable insights for regulated environments and make your cloud strategy concrete. Reserve your spot today! For registration and more information, visit https://lnkd.in/dhET9Gr 📝🔍

Last week, our engineers traded client work for a week at the front of the classroom, running the Summer edition of our data engineering bootcamp. 🎓 Thanks to Dataminded Academy lead Jan Vanbuel, our expert engineers who taught this edition and to everyone who joined, asked sharp questions, and pushed through the long days. Watching a room go from first principles to shipping real data pipelines in five days never gets old. If you missed this one and want to invest in a strong foundation for a career in data engineering, registrations are now open for the 2027 winter edition. Sign up here or share with your network 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMethuva

Proud to see our Stijn Janssens on the speaker line-up for the GET REHDY Symposium next Friday 18 September in Brussels 🎤 Health data sharing and the European Health Data Space (EHDS) are only becoming more relevant, this is a great chance to hear how the Belgian health data ecosystem is preparing for it, alongside experts from i~HD, CiTiP KU Leuven, edenceHealth, imec-SMIT and VITO. Today's your last chance to register (it's free) 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGXxPRtv #HealthData #EHDS #GDPR #DataGovernance

📢 Next week, Dataminded is heading to the POA Summit! On September 16–17, the Data Product Oriented Architectures community gathers at DPG Media in Antwerp, and we're closing out the summit with a talk from our own Katarina Milosevic. Agent-Ready Data Products: What Changes When Agents Become Consumers As AI agents start consuming data products alongside humans, the producer–consumer relationship breaks in new ways. Katarina digs into what actually goes wrong, and makes the case that the tribal knowledge currently living in people's heads has to become part of the data product itself if agents are going to use it reliably. If you're building or thinking about data products in an agent-driven world, this is one to catch. 📍 DPG Media, Antwerp 📅 September 16–17 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/e_TiAySh Join us, and join the talk! 👋 #DataProducts #DataMesh #AgenticAI #POASummit #Dataminded

Today we open our doors for the Summer edition of our data engineering bootcamp. Twice a year, for the past five years, we've run this one-week intensive program to prepare learners for a career in data engineering. The Academy we built around the bootcamp has grown a lot since. It now covers individual courses on specific tools like dbt, Airflow, and Kubernetes, training programs built around each client's own stack and team, and workshops on how to fit AI into a data engineer's work. But this one-week bootcamp is where our heart is. It's the same curriculum we use to train our own consultants, taught by senior engineers doing the work full-time with our enterprise clients. What a privilege it is to still be running this, five years and ten editions in! We're ready to go again with a sold out room, and we're so excited to welcome our next twenty Dataminded Academy alumni! 💜 🚀 Jan Vanbuel, Jonny Daenen