CANCELLED The often overlooked, but crucial skill for success in analytics engineering is data analysis. But many analytics engineers only touch the surface. I will share with you six effective habits for improving your data analysis skills that you can apply in your daily work. With many examples from practice in technical data analysis using SQL.

Our presentation focuses on the crisis simulation tool developed for Euroclear to evaluate institutional resilience under stress. Built on a smart combination of machine learning, deep analytics, and intuitive algorithms, the tool makes complex risk simulations both accessible and actionable. The presentation briefly explains the tool’s capabilities and elaborates on the technical implementation and strategic challenges during its development.

Hoe zorg je ervoor dat je data sneller, betrouwbaarder en met minder handmatige werkzaamheden beschikbaar is voor analyse? Anne Marthe den Hartog (Aviation & Business Intelligence specialist) en Wim Fieret (Data & Analytics specialist) van Rotterdam The Hague Airport vertellen hoe zij de overstap maakten van hun oude manier van datavoorbereiding naar een low-code datafundament met TimeXtender. Tijdens deze sessie delen ze hun ervaringen en praktische voordelen die deze nieuwe werkwijze oplevert.

AI is redefining the future. Technology is changing faster than ever; people have new ways of interacting with technology, and organizations are adapting and adopting this change. However, Trusted AI can only be built on trusted data. We will dive deep into how AWS is helping customers build a trusted data foundation as they embark on their AI journey to build outcomes that are tailored to their business needs. HEMA will present their journey towards a strong Data Platform and Data Governance strategy on AWS, and the business outcomes they achieved.

80% of analytics effort goes into preparing data due to poor goal setting, data complexity, and lack of best practices. This roundtable covers engaging business teams, aggregating disparate sources, moving to online collaboration, and empowering analysts to build transformations without programmers. Essential for anyone in operational analytics.

Everyone talks about data products, but what are they really? Join GoodData’s Ryan Dolley for an interactive talk on defining, building, and scaling data products for real business value. Learn key principles, common pitfalls, and share real-world wins. Whether you're in engineering, product, or analytics, you'll leave with a clear framework to succeed with data products.

This session explores the building blocks of next-generation data platforms, with a focus on framing the right questions to unlock innovation. We’ll showcase how AWS Glue, ETL pipelines, crawlers, and data catalogs can transform raw data into analytics-ready insights. Drawing on hands-on experience, we’ll share forward-thinking strategies, lessons learned, and emerging best practices to help you architect a data foundation that is intelligent, adaptable, and future-proof.

Rabobank, a 120 year-old global cooperative bank, underwent a deep transformation in the way it garners and leverages digital analytics data to inform business units and boost operational effciency. In this fireside chat, Stefan Leever, Product Manager of Customer Engagement at Rabobank, will share why the change was necessary, how the team successfully deployed and onboarded a new digital analytics solution, and what tangible business benefits this has delivered.

Text-to-SQL promised self-serve analytics, but it failed to deliver trust. Accuracy plateaued, context was lost, and hallucinations eroded confidence. In this talk, we’ll explore what comes after: reliable, proactive AI analytics powered by semantic understanding and agentic systems.

Sligro Food Group, Dutch market leader in food service, needed to centralise data to improve retail decision-making and stay competitive. Moving away from on-premise databases, they simplified integration to GCP. Join this session to learn why centralised data is key for Sligro, why enterprises choose Fivetran over legacy tools, and how to integrate data into the cloud for real-time analytics.

Struggling with fragmented data and slow insights? Companies using warehouse-native analytics experience 30% faster time-to-insight. In this session, discover how to eliminate data silos, build real-time dashboards, and drive data-driven experimentation directly from your warehouse. Learn how to transform your analytics infrastructure and achieve faster, more impactful results.

Rabobank scales GenAI through complementary approaches. First, with an analytics platform strategy: a lab platform for low-friction experimentation on non-sensitive data, and a lab platform for secure development and a governed promotion path to production. Second, the availability of re-usable GenAI building blocks that enable secure, responsible, standardized, and scalable development of GenAI solutions.

Hoe maak je 100 miljoen sensormetingen per dag bruikbaar voor engineers en analisten? In deze sessie laten we zien hoe Heerema met een klein datateam een schaalbaar self-service data platform bouwde met Databricks en dbt, waarmee ruwe metingen worden omgezet in betrouwbare datamodellen voor verschillende analyses en teams.

We tell about our journey of going from a fragmented analytics landscape towards a platform with curated datasets and consolidated metrics for analytics within Rituals using the concepts of data domains, data contracts and defining everything-as-code.