8:00 AM

8:30 AM

Registration Opens

8:30 AM

8:40 AM

Welcoming Notes and Orientation

Goran Cvetanovski

Founder/CEO, Hyperight AB

[P1] - Plenum

8:40 AM

9:00 AM

Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Henrik Göthberg

Founder/CEO , Dairdux

[P1] - Plenum

9:00 AM

9:20 AM

Future Outlook Session

Anders Ynnerman

Executive Chairman , Sferical AI

Anders Arpteg

VP AI & Data , Saab Group

[P1] - Plenum

9:20 AM

9:40 AM

KEYNOTE | Why human Insight Is more Important than ever in the age of AI

Andy Cotgreave

Data Entrepreneur, How To Speak Data

[P1] - Plenum

9:45 AM

10:05 AM

[KEYNOTE] | Show me the money: Making AI Deliver Real Value

Maria Wiss

Regional Vice President, Snowflake

[P1] - Plenum

10:05 AM

10:30 AM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

10:30 AM

5:50 PM

Data Octagon Stage - Entire Program - DAY 1
[DO] - Data Octagon Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Sara Hajian

Director of Applied AI, Trustpilot

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Albin Blum

Data Enthusiast and Co-Founder, Theodora Tech

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Daniel Tidström

Senior Partner, Data Edge

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Karima Makrof

Founder and Chief Adviser - Data Governance , AKLYON Consulting AB

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Anastasiia Glebova

COO, O-HIVE

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Giovanni Leoni

AI Governance Evangelist

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Fredrik Hofflander

CTO, Eghed

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Kenneth C. Kleissl

Group Technology Director, COWI

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

10:30 AM

10:40 AM

Moderator's Opening Remarks

Stefan Wendin

Head of Intelligent Systems, RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

10:30 AM

12:10 PM

Workshop: Predict World Cup winners: Turn raw historic football results into structure chattable AI-Ready Data.

Alex Van Wijnen

Field CTO, TimeXtender

Stefan Ahblom

Senior Presales Consultant, TimeXtender

[W2] Workshop

10:30 AM

12:10 PM

Hands-On: Building AI Agents for the Enterprise in 100 Minutes

Nick Jewell

Senior Sales Engineer, Dataiku

[W3] Workshop

10:30 AM

12:10 PM

The data operating layer: how quality, transformations and catalog work together

Mikkel Dengsoe

Data Strategy, Coalesce

[W6] Workshop

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

AI is accelerating enterprise decisions. Regulatory scrutiny is accelerating faster.

Adam Segal

Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudera

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

Vibe coding and VibeOps – enterprise DataOps heaven or hell? Navigating Data Engineering and Ops in the age of generative AI and Agentic

Tamara Tatian

EMEA Technical Leader & Architect at IBM Data Platform, IBM Consulting EMEA

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

Agentic Data Management for the AI Era

Colin A.B. Fernandes

Director of EMEA Market Development & Global Sales Enablement at Acceldata, Acceldata

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

How AI Is Changing Enterprise Data Search

Ole Olesen-Bagneux

VP, Chief Evangelist, Actian, a division of HCLSoftware

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

AI Isn’t Just Faster Analytics: Why the Best Dashboard is No Dashboard at Al

Jon Palmer

Field CTO, Omni

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

The Age of Inference: Building on Frontier Models for Measurable Impact

Max Tschochohei

Director, Customer Engineering, AI Practice , Google Cloud

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

Secure by Design: Building secure data pipelines from acquisition to inference

Jason Russler

Technical Director Analytics and AI Data Infrastructure, Vast Data

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

Three Paradoxes of AI Adoption (and How to Resolve Them)

Henry Garner

Tech Lead, Financial Services & AI Chapter Lead, JUXT – a Grid Dynamics company

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

10:40 AM

11:00 AM

Leveling Up: How a Multi-Studio Gaming Giant Built Data Quality Into Every Pipeline

Sid Srivastava

Director, Data Architecture & AI/ML Platforms, 2K Games

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

The Ultra-Scale Talk: Scaling Training to Thousands of GPUs

Nouamane Tazi

ML Research Engineer, Hugging Face

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

How Meta understands data at scale

Vasileios Lakafosis

Software Engineer , Meta

Dave Kurtzberg

Software Engineer, Meta

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

How we set-up a Compliant Hybrid Cloud platform at the Belgian National Employment Office

Martijn Bauters

Chief Data Officer, NEO Belgium

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

Data4DeLaval: The 0 to 1 Playbook for Enterprise Data & AI Foundation

MohammadReza Babaee

Senior Product Manager, Data&AI Platforms, DeLaval

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

Separating Myth from Reality in Conversational Analytics

Deniz Minican

VP, Data & AI Office, H&M

Mathias Holm

VP, ML Engineering & Data Science, H&M

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

Scale or Fail: Leveraging AI for Competitive Advantage

Dr.-Ing. Susan Wegner

ex Head of Group Data&AI (SVP)

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

Cross‑Border Sovereignty: Dreams and Wishes meet the Production Floor

Antonio Martiradonna

CISO , Orkla ASA

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

The Wrong Layer: Why AI adoption is failing at the organisational layer - and what builders can do about it

Helena Hörnebrant

CTO Advicer and Former CIO & CDO, TRATON Financial Services, TRATON Financial Services

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

From Specifications to Solid Data: How to Deliver High-Quality Data Products

Ralph Foorthuis

Global Domain Architect Data , HEINEKEN International

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Architecting for AI: Migrating Industrial Telemetry to a Unified Data Platform

Hanna Häger

Data Scientist, Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden

Nour Qweder

Senior Data Scientist , Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Architecting Real-Time Data Pipelines: Turning Sensor Streams into Dashboards

Gregor Bauer

VP Customer Engineering, CrateDB

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

The memory wall, Why agents Fail ( and how to fix them)

Bernard Kavanagh

Principal Solutions Architect, TiDB

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Beyond the Data Swamp: Building the "System of Context" for AI and Operations

Erik Horsting

Principal Solutions Consultant, Reltio

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

From Data-Driven to Decision-Ready: An AI-Native Analytics Strategy for the Agentic Era

Ludwig Sewall

Product and Architecture, dbt Labs

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Random Acts of AI: Moving from Pilots to Production

Dr. Chris Hillman

Global AI Lead, Teradata

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Secure On-Prem AI When Cloud Isn’t an Option - Development to Inference at the Edge with remote GPU sharing

Casper Slothuus

AI Software Solution Architect, HP

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Scaling Generative AI Across Functions from Early Adopters to Enterprise Impact

Tommie Hallin

Chief Architect Data Services , IBM Consulting EMEA

Tobias Brink

Senior Data & AI Consultant , IBM Consulting EMEA

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

11:40 AM

12:00 PM

Banking Without Boundaries: How Bankdata Navigates the Cloud

Jesper Baek Eriksen

Lead Domain Architect, Core Platform Capabilities , Bankdata

Jakob Brandel

Director, Head of Sales Engineering EMEA, EnterpriseDB

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

Eliminating AI Inconsistencies – A Sovereign, Self-Hosted Platform Approach

Dieter Perndl

Managing Director/Founder, Ubitec Gmbh

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

How Fieldstream rebuilt its data platform for exponential growth and AI adoption

Shay Begun

Chief Revenue Officer , Astrafy

Jens Mathiasson

Cofounder, Fieldstream

Nik Zerth

Head of Sales, Data & Analytics, Nordics, Google Cloud

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

Migration to a Cloud-Based Data Platform

Marc Winkelmann

Managing Consultant, Scalefree International

Karsten Kristoffersen

Head of BI, Sparebank1 Sør-Norge

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

What We Changed in 12 Months: Unlocking Data Value in Industrial Operations at Volvo Cars

Christina Finlay

Global Head of Data & AI, Industrial Operations, Volvo Cars

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

AskCAP: Coop Data Companion Powered by Databricks Genie and Microsoft Teams

Emil Nilsson

Head of Analytics, Coop

Ankit Pratap Singh

Tech Lead Data Engineering, Coop

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

Transforming Railway Inspection Through Digitalization – Leveraging New Measurement Technologies, AI Capabilities, and Evolved Ways of Working to Drive Efficiency and Reliability

Fredrik Andersson

Assignment Manager, Trafikverket

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

What DORA, CRA & the EU AI Act Mean for Enterprise AI Infrastructure

Adeiza Yisa

Business Information Security Office (BISO) Advisor, Shell

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

Adopting AI From the Core to Scale Business Impact – The End of Best Practices

Ingo Paas

Technology executive, Book Author and Speaker, /

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

12:10 PM

12:30 PM

A blueprint for better testing with data products

Mikkel Dengsoe

Data Strategy, Coalesce

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

12:35 PM

12:55 PM

Enabling the Future with Agentic AI

Stephen Brobst

Chief Technology Officer, Ab Initio

[P1] - Plenum

12:50 PM

1:40 PM

Networking Lunch

1:30 PM

3:10 PM

Building an Agentic Data application in Databricks

Amine Nouira

Solutions Architect, Databricks

Debadatta Mohapatra

Solutions Architect, Databricks

[W1] Workshop

1:30 PM

3:10 PM

Workshop: Snowflake Intelligence Hands-on-Lab

Trine Engelund

Associate Solution Engineer, Snowflake

[W2] Workshop

1:30 PM

3:10 PM

Data Observability in Practice: A Hands-On Introduction

Charles Wood

Global Principal Architect, Actian, a division of HCLSoftware

[W3] Workshop

1:30 PM

3:10 PM

From Sensors to Dashboards: Building Real-Time Analytics Pipelines That Actually Work

Niklas Schmidtmer

Head of Customer Support, CrateDB

Gregor Bauer

VP Customer Engineering, CrateDB

[W4] Workshop

1:30 PM

3:10 PM

Turn AI ambition into AI value

Thomas Lindback

Staff Customer Engineer , Collibra

[W5] Workshop

1:30 PM

3:10 PM

Workshop: How to create a seamless flow of data from front end to back end that delivers revenue-driving customer experiences

Darron Gregory

Solution Director , SAP

Josh Ledger

Customer Advisor Architect, SAP

[W6] Workshop

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

Beyond the next track – How AI is transforming recommendations and personalization

Henrik “Henok” Lindström

Product Lead, Spotify

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

Trustworthy by Default: How HelloFresh Rebuilt Their Data Platform Around Quality and Why It Unlocks AI

Max Schultze

Director of Data Engineering , HelloFresh

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

Don't Skip Leg Day: Building Data Product Muscles

Robert Børlum-Bach

Head of Data Architecture and Transformation , JP/Politiken Media Group

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

Bridging Analytics, Governance and Culture: From insights to Impact

Julie Siezing

Director, Global Data & Analytics , GN

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

[VIRTUAL] AI for Business Intelligence

Ayan Ray

Director - Data Analytics & AI , Driving AI for Business Intelligence , PepsiCo

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

AI Governance – Navigating the Intersection of Business Impact and Ethical Responsibility

Juha Vesanto

Director, Quantum and AI Research Centre, OP Pohjola

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

AI empowered cyber security risk management and certification

Per Myrseth

Senior Researcher, Cyber Security, DNV, Research and Development

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

Action Before Perfection: A Practical Path to AI Adoption in Manufacturing

Tony Savander

Senior Data Scientist , Wärtsilä

Christian Sundman

Innovation Manager , Wärtsilä

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

1:40 PM

2:00 PM

The pulse of a Pension Fund: Achieving exceptional SQL reliability at PFA

Lars Hove Goswami-Christiansen

Principal SQL Server Database Administrator , PFA

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

The Architecture of "Why": Building Context Graphs for Agentic RAG

Kristof Neys

Graph Data Science Director, neo4j

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

Engineering for Autonomy: Low-ETL, Open Formats, and the Return of the Semantic Layer

Will Martin

Evangelist EMEA, Dremio

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

Once Upon a Dataset: How a Brave Data Team Saved the Kingdom from AI Mayhem

Adam Greco

Product Evangelist, Hightouch

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

Data Quality Is Not Enough: Stop AI Hallucinations with Trusted Data

Christian Stadlmann

Chief Revenue Officer, One Data

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

When Data Starts Acting: Speed, Scale, and Simplicity For Agentic AI

Arjan Hijstek

Solution Architect, Clickhouse

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

One Store to Rule Them All: Building a Sovereign AI Data Foundation That Delivers Results

Roland Wammers

Field Architect, MinIO

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

The Sovereign AI Rush: Launch High-Margin 'Chat-with-Your-Data' Services in Days

Ole Petter Johnsen

Solution Architect & AI Expert , Cloudian

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

No More Data Cowboys: Rethinking How Arla Foods are building Data & Analytics Capabilities in the Business

Janni Peistrup Eriksen

Senior Adoption Specialist, Arla Foods

Trine Lundorf

Head of Data Enablement and Governance, Arla Foods

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

The Context Crisis: Why Your Data Stack Understands Syntax But Not Semantics

Laura Malins

Head of Product , Sifflet

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

Finding the Right Chemistry: Combining Domain Expertise, Data & MLOps across borders

Nicola Holmes

Lead of the Data, Analytics & AI Center of Excellence, Kemira

Janne Sipilä

Director Business Development, twoday

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

How Arrive Drives Urban Innovation with a Scalable Data Foundation

Claudia Chiţu

Engineering Manager, Arrive

Barry Tallon

Lead Sales Engineer, Fivetran

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

The Zero-Copy Lakehouse: Iceberg and Delta Sharing as a Hybrid Data Strategy

Roland Wammers

Field Architect, MinIO

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

Handelsbanken Pension Fund: 10x Faster Data Products by Redesigning Data Delivery

André Westerlund

Business Solution Architect, Handelsbanken IT

Frej Örnberg

Sustainability Analyst, Handelsbanken Fonder

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

From Fragmented Data to Governed Self-Service Analytics

Henry De Rudder

Head of Data, AI & IT, Ceres Pharma

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

Product launch session: Who’s in command of your AI?

Teresa Rojas

Senior Director, Product Management, Collibra

Alex Combessie

Co-Founder & CEO, Giskard

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

Central banking and AI – Driving AI-innovation in a highly secure environment

Annika Thoresson

AI enablement Lead, Riksbanken

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

Making Legacy Data AI Ready: Turning Decades of Documents Into Actionable Insights

Per Hillertz

IT Site Lead at AstraZeneca Gothenburg and Director of M&A IT, AstraZeneca

Igor Printsev

Sr Delivery Management Director, EPAM

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

2:40 PM

3:00 PM

From System of Record to Serving Layer: Rethinking Databases for AI Workloads

Samrat Ghosh

Lead Data & AI Architect, Tele2

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

3:10 PM

3:35 PM

Networking Coffee & Peer-to-Peer Meetings

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

Book Signing - The Confidence to Act

Karima Makrof

Founder and Chief Adviser - Data Governance , AKLYON Consulting AB

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

Technology in practice | Round 1

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - "Reaktor Demo Cave: AI in Action " - Reaktor - B26

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - A JetBrains service enabling self-service conversational analytics for data teams across the organization - Jetbrains - C59

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - AI-Ready Data Platforms: Agents Build, Humans Operate - EY - A10

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - AI-led Data Migration: Accelerate cloud migration from legacy data platforms - Grid Dynamics

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - AIStor: High-Performance Object Storage Built for AI at Scale - MinIO- B15

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Accelerate Workloads Using Cortex Code: The AI-Powered IDE That Knows Your Snowflake Account - Snowflake - A10

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Accelerated Machine Learning at Scale - Vast Data - A4

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Accelerating Data Warehousing on Azure SQL with WhereScape 3D + RED - Wherescape - C68

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Agentic Access in Action: Automating Access Requests with Immuta - C70

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Agentic BI: From Prompt to Production Dashboard in Minutes - Lightdash - C72

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Agentic Orchestration Studio: From process description to running workflows - twoday - C37

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Agentic data management: automating quality, lineage and cataloging - Validio - C47

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Applying analytics on streaming data - Brightly - C35

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Architecture of an IoT pipeline delivering real-time analytics - CrateDB - C65

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Atlan in Action: Building Context for Your AI Agents - Atlan - D105

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Augmenting SAP Data Products with your own ML models - SAP - A13

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Automated Optimization for your Databricks Workloads - Zipher - C71

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Automating AI agents security and evaluation at enterprise scale - Giskard -

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Autonomous AI in Practice: Activating Enterprise Knowledge with AI Agents - Teradata - C75

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Better Compliance, Cleaner Data, Fewer Incidents: A SelectZero Platform Overview - Select Zero

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Beyond PowerPoint strategy: Using AI to turn strategic intent into continuous action - Futurice - D82

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Beyond the Prototype: Architecting Dependable and Scalable Agents for the Enterprise - Dataiku - A11

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Bring AI to Your Data: Conversational Access Without Centralization - Ab Initio - B21

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Build a GenAI Application Using Vectors, RAG, Graph, and More with Oracle Enterprise AI and Oracle AI Database 26ai - Oracle - C45

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - ClickHouse – Agentic AI Demo - Clickhouse - C46

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Cloudera Data Lineage - Cloudera - B23

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Cloudian HyperScale AI Data Platform Demo - Cloudian - D88

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Context Graphs and Agentic Memory in action - Neo4j - B22

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Conversational Analytics: Where BI meets AI with Looker - Astrafy

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Create a Data Platform in 30 days - Datamasters - D83

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Data Observability: Deliver Analytics and AI-Ready Data with Sifflet - Sifflet - C64

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Data Observability: From Broken Dashboards to Trusted Data: Actian Data Observability - Actian B24

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Data Quality: The bridge between CDO and CTO - Soda - C63

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Data×AI initiative steering - Dairdux - C62

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Deploying Large Language Models in Production - Confidential Mind - C56

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Develop your AI in Europe - RISE - C61

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Dremio Cloud in Action: AI-Powered Analytics on the Data Lakehouse - Dremio - B17

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - EDB Postgres AI: Demo Showcase & 2024 Highlights - EnterpriseDB - D104

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Enterprise AI Foundation: Scalable AI Platforms Instead of Isolated Individual Initiatives - PCG - C79

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Exploring ThoughtSpot: The Future of Agentic Analytics - Thoughtspot - C77

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Find, Trust, and Fix Your Data: A Live Demo of DataGalaxy Catalog - DataGalaxy - D102

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Freedom to Do More: Meet the first AI Data Automation platform, Maia - Matillion - C39

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - From Chaos to Clarity: Data Products for KPIs, Reporting & AI You Can Rely On - OneData - D101

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - From Customer Context to AI Action: See Snowplow in Action - Snowplow - C58

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - From Question to Decision – Chat with Your Financial Data - RandomForest - C33

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - From Raw Data To Semantic Layer - Scalefree - C69

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - From Smart Cities to Cognitive Communities: Enabling Real-Time, AI-Driven Urban Governance - Lenovo - B27

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - GPU Sharing for AI Workflows: Pool & Share HP Z Workstation GPUs with HP Z Boost - HP - B29

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - How Data Teams Stay Ahead of Quality Issues with Data Observability using Datadog - Datadog - C48

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - How to Build a Geospatial RAG App with MariaDB Cloud - Maria DB - D84

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Hugo Boss x Aston Martin Formula 1 Apple Vision Pro Experience - EPAM - D81

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Innovating Marketing with Data: From Composable CDP to Agentic Execution - Hightouch - C34

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Integration Made Simple: Lakebase + Lakehouse + Your Apps in 30 Minutes - Databricks - A5

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Kubernetes Operator as Your DBA: Taking Back Control of Database Infrastructure - Percona - D106

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Managed to the Power of k – Rethinking Managed Services for the AI Era - Knowit - B20

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Meet IBM BOB: Your AI coding agent for enterprise - How to easily scale with IBM software - IBM - B30

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Neo4j Technology in Practice - Neo4j

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Omni demo: AI analytics you can trust - Omni - C76

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Onboard 360 - The Unified agent for Seamless Customer; Supplier Onboarding - Dun & Bradstreet - C73

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Operations 5.0 Live: From Strategy to Autonomous Operations in 20 Minutes - Kovant - D91

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Orchestrating Modern Data Platforms for Trusted AI-Ready Data and Workload Mobility across Hybrid environments - Acceldata - C67

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Our Insights from 1T Tokens on Openrouter - Inceptron -

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Plan with Claude, Build with MiniMax: Cutting AI Coding Spend with a Two-Model Workflow on SambaNova - SambaNova - C50

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Powering Successful Agentic AI with a Unified Data Foundation - Denodo - C66

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Predictive SLA Management for Complex Data Pipelines: An Airflow and AAI Story - Broadcom - C38

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Siemens superpowers: Bringing AI to the shop floor - Siemens - A12

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Sigma Demo: AI Apps & Analytics on Your Cloud Data Warehouse - Sigma Computing - C78

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Software security in depth with the Welkin application platform - Elastisys - D93

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Sovereign Collaboration: Beyond Microsoft 365 with Nextcloud - C36

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - The AI-ready data era: What every organisation needs to build in 2026 - Fivetran - A1

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - The Agentic Future: How Gemini Agents are Empowering BigQuery - Google Cloud - A14

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - The New Era of Analytics: Alteryx with Agents Turning API Data into Governed, Automated Insights - Alteryx - D92

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Topic: Experience the dbt Fusion engine - dbt labs - A8

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Trusted AI in Data Production - Solita - A6

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Turn AI ambition into AI value - Collibra - B19

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Turn AI ambition into AI value - Collibra - B19

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Turning AI into Real Workflows – Building and Running Business Processes with Bosbec - Bosbec - D87

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Unlocking Context Intelligence with Reltio Data Cloud - Reltio - B16

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Unlocking possibilities: Four Futures of AI and EY.AI Value Blueprint - EY - A10

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - What does Stanford say AI does to tech team productivity - Proxify - D107

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Why 95% of AI Projects Fail and How to Build AI-Ready Data in Minutes, Not Months" - TimeXtender - C54

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Why Is Your AI So Confused? And How Context Fixes It - Dawiso - C32

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] - Why Your Data Infrastructure Needs a Brain - and How to Give It One - Aiven - D103

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

[TIP] AI-Powered FinOps: Intelligent VM Right-Sizing with the Databricks Platform - Redeploy - C55

4:10 PM

4:50 PM

Chief AI Officer Executive Round Table

Gabor Harsanyi

Head of M&CR Data Office , Ericsson AB

Hanna Widenberg

AI Strategy & Public Sector Advisor, NVIDIA

Yuliya Demchenko

Head of Engineering, Web and Mobile, H&M

RT - Executive Roundtables

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

How the agents have colonized Carrefour

Guillaume Blaquiere

Group Data Architect, Carrefour

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

How to build a data pipeline for RAG – Practical considerations

Olof Granberg

AI Strategist & builder, DataMentor

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

Talking to Data - Generating Analytical Insights

Sebastian Herold

Senior Principal Data Engineer, Zalando SE

Timur Yüre

Engineering Manager, Zalando SE

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

Embedded Data Governance: Resolving the Automation Paradox

Winfried Adalbert Etzel

Data Governance Professional, Winfried Etzel AS

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

Mastering the Shift: Essential Tools and Tips for Seamless Adaptation to New Data Visualization Platforms

Ankur Bansal

Credit Risk Analyst, /

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

From Burden to Brilliance: A Developer-Friendly Approach to Compliant Documentation

Øystein Endal

AI Risk Officer , Gjensidige Forsikring ASA

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

From UX to Human Experience: Designing AI with People at the Center

Raquel Castro

UX Lead , Visma Software International

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

Why AI Systems Break in Production: From Schema Drift to Vector DB Reality

Thodoris Katsimanis

Technology Manager – Operational & Distributed Database Systems, KaizenGaming

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

[VIRTUAL] The art of Agent Reliability Engineering

Julian Bright

Former Member of Technical Staff, former xAI

[M1] - Machine Learning, Agents & Generative AI Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

From Data Chaos to a Nordic Analytics Backbone

Abhijeet Singh

Data Platform Architect , PostNord

Happy Tony

Product Owner - Data Platform, PostNord

[M2] - Data Engineering & DataOps Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

Driving Innovation in Master Data Management at Scania: Transforming Cloud Data into Intelligent Data Products

Joe Arun Mathews

Solution Architect , Scania CV AB

Robert Ciborowski

QING MDM Solution Manager , Scania CV AB

[M3] - Data Platform & Architecture Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

Data Mesh in Defence: From Data Silos to Mission Advantage

Marcus Huzell

Data Architect, Saab

[M4] - Data Strategy and Governance Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

From Chaos to Clarity: Building Your BI Platform

Viktoriia Kniazeva

Technical Architect , Omnevo GMBH

[M5] - Analytics & Decision Intelligence Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

Trustworthy Autonomous AI at Scale, Ensuring Safety, Reliability and Accountability in Decision Systems

Sahar Tahvili, PhD

Head of Verification and Validation, Einride AB, Autonomous Technology

[M6] - AI Strategy and Governance Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

Fully Homomorphic Encryption and the Future of Trustworthy AI

César Soto Valero

Data Scientist , SEB Group

[M7] - Sovereignty, Infrastructure and Security Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

From AI Hype to Shared Reality: Scaling an AI Academy to 650+ Employees and Building an Enterprise Use-Case Pipeline

Lana Kader

AI and Strategy Manager, Matas Group

[M8] - Adoption and Impact Stage

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

How Do You Find the Next Big Technology? AI, Knowledge Graphs and Weak Signals

Victoria Palacin

Research Team Leader, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Carolyn Cole

Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

[M9] - Databases & Data Quality Stage

5:10 PM

5:30 PM

Closing KEYNOTE | The Token Economy: Architecting for the Era of Agentic AI

Nathaniel Ives

Director Enterprise – Benelux, France & Nordics, Nvidia

[P1] - Plenum

5:35 PM

5:45 PM

Chairman's Closing Remarks in the Plenum Area

Henrik Göthberg

Founder/CEO , Dairdux

[P1] - Plenum

5:45 PM

6:20 PM

Expo Crawl DIS 26: A Culinary & Networking Adventure

6:20 PM

6:30 PM

Data after Dark 2026: 11-Year Celebration Kickoff
[P1] - Plenum

6:30 PM

8:15 PM

Data after Dark 2026: Main Artist 2026 - Ål In Band
[P1] - Plenum

8:15 PM

9:45 PM

Data after Dark 2026: DJ/VJ Per
[P1] - Plenum

9:45 PM

11:30 PM

Data after Dark 2026: From Live Vibes to Late Night Rythms - DJ Natanael
[P1] - Plenum