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Scaling Data in Aviation: Inside Brussels Airlines’ Data Strategy

Data StrategyData Platform
1h 1min

Host

Kris PeetersKris Peeters

Guest

THTom Holsteens

How do you transform a broken data landscape into a scalable, self-service data platform?

In this episode of The Data Playbook, Kris Peeters sits down with Tom Holsteens to unpack how Brussels Airlines rebuilt their data foundation from the ground up.

Coming out of the pandemic, the organisation faced a classic problem:

👉 A “spaghetti” data warehouse 👉 No ownership of data assets 👉 A central team becoming the bottleneck

This is a must-watch for data leaders, engineers, and anyone scaling data in complex organisations.

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What you'll see

  • Building a modern cloud data platform
  • Moving to a data product architecture
  • Enabling self-service analytics across teams
  • Balancing central governance with decentral ownership
  • Leveraging AI tools to empower non-technical users
  • Why most data platforms fail (and how to fix them)
  • How to introduce data ownership in business teams
  • The real difference between controlling vs. BI
  • How to reduce bottlenecks with hub-and-spoke models
  • A real use case: cutting food waste by 30% with data
  • Why perfect data quality is a myth

Tags

Brussels AirlinesData ProductsSelf Service AnalyticsData GovernanceData OwnershipCloud Data PlatformAviation DataThe Data Playbook

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