Webinars

Online broadcast sessions

2026

Aug 27, 2026

From Scattered Data To Trustworthy Science (with VITO)

Katarina Milosevic and VITO's Tom Kuppens on turning scattered research data into a FAIR, AI-ready foundation.

2025

Aug 18, 2025

European Clouds vs. Hyperscalers: Can You Really Build a Sovereign Data Platform?

Kris Peeters, Gergely Soti, and Niels Claeys on whether European cloud providers can replace US hyperscalers for sovereign data platforms.

2024

Nov 14, 2024

Getting Data Done in Healthcare: Lessons from the Frontlines

Thomas Kranzkowski and Kris Peeters recap "The Doctor's Data Knight" on data and AI in healthcare.

Sep 26, 2024

Empowering Every User: How Data Product Portal Accelerates Collaboration

Wannes Rosiers and Amy Raygada (Thoughtworks) on how the Data Product Portal accelerates collaboration across data roles.

Aug 28, 2024

Initial Reactions: Market Insights on the Data Product Portal

Wannes Rosiers and Niels Cautaerts (VITO) on the Data Product Portal's initial market reception.

Jul 30, 2024

Simplifying Data Management: Introducing the Data Product Portal

Kris Peeters and Wannes Rosiers introduce the open-source Data Product Portal.

Jun 27, 2024

The Impact of Product Thinking for Data

Kinda El Maarry and Wannes Rosiers on how product thinking transforms data governance.

Mar 5, 2024

Decentralized vs Centralized: How to organize your data teams?

Kris Peeters, Kristof Martens, and Jelle De Vleminck on choosing between centralized and decentralized data team structures.

2023

Dec 7, 2023

Future-Proofing Your Data Engineering Career: Essential Skills for 2024 and Beyond

Jelena Grujic, Cedric Mingneau, and Oliver Willekens on the essential skills for data engineers in 2024 and beyond.

Oct 16, 2023

Head-to-head comparison of 3 dbt SQL engines

Kris Peeters and Niels Claeys benchmark Trino, Spark, and DuckDB as SQL engines for dbt pipelines.

Jun 1, 2023

dbt + DuckDB vs Spark: What's the best way to build data pipelines in 2023?

Kris Peeters and Niels Claeys compare dbt + DuckDB against Spark for data lake transformations.

2022

Oct 12, 2022

CI/CD for data projects: Why manual deployments are not good enough

Pierre Borckmans on bringing CI/CD confidence to the data project lifecycle with Conveyor.

Sep 7, 2022

How to Protect your AWS account against intruders

Stijn De Haes on improving and automating AWS account security.

Aug 10, 2022

What does it take to build a data platform

Niels Claeys on the real effort behind building a data platform, and common build-vs-buy misconceptions.

Jun 23, 2022

Spark on Kubernetes in the real world

Stijn De Haes on writing fast, efficient Spark pipelines on Kubernetes.

Feb 4, 2022

Ensure smooth sailing by orchestrating your containerised data pipelines

Pierre Borckmans on doing MLOps Level 2 in real life with containers and an Airflow orchestrator.

2020

Oct 13, 2020

ML Industrialisation frameworks

Kris Peeters on ML industrialisation, comparing Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, and Google AI.

Aug 13, 2020

Deploy analytics workloads

Kris Peeters and Stijn De Haes on where to deploy analytics workloads: VMs, serverless, or containers.

Jun 30, 2020

Save costs on cloud data analytics workloads

Pascal Brokmeier and Kris Peeters on optimizing cloud analytics costs across AWS, Azure, and GCP.