Thomas Brinkman

Thomas is currently working in the Innovation Lab of the CJIB, where he studies the role of architecture in combination with social issues. As a partially self-employed entrepreneur, he enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others. His technical background, combined with the experience in BI and his commitment to social issues, resulted in the development of more and more architectural solutions.

Jos van Dongen

Jos is the director of the Erasmus Data Collaboratory – House of AI, where data & AI come to life. The EDC is part of the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, in which Jos serves as a member of the management team.

Ron Tolido

Ron Tolido is an Executive Vice President, CTO and Master Architect of Capgemini’s Insights & Data global business line. He is the lead author of Capgemini’s ‘TechnoVision’ yearly trend series and the editor-in-chief of the ‘Data-powered Innovation Review’ magazine publications. He has served for a decade at The Open Group’s governance board.

Panos Alexopoulos

Panos Alexopoulos has been working since 2006 at the intersection of data, semantics and software, contributing in building intelligent systems that deliver value to business and society. He currently works as Head of Ontology at Textkernel BV, in Amsterdam, leading a team of data professionals in developing and delivering a large cross-lingual Knowledge Graph in the HR and Recruitment domain.

Matthijs Stel

Matthijs Stel holds the position of manager Data Management & Analytics at Evides Water Company. In his current role of Manager Data Management & Analytics he is responsible for developing and executing the data strategy and leads the department Data Management & Analytics.

Thomas Frisendal

Thomas Frisendal is an experienced database professional with more than 30 years on the IT vendor side and as an independent consultant. He has worked with databases and data modeling since the late 70s. Since 1995 he primarily worked on data warehouse projects, but today he works mostly with graph database technology.

Erik van der Hoeven

Erik van der Hoeven is a Business Intelligence Specialist from the Netherlands with more than 10 years’ experience in developing and designing Data Integration Solutions. He has helped companies such as NIBC, DCMR and Europool to increase the maturity and efficiency of their BI teams.

Petr Beles

Petr Beles has profound experience in data warehouse projects in the telecommunications, financial, and industrial sectors. Petr is co-founder and CEO of Datavault Builder.

Dennis van Gelder

Dennis van Gelder works at Sogeti as an expert in the field of data, data management, analytics and digital transformations. He is an experienced consultant who enjoys helping organisations become smarter.