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DATA festival #Munich
GETTING REAL WITH AI
26th – 27th March, 2025 | Muffatwerk Munich
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Where Human and Artificial Intelligence meet: Practical applications of data and AI at DATA festival #Munich
DATA festival was back in #Munich on March 19-20, 2024. This two-day event was designed for professionals seeking to chart a course toward a future where human & artificial intelligence work hand in hand to do well and to do good.
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DATA festival is coming back to Munich on March 26th – 27th, 2025. Mark your calendars now!
DATA festival is where theory meets practice to create real, actionable knowledge. This event brings together #DATApeople eager to drive the realistic applications of AI in their fields.
Leaving the hype behind, we look at the actual progress made in applying (Gen)AI to real-world problems and delve into the foundations to understand what it takes to make AI work for you. We’ll discuss when, where and how AI is best applied, and explore how we can use data & AI to shape our future.
Join Europe’s #DATAcommunity to get up to speed on the latest developments in:
GENERATIVE AI & MACHINE LEARNING
Discover the latest developments in machine learning and MLOps - and explore the possibilities of training your own GenAI.
DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
Learn from the pros how to use advanced analytics and other tools to get from complex data to actionable insight.
DATA ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE
Explore the paradigm shift towards data products and dive into the crucial underpinnings for data-driven AI.
DATA MESH & DATA GOVERNANCE
Find YOUR way through the maze of modern data organization and governance.
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KEY OVERARCHING THEMES
DATA CULTURE
Get practical insights into building a thriving data culture that fuels innovation and growth.
WOMEN IN DATA
Celebrate the powerful women shaping the data landscape, contributing to a more inclusive and diverse field.
AI FOR GOOD
Explore inspiring examples of AI used to benefit society, affirming the positive potential of this technology.
SPEAKERS ON STAGE
DR. CARSTEN BANGE
Founder and CEO | BARC
JACQUELINE BLOEMEN
Senior Analyst Data & Analytics | BARC
TIMO BURMEISTER
Head of DataOps & Platform Engineering | freenet AG
DR. DENIS DALIĆ
Technical Project Manager | MI4People
SEBASTIAN DROZDZ
Data Cloud Platform Architect | Partner Reinsurance
DR. HAKAN DUMAN
Head of Data Science & Engineering | CARIAD
BARBARA ENGERER
Head of Data and Analytics | BSH Home Appliances
MARCO GEUER
Head of Global Data Strategy & Solutions | FIEGE
THOMAS GREMM
Team Lead Data Engineering | RTL2 Fernsehen GmbH & Co.KG
KATRIN HAAS
Data Governance Lead | ÖBB Infrastruktur AG
DR. ANDREA HOFMANN
Head of Data Innovation for DHL IT Services | Deutsche Post DHL Group
STEPHAN KAULBACH
Partner & Tribe Lead | Alexander Thamm GmbH
NICO KELLING
Vice President, Head of CoE Artificial Intelligence | Infineon Technologies
BILGE KOBAS
Research Associate at TUM’s Chair of Climate Responsive Design | TU München
LEOPOLD
LEOPOLD | Liveact data.party
WALID MEHANNA
Group Data Officer | Merck Group
DR. FABIAN MEHRING
Bavarian State Minister for Digital Affairs
STEFFEN MERSEBURG
Scientist | Space-Eye e.V.
DR. ARMIN MÜLLER
Global Head of Analytics | Kaufland Stiftung & Co. KG
LUKAS NEGRIN
President | DAMA Austria
DR. LYDIA NEMEC
Head of AI Accelerator | Carl Zeiss AG
SAMI NENNO
Research assistant | Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society
FRIE PREU
Head of Data4Good Projects & Infrastructure | CorrelAId
SVEN REMME
Data Analytics Expert and Project Manager | ROLAND Rechtsschutz-Versicherungs-AG
DR. MATHIAS RIECHERT
Founder | Mathias-Riechert-Art.com
KOLJA MANUEL RÖDEL
Product Owner Analytics Data Foundation | MediaMarktSaturn
ALESSANDRO ROMANO
Senior Data Scientist | Kuehne+Nagel – Germany
TANJA SCHLESINGER
Data Officer | DB Regio AG
HANNO SCHMIEDT
Lead Data Scientist | DHL Group
HENDRIK SIEFERT
AI Program Lead | BSH Home Appliances Group
DR. PAUL SPRINGER
Co-Founder & Managing Director | MI4People gGmbH
ALEXANDER STAVINSKI
Manager Data Governance, in-house lawyer | Deutsche Bahn AG
DR. THOMAS STECHER
Lead Data Scientist | Carl Zeiss AG
ALEXANDER THAMM
Founder and CEO | Alexander Thamm GmbH
SUSANNE WESSEL-THERHORN
Senior Project Managerin Data & Analytics | congstar
MARTIN TUPY
Head of Applied Artificial Intelligence | Brose Fahrzeugteile
THOMAS ZEUTSCHLER
BARC Fellow & Senior Analyst | BARC
PAUL ZIERINGER
Data Scientist | adidas AG
DR. THERESA ZÜGER
Lead of the AI & Society Lab | Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society
WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY
The event provided me with valuable insights and innovative ideas on how to implement sustainability reporting from a BI perspective and seamlessly integrate it with financial planning.
Martin Schlegel
Head Group Reporting, Straumann Group
The data festival was great, very nice atmosphere, very interesting presentations. I really appreciated the event.
Sahar Changuel
Data Manager, Société Générale
I enjoyed participating in the DATA festival and learning from the various peers in the industry. Great organisation. Looking forward to more events.
Fahd Lemhaider
Analytics Manager, MILES Mobility
It was an exceptionally awesome experience for me to be part of the DATA festival last month. I had a wonderful time catching up on and learning new techs currently on the market in the field of data. Moreover, it was very interesting to listen to speakers from various companies with their user cases on how they are coming up with Business Solutions through exploiting of these technologies.
Overall, it was simply awesome to be there, and I would certainly not want to miss such events in future. I have already registered for the one in October (the online one – really looking forward to it).
Brian Kamanga
Business Intelligence/SQL Developer, Daimler Truck AG
DATA festival #online was great – the topics were very interesting, the speakers were well mixed, and the platform itself was also very intuitive.
Tiankai Feng
Head of Product Data Governance, adidas
It was my first time attending the DATA festival. For me it was a great opportunity to get to know people in the data area and exchange interesting thoughts about data in various fields. My takeaways are the connections I made that day and the valuable insights of the attending suppliers and speakers.
Marvin Adams
Executive Director Application Development & Data Management, NürnbergMesse GmbH
BARC initiates inspiring impulses on a wide range of topics across industries through conferences such as the DATA festival.
Barbara Engerer
Global Digital Services, Head of Data and Analytics GDS-DA, BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
This was my first time at the DATA Festival. As a marketing manager, I had some reservations, but the mixture of overview talks, exciting panels, deep dives and a really extraordinarily friendly audience absolutely convinced me. The keynote was inspiring and the deep dive on the topic of rain forecasting was simply unbeatable. Great. Gladly again immediately!
Sebastian Zahn
Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe
This year’s DATA Festival’s theme was particularly relevant. How to make data analytics and AI truly impactful is one of the things that keeps me up. I enjoyed the panel discussion as we uncovered many similarities as well as differences in the way we approached this topic. It was great as we bounced off each other’s ideas.
Sebastian Hentzschel
CIO, BMG
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