DATA festival
Program 2026
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June 16: Start Keynote at 10 am; Evening Event from 6 pm
June 17: Start Keynote at 9 am; Closing at 4 pm
DAY 1 – JUNE 16TH
10:00 am
Doors Open
10:30 am
Opening Keynote
DATA festival | Dr. Carsten Bange & Alex Thamm
10:45 am
Coffee Break
11:15 am
What happens AROUND the tech stack? Tech is Easy. Change is Not.
ETH Zurich | Nina Indina
11:45 am
From slides to systems: Lessons learned from implementing AI governance in a decentral global organisation
Zeiss | Alexandra Wander
12:15 pm
The AI Act Reference Architecture: A Practical Blueprint – from Law to System Design
Siemens | Dr. Nikita Golovko
12:45 pm
A PPT on AI
RTL | Sidharth Ramachandran
2:15 pm
Lunch Break
2:45 pm
Building AI Agents on Solid Ground – Context Engineering Explained By a Hands-on Use Case
BARC | Jacqueline Bloemen
3:15 pm
The Future is Conversational: Bosch’s Integrated Data Product Ecosystem with Generative AI
Robert Bosch Group | Wolfgang Klein & Simeon Rilling
3:45 pm
From Solo Agents to Agentic Ecosystems: Enabling Production-Ready AI for the Energy Transition
E.ON | Kapil Gupta
4:45 pm
Panel discussion moderated by Katrin Botzen | Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
5:15 pm
Coffee Break
6:45 pm
AI Optimist vs. AI Realist
DHL | Thorsten Kranz
Evening Event
Continue your conversation with colleagues and like-minded people in a relaxed atmosphere in the beer garden right on the Isar river.
DAY 2 – JUNE 17TH
09:30 am
Doors Open
9:30 am
We make AI take off – on the Rails
DB InfraGO AG | Dr. Nina Stumme
9:45 am
Coffee Break
10:15 am
Turning Data Strategy into Reality through strategic data enablement
Mobile.de | Saru Malhotra
10:45 am
Agentic and AI Delivery – setup for success
ING Group | Frank Fischer & Eddie Kayiira
11:15 am
Break
11:45 am
All Aboard the AI Omnibus: Mind the Act While Accelerating Innovation
Commerzbank | Julia Sterling
12:15 pm
Driving data + AI literacy
Henkel | Florian Roscheck
1:45 pm
Lunch Break
2:15 pm
How the agents have colonized Carrefour
Carrefour | Guillaume Blaquiere
2:45 pm
From Silos to Synergies: The Journey to AI-Ready Reporting & Analytics
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH | Boyana Torovado
3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:45 pm
Beyond the Hype Curve: How to Survive the AI Bubble – Economic Reality meets Generative Infrastructure
BARC | Thomas Zeutschler
3:50 pm
Closing
DATA festival | Dr. Carsten Bange & Alex Thamm
*Preliminary schedule, subject to change.
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