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
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
Focussed Discussion Groups
various Moderators
2:55 pm
Changing Break
3:25 pm
Focussed Discussion Groups
various Moderators
4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:30 pm
Building AI Agents on Solid Ground – Context Engineering Explained By a Hands-on Use Case
BARC | Jacqueline Bloemen
5:00 pm
From Solo Agents to Agentic Ecosystems: Enabling Production-Ready AI for the Energy Transition
E.ON | Kapil Gupta
5:30 pm
Coffee Break
6:00 pm
An Optimistic View on AI: The Data Revolution Ahead
DHL | Thorsten Kranz
7:00 pm
Panel discussion moderated by Katrin Botzen | Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
6:50 pm
Start-up Award Ceremony
from 6.50 pm
Evening Event
Continue your conversation with colleagues and like-minded people in a relaxed atmosphere in the beer garden right on the Isar river.
8:00 pm
Tap Room Talk with the Program Committee
Join our Bar Talk during the evening event: an intimate, VIP-style round hosted by the DATA festival Committee members. In small, private circles, you’ll dive into their favorite topics, ask questions, exchange experiences, and pick up practical tips and insider perspectives. Enjoy great drinks and the festival vibe in the background, relaxed, personal, and genuinely valuable.
Get together with: Alex Thamm, Dr. Carsten Bange, Marcel Kling, Barbara Engerer & Lydia Nemec
DAY 2 – JUNE 17TH
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
AI-powered Accounting: How AI is Reshaping Data Intake
MunichRE | Martin Breitschädel
10:45 am
Agentic and AI Delivery – setup for success
ING Group | Frank Fischer & Claire Pfeil
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
3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:45 pm
The Future is Conversational: Bosch’s Integrated Data Product Ecosystem with Generative AI
Robert Bosch Group | Wolfgang Klein & Simeon Rilling
4:15 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
DAY 1 – JUNE 16TH
NEWCOMER STAGE
11:45 am
Entropy Data
12:15 pm
Linksight
2:15 pm
Lunch Break
5:00 pm
Start-up Award Finalist Pitches
DAY 2 – JUNE 17TH
TECH DEEP DIVES
10:45 am
Unlocking Data Migration Success: Architecting Eurowings’ Data Platform on Azure with Databricks
Eurowings Digital GmbH | Onur Tokat
11:15 am
Coffee Break
12:15 pm
Tech Deep Dive
Starburst
1:45 pm
Lunch Break
2:45 pm
AI Agents: The New Frontier of LLMs
Nomba | Mustapha Adekunle
3:15 pm
Coffee Break
DAY 1 – JUNE 16TH
11:15 am
Dremio
11:45 am
Iron Man: Turning Data Into Cash – Optimizing NWC With Data Products
One Data | Dr. Stefan Rameseder
12:15 pm
From Bot to Business Standard: How AI-Powered Knowledge Management Is Transforming the Organization
Marmeladenbaum | Dominik Wuttke
2:15 pm
Lunch Break
6:00 pm
Mindfuel
Newcomer
*Preliminary schedule, subject to change.
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