Data Booster
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May 16, 2026
On 24 June we co-hosted DataDinners 2026 at Amsterdam Roest, together with DataMinded: an evening for data and AI leaders who wanted to move past the slide decks and into the real conversations.
Most organizations are no longer asking whether to invest in AI. The harder question is how to make it work: how to wire AI to data platforms, governance structures, and the people who use them every day. That is what the evening was built around.
Fifty senior data leaders joined for talks, roundtables and dinner.
Doors opened at 16:00 with a walk-in and appetizers, with talks from 17:00.
After the talks everyone split into small, moderated roundtables on the topics that mattered most to them — from AI-ready data infrastructure and governance to LLM infrastructure and data product thinking. The evening closed with a three-course dinner, where the formal program ended and the real conversations started.
The pattern we keep seeing is the same one behind our work: organizations buy the tools, then discover that the return depends on whether their people actually change how they work. An evening like this is where that gets discussed honestly, between people who are in the middle of it.
The full program is on the DataDinners 2026 event page. If you want to talk about building data & AI capability in your own organization, get in touch.
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