Beyond Data & AI – September 2026
Thank you for a great second Beyond Data & AI meetup.
Thanks to our speakers for sharing their work so openly, and to UCLL for hosting us at Campus Hertogstraat. The biggest thanks go to you, the audience. The questions and the conversations afterwards were what made the evening.
Everything from the event is collected on this page: slides, links and practical follow-ups.
Our next meetup takes place on December 9 at the Sirus office in Merelbeke. You can register here.
On this page
UCLL : Introduction
Gudrun Demeulemeester introduced UCLL and its educational programs. You can find her slides here.
Two follow-ups if you want to work with UCLL:
- Monday 19/10, 19:30 to 20:30: online info session on collaborating with UCLL on educational programs and internships. Register
- Interested in hiring a student as a junior consultant in your organisation? More info
The product master data struggle
Sarah Hindryckx showed how silos keep organisations from getting value out of their product data. She skipped past the theory and used concrete cases from the food industry to show what siloed data management actually costs. You can find her slides here.
Digital Smart Port
Pieter Van Bouwel walked us through the data and AI journey of Port of Antwerp-Bruges. Not only the success stories, but also the honest challenges of working in generative AI times. You can find his slides here.
Edition 3: Who owns what?
Our next meetup is all about Data Sovereignty & AI. We hope to see you there. You can subscribe here.
