DataDinners®: Beyond Smart Buildings

DataDinners®: Beyond Smart Buildings

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A co-hosted evening with Equans Digital for data leaders: two talks, an elevated dinner, and the conversations in between.

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Welcome to DataDinners: Beyond Smart Buildings

Welcome to Data Dinners

Welcome to DataDinners 2026

An evening built for Data conversations

An evening built for Data conversations

An evening built for Data conversations

Most organisations with real estate portfolios are past the point of wondering whether their building data matters. The hard part is wiring it into a real data platform, with the ownership and governance to combine it with the rest of the business, so a board-level number can actually be trusted.

This evening is for people who own that problem: senior data and data engineering leaders who need practical conversations with experts and peers.

  • Hear how two organisations, Equans Digital and Dataminded, are tackling data engineering for buildings and the wider business, told by the people who built it.

  • Have real conversations with people who share your challenges. Everyone talks, everyone contributes.

  • Meet 50 data leaders over dinner in a format where you'll remember names afterwards.


  • See the program

Most organisations with real estate portfolios are past the point of wondering whether their building data matters. The hard part is wiring it into a real data platform, with the ownership and governance to combine it with the rest of the business, so a board-level number can actually be trusted.

This evening is for people who own that problem: senior data and data engineering leaders who need practical conversations with experts and peers.

  • Hear how two organisations, Equans Digital and Dataminded, are tackling data engineering for buildings and the wider business, told by the people who built it.

  • Have real conversations with people who share your challenges. Everyone talks, everyone contributes.

  • Meet 50 data leaders over dinner in a format where you'll remember names afterwards.


  • See the program

Event details

Format
Format

Free evening event with two talks, a guided tour behind the scenes of Tomorrowland's production, an elevated dinner, and drinks

Free evening event with two talks, a guided tour behind the scenes of Tomorrowland's production, an elevated dinner, and drinks

Free evening event with two talks, a guided tour behind the scenes of Tomorrowland's production, an elevated dinner, and drinks

Capacity
Capacity

Registration closes once all 50 seats are assigned.

Registration closes once all 50 seats are assigned.

Date & time
Date & time

November 19, 2026,

16:30 to 21:00

November 19, 2026,

16:30 to 21:00

Register

Submit your interest

Submit your interest

Submit your interest

This event is for heads of data and data engineering leaders at companies managing buildings or facility portfolios, especially where regulation like GACS, the EED and CSRD makes centralising that data heavier.


This edition takes place at Lab of Tomorrow in Boom, and includes a guided tour behind the scenes of how Tomorrowland gets built.


We’re encouraging each registrant to bring one colleague from the same organisation, so strategy and execution can hear the same discussion.



This event is for heads of data and data engineering leaders at companies managing buildings or facility portfolios, especially where regulation like GACS, the EED and CSRD makes centralising that data heavier.


This edition takes place at Lab of Tomorrow in Boom, and includes a guided tour behind the scenes of how Tomorrowland gets built.


We’re encouraging each registrant to bring one colleague from the same organisation, so strategy and execution can hear the same discussion.



Seats are limited and assigned on a rolling basis.


We built this for senior technical leadership: head of platform, head of data, CTO, and comparable roles in complex organisations, especially where regulation, security, and distributed ownership make every data decision heavier.


Request your seat

Agenda

DataDinners:
Beyond Smart Buildings / Nov 19th

Data Dinners 2026

Data Dinners 2026:
Agentic AI,

Meet Data Infrastructure

Evening runs 16:30 to 21:00. Welcome and talks first, dinner after.

Note the two talks are independent of each other: Equans Digital covers the

building-data angle, Dataminded brings Data Product Thinking.

16:30

Walk-in & welcome

Arrive, settle in, grab a drink and an appetizer. Meet the other attendees before the programme starts.

17:00 – 17:15

Introduction

Equans Digital × Dataminded

17:15 – 17:55

Talk 1: Beyond Smart Buildings, expert Richard de Ruijter, Equans Digital

GACS systems optimise one building at a time, but CSRD and EED reporting needs a single company-wide number. Richard de Ruijter (Equans Digital) on unifying data across multi-vendor building portfolios, from prioritisation to predictive maintenance.

17:55 - 18:35

Talk 2: Data Product Thinking: Why Data Is Still So Hard and How Data Products Fix It, expert Jonny Daenen, Dataminded

Why does data still feel broken, even with modern platforms? Jonny Daenen (Dataminded) on how siloed ownership keeps causing firefighting, and how treating data as a product, not a by-product, fixes it.

18:35 – 19:00

Guided tour: a glimpse behind the scenes of Tomorrowland's production

19:00 – 21:00

Elevated dinner, drinks & mocktails

Co-hosted by

Co-hosted by

Two teams bringing data conversations closer to business impact

Two teams bringing data conversations closer to business impact

Two teams bringing data conversations closer to business impact

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About Equans Digital

At Equans Digital, we combine human insight with digital technology. We make data valuable by establishing connections, identifying risks and highlighting opportunities. This results in greater efficiency and a sustainable competitive advantage.

About Dataminded

At Dataminded, our mission is to enable people and agents to create value from data. As a trusted partner, we help organisations industrialise their data products, modernise their data landscape, and strengthen their internal operating model and skills. This results in organisations that are ready to put data to work, today and tomorrow.

  • AI-ready data

  • Agentic workflows

  • Semantic models

  • LLM infrastructure

  • Data Product Thinking

  • Agentic AI

DataDinners® 2026

DataDinners® 2026

DataDinners® 2026

A co-hosted evening for data leaders on infrastructure, maturity, and agentic AI: talks, roundtables, and dinner.


The first edition of Data Dinners took place in Amsterdam on June 24th, 2026, with a sold-out room.

We're now bringing the format to Belgium, in partnership with Equans Digital, on November 19th.

Submit your interest by filling in the form.

A co-hosted evening for data leaders on infrastructure, maturity, and agentic AI: talks, roundtables, and dinner.


The first edition of Data Dinners took place in Amsterdam on June 24th, 2026, with a sold-out room.

We're now bringing the format to Belgium, in partnership with Equans Digital, on November 19th.

Submit your interest by filling in the form.

DataDinners®: Beyond Smart Buildings

A co-hosted evening with Equans Digital for data leaders: two talks, an elevated dinner, and the conversations in between.

A mic image
A mic image
  • AI-ready data

  • Agentic workflows

  • Semantic models

  • LLM infrastructure

  • Data Product Thinking

  • Agentic AI

Belgium

Vismarkt 17, 3000 Leuven - HQ
Boomgaardstraat 115, 2018 Antwerpen


Vat. BE.0667.976.246

© 2026 Dataminded. All rights reserved.


Belgium

Vismarkt 17, 3000 Leuven - HQ
Boomgaardstraat 115, 2018 Antwerpen

Vat. BE.0667.976.246

© 2026 Dataminded. All rights reserved.


Belgium

Vismarkt 17, 3000 Leuven - HQ
Boomgaardstraat 115, 2018 Antwerpen

Vat. BE.0667.976.246

© 2026 Dataminded. All rights reserved.