Rick van der Lans presents keynote on DW & BI Summit 2026

On the Datawarehousing & Business Intelligence Summit Rick van der Lans returns to present his session Modeling the Mesh: understanding data products and domains. The Datawarehousing & Business Intelligence Summit takes place on March 24th in the Van der Valk Hotel Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Rick van der Lans is a highly-respected independent analyst, consultant, author, and internationally acclaimed lecturer specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence, big data, and database technology. Over the years, Rick has written hundreds of articles and blogs for newspapers and websites and has authored many educational and popular white papers for a long list of vendors. He was the author of the first available book on SQL, entitled including Introduction to SQL.

Organizations face complex data challenges that common architectures—data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, and fabrics—only partly solve. A holistic architecture covering the full data journey, from source to insight, is needed, with these architectures serving as components of a larger whole. During this session, Rick will discuss a data architecture that spans the full data journey. The previously mentioned architectures may play a role within that architecture, but only as components of the larger whole.

As in previous years, this edition of the DW & BI Summit will offer an extensive programme with keynotes from speakers within the Data and Business Intelligence field like Alec Sharp, Eevamaija Virtanen, Juha Korpela, Mathias Vercauteren, and Dutch speakers Rick van der Lans, Jos van Dongen, Wouter van Aerle, Antoine Stelma en Rutger Rienks.

Workshops
Following this, a series of workshops will take place on March 25 in Utrecht, taught by Juha Korpela, Eevamaija Virtanen, Mathias Vercauteren and Alec Sharp:
– Data Mesh Information Architecture: modeling data products and domains by Juha Korpela (English language).
– Grounded AI in Data Warehousing: How to Make Your LLM Stop Lying by Eevamaija Virtanen (English).
– AI Governance, Responsible AI en Data Governance: Connecting the Dots by Mathias Vercauteren.
– Concept Modelling for Business Analysts by Alec Sharp (English).

About DW & BI Summit
The Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Summit is organized annually by Adept Events and is affiliated with BI-Platform.nl.