Public speaking & meetups
Below you can find a list of conferences and meetups where I spoke or which I organized, as well as future ones. Click through for pictures, slide decks and more information.
2026
05
FEB
Thread by Thread: Lessons from Migrating to Fabric
📍 Fabric February conference, Oslo, Norway
2025
05
DEC
Guest on MonkeyPatching podcast: Should Startups Bet on Microsoft Fabric? - Fabric Data Days Edition
📍 The Monkey Patching Podcast, online
04
DEC
Belgium dbt Meetup 13 - co-hosted with the Belgium Snowflake User Group
📍 Telenet, Mechelen, Belgium
27
NOV
Thread by Thread: Lessons from Migrating to Fabric
📍 Fabric Winterfest, Snow World, Antwerp
27
NOV
SQL Resurgence: Unleashing data potential with dbt
📍 Fabric Winterfest, Snow World, Antwerp
05
NOV
Belgium dbt Meetup 12
📍 IBA, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
29
OCT
Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer
📍 Techorama, Kinepolis Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands
06
OCT
SQL Resurgence: Unleashing data potential with dbt
📍 DataMinds Connect, Mechelen, Belgium
25
SEP
Guest on DataTopics podcast: SQLBits Unfiltered - dbt in Fabric, MLOps in Action & Copilot in Question
📍 DataTopics, online
24
JUN
Belgium dbt Meetup 11
📍 Port of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
20
JUN
From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine
📍 sqlbits, London, United Kingdom
12
JUN
Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer
📍 Fabric Belgium, Visser & Van Baars, Antwerp, Belgium
28
MAY
Fabric Fortresses: Setting Up Microsoft Fabric for Your Enterprise Needs
📍 Techorama, Antwerp, Belgium
28
MAY
Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer
📍 Techorama, Antwerp, Belgium
29
APR
Belgium dbt Meetup 10
📍 Dataminded, Leuven, Belgium
24
FEB
Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer
📍 Power BI & Fabric Summit 2025, online
22
FEB
From Flat to Sparkling: Monitoring Data Quality with Soda in Microsoft Fabric
📍 dataMinds Saturday 2025, Mechelen, Belgium
20
FEB
Belgium dbt Meetup 9
📍 Lighthouse, Ghent, Belgium
12
FEB
71st Data Science Leuven Meetup
📍 Data Science Leuven Meetup, Leuven, Belgium
06
FEB
Fabric Fortresses: Setting Up Microsoft Fabric for Your Enterprise Needs
📍 Fabric February conference, Oslo, Norway
2024
13
DEC
From Flat to Sparkling: Monitoring Data Quality with Soda in Microsoft Fabric
📍 Cloudbrew, Mechelen, Belgium
28
NOV
Belgium dbt Meetup 8
📍 Data Sense, Hasselt, Belgium
19
OCT
Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric
📍 Data Bash 2024 conference, online
09
OCT
Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric
📍 DataMinds Connect, Mechelen, Belgium
05
OCT
Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer
📍 Data Saturday Holland, Kinepolis Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands
04
OCT
Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric [EXTENDED TALK / DEEP-DIVE]
📍 Fabric Friday Holland, Kinepolis Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands
25
SEP
From Flat to Sparkling: Monitoring Data Quality with Soda in Microsoft Fabric
📍 Future Data Driven Summit, online conference
24
SEP
SQL Resurgence: Unleashing Data Potential with dbt - session
📍 Data Maker Fest, Porto, Portugal
23
SEP
SQL Resurgence: Unleashing Data Potential with dbt - workshop
📍 Data Makers Fest, Porto, Portugal
20
SEP
NL dbt meetup: From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine
📍 Xebia, Wibautstraat 200/202, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
11
SEP
From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine
📍 Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference
05
SEP
Belgium dbt Meetup 7
📍 DPG Media, Vilvoorde, Belgium
20
JUN
Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric
📍 Fabric Brussels meetup, Brussels, Belgium
06
JUN
Belgium dbt Meetup 6
📍 dataroots, Leuven, Belgium
07
MAY
SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt
📍 Data Science Leuven Meetup, Leuven, Belgium
25
MAR
Guest on DataTopics Unplugged podcast: Unraveling the Fabric of Data: Microsoft's Ecosystem and Beyond
📍 DataTopics Unplugged, online
25
JAN
Belgium dbt Meetup 5
📍 Digital Hive, Hasselt, Belgium
16
JAN
63rd Data Science Leuven Meetup
📍 Data Science Leuven Meetup, Leuven, Belgium
11
JAN
SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt on Databricks
📍 Databricks Meetup, Cegeka, Antwerp, Belgium
2023
12
DEC
SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt
📍 Data Meetup Antwerp, AP Hogeschool, Antwerp, Belgium
30
NOV
Belgium dbt Meetup 4
📍 Datashift, Mechelen, Belgium
06
NOV
Guest on DataTopics Unplugged podcast: OSS equals marketing?
📍 DataTopics Unplugged, online
16
OCT
Data Agility Unleashed: A Deep Dive into Microsoft Fabric's Features (dataroots Fabric Event)
📍 De Hoorn, Leuven, Belgium
28
SEP
Belgium dbt Meetup 3
📍 Astrafy, Brussels, Belgium
25
SEP
MotherDuck meetup
📍 dataroots, Leuven, Belgium
14
JUN
Belgium dbt Meetup 2
📍 OTA Insight, Ghent, Belgium
09
JUN
dbt & Fabric: better together
📍 Data Platform Next Step, Billund, Denmark
23
MAY
Can you feel the breeze? Data-aware scheduling and more new features in Airflow
📍 Data Science Leuven, Belgium
23
MAR
Analytics Engineering Belgium Meetup 1
📍 Ausy, Leuven, Belgium
2022
10
MAY
Building & deploying Azure self-service data platforms for healthcare
📍 AZUG, dataroots, Leuven, Belgium
2021
07
JUN
Mediahuis: Why Dask and not Spark?
📍 dataroots, online
04
JUN
Tour de Tools #9 - Liquibase with Sam Debruyn
📍 dataroots, online
2020
05
JUN
Deploy a data lake on Azure in less than an hour
📍 Data Science Leuven, Belgium
2019
24
OCT
James Montemagno on Euro Tour
📍 Spoor 18, Mechelen, Belgium
26
SEP
Serverless on Azure @ Tech Dive September 2019
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium
17
JUL
Continuous integration for Flutter
📍 Flutter Belgium Meetup, Google Digital Atelier, Brussels, Belgium
21
MAY
Tech Dive May 2019
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium
19
MAR
Tech Dive March 2019
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium
31
JAN
Tech Dive January 2019
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium
2018
04
OCT
Xamarin.Forms: The Now and Future & Building Fast Mobile Apps Fast
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium
2017
18
NOV
Xamarin Dev Days 2017 Edegem
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium
27
JUN
Workshop: getting started with Xamarin
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium
14
MAR
Beautiful Xamarin.Forms and Serious Tech talk
📍 3factr, Edegem, Belgium