Colin White is the founder of BI Research and president of DataBase Associates Inc. As an analyst, educator and writer he is well known for his in-depth knowledge of business intelligence, business analytics, and data management technologies. With many years of IT experience, he has consulted for dozens of companies throughout the world and is a frequent speaker at leading IT events.
Christian Gijsels currently works as an independent consultant and trainer. Before that, Christian was employed at the Cronos Holding, where he, as a co-founder, was responsible for the Consulting Groep The Business Analysts, a group of 85 business analists, functional analists and project managers.
ChatGPT / CoPilot / Gemini for End-to-End Business Analyis Artificial Intelligence, undoubtedly one of the most ground-breaking technologies to date, is opening new doors for analysts with innovative tools and capabilities. OpenAI's ChatGPT, for example, can be applied in strategic, business and functional analysis in various ways. Hands-on workshop.
Dutch spoken
May 22, 2025
Bart Baesens is a professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). He has done extensive research on big data & analytics, customer relationship management, fraud detection, and credit risk management. His findings have been published in well-known international journals.
Dr. Barry Devlin is one of the foremost authorities in the field of business insight and he is one of the founders of data warehousing.
With over thirty years’ experience in IT, of which twenty with IBM as “Distinguished Engineer”, he is a valued consultant and teacher all around, plus author of the standard book “Data Warehouse – from Architecture to Implementation”.
Alec Sharp, a senior consultant and acclaimed teacher with Clariteq Systems Consulting, has deep expertise in a rare combination of fields – business analysis and requirements specification, data modelling, strategy development, facilitation, and, of course, business process modelling, analysis and design.
Conference on Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence with top rated speakers Alec Sharp, Nicola Askham, Winfried Etzel, Sjoukje Zaal, Victor de Graaff and others. Topics: Cloud Data Architecture, Datamesh & Federated Data Governance, Data Modelling.
April 2, 2025
Making Data Modelling a Vital Technique This workshop by Alec Sharp introduces concept modelling from a non-technical perspective, provides tips and guidelines for the analyst, and explores entity-relationship modelling at conceptual and logical levels using techniques that maximise client engagement and understanding.
English spoken
April 3, 2025 (half day)
Balancing Engagement, Agility, and Complexity This data modelling workshop by Alec Sharp covers Entity-Relationship modelling from a non-technical perspective, provides tips and guidelines for the analyst, and explores contextual, conceptual, and detailed modelling techniques that maximize user involvement.
English spoken
April 7-9, 2025
Aligning Process Work with Strategic, Organisational, and Cultural Factors This 3-day masterclass shows how to discover and scope a business process, clarify its context, model its workflow with progressive detail, assess it, and transition to the design of a new process by determining, verifying, and documenting its essential characteristics. Highly interactive workshop.
English spoken
April 10-11 and 14, 2025
Erik Fransen has been active as a consultant, trainer and speaker in the field of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Virtualisation and Analytics since 1994. Erik has over 25 years of experience in management consultancy and as a trainer and regularly speaks at international conferences around various Data & Analytics topics.
James Archer is a business analyst, consultant, teacher, writer and innovator. James is co-editor and contributing author of Business Analysis and Leadership (Kogan Page, 2014). He identifies the key to great business analysis as an inclusive leadership style, thinking innovatively, working collaboratively, acting strategically and helping people discover their real requirements.
