Juha Korpela presents keynote and workshop on DW & BI Summit 2026

On the Datawarehousing & Business Intelligence Summit Juha Korpela will 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. On March 25th Juha Korpela will present the workshop Data Mesh Information Architecture: modeling data products and domains.

Juha Korpela is an experienced data professional from Helsinki, Finland. For many years, he has been working in high-profile data leadership positions in a variety of industries. He is founder of Datakor Consulting, advising large enterprises on data modeling and data product management at scale. His main areas of expertise are data modeling, data product management, and data architecture.

Data Mesh is something every organization talks about but few are actually doing. This framework for federated data management and governance promises a lot and demands even more, but some elements in the paradigm can be beneficial for every organization: especially, data products & domains. Thinking in terms of products and domains also demands new approaches from data modeling – join this session to find out how data modeling works in the Data Mesh!

Data Mesh Information Architecture: modeling data products and domains
This workshop addresses information architecture in decentralized data environments. It examines how domains document and share data, explores conceptual and logical modeling for clarity and interoperability, and provides practical exercises to design data products aligned with domain semantics. The workshop will give you the basic skills to do data modeling at these higher levels of abstraction, and understanding of the key characteristics and challenges of the Data Mesh that affect the way we need to do data modeling.

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.