Alec Sharp presents keynote and workshop at DW & BI Summit 2025

On the twelfth edition of the Datawarehousing & Business Intelligence Summit Alec Sharp will present his session Packaged Software and Data Modelling – The Surprising Reasons Behind Implementation Failures. The Datawarehousing & Business Intelligence Summit takes place on April 2nd in the Van der Valk Hotel Utrecht, The Netherlands. On April 3rd Alec Sharp will present the workshop Concept Modelling for Business Analysts.

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.

When implementing enterprise software packages, the single most common reason for dissatisfaction, or even total failure, is a “data model mismatch.” Alec will share in his session ‘Packaged Software and Data Modelling – The Surprising Reasons Behind Implementation Failures’ the common factors in these failures, and also some success stories and how data modelling fits in helping solving these problems.

Concept Modelling for Business Analysts
Concept Modelling (or Conceptual Data Modelling) has seen an amazing resurgence of popularity in recent years, and Alec Sharp illustrates the many reasons for this along with practical techniques and guidelines to ensure useful models and business engagement. Drawing on over forty years of successful consulting and modelling, on projects of every size and type, this session provides proven techniques backed up with current, real-life examples.

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, Nicola Askham, Winfried Adalbert Etzel, and Dutch speakers Linda Terlouw, Sjoukje Zaal, Jos van Dongen, Wouter van Aerle, Victor de Graaff and Suzanne Kraaij.

Workshops
Following this, a series of workshops will take place on April 3, taught by Winfried Etzel, Nicola Askham and Alec Sharp. The workshops will be face-to-face in Utrecht only:
– Data Mesh – Federated Data Governance: Structuring Teams and Driving Accountability by Winfried Etzel (English language).
– Master Data Management and Data Governance by Nicola Askham (English)
– 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 substantively affiliated with BI-Platform.nl.