The Data Playbook Podcast
Episodes
Scaling Data in Aviation: Inside Brussels Airlines’ Data Strategy - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Tom Holsteens
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you transform a broken data landscape into a scalable, self-service data platform?In this episode of The Data Playbook, Kris Peeters sits down ...
Machine Learning in Energy: Forecasting, MLOps, and Business Impact - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Jean-Michel Begon
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you move machine learning from notebook experiments to production in a real business environment?In this episode of The Data Playbook Podcast, ...
How Dataminded Was Built: Kris Peeters on 11 Years of Data Engineering & Culture - The Data Playbook podcast with Kris Peeters & Pascal Brokmeier
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this season finale of The Data Playbook Podcast by Dataminded, the tables turn: Kris Peeters (Host & Founder of Dataminded) is interviewed by P...
How OBI Built a Lean, High-Impact AI Function That Scales - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Dr. Ruth Janning
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Data Playbook, we sit down with Dr. Ruth Janning, Head of Data Science & AI at OBI, to talk about what actually drives AI i...
S2 E9. Data Science vs Data Engineering: Breaking the Wall - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Jelena Grujic
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Data Playbook, Jelena Grujic (Dataminded) explains why the divide between data scientists and data engineers still exists and h...
S2 E8. A Structured Framework for Building Successful Data Solutions - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Frederic Vanderveken
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most data leaders know the statistic: the majority of big data initiatives never deliver the value they promised. In this episode, Kris sits down with...
Data Engineering Meets Excel: Building Explainable and Reliable Decision Models with River Solutions
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kris Peeters sits down with Amaury Anciaux, founder of River Solutions, to tackle a painful reality for data leaders: critical decisions still depend ...
S2 E6. 5 Years Kate 🎂: Inside KBC’s AI Playbook - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Dr. Barak Chizi
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a bank decides that AI and IP are so strategic they must be built in-house - then actually follows through for more than a decade?In...
S2 E5. Beyond Hyperscalers: How to Run Modern Data Platforms on European Clouds - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Niels Claeys
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
EU clouds without the hype. Niels Claeys (Partner & Lead Data Engineer at Dataminded, and our technical hiring lead) breaks down data sovereignty ...
S2 E4. Build vs Buy in the GenAI Era: Inside Belfius’ Data & AI Strategy - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Hannes Heylen
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Belfius Insurance’s Head of Data & AI, Hannes Heylen shares how his team scaled GenAI - from a fraud detection flywheel to “Nestor,” a claim...
S2 E3. How imec scales research with data platforms: governance, workbenches, and adoption - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Wim Vancuyck
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Data Playbook, we go inside imec, one of the world’s leading semiconductor research institutes, to explore how they scale dat...
S2 Ep2. Federated Data Governance in Banking: How ABN AMRO Scaled from 300 Data Owners to 15 Data Domains - The Data Playbook Podcast
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you turn governance from a bottleneck into a business accelerator - in a bank?In this episode of The Data Playbook, host Kris Peeters talks wit...
S2 Ep1. Live from the POA Summit: Simon Harrer on Data Contracts, AI, and the Next Phase of Data Mesh - The Data Playbook Podcast
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to scale data products across an organization? In this episode of The Data Playbook, we sit down with Simon Harrer, CEO and Co-Found...
Ep 12. RADAR by publiq: How AI is Reshaping Cultural Discovery, Without Compromising Privacy - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters, Sven Houtmeyers & Elia Van Wolputte
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Playbook podcast, we dive into how publiq, the organization behind Belgium’s largest cultural event database, is buildin...
Ep 11. The Art of the Data Platform: Reducing Cognitive Load and Driving Adoption - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Jelle De Vleminck
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ In this episode, host Kris Peeters talks with Jelle De Vleminck, consultant at Dataminded, about what it really takes to build a data platform...
Ep 10. AI Innovation That Delivers: How to Align Strategy, Adoption, and Business Value - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Joris Renkens
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Data Playbook, we explore what it really takes to turn AI into meaningful business impact.Host Kris Peeters talks with Joris Re...
Ep 9. You Don’t Need the Latest Stack. You Need Better Questions - The Data Playbook Podcast with Kris Peeters & Rushil Daya
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Data Playbook, we explore what it really takes to build high-performance data teams.Host Kris Peeters is joined by Rushil Daya,...
Ep 8. What It Really Takes to Build a Data-Centric Organization - The Data Playbook Podcast: Kris Peeters & Jonny Daenen
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Playbook podcast, we explore what it really takes to build sustainable, data-centric organizations, moving beyond tooling ...
Ep 7. A Deep Dive into SQLMesh: Structured Query Validation and Safe Pipeline Testing - The Data Playbook Podcast: Kris Peeters & Michiel De Muynck
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Data Playbook, we take a technical look at SQLMesh, a data transformation framework designed to improve the workflow and reliab...
Ep 6. Data Mesh Live: How to make it successful in organisations, with Jacek Majchrzak & Andrew Jones
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of "The Data Playbook" podcast, recorded live at the Data Mesh Live Event in Antwerp, Kris Peeters speaks with Data ...
Ep 5. Data Modeling: Why should I care? Unveiling the Sense and Nonsense with Jonas De Keuster
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us in this episode of The Data Playbook as we explore the sense and nonsense of data modeling with Jonas De Keuster, VP of Product at VaultSpeed....
Ep 4. From On-Prem to Cloud (Again): How a Government Agency Made the Big Bang Work
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when GDPR forces your cloud project to stop—and years later, you need to go back? In this episode, Niels Melotte, Data Engineer at Da...
Ep 3. Building Sustainable Data Products that actually get used - The Data Playbook Podcast: Kris Peeters & Geert Verstraeten
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Data Playbook, we dive deep into a critical, often-overlooked question: What does it mean to build sustainable data products? A...
Ep 2. What Not to Build with AI: Avoiding the New Technical Debt in Data-Driven Organizations - The Data Playbook podcast: Kris Peeters, Tim Schröder, Pascal Brokmeier
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What Not to Build with AI: Avoiding the New Technical Debt in Data-Driven OrganizationsIn this episode of The Data Playbook, we explore a crucial and ...
Ep 1. Building Data Architecture from Scratch: Cloud, Data Mesh, and the Real-World Tradeoffs - The Data Playbook podcast by Kris Peeters & Thorsten Foltz
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it really take to build a modern data architecture from the ground up? In our very first episode of The Data Playbook, host Kris Peeters, fo...