Name: From "baton passes" to building blocks: Making data work as a team sport.
Start: 2026-05-26T11:15:00+0200
End: 2026-05-26T12:00:00+0200

From "baton passes" to building blocks: Making data work as a team sport.

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Tuesday May 26, 2026 11:15 - 12:00 CEST

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What do sports, home improvement, and modern AI have in common? None of them work well when handoffs are messy, foundations are shaky, or every new initiative starts by tearing down what already exists. This keynote explores how data products and data contracts help organizations create clearer ownership, stronger collaboration, and data that is truly ready for products, analytics, and AI through a practical, frugal, and brownfield-friendly approach.

In many organizations, the challenge is no longer collecting quality data. It is making that data trustworthy enough, with sufficient context, to be reused across teams, embedded in products, and pushed all the way into AI systems that actually reach production.

In this keynote, Jean-Georges “jgp” Perrin explores how data products and data contracts help organizations build stronger foundations for collaboration, delivery, and AI success. Using simple analogies from sport and construction, he shows why better outcomes depend on clean handoffs, explicit expectations, and assets designed to be reused rather than rediscovered every quarter.

The session also introduces Bitol, the Linux Foundation project advancing open standards for modern data engineering, including the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) and the Open Data Product Standard (ODPS). These standards are not abstract theory: they reflect a growing, proven practice in which data contracts and data products help teams reduce ambiguity, improve quality, and move AI initiatives from promising prototypes to production with greater confidence.

Most importantly, this is not a rip-and-replace story. It is a frugal, brownfield approach for real organizations: improve what exists, strengthen trust step by step, and create measurable value without wasting time, effort, or money. Built the way strong teams in sport, on worksites, and in the Nord often succeed best: with coordination, clarity, and something sturdy enough to last.

Speakers

Jean-Georges Perrin

Senior Product Manager, Actian

Jean-Georges “jgp” Perrin is a data passionate. As chair of the LF’s Bitol project, Jean-Georges leads efforts to establish global standards for data, including ODCS. He is the author of Implementing Data Mesh (O’Reilly) and Spark in Action 2e (Manning). He is currently... Read More →

Tuesday May 26, 2026 11:15 - 12:00 CEST
2 - GRAND PAVILION

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