KNIME Data Summit | Where data, AI, and strategy come together

A new executive event format

The Executive Forum for Scalable Analytics, Governed AI, and Agentic Innovation

Join the data leaders and decision-makers shaping the future of analytics and AI. Through executive keynotes, customer stories, and panel discussions, you'll gain insight into the challenges enterprises are facing today:

How to embed AI into everyday decision-making — across finance, audit, and supply chain, and more
How other organizations are tackling the security hurdles that come with AI
How teams prove ROI from analytics and AI initiatives and scale beyond pilots

Network with other business leaders and KNIME experts and hear about their real-word data analytics and agentic AI challenges and use cases.

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KNIME is the trusted platform for automated and explainable data and AI work – speeding up time to insight, aligning teams around shared and verifiable logic, and powering critical business systems. Organizations use KNIME’s enterprise tools to collaborate, automate, and scale data science and AI—securely, transparently, and efficiently. Trusted by 400+ companies and half a million users, KNIME supports the full data lifecycle as well as predictive, generative, and agentic AI.

High-value networking with a top-tier enterprise audience

Connect with business leaders across manufacturing, automotive, life sciences, and financial services — all in one focused setting.

Strategic insights you can act on

Join keynote sessions for practical takeaways on how leading enterprises are driving measurable business impact with data and AI.

Peer roundtables with leaders facing similar challenges

Engage in candid discussions with other decision-makers navigating similar priorities in transformation, governance, and scaling AI and analytics initiatives.

Visit our on-demand video page to explore a wide range of talks from our previous events.

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Agenda

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Breakfast & Registration
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM	Opening By newly-appointed KNIME CEO Trevor Kaufman.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Keynote Data analytics and AI trends that executives need to know about.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM	Networking Break & Partner Exhibition
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Presentations & KNIME Updates Embedding AI into everyday decision-making across functions. From analytics platform to AI operating model.
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM	Panel A panel of industry leaders discusses how they move AI into production, govern it under the EU AI Act, and decide when to use analytics, ML, or AI agents to drive real ROI.
12:45 AM - 1:45 PM	Lunch & Partner Exhibition Networking lunch, KNIME Demo Booth & Partner Exhibition.
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Executive Roundtables (Invite Only) In these moderated sessions, participants exchange perspectives on strategic challenges, priorities, and opportunities related to scaling analytics, AI and data strategy across their organizations. Each roundtable will have a focused topic area.
3:15 PM - 3:40 PM	Networking Break & Partner Exhibition
3:40 PM - 4:30 PM	Presentations & Closing
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Closing Cocktail

Speakers

At KNIME Data Summit Munich, you will hear from an impressive lineup of speakers coming from a variety of industries, occupations, and expertise. These data professionals will share how low-code data science with KNIME has allowed them to gain more insight from their data and work more efficiently. Internal KNIME experts will also be there to discuss product-related questions and your specific use case.

More speakers to be announced shortly.

Executive Roundtables

(Invite-Only)

The invite-only roundtables are designed for leaders and decision-makers who want to engage in focused, peer-level discussions.

In these moderated sessions, participants exchange perspectives on strategic challenges, priorities, and opportunities related to scaling analytics, AI and data strategy across their organizations. Each roundtable will have a focused topic area.

The roundtables provide a space for open conversation, experience sharing, and practical insights, supported by the KNIME team and partners.

Hands-on Workshop

Attend the workshop during the afternoon session.
Save your seat when registering.

This hands-on workshop provides a practical introduction to agentic AI use cases and how they can be implemented using KNIME’s low-code environment.

The workshop runs in parallel with invite-only executive roundtables, allowing leaders and practitioners to engage in the format most relevant to their role.

During the session, you will:

Explore how Agentic AI workflows are built and orchestrated in KNIME
Learn how data and AI can be combined to support real business use cases
Work hands-on with KNIME using the browser-based interface

You will work hands-on with KNIME using the web browser interface.
You only need a laptop and your KNIME account (register here if you don’t have one).

Planning your arrival

Location

KNIME Data Summit will take place at
Löwenbräukeller

Address: Stiglmaierplatz, Nymphenburger Str. 2, 80335 München
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Recommended Hotel

Hotel: Ruby Lilly Hotel
Address: Dachauer Strasse 37,
80335 Munich

Hotel Discount – Special Group Rate

We’ve secured a special rate for our event at Ruby Hotels:

€138 per night (incl. VAT & breakfast)
Free cancellation up to 5 days before arrival

To book at the discounted rate, please visit the hotel website and enter the rate code: YJF when booking.

Jennifer Ostyn

Senior VP Revenue US at KNIME

Michael Berthold is co-founder of KNIME, the open analytics platform used by thousands of data experts around the world. He is currently president of KNIME.com AG and a professor at Konstanz University, where his research interests include bisociative data analysis and widening of mining algorithms. Previously he held positions in both academia (Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley) and industry (Intel, Tripos). Michael has co-authored two successful data analysis text books and is a frequent speaker at both academic and industrial conferences. If time permits he still writes code.

Kyle Thompson

Scientific Content Engineer at CAS

Kyle Thompson is a Scientific Content Engineer at CAS, a Division of the American Chemical Society. As a trained biochemist, he has spent 11 years at CAS building databases, creating custom solutions for customers, and performing data analysis. He has been using KNIME since 2019, and in that time he has become KNIME L1-L3 Certified as well as being part of the inaugural Train the Trainer program. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and 2 kids.

Speakers

Each DataHop features a lineup of KNIME users presenting their use cases, challenges, and/or initiatives. Speakers have a range of domain expertise and come from a variety of professions. Internal KNIME experts will also be at these events, presenting their own use cases, sharing industry insights, running workshops, and more.

Below are some speakers from recent DataHops. You can also check out the on-demand pages to view presentations from the events in Munich and New York.

Agenda

DataHop agendas are designed to make it easy for attendees to join for the day, and all have a similar structure as follows. Detailed, location-specific agendas can be found on the actual registration page.

9:30 - 10:15 AM: Check-in and morning tea

10:30 - 12:00 PM: Workshops

12:00 - 1:15 PM: Lunch, networking, workflow doctor

1:15 - 2:45 PM: First round of presentations

2:45 - 3:00 PM: Afternoon tea break

3:00 - 4:50 PM: Second round of presentations, panel session, closing remarks

4:50 - 6:00 PM: Networking reception (and workflow doctor)

The Executive Forum for Scalable Analytics, Governed AI, and Agentic Innovation

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