Overview
Datashift empowers organizations to become data-driven by offering end-to-end data and AI services, from strategy to implementation. The company provides services across data strategy, data engineering, AI/data science, business analytics, data governance, and data compliance. They work on use cases including customer personalization, supply chain planning, generative business intelligence, and intelligent automation.
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In the news
- Every company has seen an impressive AI demo. How many have seen one still running six months later? 🤖 Stefan Lommaert took an internal AI assistant, built to search across more than 6,000 documents, from a first prototype to a company-wide rollout for a thousand employees. Answer accuracy went from 30% to 95% along the way. In his new blog he shares the seven steps that got it there safely: prove it small, pilot, roll out in phases, build for variable load, trace everything, automate the feedback loop and make impact visible. ✅ He
- What used to take me a full evening, I can now get done in just a few minutes.” – Martijn Kusters, Head Coach AG Insurance - Soudal Pro Cycling Team Every evening, hours were spent manually collecting rider data from TrainingPeaks, analysing performance in Excel and preparing reports in Word. Valuable time that could have been spent coaching and preparing for the next stage. Datashift is a proud partner of AG Insurance - Soudal Pro Cycling Team, and one way we help push the team forward is with data. So we built a stage-by-stage
- A big one! Gorik Desmet is Collibra’s Partner Ranger of the Year. 🏆 The award recognizes a Collibra Ranger who has led the design and implementation of data and AI programs that deliver real business value. And there is no way to argue that for more than 6 years, Gorik has helped Datashift’s clients get that value out of Collibra. He’s the one who turns a data governance platform into something teams actually use. Congratulations, Gorik, and thank you for everything you do for our clients. 👏 #Collibra #DataGovernance
- How relevant can a conversation with a chatbot really get? 🤖 At Data2Impact Night, Kim Smets, Vice President Data & AI at Telenet, shares how Telenet is building Customer Assist, the agentic chatbot and voicebot that already handles a growing share of customer conversations. Kim is responsible for Telenet's data and AI agenda: the platform, the teams and the use cases that reach customers. He'll show what relevance means in practice and where the value is showing up. 📅 Thursday 26 November 2026 📍 Datashift, Havenkant 8, Leuven
- Fair rules are only fair if someone applies them the same way every night. At the night shelter of CAW Rivierenland, the rules existed on paper, but beds were still allocated by hand. Together with CAW, we built one tool that: + Allocates the beds automatically, based on the agreed rules + Gives local governments, shelter staff and CAW management their own view +Lets CAW adjust key rules itself, without a new development cycle. 🎬 Watch the video where erik van acker , Natacha De Maeseneer and Hendrik van Hamersveld give you
- The organizations that win with GenBI did the unglamorous work first: defining what their data actually means. 💬 GenBI, asking your data questions in plain language, is finding its way into most BI stacks. The excitement is justified. So is the confusion about where it fits. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞: 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐁𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭. Reports cover the known questions, cheap to re-run and identical every time. GenBI covers the long tail, the one-off question nobody built a
- One week to go until our Young Graduate Event 🚀 Curious what a career in data actually looks like? Next Tuesday 3 November, we open the doors of our Leuven office for young graduates who want to witness consulting from the inside. Here's the plan: • 17:00 Welcome & reception • 17:15 Introduction to Datashift • 17:30 What being a data consultant actually looks like • 18:30 Escape room challenge with our team • 20:00 Pizza 🍕 Save your spot 👉 https://lnkd.in/d8nsn6u4 #YoungGraduates #DataCareers #Consulting #Leuven #Datashift
- Trefdag Digitaal Vlaanderen it's a wrap! Yesterday, together with Datashift, we proposed our 360° data-solution to public and private organizations, with special prizes and surprises that got us many laughs and many smiles. Our own Christoph🔐 Balduck gave people hopes for a future with well managed-AI and we distributed many AI-guides for people that want to start understanding the complexity of it all. Who knew talking about compliance could be so pleasant? Well... we did! 😉 Don't hesitate to contact us to try your luck at
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- PFen LasseelDirector
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