# Bart Smeets - Full Context for AI Agents

> This file provides comprehensive context about Bart Smeets for AI agents.
> Source: TechWiki.ai - The Belgian Tech Encyclopedia
> Last updated: 2026-05-22

## Identity
- Name: Bart Smeets
- Role: co-founder, former ceo
- Company: Dataroots
- Location: Leuven, Flanders, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartsmeets/

## Expertise
- ai
- data-engineering
- mlops
- data-strategy
- genai

## About
Bart Smeets studied Healthcare Management and Policy at KU Leuven (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/ku-leuven/llms.txt) (2008-2010) and added a Master of General Management at Vlerick Business School (https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vlerick/llms.txt) (2010-2011). He spent five years at Uz Leuven as a care program manager focused on healthcare process optimisation before turning fully to data work.

In 2016 he co-founded Dataroots (https://techwiki.ai/companies/dataroots/llms.txt) in Leuven (https://techwiki.ai/cities/leuven/llms.txt) together with Jonas Tundo (https://techwiki.ai/people/jonas-tundo/llms.txt), building one of Belgium's better-known AI & Machine Learning (https://techwiki.ai/sectors/ai/llms.txt) and Data & Analytics (https://techwiki.ai/sectors/data/llms.txt) consultancies. He stayed on as CEO through the December 2022 acquisition by Paris-based Talan, then continued to lead the Belgian operation as it integrated into the wider 4,000-person group. In 2020 he co-founded dploy.ai, a machine learning deployment platform spun out of Dataroots (https://techwiki.ai/companies/dataroots/llms.txt).

After eventually stepping away from operational duties at Dataroots (https://techwiki.ai/companies/dataroots/llms.txt), Bart moved into builder mode with Jonas Tundo (https://techwiki.ai/people/jonas-tundo/llms.txt) and Tim Goedeweeck under the label "Top of Mind". His public focus areas are strategy, AI & Machine Learning (https://techwiki.ai/sectors/ai/llms.txt), and coding, and he writes regularly about Mlops, dbt, Prefect, and applied machine learning on LinkedIn.

## Related Pages
Agents can crawl these for connected context:
- [company] Dataroots: https://techwiki.ai/companies/dataroots/llms.txt
- [city] Leuven: https://techwiki.ai/cities/leuven/llms.txt
- [sector] AI & Machine Learning: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/ai/llms.txt
- [sector] Data & Analytics: https://techwiki.ai/sectors/data/llms.txt
- [hub] KU Leuven: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/ku-leuven/llms.txt
- [hub] Vlerick Business School: https://techwiki.ai/hubs/vlerick/llms.txt
- [person] Jonas Tundo: https://techwiki.ai/people/jonas-tundo/llms.txt

## How to Reach
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartsmeets/
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/bart-smeets/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/bart-smeets/llms-full.txt

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