Overview
🌳📊 I'm Michiel Mechelmans, founder of The Data Forest. The Data Forest is rooted in the belief that business can be a force for good. With over a decade of experience in data, we help to turn complex data into clear, actionable insights for leaders who want to move fast and make smarter decisions.
The Data Forest is about more than just another data company. We're proving you can build something between a business and an NGO. A model where Profit, People, and Planet thrive together. For every collaboration hour, we plant five trees. Not because it’s a nice gesture, but because we believe this is the kind of company the world needs. One that keeps building, growing, and challenging the status quo.
We’re not here to hit a number and stop. We’re here to make this impossible-sounding idea work. And maybe, you should be part of it too. 🌍💡
Career history
In the news
- Michiel Mechelmans, Linde Proost and Kobe Stassen represented The Data Forest 🌳🌳🌳 at dataMinds.be Connect. A full day of interesting sessions and conversations about what’s moving in the data world. Good to be part of the Belgian data community!
- Congratulations to the team FAITH NJERI ! Really cool to get an update and couldn't have imagined a better future for our trees 😉. Love the teamwork and timelapse 💚🌳!
- Our summer holiday always gives me a great reflection on how well The Data Forest 🌳🌳🌳 is running. ***Be aware this is not some linkedin-comparison post on how this holiday gave me magically insights on how I should manage my business and how much swimming has in common with data*** Quite the opposite. Holidays should be holidays. And whether you like it or not, holidays will show you exactly how much your company can’t live without you. Year 1: Laptop with me on holiday. Working about 3-4 hours every night. A startup
- I'm really proud of our team @ The Data Forest 🌳🌳🌳 On October 2nd, I opened my inbox to news that gave our team a rush of excitement. We got Certified in the Claude Partner network of Anthropic! We're a small team vs the big consultancies. But we have grit. Lots of it. We have a team that looks a challenge in the eye and deals with it. At The Data Forest 🌳🌳🌳 we always try to be ahead of the curve. With this confirmation and with 10 Certified Claude Architects within The Data Forest we are securing our place at the front of
- Dit weekend te zien op TVL: samen op date met Davy De Ceuster. Link hieronder voor onze kennismaking 👇 https://lnkd.in/ea-9qZk4 #LimburgDatZijnWij TVL, De Ceuster nv, The Data Forest 🌳🌳🌳
- Today we're at Natuur Futuur! 🌳 Come find Michiel Mechelmans and Lore Mechelmans on the exhibition floor if you're around, they'd love to talk data, nature and everything in between. See you there! 🌿
- The Data Forest 🌳🌳🌳 is calling. We need THE ONE who is able to deal with agents. A LOT of agents. Being a frontrunner in AGENTIC/GEN BI & AI we have now reached a new stage where we get insights directly from Microsoft & Anthropic on what's the next wave of intelligence coming at us. We're not looking for average people. We need people who think ahead and are not afraid to control the agents coming at us. We look for the 1's instead of the 0's. The Data Forest 🌳🌳🌳 is calling. Are you answering?
- When you start a startup, you are all the technical knowledge there is. Afterward, you hire a few exceptional people but you remain one of the largest technical contributors.👨🏫🤓 But now after a few years, those exceptional people you hired kept on learning and you yourself kept your main focus on hiring additional A-players without spending time in the technical depths. These weeks, in technical meetings, I witness my own push-out; with 15 years of experience in data, I’m just an average dude now in this company. My high
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