All vacancies
  1. Home
  2. Insights & Events
  3. Data & AI in action 

Data & AI in action

  • Amsterdam, Zuidas
  • 21 May 2026
    17:45 – 21:30
  • Jose Sanchez Alija, Kris Hayes, Eric Onderdelinde & Thomas Valkenburg
  • Big Data

How can AI deliver faster insights, better decisions and measurable value in your organisation? Real-world AI use cases, delivered by data experts from Lely and Deloitte. From smart dairy farming to AI-augmented enterprise architecture, discover how AI creates impact across operational and enterprise environments. Join us and explore what AI in action means for your organisation.

Your host
Len Peter
Len Peter Visser & Van Baars consultant Len Peter look forward to guiding you through the evening.
Register for free

Everything you should know about this event

During this session, Data & AI in Action – From AgTech to AI-Driven Maturity Scans, we explore how AI creates measurable impact across operational and enterprise environments. Lely demonstrates how robotics and predictive analytics improve dairy farming. Deloitte presents an AI-driven approach to enterprise architecture maturity scans, delivering expert-level insights in minutes instead of days. Expect real-world examples and practical lessons on turning AI into business value.  

Agenda

17:45 -18:15 
Walk-in with drinks and bites 

18:30 – 20:30 
Presentations of Lely & Deloitte, including breaks 

20:30 – 21:30 
 Get-together with your fellow professionals, with drinks and bites  

For whom

This meetup is interesting for professionals and managers involved in (Gen) AI initiatives. Especially relevant if you are a Manager, Lead AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Architect or responsible for AI-driven innovation and enterprise transformation.  

The topics

Session 1  

Data & AI in modern agriculture – unlocking Data-driven value in dairy farming

Data & AI are transforming modern agriculture, enabling farmers to optimise animal health, productivity, and sustainability. Discover how data from milking robots, farm systems like Horizon, and environmental sources is turned into ML-driven insights that power smarter decisions and operational excellence.  

 Some of the things you’ll learn    

  • Learn how data and AI improve decision-making dairy farming  
  • Discover ways to optimize farm performance and efficiency  
  • See how Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning supports sustainable growth through practical, real-world examples. 

 

Session 2  

AI-augmented Enterprise Architecture – Accelerating maturity scans from days to minutes with AI   

Eric Onderdelinde and Thomas Valkenburg from Deloitte present a brand-new AI-driven use case for architecture maturity assessments, showing how AI augments expert judgement, accelerates insights, and enables faster, smarter decisions across enterprise architecture.  

Some of the things you’ll learn   

  •  Learn how AI-driven maturity scans transform Enterprise Architecture by accelerating expert assessments without compromising  quality  
  • Discover how AI and structured expertise outpace traditional analysis, enabling faster insights and more impactful architecture decisions  
  • See practical lessons from real-world AI use cases that enhance assessment methodologies and decision-making at expert level speed and scale

The speakers

Jose Sanchez Alija – Data & AI Lead – Lely  
Jose works in the Data and AI domain at Lely, where he focuses on data-driven initiatives and analytics that support operational insights and decision making in modern dairy farming.  
 
Kris Hayes – Lead Data Engineer – Lely  
Kris works as a lead data engineer at Lely, contributing to the development and implementation of data solutions that enable Analytics and Data-related capabilities across agricultural data platforms.    

Eric Onderdelinde – Director Enterprise Architecture – Deloitte Consulting  
Eric is an Enterprise Architect at Deloitte focused on innovation and digital transformation. He works on practical AI applications within architecture practices, bridging strategy and technology through experimentation and AI-enabled methodologies that accelerate insight and decision-making.  

Thomas Valkenburg – AI Expert / Analist – Deloitte Consulting  
Thomas works on AI-driven initiatives within enterprise architecture, focusing on practical applications that augment expertise and improve strategic assessments.  

Register for this event free of charge

Welcome in our office

Public transport or car?   

The ITO Tower is just a 2-minute walk from Amsterdam Zuid station, making it easily accessible by public transport. Prefer to come by car? To avoid high parking fees in the nearest car parks, consider options like De Boelelaan or services such as Parkbee or Mobian (park & bike) – instead of navigating to the nearest commercial car parks. The ITO Tower does not offer its own parking. 

How to get to the venue?  

The address Gustav Mahlerplein 76 directs you to Vibe Group. As part of Vibe Group, Visser & Van Baarsis also located here. When arriving at the ITO Tower, report to the reception desk for elevator access and take the elevator up to the lounge on floor 11-north. Note: Visser & Van Baars is not listed separately in the building.  

Office info: 

ITO tower floor 11-north 
Gustav Mahlerplein 76 
Amsterdam 

Register now

Reserve your seat for our upcoming event.









Visser & Van Baars (part of Vibe Group) cares about your privacy and will process your personal data as described in our privacy statement.