https://www.entropy-data.com/news/ Latest news, announcements, and talks from Entropy Data. en https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-05-28-icws-2026-data-contracts-paper https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-05-28-icws-2026-data-contracts-paper Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Our paper "Data Contracts: Structuring Promises and Expectations in Data Exchange" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE ICWS 2026 proceedings — a general concept of data contracts spanning provider and consumer promises and expectations. https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-05-26-power-bi-integration https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-05-26-power-bi-integration Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Entropy Data now integrates deeply with Microsoft Power BI: business lineage, semantics, ownership and governance extend from your data products all the way into your reports and dashboards. https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-05-17-barc-startup-award-finalist https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-05-17-barc-startup-award-finalist Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Entropy Data is one of five finalists for the BARC Start-up Award for Data & AI 2026 and will pitch live at the DATA festival in Munich, June 16–17, 2026. https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-data-architecture-jax-2026 https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-data-architecture-jax-2026 Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Annotated JAX 2026 talk by Dr. Gernot Starke (INNOQ) and Dr. Simon Harrer (Entropy Data) on why software engineering forgot data, how data contracts fix it, and a live demo of an AI agent answering business questions on top of contract-backed data products. https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-open-standards-for-data-mesh https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-open-standards-for-data-mesh Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Annotated talk by Dr. Simon Harrer at Data Mesh Belgium Meetup #7 in Leuven on the three open standards shaping data mesh today: ODCS, ODPS, and OSI. https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-04-16-semantics https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2026-04-16-semantics Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 A shared ontology of business concepts and relationships, linked to data products and data contracts. Semantics lets teams agree on one definition per term and gives AI agents the context they need to query data correctly. https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-data-contracts-infomotion-meetup-cologne-2026 https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-data-contracts-infomotion-meetup-cologne-2026 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Annotated talk by Dr. Simon Harrer at the INFOMOTION Data & AI Meetup Cologne on data contracts, covering the Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS), open source tooling, best practices, and why agentic AI will make data contracts ubiquitous. https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-data-contracts-tdwi-roundtable-muenster-2026 https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-data-contracts-tdwi-roundtable-muenster-2026 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Annotated talk by Jochen Christ at the TDWI Roundtable Münster on data contracts, covering the Open Data Contract Standard, contract-first design, data quality testing, and governance for AI agents. https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/agentic-ai-keynote https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/agentic-ai-keynote Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Annotated keynote by Dr. Simon Harrer on how AI agents transformed his work, from agentic coding to enterprise data governance. Includes all 47 slides, an English transcript, and the Q&A session. https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-chat-with-your-enterprise-data-purdue https://www.entropy-data.com/learn/talk-chat-with-your-enterprise-data-purdue Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Annotated guest talk by Dr. Simon Harrer at Purdue University on how AI can chat with enterprise data while enforcing data governance policies — using data products, data contracts, semantics, and access agreements as metadata. https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2025-12-23-year-in-review https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2025-12-23-year-in-review Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 A look back at what we accomplished this year. A moment to say thank you. And also to look forward. https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2025-10-06-data-mesh-manager-is-now-entropy-data https://www.entropy-data.com/news/2025-10-06-data-mesh-manager-is-now-entropy-data Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 We're excited to announce that Data Mesh Manager is now Entropy Data. This evolution reflects our broader vision for data products and data contracts.