Three-day German community conference for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric practitioners at Die Wohngemeinschaft in Cologne's Belgisches Viertel: full-day workshops on 14 October, a conference day on 15 October and an open coworking day on 16 October, in a deliberately informal, conversation-first setting.
Daten-WG 2026 is a community conference on Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Fabric for German-speaking data and analytics professionals, held in Cologne from 14 to 16 October 2026 and recurring annually. It runs over three days: full-day workshops (PreCon) on 14 October, a conference day (MainCon) on 15 October, and an open coworking day (AfterCon) on 16 October. The organiser's slogan is "Die Conference für Data People" and the site describes the event as approachable, hands-on and community-driven rather than a large trade show.
Daten-WG 2026 takes place from 14 to 16 October 2026 (Wednesday to Friday). The venue is Die Wohngemeinschaft Meeting Spaces, Richard-Wagner-Str. 39, Cologne, Germany (postcode 50674). The ticket pages list the workshop day as 10:00 to 17:00 on 14 October, the conference day as 09:00 to 22:00 on 15 October and the coworking day as 09:00 to 22:00 on 16 October. The three-day tickets add a Wednesday evening event on 14 October.
Daten-WG organises the event. The legal notice on daten-wg.com names platformimpulse GmbH, Am Frankenturm 5, 50667 Cologne, with Artur König as managing director, and the team page calls it the company behind Daten-WG. The team page also lists Marcus Wegener, Michael Tenner and Ulrik Harnisch alongside König; it states no role for them in the organisation. Contact is info@daten-wg.com.
The official page addresses data professionals, BI experts and analytics enthusiasts: Power BI developers, data analysts, Microsoft Fabric practitioners, data engineers and BI consultants, mainly in the German-speaking market. The organiser shows "111 Teilnehmer" (111 participants) in its headline figures for 2026 (unverifiable information), without saying whether this is a target or a count, and does not publish a breakdown by job title or country. The page describes the event as small and personal; the PreCon workshops run with a limited number of tickets.
Published roster as of 2026-10-10: only the six PreCon workshop leaders are named, on the ticket pages. The "Speaker auf der Daten-WG 2026" section of the official page was empty on that date, so no conference-day (15 October) speakers are published.
The official page names short slam-style talks as new for 2026 ("erstmalig"), and says the aim for the workshop day is to offer more choice than before; six PreCon workshops are on sale. The conference day keeps the interaction-first approach described for the 2025 edition: long breaks, flexible session lengths and room changes. The date of the 2025 edition and its attendance are not stated on the official page.
The programme is built around Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, data analytics and business intelligence, with the organiser planning 33 sessions in total (organiser figure).
The call for speakers named topics including AI and Copilot, data modelling and architecture, reporting and dataviz, engineering and CI/CD, and strategy and administration. A detailed timetable was not published on 2026-10-10.
The formats announced are a community format with small groups for the full-day workshops (PreCon), keynotes, 120-minute deep dives, 60-minute sessions, short slam-style talks, and a coworking or hackathon day. The call for speakers also listed 15-minute lightning talks. The page says a 60-minute slot may run to two hours or be cut to 30 minutes, and attendees can change rooms freely. Special formats named for the conference day: quiz, mini-expo, dashboard roast, talk show, dashboard karaoke and a robot competition controlled with Power BI.
The three-day ALL-IN tickets include a Wednesday evening event on 14 October; the ticket pages give no further description of it. Within the programme, the organiser lists the mini-expo, dashboard roast, talk show, dashboard karaoke, a Power BI robot competition and a quiz as special formats on 15 October, and the AfterCon coworking day on 16 October. No separate fringe or partner events are published.
Prices are shown on the ticket pages net, with 19 percent VAT added at checkout. As of 2026-10-10:
The page text mentions an Early Bird rate and a "Mystery Box" ticket, but neither appeared as a separate ticket type on the ticket pages checked on 2026-10-10, and no early-bird deadline is published.
The call for speakers on Sessionize opened on 14 January 2026 and closed on 31 March 2026, so submissions are no longer possible. Accepted speakers pay no event fee and have accommodation covered: three nights for PreCon speakers, one night otherwise. Travel and ticket terms are not stated. Questions can go to info@daten-wg.com.
Three packages are sold through the official site, prices net of 19 percent VAT as of 2026-10-10:
The official page lists these organisations as sponsors or supporters, as a published logo roster:
Two further logos in the sponsor block carry no readable name. The page groups logos under "Premium Sponsoren", "Sponsoren" and "Supporter" headings, but the grouping could not be read reliably from the page, so no company is assigned to a tier here.
Not publicly disclosed. The organiser publishes no breakdown of attendee employers. The sponsor roster is made up mostly of Microsoft data consultancies and training providers, plus a job board (GermanTechJobs) and a data-community media brand (tdwi), which suggests a consulting-heavy audience; this is an inference from the sponsor names, not a published figure.
Not publicly disclosed. The official site has no press page or accreditation form. The only contact published is info@daten-wg.com.
None found in independent media as of 2026-10-10. The coverage found is organiser-owned: the Daten-WG podcast and the Sessionize call-for-speakers page.
There is no independent press coverage to assess. What exists comes from the organiser's own channels (its podcast, website and Sessionize page), so it is promotional by origin. No media partner is listed on the official page.
Skip it if you want a large trade show: the organiser plans 111 participants (organiser figure) and a small mini-expo, and the sponsor slots are sold out. Skip it if you need English throughout: only the DAX Pillars workshop is marked [EN], and the site is in German. Skip it if you work outside the Microsoft data stack, since every announced topic is Power BI or Fabric. Skip it as a would-be speaker for this edition: the call for speakers closed on 31 March 2026.
It falls in mid-October, in Cologne, as a Microsoft data platform event with a strong AI strand in the call for speakers (Copilot, MCP servers, chat with data). The Daten-WG events page also lists Budapest BI & Analytics Forum 2026 (16 November, Danubius Hotel Helia, Budapest) and SQL Konferenz 2027 (22 February, Congress Park Hanau), and past 2026 dates for DataGrillen (20 May, Lingen), DATA POINT Prague (28 May) and TDWI Munich (23 June). The page does not say whether Daten-WG organises these; it names Michael Tenner as a speaker at the Budapest forum.
None found. The official page says participants meet "erneut in Köln" (again in Cologne), so the previous edition also took place in Cologne. The other events on the Daten-WG events page are listed under other venues but are not presented as Daten-WG editions.
The official event pages are in German and the event is mainly German-speaking. One PreCon workshop, ALL-IN: DAX Pillars [EN] with Francesco Bergamaschi, is marked as English. The language of individual conference-day sessions is not published, and the call for speakers on Sessionize was written in English.
Not publicly disclosed. No livestream, hybrid ticket or recording has been announced on the official page or the ticket pages. The event is described as an in-person gathering built on workshops, discussions and coworking.
Not publicly disclosed. The ticket pages checked on 2026-10-10 state no refund or cancellation terms. Questions can go to info@daten-wg.com.
Not publicly disclosed for the venue. The site has an accessibility statement page (Barrierefreiheitserklärung), but the event and ticket pages say nothing about step-free access or facilities at Die Wohngemeinschaft.
The address is Die Wohngemeinschaft | Meeting Spaces, Richard-Wagner-Str. 39, 50674 Cologne. The organiser describes it as centrally located in the Belgisches Viertel with creative rooms and a relaxed shared-flat atmosphere. No transport directions or hotel recommendations are published; the map on the ticket pages did not load without cookies.
Daten-WG 2026 is built for people who want to talk, not only listen. The organiser plans 111 participants (organiser figure), long breaks, flexible session lengths and an AfterCon coworking day with experts on hand, which is a structure that lets a practitioner leave with a working prototype rather than only notes. At 99 EUR plus VAT for the conference day, the entry price is low for a Microsoft data event; the scale is the trade-off, since the sponsor slots are sold out and the expo is a mini-expo.
The headline numbers on the official page, 33 sessions and 111 participants, are the organiser's own and are not audited. The page does not say whether 111 is a target or a count, the session total does not match any published timetable (only six workshops are named), and no conference-day speaker was published on 2026-10-10. Read the figures as the organiser's plan for a small event, not as a verified turnout.
Official site: https://www.daten-wg.com/ (event page: https://www.daten-wg.com/daten-wg-2026). The call for speakers was run on https://sessionize.com/daten-wg-2026/. The published email contact is info@daten-wg.com. The contact on record is Artur König, founder and managing director of platformimpulse GmbH, the company behind Daten-WG. The organiser also publishes on LinkedIn and YouTube.