The DataHop, an Analytics and AI Workshop!

Let's go do the Hop!

 No, not that one, this one!

Hard work at the KNIME Agentic AI workshop...

What an inspiring day at the NH Hotel in Amsterdam. The morning sessions with the new release of KNIME 5.5 were clearly demonstrating the flexibility, the auditability and the transparency of a KNIME GenAI workflow.

It starts with data quality

After the lunch Michael Berthold, KNIME’s CEO, made a clear case for data quality in agentic AI. He introduced the KNIME chain of prompts, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) available in the new 5.5 free download Analytics Platform to make the smoothest integrations between LLMs, data sources and tools.

Vivisol, ING, ASML, University of Groningen: enterprise KNIME users

And then it was time to prove KNIME isn’t just a hobby tool for small business clients.

Jasper Hoekstra, IT Manager of Vivisol showed the audience how data apps a shorter time to market to introduce new services like invoice checking, consolidating sales budgets with a transparent connection to SalesForce, etc… Vivisol proves that KNIME is an enterprise tool: with 3.800 employees serving 700.000 patients in the respiratory field where KNIME data apps support complex workflows.

But compared to the  60.000 employees and 40 million customers from ING, Vivisol’s size dwindles. With 3.575 ICT apps (and counting), 1.445 job profiles and 97.138 controls to test in 10.797 organisational units, the audit team faces serious challenges. Yet they cope using KNIME.

Tjasse Biewenga and Matheus Toscano from ING demonstrated how the audit becomes a transparent and simple process providing rich context, including process mining diagrams.

Daniel Bogenrieder from KNIME introduced the newest features but I suggest you discover these yourself like “Workflow to Tool” and additional resources in “KAI”.

The University of Groningen offers its students KNIME as a tool for research and analysis, so they invited a professor, specialised in the interaction between humans and technology.

An academic user

Christos Emmanouilidis of the  University of Groningen discussed the skills we need to work with AI, making sure the results are trustworthy.

The day closed with an introduction of KNIME’s use at ASML in Velthoven where 80 % of the world’s lithography systems are produced to make the most advanced and smallest microchips possible.

The ASML panel with Tatiana Nesterova, Zeinab Bakhtiarinoodeh, Hans Zeng and Chiao Jiang

Improving currency hedging programmes from 70 to 96% is quite an achievement when you purchase goods for about $ 16 million compared to a total of 100 million purchases in euros per month. This auditable solution was built entirely by subject matter experts and a data scientist without burdening the IT department.

To conclude: it was well worth a visit for over a hundred attendants at the NH Hotel in Amsterdam. When are you exploring the value of KNIME? Let us know in the comments.