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Hi there 👋

I'm Andrea Gioia, CTO at Quantyca, and Co-founder of blindata.io. With 20+ years in the game, I have navigated the data universe up and down, one project at a time.

📙 Author of the book Managing Data As A Product, published by Packt in 2024.

🚀 Proudly steering the ship at the Data Engineering Italy Meetup and championing the Open Data Mesh Initiative.

🟠 Maintainer of the data product descriptor specification and product owner of the open-source ODM Platform.

🛠️ Contributor of Data Product Ontology (DPROD).

🌐 Member of DAMA and part of the scientific committee of the DAMA Italian Chapter since 2023.

📫 You can reach me on LinkedIn.

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Upcoming stuff

  1. Data Mesh Live @ Antwerp; June 2025 🇬🇧
  2. Big Data London @ London; September 2025 🇬🇧

Recent stuff

  1. 🎤 Data Innovation Summit @ Stockholm; May 2025 🇬🇧
  2. 🎥 Human-Centered Modeling for Data Products @ Knowledge Graph Insights; May 2025 🇬🇧
  3. 🎥 Managing Data as a Product @ DAMA Italy Book Club; March 2025 🇮🇹
  4. 🎥 From Monolithic Knowledge Graph to Distributed Knowledge Mesh @ ESTES PARK GROUP; March 2025 🇬🇧
  5. 📝 DataContract vs. Data Product Specifications: Friends, Enemies, or Frenemies? @ Medium Blog 🇬🇧
  6. 📝 How to Define Internal Data Specifications to Govern Your Data Ecosystem @ Medium Blog 🇬🇧
  7. 🎥 What's Data Product @ Lets Talk About Data Podcast 2025 🇬🇧

2024 stuff

  1. 🎥 Special Episode: Managing Data as a Product "The Book" @ Tapas And Pretzels Podcast 2024 🇬🇧
  2. 📝 What I Talk About When I Talk About Data Product @ Medium Blog
  3. 📙 Managing Data as a Product @ Everywhere; December 2024 🇬🇧
  4. 📝 Building your Enterprise Knowledge Graph one data product at a time @ Connected Data London; December 2024 🇬🇧
  5. 🎥 Why we need to focus on Knowledge Management, NOW! @ Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest No-BS Data Podcast 2024 🇬🇧
  6. 🎥 Knowledge Driven Data Management @ Big Data LND 2024 🇬🇧
  7. 🎥 Data Products & the Platform Organization @ Boundaryless Webinar 🇬🇧
  8. 🎥 Architects & Data in a Volatile World @ Data Value Show 2024 🇬🇧
  9. 🎥 Managing Data as a Product: Overcoming the Challenges of Traditional Data Management @ Tapas And Pretzels Podcast 2024 🇬🇧
  10. 🎥 Data Product Catalog: from Data Contracts to knowledge graph @ Data Innovation Summit 2024 🇬🇧
  11. 🎥 A Panel Discussion on Data-Centricity + Artificial Intelligence @ SWARM Community; April 2024 🇬🇧
  12. 🎥 Information Architecture From Data Products to Knowledge Graph @ SWARM Community; May 2024 🇬🇧

2023 stuff

  1. 🎥 Il ruolo del data management nell'era dell'AI Generativa @ DAMA Italy Annual Convention; 2023 🇮🇹
  2. 📝 LLMs e Knowledge Graphs: un matrimonio perfetto @ AgileItalia Magazine; 2023 🇮🇹
  3. 🎥 Semantic Data Product @ Big Data LND; 2023 🇬🇧
  4. 🎥 Data contract in practice @ Data Innovation Summit 2023 🇬🇧
  5. 📝 Data contract in practice @ Medium; 2023 🇬🇧
  6. 📝 Dalla sperimentazione alla produzione con l'MLOps @ AgileItalia Magazine; 2022 🇮🇹
  7. 📝 Il Data Mesh e l'innovazione nel data management @ AgileItalia Magazine; 2019 🇮🇹