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Dr. Simon Harrer presenting A Data Marketplace is What Your Agent Needs at DATA Festival 2026 in Munich
Talk

A Data Marketplace is What Your Agent Needs

Annotated DATA Festival 2026 talk by Dr. Simon Harrer (Entropy Data) on why AI agents need a data marketplace — to read enterprise data through governed tools and to build new data products — with two live demos.

Jochen Christ's talk Data-first or Contract-first?
Talk

Data-first or Contract-first?

Annotated slide notes from Jochen Christ's (Entropy Data) talk on two paths to a data product: the traditional data-first route and the contract-first route, with data contracts, ODCS, the Data Contract CLI, and a coding agent that builds the product from the contract.

Data Contract CLI running data quality tests in a terminal
Open Source

Data Contract CLI v1.0 Released

The Data Contract CLI, the standard open-source tool to test, lint, import, and export data contracts with native ODCS support, reaches its first major version: fewer dependencies, Python 3.13/3.14 support, improved Databricks auth, failed-row samples for debugging, and a hardened Docker image.

Entropy Data celebrates its first birthday
Company

Happy Birthday Entropy Data

One year ago we spun off from INNOQ to found Entropy Data. A look back at our first year: a rebrand, ISO 27001, open standards leadership, a packed product roadmap, and customers across three continents.

Data Contracts research paper accepted at ICWS 2026
Company

Our Data Contracts Paper is Accepted at ICWS 2026

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.

Data Architecture talk at JAX 2026 in Mainz
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Data Architecture: The New Backbone of Modern Software

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.

Open Standards for Data Mesh talk at Data Mesh Belgium Meetup Leuven
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Open Standards for Data Mesh

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.

Semantics in Entropy Data
Product

Semantics: Model Your Business Domain as Concepts

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.

Chat with your Enterprise Data talk at Purdue University
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Chat with your Enterprise Data

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.

Entropy Data at data2day 2025
Company

Entropy Data: 2025 in Review

A look back at what we accomplished this year. A moment to say thank you. And also to look forward.

Entropy Data
Company

Data Mesh Manager is now Entropy Data

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.