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# Beyond AI Readiness: Scaling Data-Driven Engineering for Next-Gen Software & Infrastructure


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 10:45–12:45 (120 min)
- **Room:** M6 (40 Seats)
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Description

Data-driven engineering is at the core of modern software development and high-performance IT infrastructures. To stay ahead, analytics solutions must not only process vast and diverse datasets efficiently but also integrate AI-powered automation, Agentic-AI and real-time decision-making.
Join Jannis, Sophie, Christian and Eduard as they introduce the strategy and architecture behind the analytics platform powering the daily banking experiences of 50 million Sparkassen clients. They showcase how they scale automation in AI and Data infrastructure within a secure, air-gapped enterprise environment—bridging compliance and innovation.
Through hands-on use cases, including process mining, they demonstrate how data analytics drives operational excellence. Looking ahead, they share their roadmap for tackling the next big challenges in data analytics: How can we evolve our platform to be more adaptive, scalable, and continuously AI-optimized?

## Speakers

### [Eduard](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@eduard)

Finanz Informatik
### [Jannis Eickenroth](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@jannis-eickenroth)

Team Lead Analytics Frameworks & Services
### [Sophie Kleinke](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@sophie-kleinke)

Data Engineer at Finanz Informatik


## Related talks at this congress

- [MLOps & LLMOps in Banking IT: Automation, Infrastructure & Real-World Challenges](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/816-mlops-llmops-in) — Daniel Evenschor, Lars Langerbein, Matthias Kordt, Sebastian Klenke
- [Pioneering AI Assistants in Banking](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/553-pioneering-ai) — Markus Hacker, Tabitha Kleine
- [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/905-blueprints-for) — Dominik Schneider
- [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/756-empowering-thousands) — Bastian Heilemann, Bruno Margula