From Open Data to Data Mesh

Hello PyData People!
We are excited to announce our next event of 2026! This time, we will be hosted at Generali Italia’s Torre Generali in Milan for an evening dedicated to open data, data platform orchestration, and scalable data engineering.
📅 When: Thursday, May 19th, 2026 – 18:30–21:00
📍 Where: Torre Generali Italia, Milan
⚠️ Important: Spots are limited. Please keep your RSVP updated to allow others to participate if you can no longer attend.

🕒 Agenda
18:30 – Doors open & check-in
19:00 – Talk 1: Democratizing Data: A deep dive into Eurostat Open Database – Simona Mazzarino
19:45 – Talk 2: Scaling Data Mesh Orchestration with Dagster: Platform-Driven DAGs without Platform Friction – Marco Santoni and Andrea Romeo
20:30 – Networking & Social Dinner

🎤 The Talks
1️⃣ Democratizing Data: A deep dive into Eurostat Open Database
Speaker: Simona Mazzarino (Data Scientist @ Clearbox AI)
In this talk, we explore how to turn open data into actionable insights. You will learn how to navigate Eurostat, the EU’s vast statistical database, and use Python tools to fetch and process data for research, AI, and real-world analysis. We will look at how to discover relevant datasets, work with Eurostat’s interface and APIs, and integrate public statistics into your workflows for visualizations, dashboards, and models. A guiding example will be the analysis of migration flows across European countries, from data discovery to a usable dataset for analytics or machine learning.
About the Speaker:
Simona Mazzarino is a Data Scientist at Clearbox AI. With a background in linguistics, semiotics, and artificial intelligence, she specializes in language technologies. She is an active volunteer in the Python Torino community, where she helps connect people interested in Python applications, and she also volunteers for PyCon Italia.

2️⃣ Scaling Data Mesh Orchestration with Dagster: Platform-Driven DAGs without Platform Friction
Speakers: Andrea Romeo, P