Data & AI Monitor 2026/2027 Benelux Edition
Download the Benelux ReportCreated by Xebia in partnership with Data Expo, the Data & AI Monitor captures insights from 415 Benelux professionals across 56 questions on AI readiness, data strategy, digital sovereignty, governance, and trust.
The Benelux edition arrives ahead of the global report, with findings presented at Data Expo in Utrecht on September 9-10.
Get a first look at the findings below, then download the report for more details.
Key Takeaways
AI Agents Move from Experiment to Practice
A quarter of organizations already have AI agents live in production or deployed at scale. Agentic AI goes a step beyond the generative AI assistants that have become commonplace in many workplaces: agents can carry out follow-up steps on their own and connect different systems and tasks. That increases the potential impact.
Proving AI's Value Remains the Hard Part
Trust is the real bottleneck. Only 21% of respondents trust an AI model's output as much as a human colleague's, and that hesitation keeps AI out of the critical workflows where it could do the most. Shadow AI follows the same pattern: 69% of organizations report concern about employees using AI tools outside approved systems. When governance trails adoption, trust pays the price.
Europe Wants Sovereignty. Few Are Acting on It.
The report highlights that 81% of companies describe themselves as dependent or highly dependent on third-party providers, with comfort levels rising alongside that dependence. Most organizations recognize the problem: 82% agree American Big Tech holds too much power in data and AI, and 85% want Europe to form a stronger front. Yet action lags far behind conviction. Only 15% have taken concrete steps toward sovereign or European-first infrastructure, and 42% haven't put it on the agenda at all.
Adoption Outpaces Value Proof
Generative AI is now standard practice across the region, with 74% of organizations actively working with GenAI assistants. Yet widespread adoption hasn't translated into proven value. Only 24% believe they're fully harvesting and tracking what AI actually delivers. Experimenting has become normal. Consistently showing results has not.
Data & AI Monitor Benelux Edition
What's Inside?
Benchmark Against Your Sector
See snapshots for all eight Benelux sectors: key challenges and where each stands on AI maturity, so you know exactly how your industry compares.
Where Agentic AI Actually Stands
Explore a full breakdown of AI agent deployment, by stage and by sector, from early exploration to running at scale.
The State of Shadow AI
Find out how concerned organizations really are about unsanctioned AI use, and how sharply that concern shifts from one sector to the next.
Your AI Knowledge, Benchmarked
Uncover the gap between the AI knowledge organizations have and the knowledge they want, and how they're closing it through hiring and training.
Where Sovereignty Stands, Sector by Sector
Discover what organizations believe about Big Tech and European independence, and how far they've actually gotten in acting on it.
Data & AI Monitor 2026/2027 Benelux Edition
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