From a Small Community Room 🇲🇨 to a Global Industry Conversation 🚚📦

In 2017, I started learning the KNIME Analytics Platform simply out of curiosity.
At that time, very few people around me knew about KNIME, especially in Indonesia.

So I decided to do something simple:
learn… and share what I learned 📚 with others 👥

A year later, in 2018, I transformed one small room in my place into a learning class for KNIME.
Nothing luxurious.
Just a simple room, a few chairs 🪑, computers 💻, internet connection 🛜, and people willing to learn together 👩🏻‍🏫

What made me happy was seeing people from many different backgrounds joining the class.
Some came from universities, some from government institutions, some from private companies, and others were simply curious about data 📊 and AI 🤖

Inside this small room, we learned together, discussed workflows, solved problems, and explored how open-source technology could create opportunities for many people.

I consistently shared those learning activities on social media, especially LinkedIn.
Not because I wanted to go viral…
but because I genuinely believed KNIME deserved to be more widely known 🙏

And honestly… I never expected what happened this week.

Without sending any proposal.
Without preparing a fancy corporate presentation.
Without aggressively offering training services.

DHL Indonesia sent their team directly to this classroom for a 3-day KNIME learning session.

One Finance Manager and two data team members came to learn KNIME together in this very room.

For me, this moment feels surreal.
Something very simple, done consistently over the years, unexpectedly opened the door for a global company to know KNIME as a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) solution more closely.

Sometimes we underestimate small and consistent actions.
But over time, those small actions quietly build trust, community, and opportunities. 🌱

I truly hope this becomes an important first step 👣 for KNIME to be considered more seriously as a data processing standard, not only within DHL but perhaps one day at regional or even global level 🌏

From community… to industry.
From one small classroom… to conversations with global companies.

And this journey is still continuing ✨