In this session, Vida Health’s senior director of data, mobile, and web engineering shares a story that can help other data and business leaders capitalize on the opportunities being created by current technology innovations, market realities, and real-world problems. This includes a playbook on how Vida Health uses modern data technologies like dbt Cloud, Fivetran, Looker, BigQuery, BigQueryML/dbtML, Vertex AI, LLMs, and more to put data in the driver’s seat to solve meaningful problems in complex industries like healthcare.

Speaker: Trenton Huey, Senior Director, Data and Frontend Engineering, Vida Health

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It’s 2023, why are software engineers still breaking analytics reporting? We’ve all been there, being alerted by an analyst or C-level stakeholders, saying “this report is broken”, only to spend hours determining that an engineer deleted a column on the source database that is now breaking your pipeline and reporting.

At Xometry, the data engineering team wanted to fix this problem at its root and give the engineering teams a clear and repeatable process that allowed them to be the owners of their own database data. Xometry named the process DPICT (data pipeline contract) and built several internal tools that integrated seamlessly with their developer’s microservice toolsets.

Their software engineers mostly build their database microservices using Postgres, and bring in the data using Fivetran. Using that as the baseline, the team created a set of tools that would allow the engineers to quickly build the staging layer of their database in the data warehouse (Snowflake), but also alert them of the consequences of removing a table or column in downstream reporting.

In this talk, Jisan shares the nuts and bolts of the designed solution and process that allowed the team to onboard 13 different microservices seamlessly, working with multiple domains and dozens of developers. The process also helped software engineers to own their own data and realize their impact. The team has saved hundreds hours of data engineering time and resources not having to chase down what changed upstream to break data. Overall, this process has helped to bring transparency to the whole data ecosystem.

Speaker: Jisan Zaman, Data Engineering Manager, Xometry

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In this session, you'll learn tips and tricks from La-Z-Boy on how to modernize infrastructure and tackle complex retail and manufacturing data problems using dbt and Fivetran. Hear from a data leader about their experience and how you can replicate their success. Start your session off with some comfortable data movements to make sure you can extract as much information as possible from our loaded session on data transformation.

Speakers: Alex Hauer, Lead Product Marketing Manager, Fivetran; Selwyn Samuel, Director of Data Analytics & Enterprise Architecture, La-Z-Boy

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The Fivetran Analytics Engineering team strives to make its dbt packages multi-faceted enough and functional for the majority of data teams, balancing flexibility against ease of implementation. This means that the packages should get you 80% of the way there out of the box, but you're not alone as you cover the final 20%!

Over the years, the team has further developed its understanding of the nuances of analyses and developed different methods for folks to easily tweak packages to their liking. This session will discuss passthrough columns, union macros, and overriding package models, and will teach you how to use these features to make Fivetran's packages work for you or even leverage the same patterns in your own work.

Speaker: Jamie Rodriguez, Senior Analytics Engineer, Fivetran

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Would you like to know how one of the largest online business insurance organizations in Australia saves 36-72 engineering hours per connector? Watch this session to see how you can influence your business to make quicker and more accurate insights into key business metrics.

Speakers: Alexandra Coffey, Account Executive, Fivetran; Jimmo Vink, Head of Information Management, BizCover

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