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Belgium dbt Meetup #9 (in-person)
2025-02-20 · 17:00
The 9th edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup will take place in Ghent on February 20th. dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. 🏠Venue Host & Catering Provider: Lighthouse, Zuiderpoort Office Tower, Gaston Crommenlaan 6, 9050 Ghent 🤝Organizers: Sam Debruyn & Lise Kerckhove 🚆 Getting there: the office is located in “Zuiderpoort”. If you come by car, you can park easily in the Q-Park right next to the building. We advise you to park on -1 and follow the instructions in the direction of Atrium. Once you get to the ground floor, take the glass elevators to the 8th floor. To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come. Reach out - send a message in #local-belgium on Slack - if you need to cancel last minute or change your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going." 📝Agenda:
🗣️Presentations: 1) Building Custom Packages for Reusable Data Transformations Unlocking the full potential of dbt by creating custom packages tailored to your data needs. In this session, we'll go through why & how to design, build, and maintain reusable dbt packages that streamline data transformations, enforce consistency, and accelerate development across multiple projects. by Kaan Kizilirmak, Data Engineer at Devoteam G Cloud His career trajectory began in automation and Process Analytic Technology (PAT). Since 2022, he has honed expertise in cloud computing, specializing in data. 2) dbt with Looker Typical use case at Lighthouse on how we use dbt with Looker. by Karmichael Sultana, Senior Analytics Engineer at Lighthouse As an Analytics Engineer with over 14 years of experience in data analysis engineering and project management, I'm passionate about using data to drive businesses in the right direction. We are looking for speakers! To submit a session for one of the next meetups, please use our Sessionize page. Are you in doubt if you're ready to give a talk? Check out dbt Labs's guide on how to deliver a fantastic presentation! ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-belgium channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/)! dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/ |
Belgium dbt Meetup #9 (in-person)
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Belgium dbt Meetup #8 (in-person)
2024-11-28 · 17:00
The 8th edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup will take place in Hasselt on November 28th. dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. 🏠Venue Host & Catering Provider: DataSense, Corda Campus, Kempische Steenweg 309, 3500 Hasselt 🤝Organizers: Sam Debruyn & Arianna Van de Maele 🚆 Getting there: plenty of parking available around the building - Kiewit train station at walking distance (travel planning) To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come. Reach out - send a message in #local-belgium on Slack - if you need to cancel last minute or change your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going." 📝Agenda:
🗣️Presentations: 1) Containerized Deployment for dbt Projects Simplify your dbt workflows Enhance security Scale with ease Guarantee consistent performance Don't miss this opportunity to learn how containerized deployment can revolutionize your dbt projects. by Jim Vekemans, Data Engineer at DataSense Data engineer at DataSense, with multiple large-scale dbt projects implemented at different clients. 2) Maintaining your conventions amid the chaos of dbt As dbt projects continue to grow in size and complexity it is becoming increasingly common for each organisation to have its own conventions, standards and ways-of-working. But how can these conventions be maintained as the dbt project continues to expand? Does chaos reign or can we use our engineering knowledge to maintain our conventions? Let’s examine several approaches to maintaining standards in a dbt project. by Pádraic Slattery, Analytics Engineer at Xebia Data Pádraic has worked across several industries in roles including data analysis, Business Intelligence development and data engineering. He currently works as an Analytics Engineer at Xebia Data, a Data and AI consultancy based in Amsterdam where he helps clients deploy data platforms, onboard business use cases and upskill internal employee's data literacy. We are always looking for speakers! To submit a session for one of the next meetups, please use our Sessionize page. Are you in doubt if you're ready to give a talk? Check out dbt Labs's guide on how to deliver a fantastic presentation! ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-belgium channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/)! dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/ |
Belgium dbt Meetup #8 (in-person)
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Belgium dbt Meetup #7 (in-person)
2024-09-05 · 16:00
The 7th edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup will take place in Vilvoorde on September 5th. dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. 🏠Venue Host: DPG Media, Medialaan 1, 1800 Vilvoorde 🤝Organizers: Sam Debruyn & Cedric Raeymaeckers 🚆 Getting there: parking available at Streamz, Medialaan 38, 1800 Vilvoorde - meetup itself is at DPG Media (Medialaan 1) To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come. Reach out - send a message in #local-belgium on Slack - if you need to cancel last minute or change your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going." 📝Agenda:
🗣️Presentations: 1) The paradigm shift to analytics engineering In this session, we'll explore how dbt's inspiration by software engineering practices made the tool so powerful and brought a new paradigm to data work: analytics engineering. by Pieter Steenssens, Data Engineer at Bmatix Passionate about all things data & analytics engineering 2) Our dbt journey @ Streamz We will discuss how dbt has changed the way we build analytical data products at Streamz, explaining the story from both engineering and analyst perspectives, and focusing on specific use cases. by Cedric Raeymaeckers, Senior Lead at Datashift I'm a Data/Analytics Engineer with 10 years of experience in data consultancy. I derive energy from bridging use cases with technical solutions. Nowadays I am primarily active as an architect or lead. and Line Van Hemel, Data Modelling Lead at Streamz Transforming raw data into user-friendly and high quality data models is my core strength. In my last two roles at Virgin Media O2 and Just Eat Takeaway.com, I was the lead of the Data Modelling team. We led the data migration from Netezza and Amazon Redshift onto GCP (Google Cloud Platform) by capturing user requirements and rethinking the data architecture and lineage. Avoiding work duplication across the analytics departments and ensuring consistent and timely delivered KPI’s were my key principles. We are always looking for speakers! To submit a session for one of the next meetups, please use our Sessionize page. Are you in doubt if you're ready to give a talk? Check out dbt Labs's guide on how to deliver a fantastic presentation! 🤝 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-belgium channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/)! dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 30,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/ |
Belgium dbt Meetup #7 (in-person)
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Belgium dbt Meetup #3 (in-person)
2023-09-28 · 15:45
The 3th edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup will take place in Brussels on September 28th. dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. 🏠Venue Host: Astrafy, Silversquare Delta, Av. Arnaud Fraiteur 15, Ixelles 🤝Organizers: Charles Verleyen & Sam Debruyn To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: https://bit.ly/3QIJXFb Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come and reach out send a message in #local-belgium on Slack if you need to cancel last minute or change your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going." 📝Agenda:
🗣Presentation #1: Why dbt will one day be bigger than Spark - Kris Peeters\, CEO at Data Minded In this talk, I will discuss how the data world is moving from distributed processing frameworks like Spark to more high-level tooling like dbt. It is based on a blog I wrote more than 2 years ago, and we see the transition happen today: https://medium.com/datamindedbe/why-dbt-will-one-day-be-bigger-than-spark-2225cadbdad0 Kris is the founder and CEO of Data Minded. We serve large enterprises and growing startups by designing, building and running data initiatives in the cloud. 🗣Presentation #2: Bring your own compute: benefits & pitfalls of developing analytics with DuckDB - Frederik Druyts\, Consultant at Datashift When was the last time you really needed that 16-machine cluster to quickly check an assumption about your data while writing a new model? Developers often have powerful machines sitting right on their desks, though they rarely use any of that power when doing analytics engineering. In this session, we will explore how we can leverage DuckDB to efficiently fetch data from cloud storage and build, explore, and test a data model all from a local environment. We will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of this approach, including how it can help us reduce the cost and complexity of our analytics engineering efforts, as well as its potential limitations. Frederik is skilled at designing, implementing and maintaining end-to-end data solutions. As an analytical mind with a heart for technology, he wants to help the right people ask the right questions and get the right answers from data they can trust. He achieves impact on the intersection of grasping business needs, mastering toolsets both time-tested and new, and writing clean SQL. 🗣Presentation #3: Speed up ML development with python models in dbt - Dorian Van den Heede, Machine Learning Engineer at Dataroots In this talk, Dorian will share his experience on do's and don'ts of python models within dbt for ML and demonstrate a few design patterns to speed up development responsibly within dbt. While SQL is still the preferred language within dbt, python models bring more expressive power to your transformation pipelines. Exactly what we want and need as machine learning engineers for our data preparation! You can go even further to defining your entire ML production pipeline within dbt, inference included. Dorian (28y) is a Machine Learning Engineer at Dataroots. With his background in Computer Science Engineering and 5 years of experience at multiple clients, bringing machine learning models to production according to software best practices is what he thrives at. Aside of that, he was involved in the AI music band Beatroots, writes punk rock songs on his guitar and can be found blitzing chess moves online. ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-belgium channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/)! dbt is a data transformation framework that lets analysts and engineers collaborate using their shared knowledge of SQL. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/ |
Belgium dbt Meetup #3 (in-person)
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Belgium dbt Meetup #2 (in-person)
2023-06-14 · 15:45
The 2nd edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup will take place in Ghent on June 14th. dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. 🏠Venue Host: OTA Insight, Gaston Crommenlaan 6, Gent 🤝Organizers: Lise Kerckhove & Sam Debruyn To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: https://bit.ly/3QIJXFb 📝Agenda: 17h45: welcome with food & drinks 18h30: Data Mesh with dbt (Charles Verleyen & Lukasz Sciga - Astrafy) 19h15: Boosting Collaboration and Productivity with DevContainers and dbt Core (Mateusz Marciniewicz - dataroots) 19h45: break 20h: Documenting KPIs: Beyond dbt Semantic Layer (Juan Manuel Perafan - GoDataDriven/Xebia) 20h45: networking & drinks To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: https://bit.ly/3QIJXFb Data Mesh with dbt (Charles Verleyen & Lukasz Sciga - Astrafy) Data Mesh has become a powerful buzzwords and every data practitioner has heard about it. The major problem with buzzwords is that there are a lot of interpretations around them and this can generate quite some frustration. In case of data mesh, it can also slow down the adoption of this amazing new paradigm. In this session I will demystify the main concepts of data mesh and bring those to life with dbt with concrete data products from Astrafy real data. You can expect to see data mesh in actions in a very pragmatic way as we will cover as well activation of data from those data products by downstream applications (leveraging dbt semantic layer). Charles is a 34 years old data engineer and has been working for the last 10 years in different industries before founding his company recently with a focus on providing modern data services. He is passionate about open-source technologies and strives to deliver automated data solutions that can scale. Aside from his work, he's a sport lover with special dedication for tennis. Boosting Collaboration and Productivity with DevContainers and dbt Core (Mateusz Marciniewicz - dataroots) In this presentation we will discuss the benefits of using devcontainers together with dbt Core for data modeling and transformation. DevContainers provide a consistent, isolated environment for development, ensuring that all developers have the same set of tools and dependencies installed. This makes it easier to collaborate and reduces the risk of conflicts or errors. By adding dbt Core to the devcontainer, developers can take advantage of its powerful features and leverage the capabilities of the VS Code IDE. This can greatly simplify the process of working with data and onboarding process of new employees, allowing developers to focus on creating value rather than managing infrastructure. Mateusz is Polish-born with a background in Computer Science. He came to Belgium to pursue his studies, and he decided to stay and build his career here. In his free time, he enjoys sports and camping. Documenting KPIs: Beyond dbt Semantic Layer (Juan Manuel Perafan - GoDataDriven/Xebia) The dbt Semantic Layer has made a lot of teams reflect on the way they document their KPI's. But why stopping there? In this talk, I will break down all the knowledge required to understand a metric. From how it ties to your business goals, perverse incentives, to its technical implementation. Juan's mission is to help data professionals to create reliable production-grade data workflows that are easy to maintain, have been properly tested, and are impeccably documented. Half of the time, he teaches analysts how to apply engineering best practices to their workflows. The other half, he helps engineers to get in the shoes of the analysts. --------------- ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-belgium channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/)! --------------- dbt is a data transformation framework that lets analysts and engineers collaborate using their shared knowledge of SQL. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/ |
Belgium dbt Meetup #2 (in-person)
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