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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.

We are excited to bring London-based folks in the dbt Community together! Looking forward to socializing and seeing both new and familiar faces. This meetup will not feature content, but is rather an opportunity for folks to connect and build connections with other analytics engineers and data folks.

🤝Organizer: Ed Hayter, Nathan Purvis, James Charnley through The Information Lab 🏠Venue Host: The Information Lab 🍕Catering: tbc

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

EVENT DETAILS: The doors open at 6pm. Networking and chats at the office until 8:30pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come. If you need to cancel at the last minute, please change your RSVP status on this page to "Not Going." Message the organizer if you need help doing this..

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝Join the #local-ldn channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/). ---------------------------------- Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help data practitioners create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is the standard for AI-ready structured data. Powered by the dbt Fusion engine, it unlocks the performance, context, and trust that organizations need to scale analytics in the era of AI. Globally, more than 60,000 data teams use dbt, including those at Siemens, Roche and Condé Nast.

Learn more at getdbt.com, and follow dbt Labs on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by incident.io

RSVP opens on the Tuesday 6th May (2.5 weeks before the event), this is to reduce our drop-off numbers. Set a reminder to not miss out, this event will be over subscribed!

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers:

• Elena Burykh & Manou Campbell @ Medik8 - TBC
• Sarah Levy @ Euno - "Should we build this in Tableau or dbt?"

We are always looking to improve the event and get new ideas for talks, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive events or 2 out of 3 events, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Monzo.

RSVP opens on the Monday 24th March (2.5 weeks before the event), this is to reduce our drop-off numbers. Set a reminder to not miss out, this event will be over subscribed!

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers:

• Analytics Engineering - Discipline or Buzzword? Measuring real impact - Daniel McNamara Head of Analytics Engineering @ Taptap Send
• DuckDB: your new favourite database - Bill Wallis Software Engineer @ Sainsbury's

We are always looking to improve the event and get new ideas for talks, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive events or 2 out of 3 events, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

What are dbt meetups? 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.

🤝Organizer: dbt Labs (Amada Echeverría, Community Team) 🏠Venue/Host: Snowflake Office (Room: the Lodge on the 5th floor) @ One Crown Place, London EC2A 4EF, UK 🍕Catering: Refreshments will be provided

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

📝Agenda

• 5:00 - 5:40 \| Check in/Registration (40 min)
• 5:40 - 5:45 \| Welcome Remarks by our meetup host\, Snowflake (5 min) and dbt Labs’ Community Team
• 5:45 - 6:05 \| Presentation 1: Kshitij Aranke (Senior Software Engineer @ dbt Labs) on ‘Hands-on with our latest innovations in dbt Core 1.10” (20 min)
• 6:05 - 6:15 \| Presentation 1 Q&A (10 min)
• 6:15 - 6:35 \| Fireside chat with Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO @ dbt Labs) and Alex Lambert (Director Solution Engineering UK @ Snowflake) on The Analytics Development Lifecycle (20 min)
• 6:35 - 6:45 \| Q&A for Tristan and Alex (10 min)
• 6:45 -6:50 \| Closing Remarks by Snowflake and dbt Labs’ Community Team (5 min)
• 6:50 - 8:00 \| Reception (Please be mindful that we need to leave the space by 8:30)

EVENT DETAILS: The doors open at 5pm. Presentations begin at 5:40pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. The venue has capacity limits, so please update your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going" if you are unable to attend.

DIRECTIONS: Please bring an ID. The Snowflake office is located on the 5th and 6th floor of a multi-tenant building. Upon arrival visitors are greeted at ground floor reception and asked to check-in and sign Snowflake’s NDA via the Envoy check-in system. Visitors are either escorted to the lift area or await the host to pick them up.

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ 🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-ldn 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/

🌟 SPECIAL EVENT: Allies of Women in Data & Analytics 🌟

Are you an ally of women working in data & analytics?

In collaboration with The London AE meet-up, Stacked Pathways, is bringing you an all-female panel of industry leaders.

We’re on a mission to reduce the dropout rate of women in data and increase their representation in leadership roles.

As part of this effort, we run Stacked Pathways—a free mentoring initiative dedicated to empowering women in data and analytics.

This event is open for any allies of women in data & analytics.

Agenda:

• 6:00 PM: Doors open – Networking, food, and drinks
• 7:00 PM: Panel discussion featuring industry leaders
• 7:45 PM: Audience Q&A
• 8:30 PM: Drinks and networking – Sponsored by Omni

Panellists:

• Klara Raic - Senior Analytics Engineering Manager @ Monzo
• Sara Sheridan - VP Data & AI @ Beauty Pie
• Holly Foster- Analytics Engineering Manager @ Tesco
• Lucy Kendrick - Head of Analytics Engineering @ Gelato

If you’re passionate about driving real change in the industry and fostering greater diversity, we’d love for you to join us!

📅 RSVP Details:

Registration opens Tuesday 18th February. We recommend setting a reminder as this event will be oversubscribed!

RSVP will close at 21:00 on Wedneday 5th March.

The Cognify Team

We are always looking to improve the event, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Omni, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive or 2 out of 3 events, you won't be able to attend the next meet-up. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Deliveroo.

RSVP opens on the Monday 27th Jan (2 weeks before the event), this is to reduce our drop-off numbers. Set a reminder to not miss out, this event will be over subscribed!

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers:

• Iceberg and the hype of multi-engine data stacks - Borja Vázquez @ Spotify
• Neurodiversity is more than workplace policies, it's about cultural challenges and the decision to be more inclusive - Nik Walker - The Co-op

We are always looking to improve the event, if you could please fill out a feedback form, this will help us continue to improve!

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

No-Show Policy:

• If you miss 2 consecutive events or 2 out of 3 events, you wont be able to attend the next event. We hope you understand this is to keep things fair for venues and other attendees.

Details

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Wise.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking @ The Owl & Pussy Cat - Drinks sponsored by Omni

Speakers: How to Build a Market Leading Embedded Analytics Product in 2024 – Jonny Dungay - Primary Bid

How Analytics Engineering empowers 150+ Analysts at Wise - (21) Deckel de Lange, Yara Burvin & Moritz Kerstan - Wise

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Details

Venue: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD - IMPORTANT: LOCATION UPDATED! Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know. *** Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct. *** As always, there'll be free food & drinks, generously provided by our host, Man Group. ***

Main Talks

Cosmos: Translating dbt to Apache Airflow - Tatiana Al-Chueyr

This talk will discuss why and how to use dbt Core and Apache Airflow, open source tools that support the development of data pipelines. On one hand, dbt is an extremely valuable tool for analytics engineers to build data transformation pipelines with SQL. On the other hand, Apache Airflow is a consolidated orchestration platform that supports the development, scheduling, and monitoring of batch-oriented workflows written in Python. This talk discusses benefits and reasons to use these two tools, and a few approaches to integrate them, including using the open source library Cosmos: https://github.com/astronomer/astronomer-cosmos

Real-time plane-spotting with Apache Druid and Python - Hugh Evans

Hidden from our eyes, aircraft in our skies are constantly transmitting data. Join us as we use some simple tech and the power of open source to fly through this data set. In this talk, see a Raspberry Pi, Apache Kafka, Apache Druid, and Python coming together for real-time data production, transport, OLAP, and interactive visualisation.

⚡ Lightning Talks 1️⃣ Seamless array computation using ndonnx - Aditya Goel 2️⃣ DSPy - A new way of prompting with LLM - Zhaohan Dong

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm (get there early as you have to sign-in via building security), talks start at 7 pm, drinks from 9 pm in the bar. We will have reduced capacity for this event but there will be plenty of people to discuss data science questions with! Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members! Follow @pydatalondon (https://twitter.com/pydatalondon) for updates and early announcements.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Checkout.com.

Agenda:

6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers:

Beyond D2C: Unlocking B2B Growth with Marketing Mix Modeling – Jake Barnett + Adam Dathi + John Napoleon-Kuofie - Day1Data

A practical guide to building data testing and monitoring - Petr Janda, Founder at Sync

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

What are dbt meetups? 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.

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

🇬🇧 Join the conversation in the #local-ldn channel in dbt Slack to follow speaking/hosting opportunities and news on upcoming meetups. ➡️ Receive an invite to join the dbt Slack community: https://community.getdbt.com/

🤝 Organizer: Datatonic 🏠 Venue: Datatonic's Offices, Level 45, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf

✨ Agenda & Speakers ✨

1. 17.30: Drinks & Food
2. 18.30: Streamlining Incremental Models with Delta Tracking - George Jones & Arun Kumaravel\, Analytics Engineers @ VMO2
3. 19.00: Accelerating our journey to powerful customer insights - Holly Foster, Data Lead @ Trinny London
4. 19:30 Networking

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/

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Datatonic.

Agenda:

6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers:

Building a Modern Data Strategy – Jess Franks - Data & Analytics Engineering Manager @ Not On The High Street

Monolithic to Mesh – dbt at GoCardless - Katie Wiedmann and Priscila Fischer

Data Governance in BigQuery: Managing Privacy, Security & Compliance - Ash Sultan – Lead Data Architect at Datatonic

London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Join Snowflake London User Group & DET community in Holborn at MMC HQ for an evening of networking, drinks, food and talks from some brilliant speakers from the Data Engineer community, including:

Anna Aleshko (Data Engineer and Founder of Data Engineers London)- How we power insights using Snowflake for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services

Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

🤝Sponsored by Snowflake, Orchestra and MMC Ventures

Event Schedule 6:30 - 7:00 : food, drinks, networking

7:00 - 7:20: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 - 7:40: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 - 8:00 : Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

8:00-8:30: Q&A

8:30 onwards: drinks and pub

Join the guestlist 👉to secure your spot as spaces are limited.

This gathering of London’s Data Engineer Things community is organised by Hugo Lu (Orchestra) and sponsored by Snowflake and MMC Ventures

About DET: Data Engineer Things (DET), founded by Xinran Waibel, is an online community and publication dedicated to curating learning resources for data engineers. The London chapter is focused on bringing together like-minded data engineers and practitioners to share experiences, and speak about high-quality real-world data engineer projects, and of course, socialise.

Talk submission: If you'd like to submit a talk (or help us organise!) please reach out to Hugo or Tim Webster on Linkedin. Similar to the Data Engineer Things Medium blog, we recommend submitting talks on some of the topics below, which are educational and beneficial to the wider community!

Speaking about relevant professional experiences is also recommended:

Project ideas: Interesting data engineering projects you've done (ideally in a professional capacity)

---> Tech stacks: Building a batch/streaming pipeline on AWS, for example

---> Engineering process: Integrating CICD into data engineering dev cycle

---> Overlooked topics: e.g. how to design systems for high data quality

Which could be interspersed with stories about:

---> Career switching: Transitioning into DE from another field

---> Interviews: Preparing for data engineering interviews

DET Resources: Slack: http://join.det.life

Medium: https://blog.det.life

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@data-engineer-things/streams

Website: https://www.dataengineerthings.org/aboutus/

Agenda

6:30 PM: food, drinks, networking

7:00 PM: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 PM: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 PM: Dario Morelli - Lessons from Truelayer - Building the Data & Analytics Team for the UK's largest Open Banking provider

8:00 PM: Q&A

8:30 PM: drinks and pub

Speakers

Anna Aleshko - Waitrose (Data Engineer)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-aleshko;

Dario Morelli - Truelayer (previous) (Head of Data Analytics)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/morellidario/;

Surprise Speaker

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/developer-guide/snowpark-container-services/overview;

Partner

Data Engineering Things (https://blog.det.life/)

Snowflake User Groups

Complete your event RSVP here: https://usergroups.snowflake.com/events/details/snowflake-london-presents-london-snowflake-user-group-x-data-engineering-things-community-meetup-at-mmc-hq-holborn/.

Join us in Holborn at MMC HQ for an evening of networking, drinks, food and talks from some brilliant speakers from the Data Engineer community, including:

• Anna Aleshko (Data Engineer and Founder of Data Engineers London)- How we power insights using Snowflake for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose
• [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services
• Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

Event Schedule 6:30 - 7:00 : food, drinks, networking

7:00 - 7:20: Anna Aleshko, Data Engineer - How we power insights for a £7bn business: Data Architecture and Data Products at Waitrose

7:20 - 7:40: [SURPRISE] - The ultimate combination: how to run dbt-Core on Snowflake Container Services + Q&A

7:40 - 8:00 : Alex Spanos (Head of Data @Tarabut) - Automating Data Workflows for ML in Middle East Open Banking

8:00-8:30: Q&A

8:30 onwards: drinks and pub

Join the guestlist 👉to secure your spot as spaces are limited.

This gathering of London’s Data Engineer Things community is organised by Hugo Lu (Orchestra) and sponsored by Snowflake and MMC Ventures

About us: Data Engineer Things (DET), founded by Xinran Waibel, is an online community and publication dedicated to curating learning resources for data engineers. The London chapter is focused on bringing together like-minded data engineers and practitioners to share experiences, and speak about high-quality real-world data engineer projects, and of course, socialise.

Talk submission:

If you'd like to submit a talk (or help us organise!) please reach out to Hugo or Tim Webster on Linkedin. Similar to the Data Engineer Things Medium blog, we recommend submitting talks on some of the topics below, which are educational and beneficial to the wider community!

Speaking about relevant professional experiences is also recommended: Project ideas: Interesting data engineering projects you've done (ideally in a professional capacity) ---> Tech stacks: Building a batch/streaming pipeline on AWS\, for example ---> Engineering process: Integrating CICD into data engineering dev cycle ---> Overlooked topics: e.g. how to design systems for high data quality Which could be interspersed with stories about: ---> Career switching: Transitioning into DE from another field ---> Interviews: Preparing for data engineering interviews

Resources: Slack: http://join.det.life Medium: https://blog.det.life Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@data-engineer-things/streams Website: https://www.dataengineerthings.org/aboutus/

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Lyst.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers: Will GenAI replace Data Engineers? - Gaurav Tiwari - Engineering Manager @ Spotify Brownfield data integration: how to transition from complex legacy data sources to modern data platforms - Erik Schmiegelow - CEO @ Hivemind Technologies

The London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Food and drink will be provided by Lyst with additional support from Spectacles and SELECT.

A date for your diaries! Data Engineers London will be bringing you all back together in March!

The topic for the evening will be Data Modelling. If you are interested in doing a talk on the subject, please fill out this form.

Agenda: 6pm: Arrival, chats, pizzas & drinks

6:30pm: Welcome Talk

6:40pm: Why Data Modelling: The Art of Organizing Data into Clear and Understandable Format for Storage and Analysis Chukwuebuka Akwiwu-Uzoma, Senior Data Engineer at Arm Chukwuebuka's LinkedIn

7:00pm: Break

7:15pm: Data Vault on dbt Jean Dupuis, Principal Data Engineer Consultant Jean's LinkedIn

8pm onwards: Post event drinks and chats at a Leman Street Tavern

We look forward to welcoming you on the night :)

Please RSVP via MeetUp.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by GoCardless.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers: Data Tracking Plans - Alex Ran - Co-Founder at Seal Data Data Privacy Mitigation for Marketing - Sairah Chaudry - Analytics Technology Manager at FARFETCH Near-real time processing with Dynamic Tables in Snowflake - Marcin Migda - Senior Data Engineer at SpotOn\, Ricky Thomas - CTO at Streamkap.

The London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Food and drink will be provided by GoCardless with additional support from Spectacles, SELECT, and Brooklyn Data Co.

dbt Meetups are gatherings dedicated to helping you own your analytics engineering workflow. Events will focus on the impact of dbt in the data community and professional development tools for analytics engineers.

Expect big-picture conversations related to the data stacks, data operations, data teams, modelling, testing, dashboards, etc. If you work with data, this group is for you! We welcome data analysts, scientists, engineers, architects, and more!! ----------------------------------- 🇬🇧 Join the conversation in the #local-ldn channel in dbt Slack to follow speaking/hosting opportunities and news on upcoming meetups. ➡️ Receive an invite to join the dbt Slack community: https://community.getdbt.com/

🤝 Organizer: Datatonic 🏠 Venue: Datatonic's Offices, Level 45, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf

✨ Agenda & Speakers ✨

1. 17.30: Drinks & Food
2. 18.30: Automated rollback dbt model transformations for models with failed tests - Catalin Bobarnac\, Senior Solution Architect @ Snowflake
3. 19.00: Targeted, limited & automated backfilling through incremental strategy - Ash Sultan, Lead Data Architect @ Datatonic
4. 19:30 Networking

To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: https://bit.ly/3QIJXFb

Venue: Carnival House, 100 Harbour Parade, Southampton, SO15 1ST

Please note:

1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. You MUST use your initial/first name and surname on your meetup profile, otherwise, you will NOT make it on the guest list! 🚨🚨🚨
2. This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event.

If your RSVP status says "You're going" you will be able to get in. No further confirmation required. You will NOT need to show your RSVP confirmation when signing in. If you can no longer make it, please unRSVP as soon as you know so we can assign your place to someone on the waiting list.

*** Code of Conduct: This event follows the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct, please familiarise yourself with it before the event. Please get in touch with the organisers with any questions or concerns regarding the Code of Conduct. *** There will be pizza & drinks, generously provided by our host, Carnival UK. ***

Main Talks 1️⃣ OpenAI's Function Calling: What is it and how can we take advantage of it? - Anoop Tatti Imagine if ChatGPT could seamlessly schedule meetings, offer real-time public transport updates or provide current weather information. Well, thanks to OpenAI's 'Function Calling' feature, all of this is possible.

Here's how Function Calling works: We define available functions and train the OpenAI model to recognise user intent. When a user asks a question or makes a request, the model identifies their intention and matches it to the appropriate function. The system then executes the function, producing raw output, which is transformed into a user-friendly natural language response by the model. This session explores Function Calling through practical examples, including a 'Digital Personal Assistant' for calendar and task retrieval and a chatbot providing real-time TfL (Transport for London) underground train information. Demonstrations will take place in Teams and on SharePoint pages, providing attendees with a solid understanding of Function Calling.

2️⃣ Building a data science solution for an NGO when you don’t know what infrastructure it will run on: a case study predicting tutor supply and demand mismatch - Adam Hill The Brilliant Club is an NGO focused on two goals: student access and student success. TBC wants more pupils from less advantaged backgrounds to access university; their aim is to work with 100,000 pupils on their flagship Scholars Programme over the next five years. To achieve these aims, TBC needs to ensure that they have the right number of PhD researcher volunteers in the right areas to meet school demand.

A team of 6 DataKind volunteers worked to explore the data, and make a maintainable, functional set of models that could help in the prediction of TBC’s tutor supply and demand using the latest available data and visualising it in an easy-to-use manner. We built our solution around various open-source tools and technologies including: Python; Scikit-learn; Jupyter; Docker; PostgreSQL; dbt; Prefect. In this talk, we will discuss how we designed the solution to deliver it in an accessible way and demonstrate how we implemented the various technologies.

Lightning Talks ⚡ ⚡1️⃣ Cruising Through Soton: Optimising Your Journey for a Satisfyingly Speedier Commute - Austen Wallis ⚡2️⃣ TBA

Logistics Doors open at 6.30 pm, talks start at 7 pm. For those who wish to continue networking and chatting we will move to a nearby pub/bar for drinks from 9 pm.

Please unRSVP in good time if you realise you can't make it. We're limited by building security on the number of attendees, so please free up your place for your fellow community members!

Follow @pydatasoton (https://twitter.com/pydatasoton) for updates and early announcements. We are also on Instagram/Threads as @pydatasoton; and find us on LinkedIn.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by GoCardless.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers: Data Tracking Plans - Alex Ran - Co-Founder at Seal Data (ex-Dropbox) Near-real time processing with Dynamic Tables in Snowflake - Marcin Migda - Senior Data Engineer at SpotOn

The London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Food and drink will be provided by GoCardless with additional support from Spectacles, SELECT, and Brooklyn Data Co.

We're delighted to announce our next meetup will be hosted by Cleo.

Agenda: 6:00pm: Doors open, networking, food, drinks. 7:00pm: Talks start! 8:00pm: Talks finish, Q&A. 8:30pm: Further drinks and networking.

Speakers: Klara Raic - Analytics Engineering Manager @ Monzo How to go from Analyst to Analytics Engineer

Ben King - "TBD" (ex-CTO, Tumelo) Introducing The "To Be Determined" Project

The London Analytics Engineering Meetup is focused on discussing and spreading best practices in the growing field of analytics engineering. Whether you've set up the "Modern Data Stack" many times over or are brand new to tools like dbt, Looker, Snowflake, Bigquery and more, this is the meetup for you.

Food and drink will be provided by Cleo with additional support from Spectacles, SELECT, and Brooklyn Data Co.