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In the dbt Labs on dbt series, you get a behind-the-scenes look at how dbt Labs uses data. Learn how dbt Labs thinks about the role of data, how data developers collaborate with business leaders, and the technical decisions we’ve made in our own dbt project.

In this session, Mark Matteucci, Enterprise Systems Architect at dbt Labs, and Mary Wleklinski, Senior Director of Revenue Marketing at dbt Labs share the rising importance of data in a challenging economic environment. You'll learn about a variety of dbt use cases across finance, G&A, and marketing and how we use data to solve tough business challenges. Learn about dbt Labs' journey and leave with ideas that you can implement in your dbt project today.

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In the dbt Labs on dbt series, get a behind-the-scenes look at how dbt Labs uses data. You’ll learn how dbt Labs thinks about the role of data, how data developers collaborate with business leaders, and the technical decisions we’ve made in our own dbt project.

In this session, Danny Lambert, Director of Marketing Operations at dbt Labs, shares how he partnered with marketing leaders and the data team to deliver clean, simple reporting that help everyone from campaign managers to the executive team make better decisions about marketing spend and optimization. Jakki Jakaj, Associate Manager of Integrated Marketing at dbt Labs, shares how her team uses this data every day to optimize marketing campaigns

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The Lakehouse architecture has emerged as the ideal data architecture for the AI age. It unites the structured world of analytics with the rapidly evolving world of AI.But what really makes something a “Lakehouse” and why should you care? In this session, Databricks discusses the key components of a lakehouse, what you should look for when adapting this paradigm and how Databricks and dbt are together enabling analytics engineers, analysts and data scientists to collaborate together on a single unified platform.

Speaker: Thor List, Senior Field Engineering Manager, Databricks

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Seven years ago, in the early days of dbt, dbt Labs was building capabilities that made data developers more productive. dbt gained traction. It took off. Today, dbt is the standard for data transformation. It has never been easier to build and ship data products. This has created a new challenge – complexity. Join Heidi Brandenburg, Vice President of Engineering at dbt Labs, and Sai Maddali, Staff Product Manager at dbt Labs, in London to hear all about the latest releases in dbt and how they are helping organizations navigate complexity.

Speakers: Heidi Brandenburg, Vice President of Engineering, dbt Labs; Sai Maddali, Staff Product Manager, dbt Labs

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Supercharge your analytics engineering with the power of automated CI checks. Learn how FINN, a global car subscription service, has harnessed the capabilities of automated CI checks to maintain the delicate balance between swift development and robust data pipeline quality as they've scaled their data teams. Dive into insights and strategies to ensure quality without sacrificing speed and discover how to improve your data operations.

Speakers: Chiel Fernhout, Software Engineer, Datafold; Jorrit Posor, Tech Lead Data Engineering, FINN GmbH; Felix Kreitschmann, Senior PM, Data, FINN Auto

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How a team of eight Analytics Engineers rolled out dbt across Virgin Media O2 to become a data driven company.

Speakers: Oliver Burt, Lead Analytics Engineer, Virgin Media O2; Jason Jones, Analytics Engineering Manager, Virgin Media O2

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Behind any good DataOps within a Modern Data Stack (MDS) architecture is a solid DevOps design! This is particularly pressing when building an MDS solution at scale, as reliability, quality and availability of data requires a very high degree of process automation while remaining fast, agile and resilient to change when addressing business needs.

While DevOps in Data Engineering is nothing new - for a broad-spectrum solution that includes data warehouse, BI, etc seemed either a bit out of reach due to overall complexity and cost - or simply overlooked due to perceived issues around scaling often attributed to the challenges of automation in CI/CD processes. However, this has been fast changing with tools such as dbt having super cool features which allow a very high degree of autonomy in the CI/CD processes with relative ease, with flexible and cutting edge features around pre-commits, Slim CI, etc.

In this session, Datatonic covers the challenges around building and deploying enterprise-grade MDS solutions for analytics at scale and how they have used dbt to address those - especially around near-complete autonomy to the CI/CD processes!

Speaker: Ash Sultan, Lead Data Architect, Datatonic

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Jai discusses how Snowflake enables distributed domains and data products with dbt and showcases a customer success story with Snowflake and dbt Cloud.

Speaker: Jai Parmar, AI & ML Senior Solutions Architect, Snowflake

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In this session, Alex Higgs unveils the potential of Data Vault 2.0, an often overlooked but powerful data warehousing method. Discover how it offers scalability, agility, and flexibility to your data solutions.

Key Highlights: - Explore the origins and essence of Data Vault 2.0 - Learn how Data Vault 2.0 streamlines big data solutions for scalability. - See how it integrates with dbt via AutomateDV for faster time to value. - Understand how AutomateDV simplifies Data Vault 2.0 data warehouses, freeing data teams from intricate SQL.

Speaker: Alex Higgs, Senior Consultant Data Engineer, Datavault

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Every day, Trade Me gets 1.5 million new listings and 20 million listing views. With all that data comes the difficulty of managing a complex data ecosystem. This got the Trade Me team thinking: "Which problems are we trying to solve? How can we increase speed to customer value?" Using this framework, the team developed a new mission statement: "To build a data warehouse that analysts love to use." In this session, Trade Me shares exactly how they achieved that vision, with a focus on planning, data operating models, and database architecture.

Speaker: Lance Witheridge, Data Modernisation Lead, Trade Me

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Hear Benoit Perigaud explain how automation in dbt boosts productivity for large-scale operations. You'll learn how automation is significant throughout the dbt project life cycle, from helping you create projects, to executing rules and building observability on top of all transformations. This session is especially beneficial for data practitioners who manage many dbt projects (into the hundreds!), but it's also great information for anyone who may do so in the future.

Speaker: Benoit Perigaud, Staff Analytics Engineer, dbt Labs

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There’s a lot of decisions that need to be made throughout the initial deployment, migration to and scaling of the data stack. The decisions can be big or small, hard to reverse or trivial. When looking back at Zip’s modernization journey, there’s some things that the team nailed and others that they’d definitely do differently if they were to do it again. In this talk, the Zip team goes through the principles they used to make decisions when building out their stack, the challenges that they faced, the solutions that they landed on, and their learnings.

Speaker: Moss Pauly, Senior Manager Data Products, Zip

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dbt packages are libraries for dbt. Packages can produce information about best practice for your dbt project (ex: dbt project evaluator) and cloud warehouse cost overviews. Unfortunately, all theses KPIs are stored in your data warehouse and it can be painful and expensive to create data visualization dashboards. This application build automatically dashboards from dbt packages that you are using. You just need to parameter your dbt Cloud API key - that's it! In this session, you'll learn how.

Speaker: Adrien Boutreau, Head of Analytics Engineers , Infinite Lambda

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As Joe Reis recently opined, if you want to know what’s next in data engineering, just look at the software engineer. The MDS-in-a-box pattern has been a game changer for applying software engineering principles to local data development– improving the ability to share data, collaborate on modeling work and data analysis the same way we build and share open source tooling.

This panel brings together experts in data engineering, data analytics and software engineering to explore the current state of the pattern, pieces that remain missing today and how emerging tools and data engineering testing capabilities can refine the transition from local development to production workflows.

Speakers: Matt Housley, CTO, Halfpipe Systems; Mehdi Ouazza, Developer Advocate, MotherDuck; Sung Won Chung, Solutions Engineer, Datafold; Louise de Leyritz, Host, The Data Couch podcast

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Over the past four years, the data team at EQT has leveraged dbt and Snowflake to create a myriad of data products across the company. With a rapidly growing organization and increased demands for timely and accurate data, their immense monolithic dbt repository has become challenging to maintain. Learn about the best practices they are adopting to keep the platform in shape and scale with the business.

Speaker: Erik Lehto, Senior analytics engineer, EQT

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In analytics, generating a number is the easy part. Proving you got it right is much harder. In this talk, Christine Dixon walks through why you should strive to make your data pipelines reproducible and transparent, to ensure that you can always defend your data. She considers the ways in which dbt makes it easy, but also digs into some difficult technical scenarios and compromises you might need to make.

Speaker: Christine Dixon, Lead Analyst, Mantel Group

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The team at nib Health has internal projects that contain standardized packages for running a dbt project, such as pipeline management, data testing, and data modeling macros. In this talk, they share how they utilized the yaml documentation files in dbt to create standardized tagging for both data security (PII), project tags, and product domain tags that get pushed into Snowflake, Immuta, and Select Star.

Speaker: Pip Sidaway, Data Product Manager, nib

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Two years ago, the data team at Carsales embarked on a journey to modernize their data platform, transforming their approach to analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision making. Navigating through an ever-evolving data landscape, Carsales has prioritized tools and methodologies that boost operational efficiency. This talk delves into their strategic transition towards a decentralized data platform, emphasizing the design to elevate scalability, reliability, and accessibility by embracing best-in-class software engineering practices. By enabling the application of SQL-based infrastructure, they've ensured that even individuals with minimal data engineering background can extract valuable insights while upholding system reliability.

Speaker: Adam Carbone, Data Engineering Lead, Carsales

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Learn about Watercare's journey in implementing a modern data stack with a focus on self serving analytics in the water industry. The session covers the reasons behind Watercare's decision to implement a modern data stack, the problem of data conformity, and the tools they used to accelerate their data modeling process. Diego also discusses the benefits of using dbt, Snowflake, and Azure DevOps in data modeling. There is also a parallel drawn between analytics and Diego’s connection with jazz music.

Speaker: Diego Morales, Civil Industrial Engineer, Watercare

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