Belgium dbt Meetup #9 (in-person)

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:

• 18h00: welcome with food & drinks
• 18h45: start presentations
• 20h00: networking & drinks

🗣️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/