Belgium dbt Meetup #8 (in-person)

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:

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

🗣️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!

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🤝 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/