NL dbt meetup: 8th Edition

Our friends at Xebia are hosting us at their offices next to the Amstel Station.

17:30 – 🍕 Welcome

18:00 – 🎤 Ruben Huidekoper (Xebia) & Bart Manintveld (The Future Group) - dbt at Van Oord: A case study on how we log runs and handle our HR data

18:30 – 🎤 Sam Debruyn (dataroots) - From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

19:00 –🥤 Drinks

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About the speakers:

🎤 Sam Debruyn (dataroots)
Sam Debruyn is a Cloud Data Solution Architect with a passion for the modern data stack. In his day-to-day, he designs and implements data platforms that support customers in harvesting the full potential of their data. As a true believer in open-source, he is a top contributor to dbt and several adapters and packages. Sam is also a dbt Community Award winner, organizer of the Belgium dbt Meetups, and a frequent speaker at data meetups and conferences.

🎤 Ruben Huidekoper (Xebia) & Bart Manintveld (The Future Group)
Ruben Huidekoper and Bart Manintveld are using DBT to develop a centralized data platform at Van Oord, one of world's leading dredging and marine contracting companies.

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About the talks:

dbt at Van Oord: A case study on how we log runs and handle our HR data
In this presentation, they will give an overview of the platform architecture and DBT's role in it, and discuss the specific challenges encountered when doing analytics engineering at Van Oord.
Furthermore, they will present two analytics engineering case studies: how we handle DBT run logs, and SQL patterns which are commonly encountered when working with HR data. (edited)

From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine
Unlock the full potential of your Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse or Lakehouse. In this session, analytics engineers can learn from the top contributor to dbt-fabric what Microsoft Fabric is all about and how dbt is the perfect tool to build data transformations on Microsoft Fabric. We’ll cover the basics of Microsoft Fabric, how to connect dbt Cloud with Microsoft Fabric, and how to build our first Hello Fabric project.

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