Belgium dbt Meetup

Belgium dbt Meetup #14

Tue, May 12 · 6:00 PM CEST

BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, Brussels, BE

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: BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, 1000 Brussels (same building as the Brussels Central Station)
🤝Organizers: Sam Debruyn
🅿️ Interparking Albertina is at 5min walking distance
🚂 It is literally inside Belgium's best connected train station

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:

Scaling dbt (core) Infrastructure at Lighthouse
This session will be about creating standardized dbt components (internal dbt package, reusable CICD template, ...) to scale the use of dbt core across an entire organisation with many repositories.

by Marthe Van Den Hende, Data Platform Engineer at Lighthouse

Marthe is a Data Platform Engineer at Lighthouse with hands-on experience implementing dbt in SaaS companies, focusing on scalability. Before Lighthouse, she worked as a Data Engineer at Markmi.ai.

Accelerating Data Engineering with dbt MCP Server
In this session, I’ll introduce a more experimental approach to data engineering using a dbt MCP server. We’ll explore how this setup enhances developer productivity by enabling smarter workflows, automation, and tighter integration between dbt and external tools.

I’ll share early learnings from real-world usage, including how MCP can streamline model development, improve context awareness, and reduce friction in day-to-day analytics engineering tasks. This session is ideal for those curious about the next evolution of dbt workflows and how emerging tooling can augment traditional SQL-based development.

by Vladyslav Ishchenko, Analytics Architect at Element61

Vladyslav holds an MBA from KU Leuven specializing in Business Information Management and brings strong multicultural experience from living in Japan, Vietnam, and South Korea. He specializes in Microsoft Azure cloud technologies, data engineering, and analytics, with expertise in SQL, Python, Synapse, Databricks, and Power BI, and holds multiple Azure certifications. At element61, he designs large-scale data pipelines and delivers data-driven solutions that unlock business value for customers.

We are always looking for speakers!
To submit a session for one of the next meetups, please use our Sessionize page.
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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/