Belgium dbt Meetup #15

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: AE, Interleuvenlaan 76, 3001 Leuven
🤝Organizers: Philipp Engels, Mateo Vansweevelt, Sam Debruyn
🅿️ Parking space available at the venue
🚂 Bus line 43 from the Leuven train station stops near the venue

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:

Building dbt projects with Agentic, Spec-Driven Development
ACA shares how its Data SDD framework supports day-to-day analytics engineering: building dbt models, debugging data platforms, and tracing issues from Power BI back into dbt.

by Davey Verleg, Analytics Engineer at ACA Group

As an Analytics Engineer at ACA Group, I combine traditional data engineering practices in dbt with modern tools and agentic AI to deliver reliable data models faster. I focus on data modelling and monitoring data quality, particularly in complex, rapidly changing business environments.

From AI Features to Trusted Insights: Building a Data Platform with Snowflake, dbt and Power BI
We built a data platform on top of the product at Parte. Raw operational data and AI traces land in Snowflake. dbt sits in the middle: it turns that raw data into a clean, tested model the business can trust. Power BI is where they follow adoption, quality, and cost. I’ll walk through that path at a high level, and why dbt is what keeps the reports stable while the AI features keep changing.

by Salah Laaroussi, Data&AI Engineer at AE

I’m Salah, a Data & AI engineer at AE. For over a year I’ve been a consultant at Parte, a property-management software company. Together with my colleagues we’ve been adding AI to their existing platform so day-to-day work for property managers can run with less manual effort.

We are always looking for speakers!
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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.

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