Name: Madrid dbt Meetup #7 (in-person)
Start: 2025-12-04T17:45:00.000Z
Location: Utopicus Paseo de la Habana

Our friends at Motherduck are hosting the upcoming event at their office in Amsterdam at the Eastern Docklands

17:30 – 🍕 Welcome

18:00 – 🎤 **TBD**
Chris Verweij (Data Engineer) @ Nimbus Intelligence

18:30 – 🎤 **DuckLake + dbt: Time traveling with SQL, metadata, and a little AI**
Leonardo Vida (Customer Engineer) @ MotherDuck

19:00 – 🎤 **The state of Freelance Data Jobs in the fall of 2025, using dashboarding-as-code**
Lasse Benninga (Data Freelancer) @ LaBenni Consulting

19:30 –🥤 Drinks & Snacks

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About the speakers:

**🎤 Leonardo Vida (MotherDuck)**
Leonardo Vida helps data teams of all sizes adopt DuckDB-powered analytics across cloud and local stacks. Formerly a senior data engineer and consultant, he designed data platforms across sectors from FMCG to insurance, and is interested in database-centric AI workloads, particularly building analytics agents with DuckDB

**🎤 Lasse Benninga (LaBenni Consulting)**
*I’m Lasse Benninga, a freelance data/analytics engineer with 7+ years of experience in the data field. Having worked as a consultant for the past 5 years, I’ve now transitioned into freelancing and help clients with a variety of challenges from scanning their current data stack to helping implement data warehouses and software solutions. I also offer a scan for SMB to help them in their next steps to increase data maturity and AI-readiness: https://data-apk.nl*

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About the talks:

**The state of Freelance Data Jobs in the fall of 2025, using dashboarding-as-code**
Dashboarding-as-code, the practice of defining dashboards using code instead of solely in the UI, has become more popular in recent years. In this talk I will show the benefits of defining charts and visuals using code, while simultaneously diving into the Dutch Freelancing market for “Data jobs” over the past couple of months. We will take a look at the noticeable effects of the Dutch Tax Authority rules for false-employment/schijnzelfstandigheid in the data field, and which job titles and technologies are hot nowadays while showing the power of code for quick iterations.

**DuckLake + dbt: Time traveling with SQL, metadata, and a little AI**
We’ll take a hands-on look at using DuckLake behind dbt: how inserts land, how to time travel your data, and how to see what changed between runs. I’ll show some handy dbt macros plus a few tricks for skipping a heavy metrics layer and leaning on AI to suggest columns and comments instead.

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Join the dbt Slack community: [https://community.getdbt.com/](https://community.getdbt.com/)
Join the conversation in the #local-netherlands channel in dbt Slack to connect with other data practitioners locally.

**To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs:** [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy)

Netherlands dbt Meetup

Thomas in't Veld

Juan Manuel Perafán

Iggy Krikštaponis

kiran Nreddy

Wouter Diesveld

Luca

Lucie

Naufal Avianda

Maksim Shevchenko

Hossein

Jesper Bergeskans

Lisa

Roman Ivanov

Giulio Piccolo

Steven

Stas Rogozhin

Mircea Grelus

Dmitrii Pyshnenko

Abel Van Aller

Paul Galotto

NL dbt meetup: 14th Edition

Motherduck HQ

**Eighth dbt Meetup in Copenhagen** 🧡

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to the next dbt community evening with inspiring talks, great discussions and good company with other data enthusiasts!

**Event Details**

* **Date:** Wednesday, 26th of November 2025
* **Organizer:** Intellishore
* **Venue Host:** Lunar, Bredgade 43, 1260 Copenhagen

**Agenda & Speakers**
**17:30** – Kick off the evening by networking over drinks and snacks

**17:45** – Event introduction and welcome

* Hosted by Marie-Christin Henkelmann, Manager at Intellishore
and Imran Noon, Senior Analytics Engineer at Lunar

**18:00**–**19:30** – 💬 Speaker Sessions

1. **Refactoring dbt the Hard Way: Lessons Learned While Rebuilding Our Project Structure**
**Speaker:** Olga Surkova (Senior Data Analyst at Keepit)
Refactoring a large dbt project isn’t just about renaming models - it’s about understanding what went wrong and redesigning for long-term scalability. In this talk, learn how the team at Keepit approached a full-scale dbt refactor, the challenges they faced, and what they learned along the way. You’ll see real examples of DAG restructuring, Jinja pattern improvements, and validation checks that kept everything running smoothly.

2. **Building a Scalable Data Mesh with dbt and Snowflake at Velux**
**Speaker:** Thomas Schrum Nicolet (Platform Engineer at Velux)
Learn how Velux is building a scalable data mesh from the ground up using dbt to design and model data products in Snowflake. This session explores how dbt serves as the single source of truth, and how the team uses custom and enhanced macros to simplify data engineering workflows and accelerate data delivery.

3. **Building Resilient Data Pipelines for Embedded Analytics**
**Speaker:** Martha Scheffler (Data Engineer at Qarma)
Discover how Qarma built a resilient data platform architecture using blue-green deployment strategies powered by Snowflake zero-copy clones and dbt macros. This talk also dives into orchestrating multiple dbt projects with Kestra - from serial execution for ingestion pipelines to parallel processing for scalable analytics delivery.

**19:30** – 🍕 Let's eat. Enjoy pizzas and great conversations

**20:30** – Wrap-up and final remarks

**To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy)**

➡️ **Join the dbt Slack community**: [https://www.getdbt.com/community/](https://www.getdbt.com/community/)
For the best Meetup experience, join the **#local-denmark** channel in dbt Slack: [https://slack.getdbt.com/](https://slack.getdbt.com/)

Copenhagen dbt Meetup

Marie-Christin Henkelmann

Pietro Rampazzo

Anders A. K. Nielsen

Martin Birk Andreasen

karsten zakarias

Gert Nissen

Michael Skaarup Jørgensen

Malene Hansen

Christian Bay

Agnes Hardy Bertelsen

Serhii Basetskyi

Anna Bramsløw

Saim Nazir

Hamaseh Faizi

pedroaguimaraes97

Gregers Kjerulf Dubrow

Lars Schöning

Ari Johannesson

Constance Remy

Ruxandra

Copenhagen dbt Meetup vol. 8

Lunar

What are dbt meetups? 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.

**➡️ Join the dbt Slack community:** [https://www.getdbt.com/community/](https://www.getdbt.com/community/) and make sure to add the **#local-berlin** channel in dbt Slack to be part of the conversation.
🤝 **Organizers:** Afiz Oyerinde (Contetful), Stephan Durry (dbt Labs)
**🏢 Venue:** Contentful GmbH, Entrence via Ackerstraße 78, 13355 Berlin

**To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy)**

**📝Agenda**

* 6:00 PM: **Check in/Registration**
* 6:20 PM: **Welcome Remarks** 🎤 (Contentful)
* 6:30 PM: **Coalesce 2025 Keynote** 🎤 ([Jeremy Cohen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremytcohen/), dbt Labs)
* 7:00 PM: **1\. Talk:** 🎤 *Running dbt in a highly regulated enterprise* ([Michal Vilimek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalvilimek/), PMI)
* 7:30 PM: Break
* 7:45 PM: **2\. Talk:** 🎤 *The dbt Evolution at Contentful* ([Afiz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayodeji-afiz-oyerinde-26ba44138/), Contentful)
* 8:15 PM: Networking & Reception

Note: Closing doors at 6:30
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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/](https://www.getdbt.com/)

Berlin dbt Meetup

Stephan Durry

onur irkin

EvaSchreyer

Ayodeji Oyerinde

Victoria PM

Kim Friedel

Jeremy Chia

Yara Ragheb

Berkay Kocak

Victor Fonseca

ashwith.kottary

Satwik Krishna

Lucas Silbernagel

Liudmila Zolotukhina

Kristina

Heramb Nishad

Marielle Dado

Vladimir Lagutinskiy

nasim kabaran

Berk Kapucu

Berlin dbt Meetup - Post-Coalesce edition! 

Contentful GmbH

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.

We are excited to bring London-based folks in the dbt Community together! Looking forward to socializing and seeing both new and familiar faces. This meetup will not feature content, but is rather an opportunity for folks to connect and build connections with other analytics engineers and data folks.

🤝Organizer: Ed Hayter, Nathan Purvis, James Charnley through The Information Lab
🏠Venue Host: The Information Lab
🍕Catering: tbc

**To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy)**

EVENT DETAILS:
The doors open at 6pm. Networking and chats at the office until 8:30pm. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come. If you need to cancel at the last minute, please change your RSVP status on this page to "Not Going." Message the organizer if you need help doing this..

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/
🤝Join the #local-ldn channel in dbt Slack ([https://slack.getdbt.com/](https://slack.getdbt.com/)).
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Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help data practitioners create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is the standard for AI-ready structured data. Powered by the dbt Fusion engine, it unlocks the performance, context, and trust that organizations need to scale analytics in the era of AI. Globally, more than 60,000 data teams use dbt, including those at Siemens, Roche and Condé Nast.

Learn more at getdbt.com, and follow dbt Labs on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dbtlabs/mycompany/), [X](https://x.com/dbt_labs), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/dbt_labs/), and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/dbt-labs).

London dbt Meetup

Ed Hayter

Nathan Purvis

Md Wasim Rana

Majid Ahmad 

Norbert D'souza

Rohan Kunte

Michael

Richard Oastler

Przemek B.

Ivan Babkin

Oladayo Siyanbola

abba mohammed

Rob C

Ravi

Andrey Kozichev

Samhita Sarkar

Pablo

Santosh Singh

Ravi Teja Dharmana

Illia

dbt London Meetup Christmas Social

The Information Lab

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, DataOps, modeling, testing, and team structures.

📍 **Venue Host**: Utopicus Habana (P.º de La Habana, 9, 11, 28036 Madrid)
🍕 **Catering**: Drinks & Pizza at the place of the event
🤝 **Organizer**: [Astrafy](https://astrafy.io/) is organizing this event, enabled by the community team at dbt Labs

👉 *To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy)*

🗓️ Agenda:

* 18:45 \- 19:00 \| Welcome
* 19:00 \- 19:05 \| Introduction
* 19:05 \- 19:15 \| dbt Announcements
* 19:15 \- 19:45 \| Talk 1 \- How to enable self\-service analytics through the \(dbt\) semantic layer\. \(Astrafy\)
* 19:45 \- 20:15 \| Talk 2 \- Avoiding dbt mess\. From 1000\+ model dbt mono\-repository to multi\-project\. \(Mercadona Tech\)
* 20:15 \- 21h00 \| Networking with drinks & pizzas [🍺](https://emojipedia.org/beer-mug/) [🍕](https://emojipedia.org/pizza/)

**🗣️Presentation #1**:
In this session, you'll discover how semantic layers (dbt/Lightdashs) empowers all kind of users to navigate their data without technical knowledge.

**Speaker bio**:
Cris Navas is Data Engineer at Astrafy. With a strong background in IT and a passion for turning data into valuable insights, he loves the mix of technical problem-solving and creativity in data engineering.

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**🗣️Presentation #2**:
In this session, we’ll take you behind the scenes of our journey to redefine data workflows and elevate data quality by breaking down a huge dbt repository into smaller dbt projects leveraging cookiecutter templates. Also, we enforced the software engineering best practices to keep the highest data-quality standards, enabling our users to do TDD and defining data-contracts between the different data products.

**Speakers bio:**
From Mercadona Tech, Miguel Martín Tapia and Rubén Ibáñez Pinillo will share their experience building and leading data projects at one of Spain’s most innovative retail companies.

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/
🤝 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-\ channel in dbt Slack ([https://slack.getdbt.com/](https://slack.getdbt.com/)).
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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/](https://www.getdbt.com/)

Madrid dbt Meetup

Shay Begun

Alex De La Cruz

Heloisa

Miguel Martín

Nathalie 

Ruben Ibañez Pinillo

Javier Ariza

Gonzalo Maldonado Müller

Ignacio

Carlos León

Carlos Sacristan

Benoit

Fidan Ahmadli

Martín Galán Merchán

adriana.abad

Roberto Carlos Saavedra Baylón

Alejandro Tueti

Giulia Roxana Mamilovici

Alejandro Sanz

Tiago Cunha

Madrid dbt Meetup #7 (in-person)

Utopicus Paseo de la Habana

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