NL dbt meetup: 14th Edition

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

17:30 – 🍕 Welcome

18:00 – 🎤 dbt in Snowflake - First experiences and comparisons to dbt Cloud
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:

🎤 Chris Verweij (Nimbus Intelligence)
Chris is a data and -analytics engineer consulting on all matters Snowflake and dbt. Specializing in custom ingestion pipelines, DataOps CI/CD and data application development, she enjoys pushing platforms and products to their maximum potential. Her current consultancy work is focused in the healthcare sector, guiding data from ingestion to dashboarding.

🎤 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:

dbt in Snowflake - First experiences and comparisons to dbt Cloud
Taking a first look at running dbt projects natively in Snowflake Workspaces, the advantages and disadvantages compared to dbt Cloud, and whether moving right now fits your usecase. With hands-on demonstration and some extra tips on connecting Snowflake to your remote git dbt repository.

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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