Perth Data Engineering meetup - October 2025

Hey all, please join us for our October Perth Data Eng meetup. Join us for an engaging session filled with exciting discussions and networking opportunities.
Don't miss out—RSVP to secure your spot. A big shout-out to TBC for the venue and catering! 🎉

🍕 Catering: TBC
🏢 Location: The Shoe Bar
💬 Join our Slack Group here: Data Engineers Slack Channel

Schedule:
- 5:30: Doors Open / Pizza 🍕
- 6:10: Welcome
- 6.20pm: 1st Talk
- 6.40pm: 2nd Talk
- 7.10pm: Networking
- 8.00pm: Doors Close

Speakers: 🎤 Sierra Mcdowell,Senior Data Engineer @ Mantel
Talk Title: The pursuit of spending $0 - building a zero-cost cloud data platform
Talk Summary: This talk walks through an attempt to build a modern cloud data platform while spending absolutely nothing. As a personal challenge and passion project, I pulled together a stack using MotherDuck, dbt Core, GitHub Actions, and other forever-free or open-source tools. I’ll share the architecture, how I approached the build, and the lessons I learnt along the way, including what worked, what didn’t, and the trade-offs that came with keeping costs at zero.

Speakers: 🎤 Greg Potter, Data Solutions Architect Manager @ Capricorn Society
Talk Title: Data Modelling in the age of AI
Talk Summary: What is data modelling and why do we need it, some data modelling approaches, how does data modeling apply to AI?

If you'd like to present at future meetups, please submit your talk here!
Remember to bring along some great questions! See you all there...