San Francisco dbt Meetup
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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.
🤝Organizer: Karen Hsieh (winner of the dbt Community Award, and longtime organizer of the Taipei dbt Meetup)
🏠Venue: 2166 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
🍕Catering: Light bites and refreshments
To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy
## Agenda
5:00–5:30 PM: Mingling with refreshments
5:30–5:40 PM: Opening
5:40–8:00 PM: Lightlingten Talks + More mingling
7:30–8:00 PM: Clean up while we are still chatting
## Lighten Talks
- Vince Faller on dbt-wizard — an opinionated pattern for metadata checks in dbt. He's curious what people think about the approach. Come with takes.
- Hamzah Chaudhary demoing Lightdash Data Apps: type a prompt, get a governed data app backed by your semantic layer. Beta just opened in May.
- Luca Martial demoing ktx by Kaelio (YC X25): open-source context layer so AI agents can query your data accurately —built on top of dbt.
- Karen Hsieh talking through an agentic workflow she uses to keep up with data requests.
➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/ and join the #local-sf channel.
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