Seattle dbt Meetup - Fall '24 Edition!

Welcome to the Seattle dbt Meetup - Fall Edition!

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.

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 > Arrive, Eat, Drink, and be Merry (aka Socialize)
• 6:00 > Speaker presentations + Interactive Session
• 7:00 > Networking happy hour at Linda's Tavern (not dbt sponsored)

Location

• Address: 1605 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
• Instructions: Entrance to the building next to Enterprise
• Parking Recommendations: Harvard Garage across the street

Speakers
Wendy Grus + Hadif Mufti

About Foundations
Foundations is an invite-only, in-person community for tech founders and entrepreneurs based in Seattle. Our mission is to foster a thriving startup ecosystem in Seattle by bringing together experienced, exited, and early-stage founders (pre-seed to seed) to connect, collaborate, and share knowledge in a physical space in Capitol Hill.

About Hadif Mufti
Hi my name is Hadif and I’ve been a data engineer at Smartsheet for almost 2 years now where I primarily work on projects involving dbt and Airflow. Before Smartsheet, I studied math and computer science at the University of Washington where I graduated in 2023.

About Wendy Grus
Wendy Grus is a Senior Data Scientist at Snowflake, where she spends her time doing data analysis or writing data pipelines. She's worked in data analytics at tech and biotech companies for 12 years. She was a long-time organizer of Seattle PyLadies and an organizer for PyCascades 2024. She has previously spoken at PyCon US, PyData, Women in Data Science Puget Sound, and Data Umbrella.

About the Interactive Session
Join us for an interactive session where we dive into the latest experiments and problem-solving wins in dbt. Come ready to share the challenges you're tackling, new dbt features you've tested, and any recent breakthroughs in your projects. Stuck somewhere? Excited about a new approach? Let’s swap ideas and learn from each other's experiences. (And yes, there will be prizes!)