Seattle dbt Meetup, Late Spring 2026 Edition!

Welcome to the Seattle dbt Meetup, Late Spring 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

• 5:30 > Arrive, Eat, Drink, and be Merry (aka Socialize)
• 6:00 > Speaker 1, 2, & 3 presentations
• 7:00 > Networking happy hour
• 7:30 > after hours at The Lodge Sports Bar (a block away, not dbt sponsored)

Location

• Docusign Tower
  999 3rd Ave, Suite 1000
  Seattle, WA 98104
• Instructions:
• Meet at entrance and someone will assist get
• Parking Recommendations: Below building and street parking

Speaker Sessions:

1st Speakers:

• William Weld, Principal Solutions Architect @ dbtLabs
• Alexander Bogdanowicz Engineering Manager @ dbtLabs
• Topic: dbt Fusion, dbt MCP, and what's new and exciting in dbt.

2nd Speaker(s):

• Bishal Gupta and Team
• Topic: AI Enabled dbt Development
  Bishal is a Lead Data Engineer at DocuSign with over two decades of experience in data analytics and BI solutions.
  He introduced dbt-core to DocuSign’s Product Data Science team and led its transition to dbt Cloud as the enterprise data platform. A strong advocate of DRY code, Bishal leverages dbt for building scalable, high-performance data models.

3rd Speakers ( TBD )

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