Singapore dbt Meetup (in-person) - Aug 2023

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, modelling, testing, and team structures.

🗓️ Date and time: 2nd Aug (Wed), from 6:30pm till 9pm
🏠 Venue: Wework @ 21 Collyer Quay sponsored by Fivetran
🤝 Organizers: community members Jing Yu Lim, Michael Han
🍕 Food and drinks will be provided!

To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: https://bit.ly/3QIJXFb

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/

🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-singapore channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/).

🕛 Agenda:

• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Registration and networking with food
• 7:00pm - 7:30pm: Updates from dbt Labs by Mark Wan
• 7:30pm - 8:00pm: Presentation with Q&A by Fatin Aisyah Ghazali (Revolutionizing Workflows and Reducing Costs: How dbt Transformed My Life)
• 8:00pm - 8:30pm: Presentation with Q&A by Ang John Syin (My Journey with DBT in Building a Sustainable Machine Learning Workflow at Teleport)

🎤 Update from dbt Labs

• Synopsis: Mark will share an update on some of the recent additions and enhancements to dbt Core and dbt Cloud. Additionally, Mark will provide a preview into some upcoming dbt Cloud developments due to ship later this year.

🎤 Presentation #1 - Revolutionizing Workflows and Reducing Costs: How dbt Transformed My Life

• Synopsis: Explore the transformative power of dbt as I share my personal journey. Discover the game-changing capabilities of automating freshness checks, streamlining documentation, and optimizing table clustering and partitioning on BigQuery. Experience the profound impact on anxiety reduction and cost efficiency, as dbt revolutionized my approach to data management.
• Speaker Bio: A BI Analyst at Teleport where I transform raw data into normalized tables and create insightful visualizations that help stakeholders make better decisions.

🎤 Presentation #2 - My Journey with DBT in Building a Sustainable Machine Learning Workflow at Teleport

• Synopsis: The machine learning workflow at Teleport closely interacts with our data warehouse, BigQuery, for data extraction and inference ingestion. The seamless integration of DBT and BigQuery has revolutionized our ability to create and maintain complex queries and recurring extraction jobs with remarkable efficiency. At Teleport, we have embraced vital software practices such as jinja templating, git tracking, unit tests, and environment separation. These practices have enabled us to focus on the core logic of our data. With DBT, we have successfully established a sustainable machine learning workflow that empowers us to achieve heightened efficiency, consistency, and explore new frontiers of innovation.
• Speaker Bio: A data scientist who leverages machine learning experiments and critical analysis to tackle challenges presented by extensive datasets. Experienced in creating and maintaining an end-to-end Machine Learning pipeline.

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dbt is an open source command-line tool that speaks the preferred language of data analysts everywhere—SQL. With dbt, analysts take ownership of the entire analytics engineering workflow, from writing data transformation code to deployment and documentation.

Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/