Singapore dbt Meetup (in-person) - Nov 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: 30 Nov (Thurs), from 6:30pm till 9pm
🏠 Venue: Campus by ShopBack
🤝 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 - 7:30pm: Registration and networking with food
• 7:30pm - 8:00pm: Presentation by Guang Jun Chong and Jia Ler Chew
• 8:00pm - 8:30pm: Panel Discussion

💡 Panel Discussion - What is a Semantic Layer and why you should care

You've probably heard of the Semantic Layer as a data enthusiast...but what does it entail, what does it do, and who does it benefit? Join us in this conversation as we explore multiple interpretations and applications of the Semantic Layer.

🤩 Our amazing panelists:

1. Guang Jun Chong (Staff Data Analyst at ShopBack)
2. Nas Radev (CEO at Infinite Lambda)
3. Umesh Ramakrishnan (Corporate Analytics and BI Lead at Traveloka)
4. Thanh Dinh Khac (Co-founder and Chief Engineer at Holistics Data)

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dbt is a data transformation framework that lets analysts and engineers collaborate using their shared knowledge of SQL. 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/