The Official dbt Meetup!

It's finally time! I've been getting a lot of questions for the next dbt Meetup and I'm happy to announce that we will be hosting a meetup the 20th of March!

I prioritized getting a time and place in the calendar and we'll fill in the details later.

🤝 Organizer: Solita & Steep
🏠 Venue: Solita, Lästmakargatan 10, 111 44 Stockholm SWEDEN
Go left when you see SATS and take the elevator to the 4th Floor.
🥣 Refreshments: Light food, and drinks will be provided.

## Details

This dbt Meetup is an opportunity for the local Stockholm dbt Community to connect and collaborate. If you work with data, this event is for you. We welcome data analysts, scientists, engineers, architects, and more!

✨ Agenda & Speakers ✨
17.30: Welcome
Meet and great. Take some food & drinks while socialising with your peers.
18.30: Pushing the limits – the next-level use cases for semantic layer (30m)
(Johan Baltzar - Co-founder & CEO - Steep)
The schoolbook examples of semantic layer – basic metrics defined centrally – is all well and good. But I’m interested in pushing the boundaries and see how far can we go using the same core tech. In this talk, I’ll explore the new territories for the semantic layer – Agentic AI models, Drill-downs, Maps! – to see what upcoming use cases are out there.
19:00: A strategic approach to testing Data Products (30m)
(Stephen Murphy - SYNQ)
With data teams' growing ambition to build business automation, AI systems, or customer-facing products, we must shift our mindset about data quality. Mechanically applied testing will not be enough; we need a more robust strategy similar to software engineering.

In this talk, I outline a new approach to data testing and observability anchored in the ‘Data Products’ concept and walk through the practical implementation of a production-grade analytics system with dbt as the backbone.The learnings will be applicable for data practitioners using dbt no matter if they're just getting started or work in a large enterprise.

19:30: Towards a deeper understanding of SQL (30m)
(Lucas Paes - Software Engineer - dbt Labs)
Over the last decade, the analytics engineering community has made a lot of progress towards a more sane and productive workflow. However, SQL today is still not a great software ecosystem. Users have to choose between different, proprietary dialects, and there are very few truly interoperable libraries, causing every company to reinvent the wheel, every single time. What if things were different? What if we could leverage compiler technology to make tools more interoperable and the ecosystem more open? In this presentation, I'll give you a peek into dbt Labs' vision for the future of analytics engineering, and where is dbt heading towards.

20.00-21.30: Networking, Discussions & Drinks
➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/
🇸🇪 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-sweden channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/).

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy
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