Geneva dbt Meetup #2 (in-person)

The 2nd edition of the Switzerland dbt Meetup and first one in lovely Geneva!
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.

📍Venue Host: Spaces - Geneva (Quai de l'Ile 13, 1204 Genève, Switzerland)
🍕 Catering: Drinks & Pizza at the place of the event
🤝 Organizer: Astrafy is organizing this event, enabled by the community team at dbt Labs
To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: https://bit.ly/3QIJXFb
🗓️Agenda:

• 18h30: Welcome with food & drinks
• 19h00: Multi-projects collaboration with dbt Cloud (Andrea Bombino & David Peitinho - Astrafy)
• 19h45: Break
• 20h00: Data Vault 2.0 with dbt (Nawfel Bacha & Emmanuel Derepas - Jaeger-Leocultre)
• 20h30: Networking & drinks & pizzas 🍺 🍕

🗣️Presentation #1: dbt cloud is gaining a lot of traction due to its accessibility and important new data mesh features that facilitate multi projects collaboration. In this talk, we will cover the basics of dbt cloud and the multi-projects collaboration features (dependencies.yml, model versioning, data contracts, etc.). All this will be demoed with the "jaffle shop" repositories.

Speakers bio:
Andrea is Data geek with a background in computer science and a strong track record at various international companies as a data engineer.
David is a data engineer passionate about automation and integrations of popular tools in the market. Currently bringing his DataOps expertise and good practices to the MLOps landscape.
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🗣️Presentation #2: Data Vault 2.0 is one of the most advanced data modeling techniques and there exists a dbt package in the name of "AutomateDV" to ease its implementation at scale. In this talk with demo, Nawfel and Emmanuel will go over the concepts of Data Vault 2.0 and show a real implementation of Data Vault 2.0 using dbt and "AutomateDV" package.

Speaker bio: Nawfel is passionate about data and has recently become an expert in dbt (certified since 2023) and also in Data Vault through an intensive bootcamp with scalefree institution.
Emmanuel is savvy data engineer that has been working in the data department of Jaeger-Lecoultre for the last two years.

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