dbt Meetup, Toronto Tech Week 2026 Edition!
Details
Welcome to the dbt Meetup, Toronto Tech Week 2026 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, AI, 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
Toronto Tech Week is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech. Torontotechweek.com.
Agenda
- 6:00 > Arrive, Eat, Drink, and be Merry (aka Socialize)
- 6:30 > Speaker 1 and 2 presentations
Instructions:
- Meet at entrance and someone will escort you for check-in
Speaker Sessions:
1st Speakers:
- Josh Harris, founder of AnswerLayer.
- Topic: Open Semantic Interchange shipped in January 2026 with dbt Labs as one of the co-leading vendors. OSI v1.0: what it is, why it exists, and what it means for dbt users.
2nd Speaker:
- TBD
- Topic: TBD
Reach out if you're interested in volunteering/speaking!
➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-toronto 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/