Data Platform Management with Microsoft Fabric and dbt

Hello everyone!

We are happy to announce the spring edition of the Vienna Data Science Tools meetup on April 11th, hosted as usual by Greentube at their headquarters on Wiedner Hauptstrasse!

This meetup is the fourth in our series of events dedicated to the Modern Data Stack and AI.

We kick off with Martin Pöckl talking about one of the latest trends in Data Management, the Data Fabric, and Microsoft's implementation thereof.

Then Sean McIntyre will talk about dbt in general and then about how dbt Cloud can be used for Enterprise Data Platform Management with the Modern Data Stack.

If you haven't heard of dbt, it is the de facto standard tool in the Transformation Layer, and it is currently expanding its scope by adding features from other layers like the Data Quality Layer and the Orchestration and Observability Layers.

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Here are the detailed abstracts:

Data Fabric for AI – Hype or helpful? (Martin Pöckl)

• Data Fabrics promise seamless and simple, even automated, and almost effortless integration of diverse data sources, providing users with a unified view and access to all company data, enabling informed decision making, data access and efficient collaboration.

In the session we will take a closer look behind the hype, understand the concept of data fabrics and learn how data fabrics can be an enabler for data applications. Using Microsoft Fabric as an example, we take a look at the current and future capabilities of data fabric solutions and how they can create added value for data, BI and AI applications.

About the speaker:
Martin Pöckl has been a technology advisor and solution architect for data and AI applications at Microsoft since 2008 with 25+ years of experience in the IT sector. He covers topics related to mission critical data applications, data governance, modern data analytics solutions and architectures all up to machine learning and AI. As a founding and board member of Data Community Austria he is actively involved in the community with regular lectures and debates (datacommunity.at).

Enterprise Data Management with dbt (Sean McIntyre)

• Sean will go over core features of dbt, and introduce the latest features of dbt Mesh and dbt Explorer to enable dbt-at-scale and multi-project collaboration in the enterprise.

About the speaker:
Sean McIntyre is a Solutions Architect at dbt Labs helping teams across Europe to deliver reliable analytics faster using the Modern Data Stack. Over his career, he has worked with software and data in the finance, life sciences, manufacturing, and retail industries.

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Schedule
18:00 - Get together with food and beverages
18:30 - "Data Fabric for AI – Hype or helpful?" (Martin Pöckl)
19:15 - "Enterprise Data Management with dbt" (Sean McIntyre)
20:00 - More drinks & networking.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Greentube HQ!

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This event is sponsored by Greentube, a NOVOMATIC company.

NOVOMATIC is the leading provider of gaming technology and casino equipment in Europe. Sponsoring the Vienna Data Science Tools Meetup is part of our effort to contribute to the creation of a strong Data Science and Machine Learning community in and around Vienna.