Coalesce
- Organizer
- dbt Labs
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- getdbt.com
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · Bluesky · YouTube
- Typical place
- Sydney, Australia + 15 other cities
- Topics
- Analytics engineeringData engineeringBI & analyticsGovernance & qualityWarehouse & lakehouse
Annual analytics engineering conference organized by dbt Labs (formerly Fishtown Analytics, renamed 2021). First edition was Coalesce 2020 (online, Dec 2020); no 2019 edition was found (earliest getdbt.com/coalesce snapshot is Sept 2020). 2020-2021 online only; first in-person edition New Orleans 2022, with one-day in-person satellites in London and Sydney in 2022 and 2023. After dbt Labs announced its merger with Fivetran at Coalesce 2025 (Oct 2025), the 2026 edition was renamed 'dbt Summit'. Website was getdbt.com/coalesce (2020), coalesce.getdbt.com (2021-2025), getdbt.com/dbt-summit (2026-). No conference-specific social accounts found; social links are dbt Labs' corporate accounts. The one-day 'Coalesce on the Road' roadshow after Coalesce 2025 is recorded as separate editions with id_suffix = city (2025: Sydney, Melbourne, Stockholm, Paris, London, Madrid, Munich, Amsterdam, Tokyo; 2026: NYC, Houston, Newport Beach). The October 2026 Coalesce on the Road stops (alias dbt World Tour) are included; the half-day Data Leaders Series meetups are not. Speaker lists: 2022-2023 from archived Bizzabo agenda data, 2024 from YouTube recordings only, 2025 from Cvent speaker data + YouTube, 2026 from the dbt Summit on-demand catalog.
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year, counted once across events.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
7 of 8 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13–16, 2027 | dbt Summit 2027 | Las Vegas, United States | Announced | — | — | — |
| Oct 20, 2026 | dbt World Tour Tokyo 2026 | Tokyo, Japan | — | — | 8 | |
| Oct 14, 2026 | dbt World Tour Auckland 2026 | Auckland, New Zealand | — | 1 | 15 | |
| Oct 8, 2026 | dbt World Tour Sydney 2026 | Sydney, Australia | — | 1 | 13 | |
| Oct 6, 2026 | dbt World Tour Melbourne 2026 | Melbourne, Australia | — | 1 | 12 | |
| Sep 15–18, 2026 | dbt Summit 2026 | Las Vegas, United States | — | 37 | 225 | |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Coalesce on the Road Newport Beach 2026 | Newport Beach, United States | — | 2 | — | |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Coalesce on the Road Houston 2026 | Houston, United States | — | 1 | — | |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Coalesce on the Road New York 2026 | New York, United States | — | 3 | — | |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Tokyo 2025 | Tokyo, Japan | — | 6 | — | |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Amsterdam 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | — | — | — | |
| Dec 2, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Munich 2025 | Munich, Germany | — | — | — | |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Madrid 2025 | Madrid, Spain | — | 6 | 5 | |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road London 2025 | London, United Kingdom | — | — | — | |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Stockholm 2025 | Stockholm, Sweden | — | — | — | |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Paris 2025 | Paris, France | — | 7 | 5 | |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Melbourne 2025 | Melbourne, Australia | — | 7 | — | |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Coalesce on the Road Sydney 2025 | Sydney, Australia | — | 7 | — | |
| Oct 13–16, 2025 | Coalesce 2025 | Las Vegas, United States | 2,000 | 1 | 173 | |
| Oct 7–10, 2024 | Coalesce 2024 | Las Vegas, United States | 2,000 | 44 | 133 | |
| Oct 17, 2023 | Coalesce Sydney 2023 | Sydney, Australia | — | 2 | 18 | |
| Oct 17, 2023 | Coalesce London 2023 | London, United Kingdom | — | 4 | 21 | |
| Oct 16–19, 2023 | Coalesce 2023 San Diego | San Diego, United States | — | 42 | 179 | |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Coalesce Online+ Sydney 2022 | Sydney, Australia | — | 2 | 9 | |
| Oct 20, 2022 | Coalesce Online+ London 2022 | London, United Kingdom | — | 2 | 9 | |
| Oct 17–21, 2022 | Coalesce 2022 New Orleans | New Orleans, United States | — | 46 | 202 | |
| Dec 6–10, 2021 | Coalesce 2021 | — | Online | 7,000 | — | 67 |
| Dec 7–11, 2020 | Coalesce 2020 | — | Online | — | 7 | 59 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 3 of 28 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- Modern Data Stack Conference0.19
- Data Council0.17
- Data Outpost0.13
- DataTune0.09
- AWS re:Invent0.09
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 127 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unspecified