Conferences / Coalesce
Coalesce 2023 San Diego
Oct 16–19, 2023 · Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, CA, United States
- Conference
- Coalesce Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 16, 2023 – Oct 19, 2023
- Venue
- Hilton San Diego Bayfront
- Place
- San Diego, CA, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No post-event headcount found; pre-event page said 'Join 3,000+ data practitioners' and the press release said 'thousands' (promotional, not recorded).
- Website
- coalesce.getdbt.com
- Recorded
- 43 sponsors · 179 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Four-day conference plus free online stream and one-day London/Sydney satellites (separate editions). Sponsors are the 'San Diego & Online' list (Sept 14, 2023 snapshot); Databricks also listed under 'Hands On'. In-person ticket prices not found (Bizzabo widget not archived). Speakers: all sessions with named speakers from the archived Bizzabo agenda data (San Diego agenda Nov 2023 + Online agenda Apr 2024 snapshots), plus a few recorded talks only found in the 'Coalesce 2023' YouTube playlist (speakers from video descriptions). Video links matched by title.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online | $0 | — | Register page: 'Join us online (for free!)' | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 43
Speakers and talks 179
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Deora | dbt Labs | Keynote | Partner Day: Welcome to Coalesce keynote | — |
| Ben Rottinghaus | Fifth Third Bank | Keynote | dbt Labs product spotlight & keynote | Video |
| Brandon Thomson | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Labs on dbt: An executive perspective | Video |
| Daniel Le | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Labs on dbt: An executive perspective | Video |
| David Nalley | Amazon Web Services | Keynote | Community driven: The dbt Labs and AWS partnership | Video |
| Elize Papineau | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Labs on dbt: An executive perspective | Video |
| Jeremy Cohen | dbt Labs | Keynote | Partner Day: Welcome to Coalesce keynote | — |
| Jeremy Cohen | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Labs product spotlight & keynote | Video |
| Kayleigh Lavorini | Fifth Third Bank | Keynote | dbt Labs product spotlight & keynote | Video |
| Luis Maldonado | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Labs product spotlight & keynote | Video |
| Sarah Riley | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Labs on dbt: An executive perspective | Video |
| Tarik Dwiek | Snowflake | Keynote | Unlocking seamless data applications: Enhancing the developer experience with the power of Snowflake and dbt | — |
| Tristan Handy | dbt Labs | Keynote | Partner Day: Welcome to Coalesce keynote | — |
| Tristan Handy | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Labs product spotlight & keynote | Video |
| adam whitaker | bluecore | Speaker | Scaling dbt and BigQuery to infinity and beyond | Video |
| Alex Gronemeyer | Airbyte | Speaker | New Girl, but Jess is a chatbot: AI joins the data team's loft | Video |
| Alex Hauer | Fivetran | Speaker | Move data comfortably: Modernizing your infrastructure with La-Z-Boy and Fivetran | Video |
| Alexander Butler | Harness | Speaker | Peer exchange: Strategies for skill acquisition | — |
| Alexandra Coffey | Fivetran | Speaker | Hear how Bizcover stands up connectors 90% faster with Fivetran & dbt | Video |
| Alice Leach | Whatnot | Speaker | The more, the merrier: Managing a dynamic, expanding, self-service dbt project | Video |
| Alyssa Smrekar | dbt Labs | Panelist | Partner Day: dbt Labs Executive Panel | — |
| Amada Echeverría | dbt Labs | Speaker | Hackathon pre-work session | — |
| Amada Echeverría | dbt Labs | Speaker | Hackathon | — |
| Amada Echeverría | dbt Labs | Speaker | Community awards and closing thoughts | Video |
| Amanda Fioritto | Hex | Speaker | A skeptic's guide to marketing analytics | Video |
| Amber Oar | Rocket Money | Speaker | Automating accounting's end-of-month close process (and passing a SOX audit) | Video |
| Amber Oar | Rocket Money | Speaker | Quote-to-Cash: Automating accounting's end-of-month close process (and passing our first SOX audit) | — |
| Amy Chen | dbt Labs | Speaker | Partner Day: Demo at first sight | — |
| Amy Deora | dbt Labs | Panelist | Partner Day: dbt Labs Executive Panel | — |
| Amy Deora | dbt Labs | Speaker | Partner Day: dbt Labs partner awards | — |
| Anders Swanson | dbt Labs | Speaker | Hackathon pre-work session | — |
| Anders Swanson | dbt Labs | Speaker | Hackathon | — |
| Anil Maharjan | Airbyte | Speaker | New Girl, but Jess is a chatbot: AI joins the data team's loft | Video |
| Anubhav Pareek | AICG | Speaker | Learnings and practices for dbt at scale | Video |
| Artem Keydunov | Cube Dev | Speaker | The need for a new approach to the semantic layer | Video |
| Austin Kronz | Atlan | Speaker | Activate the full potential of your dbt projects: A deep dive with Avenue One and Atlan | Video |
| Ben Rottinghaus | Fifth Third Bank | Speaker | Banking on the future: Fifth Third’s real-world data modernization journey | Video |
| Benn Stancil | Mode | Speaker | It’s petty, let’s fight: A data-driven look at our most divisive and least consequential debates | — |
| Benn Stancil | Mode | Speaker | A data-driven look at our most divisive and least consequential debates | Video |
| Blake Leithiser | Tableau | Speaker | Salesforce & dbt Cloud: Charting new horizons in data collaboration | — |
| Bobby Birstock | dbt Labs | Speaker | Partner Day: Partnering with dbt Labs | — |
| Boris Jabes | Census | Speaker | Why data teams fail at building revenue for the company | Video |
| Brandon Beidel | Red Ventures | Speaker | Cost centers to cash cows: Data teams as growth drivers | Video |
| Brandon Taylor | Guild | Speaker | 60 sources and counting: Unlocking microservice integration with dbt and Data Vault | Video |
| Brandon Thomson | dbt Labs | Speaker | Enabling a complete campaign 360 with dbt Cloud | Video |
| Brice Loustau | Intuitive Surgical | Speaker | From solos to symphony: Multi-project orchestration in surgical robotics | Video |
| Cameron Afzal | dbt Labs | Speaker | Scaling collaboration with dbt Cloud | Video |
| Chris Davis | Udemy | Speaker | 10x-ing developer experience with Databricks, Delta, and dbt Cloud | Video |
| Chris Johnson | phData | Speaker | dbt migration and audit strategy | Video |
| Christine Dixon | Mantel Group | Speaker | Could you defend your data in court? | Video |
| Christopher Marland | Aimpoint Digital | Speaker | A complete beginner's guide to Snowpark in dbt | Video |
| Christopher Nourse | Intuitive Surgical | Speaker | From solos to symphony: Multi-project orchestration in surgical robotics | Video |
| Dakota Kelley | phData | Speaker | Powering the MuleSoft (a Salesforce Company) modern data analytics framework with dbt | Video |
| Dakota Kelley | phData | Speaker | dbt migration and audit strategy | Video |
| Dan Zuckerberg | Databricks | Workshop | Repeat Hands-on workshop: Simplify analytics engineering with dbt and Databricks | — |
| Dan Zuckerberg | Databricks | Workshop | Hands-on workshop: Simplify analytics engineering with dbt and Databricks | — |
| Danny Lambert | dbt Labs | Speaker | dbt Labs on dbt | — |
| Dave Connors | dbt Labs | Speaker | Unlocking model governance and multi-project deployments with dbt-meshify | Video |
| Dave Connors | dbt Labs | Speaker | Take chances, make mistakes, and get meshy: Unlocking model governance and multi-project deployments with dbt-meshify | — |
| Dave Connors | dbt Labs | Speaker | Hackathon | — |
| Dave Musambi | Canadian Football League | Speaker | How Canadian Football League’s data team runs winning marketing plays with dbt & RudderStack | Video |
| David Maguire | dv01 | Speaker | Leveraging dbt Cloud to transform loan warehousing: Scalable data pipelines empower financial analysts | Video |
| Doug Beatty | dbt Labs | Speaker | Hackathon | — |
| Doug Beatty | dbt Labs | Speaker | Hackathon pre-work session | — |
| Elize Papineau | dbt Labs | Speaker | How dbt Labs tunes model performance and optimizes cloud data platform costs with dbt | Video |
| Eric Dodds | RudderStack | Speaker | How Canadian Football League’s data team runs winning marketing plays with dbt & RudderStack | Video |
| Etai Mizrahi | Secoda | Speaker | A spoonful of metadata helps the data sprawl go down | Video |
| Evan Scott | Select Star | Speaker | Lunch 'n' learn: How data teams drive impact with data discovery and data lineage | — |
| Faith Lierheimer | Parsyl | Speaker | Analytics in Bloom: Improve your team's data literacy with pedagogy | Video |
| Gilberto Hernandez | Snowflake | Workshop | From data to insights: A crash course on data transformations using Snowflake and dbt Cloud | — |
| Gleb Mezhanskiy | Datafold | Speaker | Identifying novel data issues that go undetected through CI/CD with dbt and Datafold | Video |
| Grace Goheen | dbt Labs | Speaker | Unlocking model governance and multi-project deployments with dbt-meshify | Video |
| Grace Goheen | dbt Labs | Speaker | Better CI for better data quality | Video |
| Grace Goheen | dbt Labs | Speaker | Take chances, make mistakes, and get meshy: Unlocking model governance and multi-project deployments with dbt-meshify | — |
| Greg Clunies | Surfline | Speaker | Using JSON schema to set the (dbt) stage for product analytics | Video |
| Greg McKeon | dbt Labs | Speaker | The new dbt Cloud development experience | Video |
| Harry Williams | FanDuel | Speaker | How Fanduel migrated a mature data organization | Video |
| Holly Burch | Sharp HealthCare | Speaker | Leveraging dbt Cloud for a distributed domain-driven development environment | Video |
| Hope Watson | dbt Labs | Speaker | Partner Day: Demo at first sight | — |
| Ian Rose | California Office of Data and Innovation | Speaker | From coast to coast: Implementing dbt in the public sector | Video |
| Ian Whitestone | SELECT | Speaker | From slow to swift: Proven methods for optimizing your dbt project | Video |
| Izzy Miller | Hex | Speaker | AI dashboard karaoke | Video |
| Jack Peele | Snowflake | Speaker | Need for speed (and less spending): The story of finance data at Snowflake | Video |
| Jake Hannan | Sigma Computing | Speaker | Game on: Building massive multiplayer online data products | Video |
| Jakki Jakaj | dbt Labs | Speaker | dbt Labs on dbt | — |
| Jamie Rodriguez | Fivetran | Speaker | Cool Package, I Think: Utilizing and Customizing Fivetran dbt Packages | Video |
| Jan Soubusta | GoodData | Speaker | Lazy devs unite! Building a data ecosystem that spoils data engineers | Video |
| Jared Chavez | Pacers Sports & Entertainment | Speaker | Not just Xs and Os: How sports teams are adopting the modern data stack | Video |
| Jason Hodson | Routable | Speaker | Business process occurrence, volume, and duration modeling using dbt Cloud | Video |
| Jeff Sloan | Census | Speaker | Notion’s blueprint for adapting data science models to changing sales processes | Video |
| Jeff Sloan | Census | Speaker | Navigating the scoring labyrinth: Notion’s blueprint for adapting data science models to changing sales processes | — |
| Jeffrey Chen | Fleetio | Speaker | Lunch 'n' learn: How data teams drive impact with data discovery and data lineage | — |
| Jeffrey Chen | Fleetio | Speaker | Beyond metrics modernization at Fleetio | Video |
| Jenna Jordan | City of Boston | Speaker | From coast to coast: Implementing dbt in the public sector | Video |
| Jeremy Cohen | dbt Labs | Speaker | Scaling collaboration with dbt Cloud | Video |
| Jeremy Cohen | dbt Labs | Speaker | The new dbt Cloud development experience | Video |
| Jerrie Kumalah | SeatGeek | Speaker | Peer exchange: Defining role boundaries in big orgs | — |
| Jesse McCabe | Data Clymer | Speaker | Not just Xs and Os: How sports teams are adopting the modern data stack | Video |
| Jessica Zhang | Notion | Speaker | Navigating the scoring labyrinth: Notion’s blueprint for adapting data science models to changing sales processes | — |
| Jessica Zhang | Notion | Speaker | Notion’s blueprint for adapting data science models to changing sales processes | Video |
| Jill Aakhus | Prime Therapeutics | Speaker | Learnings and practices for dbt at scale | Video |
| Jimmo Vink | BizCover | Speaker | Hear how Bizcover stands up connectors 90% faster with Fivetran & dbt | Video |
| Jisan Zaman | Xometry | Speaker | Using data pipeline contract to prevent breakage in analytics reporting | Video |
| Jisan Zaman | Xometry | Speaker | Lunch 'n' learn: How data teams drive impact with data discovery and data lineage | — |
| Jon Knapp | dbt Labs | Speaker | Partner Day: Partnering with dbt Labs | — |
| Jonathan Hollinger | Fleetio | Speaker | Beyond metrics modernization at Fleetio | Video |
| Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck | Speaker | Hybrid query execution: What is a database client, anyway? | Video |
| Juan Manuel Perafan | Xebia | Speaker | dbt turbocharge: Boosting performance of your data models | Video |
| Kasey Mazza | HubSpot | Speaker | The career growth software development lifecycle | Video |
| Kate Schiffelbein | Northbeam | Speaker | Is AI the new AE? | Video |
| Katie Claiborne | Cityblock Health | Speaker | One to many: Moving from a monolithic dbt project to multi-project collaboration | Video |
| Kayleigh Lavorini | Fifth Third Bank | Speaker | Banking on the future: Fifth Third’s real-world data modernization journey | Video |
| Keelan Smithers | NBA | Speaker | Not just Xs and Os: How sports teams are adopting the modern data stack | Video |
| Kelly Pook | Wellthy | Speaker | Getting the data model right the FIRST time | Video |
| Ken Nguyen | Sidecar Health | Workshop | Building end-to-end ML pipelines using dbt and Snowpark | — |
| Ken Wong | Databricks | Speaker | No compromises: Analytics engineering on the Lakehouse | Video |
| Krishna Kakatur | Sidecar Health | Workshop | Building end-to-end ML pipelines using dbt and Snowpark | — |
| Lauren Benezra | dbt Labs | Speaker | Domesticating a feral cat data stack | Video |
| Laurie Merrell | Jarvus Innovations | Speaker | From coast to coast: Implementing dbt in the public sector | Video |
| Leo Folsom | Datafold | Speaker | On the benefits and virtues of drilling pilot holes | Video |
| Lindsay Murphy | Secoda | Speaker | Is AI the new AE? | Video |
| Louise de Leyritz | The Data Couch podcast | Panelist | Panel discussion: Fixing the data eng lifecycle | Video |
| Marc Stone | ClickUp | Speaker | Warehouse-first data strategy at ClickUp | Video |
| Matt Housley | Halfpipe Systems | Panelist | Panel discussion: Fixing the data eng lifecycle | Video |
| Matthew David | Hex | Speaker | AI dashboard karaoke | Video |
| Matthew Hoss | Element Biosciences | Speaker | Taming BI sprawl with dbt: From 0 to 600 models in 18 months | Video |
| Mehdi Ouazza | MotherDuck | Panelist | Panel discussion: Fixing the data eng lifecycle | Video |
| Michael Lee | FanDuel | Speaker | How Fanduel migrated a mature data organization | Video |
| Michael Revelo | ClickUp | Speaker | Data and monolith: Scaling a computationally slim 1500+ model beast | Video |
| Morgan Cabot | Unbounce | Speaker | Overhauling tech debt: A modern data stack migration journey | Video |
| Nate Meinzer | Sigma Computing | Speaker | Game on: Building massive multiplayer online data products | Video |
| Nathaniel Burren | Cityblock Health | Speaker | One to many: Moving from a monolithic dbt project to multi-project collaboration | Video |
| Niall Woodward | SELECT | Speaker | From slow to swift: Proven methods for optimizing your dbt project | Video |
| Nicholas Yager | HubSpot | Speaker | Take chances, make mistakes, and get meshy: Unlocking model governance and multi-project deployments with dbt-meshify | — |
| Nicholas Yager | HubSpot | Speaker | Unlocking model governance and multi-project deployments with dbt-meshify | Video |
| Nick Erdenberger | dbt Labs | Panelist | Partner Day: dbt Labs Executive Panel | — |
| Nick Freund | Workstream.io | Workshop | Automate answers to annoying Questions with dbt-powered data knowledge | — |
| Nick Handel | dbt Labs | Speaker | The new-look dbt Semantic Layer, powered by MetricFlow | Video |
| Nicole Dallar-Malburg | bluecore | Speaker | Scaling dbt and BigQuery to infinity and beyond | Video |
| Nikhil Benesch | Materialize | Speaker | Operationalizing Ramp’s data with dbt and Materialize | Video |
| Onkita Ganguly | ACLU | Speaker | Peer exchange: Building community in distributed teams | — |
| Paimon Jaberi | Seattle Seahawks | Speaker | Not just Xs and Os: How sports teams are adopting the modern data stack | Video |
| Pardhu Gunnam | Metaphor | Speaker | 5 steps to data mesh nirvana | Video |
| Patrick Ross | Data Clymer | Speaker | Is AI the new AE? | Video |
| Paul Blankley | Zenlytic | Speaker | Self serve: The (elusive) holy grail of data teams | Video |
| Phillip Tan | FanDuel | Speaker | How Fanduel migrated a mature data organization | Video |
| Phoenix Jay | KHealth | Speaker | Peer exchange: Defining role boundaries in big orgs | — |
| Pradeep Anandapu | Databricks | Workshop | Repeat Hands-on workshop: Simplify analytics engineering with dbt and Databricks | — |
| Pradeep Anandapu | Databricks | Workshop | Hands-on workshop: Simplify analytics engineering with dbt and Databricks | — |
| Quentin Coviaux | Rebtel | Speaker | How Rebtel increased data product value: A migration story | Video |
| Ravi Ramadoss | Moody's Analytics | Speaker | Identifying novel data issues that go undetected through CI/CD with dbt and Datafold | Video |
| rebecca dibari | Guild | Speaker | 60 sources and counting: Unlocking microservice integration with dbt and Data Vault | Video |
| Roberto Salcido | Databricks | Workshop | Repeat Hands-on workshop: Simplify analytics engineering with dbt and Databricks | — |
| Roberto Salcido | Databricks | Workshop | Hands-on workshop: Simplify analytics engineering with dbt and Databricks | — |
| Roxi Pourzand | dbt Labs | Speaker | The new-look dbt Semantic Layer, powered by MetricFlow | Video |
| Ryan Delgado | Ramp | Speaker | Operationalizing Ramp’s data with dbt and Materialize | Video |
| Ryan Dolley | GoodData | Speaker | Lazy devs unite! Building a data ecosystem that spoils data engineers | Video |
| Ryan Kelly | Moody's Analytics | Speaker | Identifying novel data issues that go undetected through CI/CD with dbt and Datafold | Video |
| Ryan McGibony | dbt Labs | Speaker | Partner Day: Partnering with dbt Labs | — |
| Sam Cvetkovski | Toca Boca | Speaker | Data is life: How TOCA football keeps their eye on the ball with dbt and data observability | Video |
| Samuel Garfield | Retool | Speaker | No compromises: Analytics engineering on the Lakehouse | Video |
| Sandra Herchen | Snowflake | Speaker | Need for speed (and less spending): The story of finance data at Snowflake | Video |
| Santona Tuli | Upsolver | Speaker | Scaling dbt models for CDC on large databases | Video |
| Sarah Krasnik Bedell | Prefect | Speaker | What data teams can learn from Survivor: Encode workflow dependencies to find hidden idols | Video |
| Sean Rober | Avenue One | Speaker | Activate the full potential of your dbt projects: A deep dive with Avenue One and Atlan | Video |
| Selwyn Samuel | La-Z-Boy | Speaker | Move data comfortably: Modernizing your infrastructure with La-Z-Boy and Fivetran | Video |
| Shirshanka Das | DataHub | Speaker | Shift-left governance for your dbt centered stack: Data contracts and more! | Video |
| Sung Won Chung | Datafold | Panelist | Panel discussion: Fixing the data eng lifecycle | Video |
| Tarik Dwiek | Snowflake | Speaker | Enhancing the developer experience with the power of Snowflake and dbt | Video |
| Ted Conbeer | Workstream.io | Workshop | Automate answers to annoying Questions with dbt-powered data knowledge | — |
| Tejas Manohar | Hightouch | Speaker | Cost centers to cash cows: Data teams as growth drivers | Video |
| Travis Marceau | dbt Labs | Speaker | Salesforce & dbt Cloud: Charting new horizons in data collaboration | — |
| Trenton Huey | Vida Health | Speaker | Transforming healthcare by putting data in the driver’s seat at Vida Health | Video |
| Tristan Handy | dbt Labs | Panelist | Partner Day: dbt Labs Executive Panel | — |
| Tristan Handy | dbt Labs | Speaker | Community awards and closing thoughts | Video |
| Tyler Rouze | Analytics8 | Speaker | dbt at scale: How Roche GTM manages multi-project deployments | — |
| Will Bishop | Rivian | Speaker | Driving toward data mesh at Rivian | Video |
| Yannick Misteli | Roche | Speaker | dbt at scale: How Roche GTM manages multi-project deployments | — |
| Yijun Cao | Salesforce | Speaker | Powering the MuleSoft (a Salesforce Company) modern data analytics framework with dbt | Video |
Sources
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