Conferences / Coalesce
dbt Summit 2026
Sep 15–18, 2026 · The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Conference
- Coalesce Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Sep 15, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026
- Venue
- The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
- Place
- Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Format
- Hybrid
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No post-event headcount found. Event experience page refers to '2,000+' attendees (pre-event); MotherDuck listing says 2,200+ (unverified).
- Website
- getdbt.com
- Recorded
- 37 sponsors · 225 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Coalesce renamed 'dbt Summit' for 2026 (dbt Labs/Fivetran merged company). Online/on-demand access offered (FAQ 'Is dbt Summit available online?'; sessions on demand). Rollstack lists Tristan Handy and George Fraser as keynote speakers. Speakers: all sessions with named speakers from the dbt Summit on-demand session catalog (getdbt.com/dbt-summit/on-demand, which lists every 2026 session incl. roundtables, labs and trainings); video links from the session pages.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Early Bird | $595 | Mar 31, 2026 | web.archive.org | |
| Early Bird | $795 | Jun 1, 2026 | April 1 - June 1 | web.archive.org |
| Standard | $1,695 | Aug 17, 2026 | June 2 - August 17 | web.archive.org |
| Student / Nonprofit / Bootstrapper | $595 | — | Bootstrapped = series A and under | web.archive.org |
| Government / EDU | $795 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Last Chance | $1,895 | — | August 18 - onsite | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 37
Platinum 3
Bronze 20
Startup 4
- Delphina · Accelerator
- Greybeam · Accelerator
- Sidecar Data · Accelerator
- SignalPilot · Accelerator
Speakers and talks 225
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolaji Oyejide | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Community Keynote | Video |
| Chris Merrick | Omni | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Community Keynote | Video |
| Dipti Borkar | Microsoft | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Elias DeFaria | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| George Fraser | Fivetran + dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Grace Goheen | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Community Keynote | Video |
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckLabs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Community Keynote | Video |
| Jeremy Cohen | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Community Keynote | Video |
| Jordan Tigani | MotherDuck | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Matt Topol | Columnar | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Community Keynote | Video |
| Pooja Crahen | Okta | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Russell Spitzer | Snowflake | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Sam Ferguson | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Timothy Leonard | Spotify | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Tristan Handy | Fivetran + dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Tyler Pugliese | dbt Labs | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Tyson Doberneck | Obie Insurance | Keynote | dbt Summit 2026 Keynote: Level Up | Video |
| Aaron Mardis | dbt Labs | Panelist | Black in Data: Building connections and community during career growth | — |
| Abhishek Narain | Microsoft | Workshop | Beyond the basics: Running dbt at scale on Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Abhra Gupta | Mitratech | Speaker | From cost center to profit center: how Mitratech built a data platform on dbt | Video |
| Adrien Ledoux | EF | Speaker | Does your data pipeline deserve to exist? How EF Education built a cost and value layer with dbt and Cortex Agent | Video |
| Aika Zikibayeva | dbt Labs | Speaker | What’s new in dbt v2 | — |
| Akash Srivastava | Careem | Speaker | From prompt to PR: sandbox-validated dbt changes before human review | Video |
| Akash Trivedi | dbt Labs | Workshop | Becoming a dbt architect | — |
| Akis Zervas | Kaizen Gaming | Speaker | The principals' framework for consistent dbt at scale | Video |
| Alex Noonan | dbt Labs | Speaker | We have been overthinking context engineering | — |
| Alex Noonan | dbt Labs | Speaker | Conversational analytics: building AI-powered analytics people can actually trust | Video |
| Alexander Bogdanowicz | dbt Labs | Speaker | Getting instant feedback: the dbt v2-powered dbt developer experience | Video |
| Alexander Bogdanowicz | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: Rebuilding dbt Core: Faster runtime, adapters, and docs v2 | — |
| Alicia Williams | Speaker | SQL-first AI: bringing BigQuery AI into your dbt project | Video | |
| Ana Zapata | Fivetran | Speaker | Your dbt models deserve better data | — |
| Anders Swanson | dbt Labs | Panelist | Open source tea leaves: Reading Iceberg’s proposed future | — |
| Anders Swanson | dbt Labs | Speaker | Live debate: Should you stop using introspection in your models? | — |
| Anders Swanson | dbt Labs | Speaker | Summit Springboard | — |
| Andrew Coleman | RX Benefits | Speaker | Reduce, reuse, recycle: how dbt State cut rebuilds by 92% at RxBenefits | Video |
| Anikei Allen | dbt Labs | Speaker | Summit Springboard | — |
| Anna Lee | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: Open Data Infrastructure in practice: unlock your dbt projects with Apache Iceberg and mesh | — |
| Anna Lee | dbt Labs | Speaker | Open Data Infrastructure in practice: unlock your dbt projects with Apache Iceberg and mesh | Video |
| Ariel Kaplan | Planned Parenthood Federation of America | Speaker | A nonprofit's journey: we walked so dbt could run | Video |
| Ayan Putatunda | Zendesk | Speaker | AI-powered data development: how agentic SDLC & dbt-MCP transformed our data engineering workflow | Video |
| Bao Nguyen | Adobe | Speaker | Your dbt tests passed. Why did the metric still move? Making semantic stability a platform guarantee | — |
| Ben Butler | dbt Labs | Workshop | Upgrade to dbt v2 | — |
| Ben Kramer | Bilt Rewards | Speaker | Inside the agentic data stack at Bilt | — |
| Ben Lerner | Espresso AI | Speaker | Most of your dbt models aren't in a hurry: how to stop paying for the whole DAG | Video |
| Ben Moser | dbt Labs | Speaker | With great context comes great autonomy: leveling up your agent context | Video |
| Ben Moser | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: With great context comes great autonomy: leveling up your agent context | — |
| Benn Stancil | Mode | Speaker | How to have ideas | Video |
| Benoit Perigaud | dbt Labs | Workshop | Data + AI agent hackathon | — |
| Benoit Perigaud | dbt Labs | Speaker | Picking the best compute engine for any task | — |
| Bishal Gupta | DocuSign | Speaker | AI-augmented analytics engineering at DocuSign: from prompt to production with dbt v2, dbt MCP, and agent skills | Video |
| Brad Levy | AlphaSense | Speaker | An AlphaSense case study: scaling AI on enterprise data with dbt-first governance and context from Euno | Video |
| Brett Pendleton | Fanatics | Speaker | How Fanatics manages dbt metrics with Snowflake CoCo for natural language analytics | Video |
| Brian Kasen | Mitratech | Speaker | From cost center to profit center: how Mitratech built a data platform on dbt | Video |
| Britton Stamper | dbt Labs | Panelist | Data for everyone 360: Building empathy and alignment across the data stack | — |
| Bruno Lima | phData | Panelist | How to build a successful data career | — |
| Carol Ohms | dbt Labs | Workshop | Mastering data quality with dbt | — |
| Casey Karst | Fivetran | Panelist | Product roundtable: Open Data Infrastructure in practice: unlock your dbt projects with Apache Iceberg and mesh | — |
| Casey Karst | Fivetran | Speaker | The next wave of data infrastructure is in the Lake | Video |
| Casey Schwegel | Verisk | Speaker | From first models to AI-powered maturity: scaling data engineering with dbt at Verisk Underwriting | Video |
| Cathy Huang | Webstaurantstore | Speaker | Revolutionizing the staging layer: automating dbt generation for 700+ sources | Video |
| Célia Bru | KOHO Financial | Speaker | Before the agents: what self-serve analytics actually needs | Video |
| Cheril Lin Abeel | Fivetran | Speaker | Build, test, evaluate, deploy: Coding plugins for Connector SDK | — |
| Chiel Fernhout | Datafold | Speaker | From DML soup to dbt structure: Ecolab's migration story | Video |
| Chris Merrick | Omni | Speaker | Is context engineering the new analytics engineering? | Video |
| Chris Shepherd | RX Benefits | Speaker | Reduce, reuse, recycle: how dbt State cut rebuilds by 92% at RxBenefits | Video |
| Christine Kwon | Fanatics | Speaker | How Fanatics manages dbt metrics with Snowflake CoCo for natural language analytics | Video |
| Daniel Gonzalez | Sweetwater Sound | Speaker | Sweetwater's proactive data observability playbook with Datadog | Video |
| Dave Fowler | Fivetran | Speaker | dbt Charts: building a viz language that’s easy on the I’s - AI, BI, CI, and ODI | Video |
| Dave Fowler | Fivetran | Speaker | Dashboards as code with dbt Charts | — |
| Dave Fowler | Fivetran | Panelist | Chart clinic: live dashboard teardowns & rebuilds | — |
| David Drummond | Verily Health | Speaker | dbt for public health: sightline wastewater monitoring at scale | Video |
| David Elliott | dbt Labs | Workshop | Getting started with dbt | — |
| Derek Andres | Sweetwater Sound | Speaker | Sweetwater's proactive data observability playbook with Datadog | Video |
| Divyakumar Savla | Datadog | Speaker | Testing, 1, 2, 3: Catching silent data failures beyond dbt tests | — |
| Drew Barlage | Genius.AI | Speaker | Genius.AI: Hex ate our legacy BI stack | — |
| Duncan Gilchrist | Delphina | Speaker | The limits of DIY: how an S&P 500 Company escaped the data context trap | — |
| Elisha Feliciano | dbt Labs | Speaker | Summit Springboard | — |
| Emanuela Ciotti | Compare the Market | Speaker | From dashboards to data products: how dbt transforms analytics teams | Video |
| Emily Hawkins | LangChain | Speaker | No drift allowed: LangChain's context playbook with Hex | Video |
| Eric Guroff | Ratio PBC | Panelist | Building dbt projects in rough terrain: creating a trailguide for dbt pioneers | — |
| Erica Louie | dbt Labs | Speaker | The View on Data: live from dbt Summit | Video |
| Faith McKenna | dbt Labs | Workshop | Accelerating and optimizing your deployment with dbt v2 and dbt State | — |
| Faith McKenna | dbt Labs | Workshop | Accelerating analytics with AI | — |
| Faith McKenna | dbt Labs | Speaker | The View on Data: live from dbt Summit | Video |
| Gabriel Gambacorta | KOHO Financial | Speaker | Before the agents: what self-serve analytics actually needs | Video |
| Gordon Curzon | Virgin Media O2 | Speaker | What changes when 300 dbt users at Virgin Media O2 move to dbt v2 and dbt State | Video |
| Grace Goheen | dbt Labs | Speaker | The View on Data: live from dbt Summit | Video |
| Hannes Mühleisen | DuckLabs | Speaker | dbt without the warehouse (or the bill): DuckDB end to end | Video |
| Harsha Reddy | DoorDash | Speaker | From prototype to production: how DoorDash built a scalable analytics SDLC with dbt and ThoughtSpot | Video |
| Hope Watson | dbt Labs | Speaker | All aboard: rebuilding dbt in the open | Video |
| Hope Watson | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: Rebuilding dbt Core: Faster runtime, adapters, and docs v2 | — |
| Iaroslav Zeigerman | Fivetran | Panelist | Product roundtable: Optimizing your runs for lower compute, fresher data, and faster iteration with dbt State | — |
| Iaroslav Zeigerman | Fivetran | Speaker | Optimizing your runs for lower compute, fresher data, and faster iteration with dbt State | Video |
| Jack Lowery | Fivetran | Speaker | Open Data Infrastructure in practice: unlock your dbt projects with Apache Iceberg and mesh | Video |
| Jack Lowery | Fivetran | Panelist | Product roundtable: Open Data Infrastructure in practice: unlock your dbt projects with Apache Iceberg and mesh | — |
| Jairus Martinez | dbt Labs | Workshop | Creating context with dbt MCP Server | — |
| James Dorado | Bilt Rewards | Speaker | Real-time analytics at Bilt: architecture and approach | Video |
| Jason Ganz | dbt Labs | Workshop | Data + AI agent hackathon | — |
| Jay Sobel | Ramp | Speaker | Ramp's internal AI stack: agents, sandboxes, and an AI-first BI tool | Video |
| Jeff Skoldberg | Green Mountain Data Solutions | Speaker | Warming up to Iceberg: 2026 makes Iceberg easier | Video |
| Jenna Jordan | Ratio PBC | Panelist | Building dbt projects in rough terrain: creating a trailguide for dbt pioneers | — |
| Jeremy Cohen | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: Open Data Infrastructure in practice: unlock your dbt projects with Apache Iceberg and mesh | — |
| Jerrie Kenney | dbt Labs | Panelist | Black in Data: Building connections and community during career growth | — |
| Jerrie Kenney | dbt Labs | Speaker | The View on Data: live from dbt Summit | Video |
| Jessica Stayton | dbt Labs | Workshop | Operationalize cost visibility in dbt | — |
| Jessica Stayton | dbt Labs | Workshop | Governed & scalable AI-assisted analytics with dbt | — |
| Jessica Zhang | Riot Games | Speaker | When skills meet scale: an agent assembly line for dbt | Video |
| Jinze Xin | Liftoff | Speaker | Shrink the surface: governed self-service for analyst-owned dbt pipelines | Video |
| Jobin George | Speaker | From Lakehouse to agents: scaling analytics with dbt and Google Cloud | — | |
| Jobin George | Speaker | SQL-first AI: bringing BigQuery AI into your dbt project | Video | |
| Joe Dabrowski | dbt Labs | Panelist | Data for everyone 360: Building empathy and alignment across the data stack | — |
| Joel Labes | dbt Labs | Speaker | In the weeds of dbt State | — |
| Joel Labes | dbt Labs | Speaker | Live debate: Should you stop using introspection in your models? | — |
| Jordan Morgan | CarGurus | Speaker | From dbt Core to dbt v2: how CarGurus unlocked dbt State and AI at scale | Video |
| Junya Morita | Recruit Co.,Ltd | Speaker | Beyond semantic models: "Domain context as code" for high-accuracy text-to-SQL | Video |
| Kasey Mazza | HubSpot | Panelist | Beyond the bottleneck: position your analytics engineering team as a strategic force | — |
| Keith Binkly | Green Dot Corporation | Speaker | Meta:Context: a business context schema in dbt's semantic layer | Video |
| Kensly Alexander | Planned Parenthood Federation of America | Speaker | A nonprofit's journey: we walked so dbt could run | Video |
| Kevin Kim | Fivetran | Speaker | With great context comes great autonomy: leveling up your agent context | Video |
| Kevin Kim | Fivetran | Panelist | Product roundtable: With great context comes great autonomy: leveling up your agent context | — |
| Kirk Van Arkel | Fivetran | Speaker | Build, test, evaluate, deploy: Coding plugins for Connector SDK | — |
| Koen Verburg | Greenpeace Australia Pacific | Speaker | A dbt "logic mesh" with packages: standard model and metrics across 25 autonomous organizations | Video |
| Kyle Tuft | dbt Labs | Workshop | Scaling trusted self-service for dbt stakeholders | — |
| Logan Cochran | LangChain | Speaker | No drift allowed: LangChain's context playbook with Hex | Video |
| Lucas Silbernagel | dbt Labs | Workshop | Accelerating analytics with AI | — |
| Lucas Silbernagel | dbt Labs | Workshop | Accelerating and optimizing your deployment with dbt v2 and dbt State | — |
| Lucas Silbernagel | dbt Labs | Workshop | Operationalize cost visibility in dbt | — |
| Luke Kranz | Fanatics | Speaker | From hard lessons to AI-ready analytics: Fanatics’ journey with dbt and Snowflake | Video |
| M. Waqas Shahid | Delivery Hero | Speaker | The platform team said no — dbt won with “yes” - story of governance, autonomy, and scale | Video |
| Madhura Pharande | WHOOP | Speaker | How WHOOP bridges dbt models and Snowflake semantic views | Video |
| Madison Kohls | Figma | Speaker | How Figma builds a consistent experience with confidence | Video |
| Maksim Romanchuk | WMCHealth | Speaker | From 72 minutes to 5: how one environment variable powers two dbt pipelines | Video |
| Manikandan Paramasivan | KOHO Financial | Speaker | Scaling dbt on Amazon Redshift: how KOHO cut transformation runtime 70% without rewriting a single model | Video |
| Marat Biyashev | Bilt Rewards | Speaker | Real-time analytics at Bilt: architecture and approach | Video |
| Marek Radonsky | Twilio Segment | Speaker | ClickHouse + dbt: Building a GitOps workflow at Twilio | Video |
| Mark Goodwin | Gen Digital | Speaker | The limits of DIY: how an S&P 500 Company escaped the data context trap | — |
| Mars Dauer | $undefined | Speaker | Beyond the dashboard: an MCP-connected AI agent that reads your dbt lineage | Video |
| Mateusz Geca | Verisk | Speaker | From first models to AI-powered maturity: scaling data engineering with dbt at Verisk Underwriting | Video |
| Matt Karan | Obie Insurance | Speaker | One engine to rule them all: why Obie left the shire | Video |
| Matt Senick | Sigma Computing | Speaker | How Sigma manages the semantic layer with dbt and Dagster | Video |
| Matt Topol | Columnar | Speaker | ADBC in production: zero-copy, non-zero problems | Video |
| Matteo Dijoux | dbt Labs | Workshop | Scaling trusted self-service for dbt stakeholders | — |
| Melissa Simpson | Virgin Media O2 | Speaker | What changes when 300 dbt users at Virgin Media O2 move to dbt v2 and dbt State | Video |
| Mike Doll | Guitar Center | Speaker | Reliable by design: lower cost, better delivery, trusted AI | Video |
| Millie Symns | Justworks | Panelist | Black in Data: Building connections and community during career growth | — |
| Millie Symns | Justworks | Panelist | How to build a successful data career | — |
| Monica Miller | Starburst | Speaker | AI didn't change our dbt project, just who cared about it. | — |
| Nadine Bruxel | Nordstrom | Speaker | Governed by default: how data teams at Nordstrom turn dbt governance into an AI advantage | Video |
| Neela Kulkarni | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | How to build governed agentic analytics on Amazon Redshift with the dbt Semantic Layer | Video |
| Nick Fernandez | PetScreening | Speaker | dbt-building a more pet friendly world | Video |
| Nick Heron | Bilt Rewards | Speaker | Real-time analytics at Bilt: architecture and approach | Video |
| Nina Anderson | dbt Labs | Speaker | dbt+Fabric: analytics engineering at enterprise scale | — |
| Niraj Vora | Fivetran | Speaker | Your dbt models deserve better data | — |
| Niyazulla Khan Pathan | Careem | Speaker | From prompt to PR: sandbox-validated dbt changes before human review | Video |
| Opeyemi Fabiyi | Data Culture | Speaker | Don't ship what you can't measure: Evaluation-driven development for AI analytics agents | Video |
| Paige Berry | dbt Labs | Speaker | The View on Data: live from dbt Summit | Video |
| Paige Berry | dbt Labs | Panelist | AI in the analyst toolkit: What's actually working (and what isn't) | — |
| Paige Berry | dbt Labs | Speaker | More than a data-delivery service: becoming a trusted advisor to your stakeholders | — |
| Paul Pedrozo | Westchester Medical Center | Speaker | From 72 minutes to 5: how one environment variable powers two dbt pipelines | Video |
| Pavan Kotikalapudi | Twilio Segment | Speaker | ClickHouse + dbt: Building a GitOps workflow at Twilio | Video |
| Pedro Heyerdahl | Kilo Code | Speaker | YAML doesn't know why: building the business context your agents are missing | Video |
| Pooja Crahen | Okta | Speaker | From AI experiment to production: how Okta governs context for agents at scale | Video |
| Pradeep Srikakolapu | Microsoft | Workshop | Beyond the basics: Running dbt at scale on Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Priya Tanwar | Nordstrom | Speaker | Governed by default: how data teams at Nordstrom turn dbt governance into an AI advantage | Video |
| Raini Laughlin | dbt Labs | Workshop | Migrate stored procs with dbt Wizard | — |
| Raini Laughlin | dbt Labs | Workshop | Governed & scalable AI-assisted analytics with dbt | — |
| Rakesh Krishnan | Microsoft | Speaker | dbt+Fabric: analytics engineering at enterprise scale | — |
| Raza Hafeez | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Scaling dbt on Amazon Redshift: how KOHO cut transformation runtime 70% without rewriting a single model | Video |
| Reuben McCreanor | dbt Labs | Speaker | Optimizing your runs for lower compute, fresher data, and faster iteration with dbt State | Video |
| Reuben McCreanor | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: Optimizing your runs for lower compute, fresher data, and faster iteration with dbt State | — |
| RJ Andrews | Fivetran | Speaker | dbt Charts: building a viz language that’s easy on the I’s - AI, BI, CI, and ODI | Video |
| RJ Andrews | Fivetran | Speaker | Charts worth stealing: The design calls BI should ship | Video |
| RJ Andrews | Fivetran | Speaker | Glorious charts | — |
| RJ Andrews | Fivetran | Speaker | Chart slop: your BI tool shipped the mess | — |
| RJ Andrews | Fivetran | Panelist | Chart clinic: live dashboard teardowns & rebuilds | — |
| Roxi Pourzand | dbt Labs | Speaker | We said I do. Now, we’re joined at the DAG | Video |
| Russell Christopher | dbt Labs | Speaker | The next wave of data infrastructure is in the Lake | Video |
| Russell Christopher | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: Open Data Infrastructure in practice: unlock your dbt projects with Apache Iceberg and mesh | — |
| Ryan Ballman | Under Armour | Speaker | Ship AI Agents Like Tables: dbt Materializations for Snowflake CoWork | Video |
| Ryan Eakman | Fivetran | Panelist | Product roundtable: dbt Wizard: your AI teammate for data development | — |
| Ryan Eakman | Fivetran | Speaker | dbt Wizard: your AI teammate for data development | Video |
| Sam Ferguson | dbt Labs | Speaker | dbt Wizard: your AI teammate for data development | Video |
| Sam Masling | Bilt Rewards | Speaker | Inside the agentic data stack at Bilt | — |
| Sara Gawlinski | dbt Labs | Speaker | Teaching dbt Wizard to write code like your team | — |
| Sarah Fischbach | Checkr | Speaker | Is context engineering the new analytics engineering? | Video |
| Sarah Levy | Euno | Speaker | An AlphaSense case study: scaling AI on enterprise data with dbt-first governance and context from Euno | Video |
| Saravana Kumar | Authentic | Speaker | Most of your dbt models aren't in a hurry: how to stop paying for the whole DAG | Video |
| Scott Ziolko | Keep | Speaker | $$1B in transactions, 1 minute latency: dbt as production banking infrastructure | Video |
| Shania Thomas | dbt Labs | Panelist | Black in Data: Building connections and community during career growth | — |
| Shania Thomas | dbt Labs | Workshop | Standardizing insights with the dbt Semantic Layer | — |
| Shania Thomas | dbt Labs | Workshop | Getting started with dbt | — |
| Shubham Dhal | Databricks | Speaker | Getting the most out of dbt on Databricks | — |
| Silja Märdla | Bolt | Panelist | How to build a successful data career | — |
| Silja Märdla | Bolt | Speaker | Beyond layers and medallions: an explicit data modeling framework | Video |
| Sonny Rivera | ThoughtSpot | Speaker | From prototype to production: how DoorDash built a scalable analytics SDLC with dbt and ThoughtSpot | Video |
| Sonny Rivera | ThoughtSpot | Speaker | What AI agents get wrong, and how semantics fixes it | — |
| Sophia Scaglioni Melegari | WHOOP | Speaker | How WHOOP bridges dbt models and Snowflake semantic views | Video |
| Srilekha Dornadula | Databricks | Speaker | Getting the most out of dbt on Databricks | — |
| Stanley Bathina | Under Armour | Speaker | Ship AI Agents Like Tables: dbt Materializations for Snowflake CoWork | Video |
| Stefanos Nikolaou | Kaizen Gaming | Speaker | The principals' framework for consistent dbt at scale | Video |
| Stephen Robb | dbt Labs | Speaker | From Lakehouse to agents: scaling analytics with dbt and Google Cloud | — |
| Stephen Thibeault | dbt Labs | Workshop | Mastering data quality with dbt | — |
| Stephen Thibeault | dbt Labs | Speaker | From dbt Core to dbt v2: how CarGurus unlocked dbt State and AI at scale | Video |
| Stephen Thibeault | dbt Labs | Workshop | Creating context with dbt MCP Server | — |
| Steven Nguyen | dbt Labs | Workshop | Migrate stored procs with dbt Wizard | — |
| Suhas Jangoan | Zendesk | Speaker | AI-powered data development: how agentic SDLC & dbt-MCP transformed our data engineering workflow | Video |
| Thiago Baldim | Mitti | Speaker | From 14-hour batches and poor documentation to AI-ready data: Mitti's dbt rebuild | Video |
| Thomas Antonakis | Kaizen Gaming | Speaker | The principals' framework for consistent dbt at scale | Video |
| Toby Mao | Fivetran | Panelist | Product roundtable: The semantic layer is dead. Long live the semantic layer! | — |
| Toby Mao | Fivetran | Speaker | The semantic layer is dead. Long live the semantic layer! | Video |
| Tomasz Kaczmarek | Ecolab | Speaker | From DML soup to dbt structure: Ecolab's migration story | Video |
| Trang Trinh | Kramp | Speaker | A practitioner's guide to federated dbt Mesh at scale with Data Project Factory | Video |
| Tyler Rouze | dbt Labs | Workshop | Upgrade to dbt v2 | — |
| Tyson Doberneck | Obie Insurance | Speaker | One engine to rule them all: why Obie left the shire | Video |
| Venkatesh Aravamudan | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | How to build governed agentic analytics on Amazon Redshift with the dbt Semantic Layer | Video |
| Vijay Singh | Verisk | Speaker | From first models to AI-powered maturity: scaling data engineering with dbt at Verisk Underwriting | Video |
| Wayne Grigsby | Prefect | Speaker | Beyond vibe governance: keeping sensitive data out of your agent's context window | — |
| Will Weld | dbt Labs | Workshop | Becoming a dbt architect | — |
| William Guicheney | Aimpoint Digital | Speaker | dbt-building a more pet friendly world | Video |
| William Tsu | WHOOP | Speaker | How WHOOP bridges dbt models and Snowflake semantic views | Video |
| XiaoHan Li | Xebia | Panelist | Agents, MCPs and buzzword fatigue: what AI actually changes for analytics engineers | — |
| Yuna (Yunnan) Tang | Mitti | Speaker | From 14-hour batches and poor documentation to AI-ready data: Mitti's dbt rebuild | Video |
| Zach Mandell | dbt Labs | Speaker | The semantic layer is dead. Long live the semantic layer! | Video |
| Zach Mandell | dbt Labs | Panelist | Product roundtable: The semantic layer is dead. Long live the semantic layer! | — |
| Zhen Xing | 74software | Speaker | Dismantling the vault: scaling to a data mesh during a 5x merger | Video |
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