George Fraser

Business intelligence is dead; long live context! The new job of every data team is to provide context to AI, so that when your head of sales asks “give me your 3 best ideas for improving pipeline conversion”, it gives 3 great answers grounded in accurate, correct queries. The tools for providing this solution are the same tools you know and love: AI is just a new consumer of the data stack.

As AI accelerates the pace of change, demanding fresher data, diverse formats, and support across multiple engines, many teams discover their infrastructure was built for reporting, not real-time AI at scale. Open Data Infrastructure is redefining how organizations design for analytics, operations, and AI. By leveraging Fivetran as an interoperable data foundation, organizations can embrace open standards, separate storage from compute, and keep data portable across clouds and engines, preserving adaptability while scaling AI and operational workloads with Databricks. Join this session to learn how organizations: - Build an open, future-proof foundation that supports analytics, operations, and AI without repeated replatforming. - Preserve control over costs and data access as AI workloads increase in scale and complexity. - Design architectures that prevent platform lock-in through interoperability across ingestion, transformation, and activation. - See ODI brought to life in a live demo.

The modern data stack solved for siloed analytics, but AI and operational workloads demand a more adaptable foundation. In this thought leadership session, Fivetran and dbt Labs explore open data infrastructure, an evolution beyond the modern stack that separates storage from compute and applies open standards across layers. Learn how to preserve interoperability, avoid lock-in, and scale analytics and AI with control over cost and architecture — then see how they are building with ODI principles in mind.

Let’s bring it back to where it all began—with you, the dbt community—and to where we’re going. We’ll share our perspective on how the two engines, dbt Core and Fusion, are united by one common framework—and how we continue to build in the open.

Let’s kick off Coalesce 2025 with a bang! At our opening keynote, you’ll hear how dbt is redefining data work in the age of AI. You’ll hear from dbt Labs CEO and Founder Tristan Handy for his perspective on how AI is rapidly pushing our industry forward and how the dbt Fusion engine is redefining the dbt standard.