Grace Goheen

The View on Data recorded live at dbt Summit 2026, five women from dbt Labs, Faith McKenna, Erica Louie, Paige Berry, Grace Goheen, and Jerrie Kenney, get honest about the parts of a data career that never show up in a job description.

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.

Explore the latest features added to dbt Core this year, shaped by community feedback and collaboration. Learn how community-driven efforts influenced development and get a sneak peek at what’s coming next for dbt Core.

At dbt Labs, open source innovation is at the core of all that we do. The movement that is dbt would only happen thanks to you, our strong and vibrant dbt community.

Continuous Integration (CI) in dbt Cloud makes it easy to test every change you make prior to deploying. It’s a hallmark of mature analytics workflows.We’ve made some major improvements to dbt Cloud CI, so it’s easier than ever to prevent breaking changes, save on costs, and keep those pesky stakeholders happy.

Join us for story hour, as we follow two intrepid analytics engineers working in a large dbt project as they go on a journey to meshify their dbt project, with help from a ✨special guest✨ Along the way, we’ll learn about dbt-meshify - a new CLI tool to automate the creation of model governance and cross-project lineage features in your dbt project.

Join us for story hour, as we follow two intrepid analytics engineers working in a large dbt project as they go on a journey to meshify their dbt project, with help from a ✨special guest✨

Since the dawn of time (or at least the last few years), the proserv team has been “dbt_project_evaluator”s. They've written articles, given talks, created training courses, and personally delivered just a truly obscene amount of audits.