James Dorado
Employers on the program
- 2024–2026Bilt Rewards5 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- Coalesce
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | dbt Summit 2026 | Coalesce | speaker | Real-time analytics at Bilt: architecture and approach as Bilt Bilt runs real-time analytics on dbt with under one second of end-to-end data freshness. | Video |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Coalesce on the Road New York 2026 | Coalesce | speaker | Bilt's Conversational Data Layer: How We Connected Data to LLMs with dbt as Bilt Rewards Bilt Rewards turned their dbt project into a natural language interface. By connecting their semantic layer and underlying data warehouse to an LLM, business…Show lessBilt Rewards turned their dbt project into a natural language interface. By connecting their semantic layer and underlying data warehouse to an LLM, business users and data analysts can ask real business questions and get trusted and creative insights. This session shows how they modeled their data for AI, how they kept accuracy intact, and increased data driven conversations across the business. | |
| Oct 13, 2025 | Coalesce 2025 | Coalesce | speaker | Bilt's conversational data layer: How they connected data to LLMs with dbt as Bilt Rewards Bilt Rewards turned their dbt project into a natural language interface. By connecting their semantic layer and underlying data warehouse to an LLM, business…Show lessBilt Rewards turned their dbt project into a natural language interface. By connecting their semantic layer and underlying data warehouse to an LLM, business users and data analysts can ask real business questions and get trusted and creative insights. | Video |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Coalesce 2024 | Coalesce | keynote | Keynote: Innovating with dbt as Bilt Rewards dbt Labs co-founder and CEO, Tristan Handy, unveils his vision for the analytics development lifecycle, highlighting how our mission to make data and AI more…Show lessdbt Labs co-founder and CEO, Tristan Handy, unveils his vision for the analytics development lifecycle, highlighting how our mission to make data and AI more accessible and trustworthy is fueling innovation. | Video |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Coalesce 2024 | Coalesce | speaker | Making data rewarding at Bilt (Rewards) as Bilt Rewards Dive into the technical evolution of Bilt’s data infrastructure as they moved from fragmented, slow, and costly analytics to a streamlined, scalable, and…Show lessDive into the technical evolution of Bilt’s data infrastructure as they moved from fragmented, slow, and costly analytics to a streamlined, scalable, and holistic solution with dbt Cloud. | Video |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Kramer | 4 | 3 | 2026 |
| Nick Heron | 3 | 3 | 2026 |
| Tristan Handy | 3 | 1 | 2026 |
| Anders Swanson | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Benoit Perigaud | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Chris Merrick | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Gordon Curzon | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Grace Goheen | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Jason Ganz | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Jeremy Cohen | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Joe Dabrowski | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Neela Kulkarni | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Reuben McCreanor | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Sarah Levy | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Greg McKeon | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.