Tristan Handy

Read-only was nice while it lasted. Agents write, respond, and assemble their own context — continuously, and at a pace no review process of the past was built for.

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.

AI is changing what's possible for analytics. AI-powered development is rapidly increasing productivity as the role of data engineering shifts to building not just pipelines, but intelligent systems. Join us for a discussion on how we see the industry evolving and what we're building to ensure our customers are ready for the future.

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.

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 accessible and trustworthy is fueling innovation.

The final session of Coalesce 2023! Join us for Community Awards and closing thoughts. We'll be recognizing 10 individuals who have contributed significantly the to success of the dbt Community.

Kick off Coalesce at the Keynote and Product Spotlight! Seven years ago, in the early days of dbt, dbt Labs was building capabilities that made data developers more productive.

Coalesce is the biggest gathering of the dbt Community world wide. As a dbt Labs partner, this is your exclusive opportunity to get an early view into the vision we have for dbt and learn how we can partner together to drive successful outcomes from our joint customers.

The products that make up the “modern data stack” have all grown to prominence over the past decade. In this heady time, so much has changed about how data work is done.

Participants in the dbt Labs partnership program are invited to a partner-only event on Monday, October 17th to hear what’s new on our product and company roadmap, learn about our partner programs, and meet the dbt Labs team and colleagues at other partner companies.

For over a decade, technologists thought that the hard thing about harnessing the exploding amount of data would be about technology: how to store it all, how to process it all, how to analyze it all.