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Speakers

Zach Ward

Employers on the program

  1. 2025–2026Riot Games2 talks
Events2
Conferences1
Talks2
Years active2025–2026
Miles between events2372 in-person events · 1 country

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.

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Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 9, 2026

Appearances by year

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Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Jan 20, 2026Coalesce on the Road Newport Beach 2026CoalescespeakerLeveling Up Data Engineering at Riot: How We Rolled Out dbt and Transformed the Developer Experience
as Riot Games
Riot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by transforming its data engineering workflows—migrating from bespoke…Show less

Riot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by transforming its data engineering workflows—migrating from bespoke Databricks notebooks and Spark pipelines to a scalable, testable, and developer-friendly dbt-based architecture.

Oct 13, 2025Coalesce 2025CoalescespeakerLeveling up data engineering at Riot: How they transformed DevEx with dbt
as Riot Games
Riot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by migrating from bespoke Databricks notebooks and Spark pipelines to a…Show less

Riot Games reduced its Databricks compute spend and accelerated development cycles by migrating from bespoke Databricks notebooks and Spark pipelines to a scalable, testable, and developer-friendly dbt-based architecture.

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Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Marco Garcia222026
Joe Dabrowski2—2026
Russell Christopher2—2026

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.