Agenda: Day 3
What better way to welcome a new day of fresh perspective, than with a session run-down thoughtfully paired with the many faces of Keanu Reeves?
12 - 12:30pm EST | The Future of Analytics is Polyglot
Caitlin Colgrove, CTO, Hex
Are we ever going to escape a world where data tooling is siloed by the languages we use to operate them? Do we have a choice? Do we want a choice? I've been looking forward to this ever since I heard Caitlin on the Analytics Engineering Podcast.
💬Slack: #coalesce-polyglot-analytics
🧠 Keanu Character: Johnny Mnemonic. "The data will kill Johnny if he can't retrieve it within 48 hours, but how quickly can he learn Python?"
12 - 12:45pm EST | How to Prepare Data for a Product Analytics Platform (Workshop Sponsor)
Esmeralda Martinez, Director of Customer Engagement, Indicative
Companies need to quickly understand, and act upon product insights. Learn how to prepare your data for a smooth product analytics implementation.
💬Slack: #coalesce-product-analytics
🏄Keanu Character: Johnny Utah. Point Break. "Johnny [analyst] must infiltrate a group of surfer-robbers [various products], understand their ways [usage trends], and get out before it's too late [user behavior changes]."
1 - 1:30pm EST | The Endpoints are the Beginning: Using the dbt Cloud API to build a culture of data awareness
Kevin Hu, Co-founder / CEO, Metaplane
Stakeholders have more tools than ever to answer data questions, but the biggest questions are now just about the data itself—is this dashboard broken? What else is impacted by this change? Is this trend normal? Kevin takes us through three ways the dbt Cloud API can hep build a culture of greater data awareness.
💬Slack: #coalesce-dbt-cloud-api
☄️Keanu Character: Klaatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still. "Klaatu [Stakeholder] brings news of global upheaval [broken dashboards] from another world [Slack channel]. Now that they know their fate, the world's scientists [analysts] race to unwind what's actually happening, and how to stop it."
1 - 1:30pm EST | Automating Ambiguity: Managing dynamic source data using dbt macros
Eric Nelson, Analytics Engineer, Mattermost
Faster development cycles and ever-changing data schemas at Mattermost were starting to disrupt downstream reporting for execs and other teams. Eric had to decide whether to pump the brakes, or automate ambiguity.
💬Slack: #coalesce-automating-ambiguity
🚌Keanu Character: Jack Traven, Speed. "Jack tries to save the people [data] on the bus [pipeline], before it explodes [explodes]... but he can't slow down."
2 - 2:30pm EST | Building On Top of dbt: Managing External Dependencies
Teghan Nightengale, Data Engineer, Community.com
By extending dbt's functionality with declarative metadata, teams and companies can confidently utilize their transformed data to power downstream services and third party SaaS applications.
💬Slack: #coalesce-dbt-external-dependencies
🌀Keanu Character: Neo. The Matrix (1999) "Neo [the data engineer] fights a brutal battle for his life [data model] against a cadre of viciously intelligent secret agents [external dependencies]."
2 - 2:30pm EST | Data as Engineering
Raazia Ali, Senior Software Engineer, GetUpside
In this session Raazia will share what Upside calls the "CI/CD of DBs"—a method of development that uses dbt to keep run times low by creating clones of their production databases that developers clone when ready to work.
💬Slack: #coalesce-data-as-engineering
👯♂️Keanu Character: William Foster. Replicas. "William [data engineer] comes up with a daring and unprecedented plan to create clones of his wife and child [production databases]."
2:45 - 3:15pm EST | Data Analytics in a Snowflake world: A conversation with Christian Kleinerman and Tristan Handy
Tristan Handy and Christian Kleinerman (dbt Labs and Snowflake)
In this session, Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake's SVP of Product, joins Tristan Handy, founder, and CEO of dbt Labs, for a chat about what the future has in store. Where does Snowflake go from here? What meta trends and technologies play into that vision? How does that impact the world of data analytics?
💬Slack: #coalesce-snowflake
❓Keanu Character: No idea. Let me know what you think in the Slack chat
3:30 - 4:15pm EST | Keynote: The Metric System
Drew Banin, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, dbt Labs
I couldn't be more excited for this talk. Drew will be discussing measurement, the metrics layer, and what we need to connect several dots that have surfaced across Coalesce this week.
💬Slack: #coalesce-keynote-metric-system
🎵Keanu Character: Ted, Bill and Ted Face the Music. "The ruler of the future [CFO] tells best friends Bill and Ted [analysts] they must compose a new song to bring harmony to the universe. But instead of re-writing it, they decide to travel through time to steal it from their older selves [metrics] ."
4:30 - 5:00pm EST | dbt Core v1.0 Reveal ✨
Jeremy Cohen, Product Manager, dbt Labs
We're ready to cut the ribbon on a major milestone in maturity and stability—dbt Core v1.0 is now live. Jerco will take us on a tour of where we've been, and where we're headed.
💬Slack: #coalesce-dbt-reveal
🧪Keanu Character: Eddie Kasalavich, Chain Reactions. "A research team [community] that includes brilliant Eddie Kasalivich [Jerco] experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion [dbt Core v1.0] that may help power the world. But Kasalivich [Jerco] must protect the fusion device [business logic] from Morgan Freeman [vendor lock-in]."
4:30 - 5:00pm EST |Firebolt Deep Dive - Next generation performance with dbt (Premier Sponsor)
Kevin Marr and Cody Schwarz (Firebolt)
Tune in with Kevin Marr and Cody Schwarz to learn about Firebolt’s next generation performance, its new dbt integration, and its vision to bring more software engineering practices to the data warehouse.
💬Slack: #coalesce-firebolt
🏍️Keanu Character: Duke Caboom, Toy Story 4. "Despite emulating Canada's greatest stuntman [legacy warehouses] , Duke [the analyst] has never been able to perform the stunts as advertised by his own toy commercial. With the help of a zipline [Firebolt] Duke is able to hit the speed he needs to clear the jump [analyze huge datasets with sub-second performance]."
5:30 - 6pm EST | dbt, Notebooks and the modern data experience
Allan Campopiano and Elizabeth Dlha, Deepnote
Imagine a world without silos between analytics engineering and data exploration? Allan and Elizabeth share how Deepnote, a collaborative data science notebook with dbt integration, is creating a common space for new data workflows.
💬Slack: #coalesce-dbt-deepnote
📬Keanu Character: Alex Wyler, The Lake House. "A relationship forms between an architect [analytics engineer] and the doctor [data scientist] living two years apart. Only able to communicate by passing letters into the house's mailbox [notebook], the pair begin to fall for each other, but will they ever be together?"
5:30 - 6pm EST | Metrics and the modern data experience
Benn Stancil, Founder + Chief Analytics Officer, Mode
There are gaps in the modern data stack—or more specifically, a lack of clean interfaces that connect components, and govern how they interact. In this talk Benn posits that the third generation of data will be a focus on how different users experience the modern data stack, with metric consistency at the center.
💬Slack: #coalesce-mode
🤝Keanu Character: Same as Drew's, Ted from Bill and Ted Face the Music, but more the part where Ted realizes it's not about the song, it's about the journey—and the friends he made along the way.
6:15 - 7:00pm EST | Don't hire a data engineer...yet
Stefania Olafsdottir, CEO & Co-Founder, Avo
Getting your data to serve your organization fast enough can seem daunting, but it's a people problem before it's an engineering problem. How do we make analytics part of the company culture? Something engineers care about as much as product managers?
💬Slack: #coalesce-no-de-yet
🏈Keanu Character: Shane Falco. The Replacements. "It's late in the season; the playoffs are fast approaching; and the Washington Sentinels have no players [data engineers]. So they recruit a mismatched crew of motivated outsiders [analysts], to lead the way."
6:30 - 7:00pm EST | dbt for Financial Services: How to boost returns on your SQL pipelines using dbt, Databricks, and Delta Lake (Premier Sponsor)
Ricardo Portilla, Lead Solutions Architect, Databricks
Databricks SQL, Delta Lake, & dbt provide the perfect trio for saving investment management firms money and boosting productivity by allowing analysts to deploy SQL pipelines much faster.
💬Slack: #coalesce-databricks
🧠🏎️Keanu Character: JohnnyMnemonic/Speed crossover.
7:30 - 7:45pm EST | Implementing and scaling dbt Core without engineers
Elliot Wargo, Actuary, Symetra
The story of how two motivated actuaries fixed their broken actuarial data processes using dbt Core, without engineers or developers, and (so far) have had 25 people contribute to the project.
💬Slack: #coalesce-dbt-core-without-engineers
🏈Keanu Character: Shane Falco. The Replacements. "It's late in the season; the playoffs are fast approaching; and the Washington Sentinels have no players [data engineers and developers]. So they recruit a mismatched crew of motivated outsiders [contributors], to lead the way."
7:15 - 8pm EST | The Future of Data Analytics
Sarah Catanzaro, Jennifer Li, Astasia Myers and Julia Schottenstein
Amplify Partners, A16Z, Quiet Capital and dbt Labs
This incredible panel of venture capitalists is assembling to discuss what's new and exciting in the data ecosystem, which technologies and trends are getting investment and where we'll be 5 years from now.
💬Slack: #coalesce-diverse-teams
🎸Keanu Character: Ted. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. "Bill and Ted [Julia] are starting a band [dbt]. They receive help from Rufus [the panel], a traveler from a future where the band [dbt] is the foundation for a perfect society."
