Belgium dbt Meetup #14

dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures.

🏠Venue: BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, 1000 Brussels (same building as the Brussels Central Station)
🤝Organizers: Sam Debruyn
🅿️ Interparking Albertina is at 5min walking distance
🚂 It is literally inside Belgium's best connected train station

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come. Reach out - send a message in #local-belgium on Slack - if you need to cancel last minute or change your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going."

📝Agenda:

18h00: welcome with food & drinks 18h45: start presentations

• 20h00: networking & drinks

🗣️Presentations:

Scaling dbt (core) Infrastructure at Lighthouse
This session will be about creating standardized dbt components (internal dbt package, reusable CICD template, ...) to scale the use of dbt core across an entire organisation with many repositories.

by Marthe Van Den Hende, Data Platform Engineer at Lighthouse

Marthe is a Data Platform Engineer at Lighthouse with hands-on experience implementing dbt in SaaS companies, focusing on scalability. Before Lighthouse, she worked as a Data Engineer at Markmi.ai.

Accelerating Data Engineering with dbt MCP Server
In this session, I’ll introduce a more experimental approach to data engineering using a dbt MCP server. We’ll explore how this setup enhances developer productivity by enabling smarter workflows, automation, and tighter integration between dbt and ex