Meetup on Sam Debruyn

From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Unlock the full potential of your Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse or Lakehouse. This session dives into dbt, a tool that streamlines SQL development within Fabric. It lowers the barrier of entry into the world of data analytics to everyone who ever wrote a line of SQL. Learn how dbt empowers data teams with functionalities like data documentation, automated testing, and data lineage for reliable and insightful analytics.

From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Unlock the full potential of your Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse or Lakehouse. In this session, analytics engineers can learn from the top contributor to dbt-fabric what Microsoft Fabric is all about and how dbt is the perfect tool to build data transformations on Microsoft Fabric. We’ll cover the basics of Microsoft Fabric, how to connect dbt Cloud with Microsoft Fabric, and how to build our first Hello Fabric project.

Belgium dbt Meetup 14

Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the fourteenth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup took place at BeCentral in the Brussels Central Station.

Belgium dbt Meetup 13 - co-hosted with the Belgium Snowflake User Group

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I helped organizing the revival edition of the Belgium Snowflake User Group, in collaboration with Snowflake and Telenet. We made it a co-hosted dbt meetup, with presentations from Telenet, Snowflake, and dbt Labs.

Belgium dbt Meetup 12

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the twelfth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by IBA in Louvain-La-Neuve.

Belgium dbt Meetup 11

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I co-organized the eleventh edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by Port of Antwerp in Antwerp.

Belgium dbt Meetup 10

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the tenth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by Dataminded in Leuven.

Belgium dbt Meetup 9

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the ninth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by Lighthouse in Ghent.

71st Data Science Leuven Meetup

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Host of the 71st Data Science Leuven Meetup.

Talks:

Jiri De Jonghe: AdversLLM: a Practical Guide to Governance, Maturity and Risk Assessment for LLM-based Applications
Bram Steurtewagen: The Good, the Bad and the Algorithm
Sander Reumers (Comfort Energy) & Senne Van Hemelen (AE): Fueling insights with AI: how to use data for ROI and customer satisfaction

Belgium dbt Meetup 8

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the eigth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by DataSense in Hasselt.

NL dbt meetup: From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On the 20th of September, I spoke at the NL dbt meetup .

From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I gave a session on dbt at the Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference. If you want to learn more about Microsoft Fabric, get your ticket for this free online event: https://microsoftfabric.global/

Belgium dbt Meetup 7

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the seventh edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by DPG Media in Vilvoorde.

Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On June 20th I spoke at the Fabric Brussels meetup.

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Belgium dbt Meetup 6

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the sixth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by dataroots in Leuven.

SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt

Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Speakers:

Rik Pauwels, Tech Lead @ Devoteam - Client-side BI, a new wave in analytics?
Sam Debruyn, Tech Lead @ Dataroots - SQL Resurgence: Unleashing Data Potential with dbt
Lien Bosmans - A data engineer-friendly relational schema for object-centric process mining

Join us on an exhilarating exploration of the data landscape as we delve into the phenomenon that is dbt. It has taken the world by storm and is now the most popular data transformation tool. Let’s dive into this new era and witness the renaissance of SQL at the core of data analytics, bringing it back to those who know the data best. During this talk we’ll get to experience the first steps into dbt and be ready for our first dbt project.

Belgium dbt Meetup 5

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the fifth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by Digital Hive in Hasselt.

63rd Data Science Leuven Meetup

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Host of the 63rd Data Science Leuven Meetup.

Talks:

The principle of maximum entropy on very large networks (Juan Alvarado)
Simplify more complex tasks with LLMs (Dries Vereecken & Patrick Leonardy, Python Predictions)
Managing and Integrating Microsoft Dynamics 365 Table Structure using Azure Synapse (Dries Gielis, Datashift)

SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt on Databricks

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I spoke at the Databricks meetup on how you can use dbt with SQL on Databricks to unleash the full potential of your data. The event was held at Cegeka in Antwerp, Belgium.

Speakers:

Sam Debruyn (tech lead data & cloud @ dataroots)
Fabrice Deseyn (data architect & team lead @ Cegeka)

SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Speakers:

Sam Debruyn (tech lead data & cloud @ dataroots)
Martijn Bauters (head of data & digital @ Cerba Research)

Belgium dbt Meetup 4

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the fourth edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by Datashift in Mechelen.

Belgium dbt Meetup 3

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the third edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by Astrafy in Brussels.

MotherDuck meetup

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Together with MotherDuck , I organized the first global MotherDuck meetup at dataroots!

Belgium dbt Meetup 2

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the second edition of the Belgium dbt Meetup . The meetup was hosted by OTA Insight in Ghent.

Analytics Engineering Belgium Meetup 1

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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I organized the first edition of the Analytics Engineering Belgium Meetup . The meetup was hosted by Ausy in Leuven.

Deploy a data lake on Azure in less than an hour

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This talk was given on multiple occasions:

During a lunch webinar at dataroots .
At Data Science Leuven (event details ).

A data lake is fundamental to a modern big data approach so it’s important to set it up the right way. But how can you do that without having to spend hours on research and then losing days configuring every component of the data lake? How can you gain a lot of time, while still deploying a fully functional data lake with all the necessary components?

Continuous integration for Flutter

Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

At the fourth Flutter Belgium meetup in Brussels, I gave a presentation about setting up continuous integration for Flutter apps using Bitrise.

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Beautiful Xamarin.Forms and Serious Tech talk

Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

In 2017 I hosted this edition of the Belgian Xamarin meetup group with 2 talks about Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Android.

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