Data events calendar

Agenda

1. Wednesday, September 30, 2026

   • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·San Francisco, United StatesIn personAgentic analytics meetup San FranciscoData teams are gathering to share practical feedback on implementing analytics agents. The technical roundtable features practitioners from organizations like LinkedIn and Chime discussing architectures using tools like Hex, nao, Claude, and internal frameworks for autonomous data workflows.luma.comHex
   • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·Menlo Park, United StatesIn personApache Polaris™ Meetup Bay AreaApache Polaris advances open lakehouse architectures through integrations like Apache Ossie, which manages shared semantic models alongside physical tables and views. Additionally, a leaf-wins hierarchical resolution model enables dynamic, path-level storage overrides at namespace and table levels.luma.comIcebergSnowflake
   • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·Menlo Park, United StatesIn personPyLadies SF at Snowflake: Data Science in the Age of AIData engineering discussions center on evolving system designs, experimentation architectures, and data infrastructure. A key technical focus involves auditing silent data pipeline failures to isolate automated logic drift and implementing robust validation layers to ensure data integrity andluma.com

2. Thursday, October 1, 2026

   • 🇫🇷 5:30 PM·Paris, FranceIn personMeetup Airflow chez Snowflake Paris !Migrating 20 forecasting DAGs to Airflow 3 reduced infrastructure costs by 50%. The team leveraged Airflow 3 AssetWatcher for event-driven asset scheduling, eliminating idle event consumers by waking pipelines on demand, and optimized resource allocation using dedicated worker queues per client.meetup.comAirflowSnowflake
   • 9:00 AM PDTOnlineVirtual Workshop: Build a Data Agent in 60 MinutesBuilding reliable data agents requires robust infrastructure beyond basic SQL generation. A core architecture implements a model-in-a-loop calling MCP tools for database access, enforced by hard-coded, read-only guardrails. Complete telemetry provides observability to trace tool usage and costs.luma.com
   • 9:00 AM PDTOnlineWebinar: How dbt + Omni work togetherData engineers can leverage Omni's bidirectional dbt integration to enhance modeling workflows. The platform enables technical teams to bridge data models with analytics, allowing practitioners to push past pre-built dashboards and deploy AI to explore models across both data and business teams.luma.comOmnidbt
   • 🇫🇷 6:30 PM·Paris, FranceIn personAgentic AI Governance MeetupLe meetup aborde les defis de deploiement des systemes agentiques et de l'IA generative. Au-dela du code, la reussite repose sur la gouvernance des donnees, l'architecture sous-jacente et le monitoring continu pour eviter l'explosion des couts et garantir un suivi operationnel robuste.luma.com
   • 10:00 AM PDTOnlinedbt Charts Office Hours with Tracy Chow and Christoph MayerThe dbt Charts team is hosting open office hours to provide technical guidance on building visualizations with dbt Charts. Data engineers can explore implementation tips, get hands-on troubleshooting support, discuss pipeline visualization ideas, and share direct product feedback with theluma.comdbt
   • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·New York, United StatesIn personAgentic Analytics In Production: What's Working, What's NotData leaders discuss the practical realities of building agentic analytics in production. Technical topics cover semantic layer vs. context layer architectures, strategies for exposing data across diverse surfaces like Slack and BI tools, and maintaining consistent query results across thoseluma.com
   • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·Denver, United StatesIn personData Basecamp: The Impact of AI on data engineeringData teams are shifting toward building infrastructure, context, and interfaces that AI systems rely on. Technical sessions highlight expanding governance across LLM pipelines and agentic layers via classification and monitoring, alongside using multi-agent architectures with human-in-the-loopluma.com
   • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·Seattle, United StatesIn personPast the Buzzwords: What Makes Agents Work On Your DataLearn how to build data architectures for autonomous agents. Sessions focus on constructing a context layer to cut token costs and reduce hallucinations when querying data.luma.comMotherDuck

3. Friday, October 2, 2026

   • OnlineAURA live - Juha Korpela & Shane Gibson - Oct 02Juha Korpela and Shane Gibson host an AURA live session focusing on modern data architecture and engineering practices. The discussion explores practical data modeling strategies, pipeline design, and effective data management patterns tailored for scalable engineering workflows.commonsensedata.substack.com
   • 8:00 PMIn personData Orchestration Fundamentals: Flujos de Datos Idempotentes con AirflowAprende a disenar pipelines confiables y automatizados con Apache Airflow para optimizar procesos ETL y ELT. El entrenamiento aborda la construccion y gestion de DAGs, la aplicacion de mejores practicas de arquitectura de datos y la resolucion de casos reales para orquestar flujos escalables.luma.comAirflow

4. Saturday, October 3, 2026

   • 🇵🇭 12:00 PM·Quezon City, PhilippinesIn personPyWorks October 2026: Data and AI w/ RELXPyWorks features a hands-on data engineering track focused on building schema-driven event pipelines. Engineers will learn to process messy JSON logs into query-ready tables using Python, Pydantic, and DuckDB, alongside practical machine learning workflows for data preparation and evaluation.luma.comDuckDBPython
   • 🇮🇳 10:00 AM·Mumbai, IndiaIn personMaking Agentic AI Real: What's Next for Data & AI on Snowflake?Data engineering sessions focus on implementing agentic AI within the Snowflake stack. Technical demonstrations cover integrating Cortex Analyst, CoCo Desktop for VS Code, and MCP Servers in Snowflake to construct governed architectures and safe automated workflows beyond basic chat prompts.luma.comSnowflake

5. Monday, October 5, 2026

   • 🇩🇪 5:00 PM·Berlin, GermanyIn personReal-Time Berlin: Where Data gets MovingReal-time data engineering patterns center on streaming architectures and change data capture. Delivery Hero routes Postgres CDC events into Kafka to feed its live ML feature store, while Zalando abstracts Kafka via Nakadi to swap topics seamlessly.luma.comKafka
   • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·San Francisco, United StatesIn personFireside Chat - Greybeam X PumpData teams struggle with rising cloud and data warehouse costs even after resizing warehouses and configuring auto-suspend. Engineers are addressing this by gaining cross-cloud spend visibility and dynamically routing eligible workloads to DuckDB compute without requiring migrations or queryluma.comSnowflake

6. Tuesday, October 6, 2026

   • 🇩🇪 5:00 PM·Münster, GermanyIn personApache Iceberg™ Europe Community Meetup - October 2026 Munster EditionThe Apache Iceberg meetup explores core lakehouse data engineering patterns, focusing on Write-Audit-Publish workflows via branching and tagging. Sessions address migrating from Hive Metastore to Lakekeeper REST catalogs for multi-tenant isolation, plus deploying Iceberg engines on Kubernetes.luma.comDuckDBIceberg
   • 5:30 PM GMT+2OnlineBuilding an AI Platform: Memory, Tools, Guardrails, Observability & Shipping a Production AgentDeploying production AI agents requires robust session memory management, workflow orchestration, and tooling integrations. Engineers must implement comprehensive observability to monitor system health and enforce guardrails as execution policies rather than basic filters for consequential actions.luma.com
   • 🇨🇿 6:00 PM·Hlavní město Praha, CzechiaIn personDATA mesh #39 by DataddoThe thirty-eighth Data Mesh meetup in Prague gathers data engineering professionals to discuss modern architecture patterns and practical domain-driven data implementations. The technical program features presentations from practitioners at Heureka, NN Group, and Livesport.luma.com
   • 🇫🇷 7:00 PM·Paris, FranceIn person60. Paris Women in Machine Learning & Data Science @PigmentThe Paris WiMLDS meetup features a session on causal machine learning applied to observational and retrospective health data. The talk addresses moving beyond simple prediction by integrating robust study design, epidemiological principles, and flexible ML models to estimate actionable causalluma.com
   • 🇬🇧 6:00 PM·London, United KingdomIn personGirlsWhoData X Zopa - Conversational Analytics: making data more humanThis session for data and analytics engineering leaders explores conversational analytics and self-serve architectures. Discussions examine how natural language interfaces impact the semantic layer, addressing data democratisation challenges and technical risks in production implementations.luma.com
   • 6:00 PMIn personHajaData Meetup: Real-Time Data & AI at ScaleEngineers explore scalable architectures, bridging online streaming logic with offline replay across millions of events. Discussions focus on Spark 4.0 features like Real-Time Mode and transformWithState versus Apache Flink, alongside managing high-volume AI agent workloads on modern dataluma.comDatabricksFlink
   • 🇺🇸 5:00 PM·Menlo Park, United StatesIn personBuild a Production AI Agent with Snowflake CoCoBuild a production AI agent grounded in 107 million GitHub events using Snowflake CoCo. The architecture integrates terminal-based natural language prompts to generate SQL, load datasets, and query developer metrics.luma.comSnowflake

7. Wednesday, October 7, 2026

   • OnlineCost-optimized transformations on open, multi-engine compute with dbt and Apache IcebergOptimize transformation costs by storing data in open Apache Iceberg tables and routing workloads across multiple engines within a single dbt DAG. By pairing Snowflake with Lake Compute, data engineers can run lightweight staging models on cheaper compute while reserving warehouses for heavygetdbt.comIcebergdbt
   • 🇫🇷 9:00 AM·Paris, FranceIn personWorkshop - Parlez à vos données avec Genie AgentDatabricks Genie Agent utilise le Text-to-SQL pour convertir des requêtes en langage naturel en requêtes de données directes. Sa mise en œuvre technique nécessite la connexion aux tables, la définition du contexte sémantique, une gouvernance rigoureuse et le maintien de la qualité des données.luma.comDatabricks
   • 🇫🇷 6:00 PM·Paris, FranceIn personMilvus Meetup - ParisThis meetup focuses on distributed vector search architectures and production RAG patterns at scale. Engineers explore Milvus indexing algorithms, recall trade-offs, and design choices when scaling databases.luma.com
   • 🇩🇪 7:00 PM·Hannover, GermanyIn personHannover dbt Meetup - dbt Summit HighlightsThe Northern Germany dbt Meetup covers analytics engineering, modern data stacks, and DataOps. Sessions focus on updates from dbt Labs and technical architectures, specifically integrating SiBase X and dbt on the Siemens Data and AI Cloud for modular data transformation and testing.meetup.comdbt
   • 🇺🇸 5:00 PM·Bellevue, United StatesIn personOpen Lakehouse + AI Meetup - BellevueThis meetup covers GPU acceleration for Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Apache Iceberg, speeding join-heavy pipelines and the Medallion architecture's Gold layer.luma.comDatabricksIceberg

8. Thursday, October 8, 2026

   • 🇧🇷 10:00 AM·São Paulo, BrazilIn personEpisódio 300 Analytics Talks Especial no CinemaO Analytics Talks debate como os dados deixaram de ser apenas suporte para se tornarem centrais nas decisões. A discussão foca em engenharia de analytics, métodos de mensuração, pipelines de coleta e transformação de informação bruta em ação prática para sustentar o futuro da análise.luma.com
   • 🇬🇧 5:00 PM·London, United KingdomIn personApache Iceberg™ Europe Community Meetup - London HubThe Apache Iceberg Europe Meetup convenes data engineers to explore modern open table formats, storage architectures, and lakehouse implementations. Technical presentations cover data lake management, metadata operations, and integration patterns using Iceberg within enterprise data pipelines.luma.comDatabricksIceberg
   • 🇳🇱 6:00 PM·Amsterdam, NetherlandsIn personData from the Physical WorldEngineers at PyData Amsterdam discuss data challenges in physical AI, including handling sparse, human-recorded greenhouse data by blending mechanistic biological models with learned ML components, and managing CI/CD pipelines, remote telemetry, and debugging across a distributed fleet of over 100luma.com
   • 9:00 AM PDTOnlineJev for Analytics: 5 Use Cases on Real DataMotherDuck introduces prompt_jev() to query unstructured text columns like agent traces, comments, and job ads directly in SQL. Running roughly 20 times faster than standard LLM calls at lower cost, it lets data engineers extract insights and group business metrics within a single SQL pipeline.luma.comMotherDuck
   • 🇸🇪 6:30 PM·Stockholm, SwedenIn personAI Builders and Databases StockholmThe Stockholm ClickHouse Meetup focuses on real-time analytics at scale. Data engineers can explore updates in the ClickHouse ecosystem, hear technical presentations from practitioners in the field, and discuss high-performance analytical architectures and patterns during interactive sessions.luma.comClickHouse
   • 🇨🇦 1:00 PM·Montréal, CanadaIn personMontréal dbt Meetup - dbt Summit EditionThe Montreal dbt Meetup convenes data engineers to discuss analytics engineering, modern data stacks, data operations, modeling, and testing. The technical session features takeaways from dbt Summit, focusing on practical data transformation workflows and community practices in modern datameetup.comdbt
   • 🇪🇸 8:00 PM·Barcelona, SpainIn personBarcelona dbt Meetup (in-person) Oct 2026The dbt Barcelona Meetup focuses on analytics engineering, modern data stacks, and DataOps. Technical sessions feature updates from the dbt Summit and a deep dive into data tests observability using Elementary, covering data quality monitoring, pipeline testing, and reliable data modeling.meetup.comFivetrandbt
   • 🇺🇸 5:00 PM·Mountain View, United StatesIn personMountain View Data Engineering Meetup with ClickHouseThe ClickHouse South Bay Meetup brings data engineers together to explore analytical database solutions and examine "how folks are using us to solve their big data challenges." Sessions include user presentations and technical discussions highlighting modern high-performance data architectures.luma.comClickHouse
   • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·Palo Alto, United StatesIn personOpen Lakehouse & AI MeetupThe Open Lakehouse and AI Meetup convenes data engineers, platform builders, and AI practitioners to examine open lakehouse architectures supporting modern AI workloads.luma.com
   • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·San Francisco, United StatesIn personSpec-Driven Approach to AI-Assisted Data Engineering x AI MixerSpec-driven data engineering replaces ad-hoc AI prompts with formal specifications, business concepts, and engineering standards. Using agentic AI in Snowflake, engineers transition from subjective trial and error to repeatable pipelines, transforming one-off assistance into measurableluma.comSnowflake

9. Friday, October 9, 2026

   • 4:30 PM GMT+2Onlinenao community hour #16 - Vibe coded apps in naoThe nao community session highlights custom stories for building vibe-coded applications aligned with user design systems. Data engineers can leverage new migration tools to transfer Metabase and Tableau dashboards into nao, focusing on personal BI, agentic analytics, and context engineeringluma.com

10. Saturday, October 10, 2026

    • 🇳🇬 12:00 PM·Lagos, NigeriaIn personData Analytics for Everyone - Book LaunchThe event launches a practical roadmap for entering analytics by leveraging artificial intelligence tools. Tailored for practitioners and aspiring analysts, it connects attendees with data professionals to share technical guidance, career progression workflows, and foundational data insights.luma.com
    • 🇺🇸 8:30 AM·Ames, United StatesIn personDatabricks CampusConnect: Iowa State UniversityDatabricks and Corteva are hosting a technical session and hackathon focused on core data engineering tools. Participants will explore the Lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog for governance, Genie, and AI/BI Dashboards through hands-on exercises and real-world engineering challenges.luma.comDatabricks
    • 🇺🇸 11:00 AM·New York, United StatesIn personHackathon: Build Multiplayer Data Science Agents - #AIWeekNYPyMC Labs and CASTGNY are hosting an agentic hackathon focused on autonomous AI agents for complex data workflows. Participants build end-to-end data pipelines and analytical solutions using Daimon, an open-source data science copilot, to handle statistical modeling, analysis, and automatedluma.com

11. Monday, October 12, 2026

    • 12:30 PM GMT+2OnlineNavigating the Maze of Production Machine LearningDeploying machine learning requires robust engineering and surrounding data infrastructure to handle real-world workloads. Focus areas include constructing resilient pipelines, deploying recommender engines, and supporting complex agentic workflows to ensure production systems remain reliable.luma.com

12. Tuesday, October 13, 2026

    • OnlineThink you need a better reranker? Check your retrieval first.Search architectures benefit from a multi-stage funnel rather than a single expensive reranker. Start by generating a broad candidate pool using inexpensive lexical, vector, or hybrid retrieval methods.thenewstack.io
    • 12:30 PM GMT+2OnlineBuilding AI Evaluations You Can Actually TrustEngineering teams must calibrate AI judges against human labels and strict rubrics to eliminate bias. Evaluating RAG architectures stage by stage allows data engineers to pinpoint retrieval versus generation failures and replace fuzzy scores with targeted, deterministic checks in productionluma.com
    • 🇲🇽 8:00 AM·Ciudad de México, MexicoIn personSnowflake World Tour Ciudad de México ❄️El evento Snowflake World Tour Ciudad de México presenta las últimas capacidades y casos de uso de la plataforma de datos Snowflake. Se enfoca en la implementación práctica de arquitecturas de inteligencia artificial y analítica avanzada para transformar datos empresariales en soluciones escalables.luma.comSnowflake
    • 🇫🇷 7:00 PM·Paris, FranceIn personnao users drinksA Paris meetup for nao users offers an informal space for engineers to discuss setup configurations, architectural challenges, and implementation lessons. Participants will swap technical ideas regarding what worked, what failed, and ongoing blockers, with potential short presentations planned.luma.com
    • 🇳🇱 7:30 PM·Amsterdam, NetherlandsIn personNL dbt meetup: 17th EditionSessions focus on Kimball-style dimensional modeling, where DIMO translates business context and live warehouse metadata into runnable dbt projects with tests. Other talks cover governing data context for AI agents and running a lightweight data stack with dlt, DuckDB, dbt, Dagster, and Elementary.meetup.comDagsterDuckDBdbt

13. Wednesday, October 14, 2026

    • OnlineBuilding healthcare AI you can trustTo build reliable healthcare AI, data engineers pair automated ingestion via Fivetran with governed transformations and lineage using dbt Labs. Integrated with Snowflake, Tuva Health, and Omni, this architecture establishes shared data definitions and strict governance for conversational analytics.getdbt.comFivetrandbt
    • OnlineIntroducing dbt Charts: Dashboards as codedbt Charts introduces dashboards as code via an open-source, declarative BI framework. Stored as YAML alongside dbt data models, dashboards undergo version control, pull request reviews, and CI testing. This provides machine-readable context for AI and engineers to reliably query and visualize data.getdbt.comdbt
    • OnlineRetire Your Legacy ETL: Agentic Code Refactoring with dbt Wizarddbt Wizard refactors legacy stored procedures, Informatica, Talend, and Alteryx pipelines into modular dbt DAGs. It decomposes monolithic logic into staging, intermediate, and mart layers while preserving business rules, auto-generating tests and documentation, and validating data parity againstgetdbt.comdbt
    • OnlineYour AI agent aced the demo. Your data may still derail it.AI agents struggle in production when data architectures fail to provide fresh, governed business context across disparate sources. Beyond standard vector search or RAG, engineers need a contextual data layer to prevent stale data pollution, avoid high latency, and maintain unified context.thenewstack.io
    • 🇸🇪 8:00 AM·Stockholm, SwedenIn personData & AI Stockholm SummitThe summit centers on modernizing data platforms and building scalable data foundations to support artificial intelligence. Data engineers explore architectural patterns such as agent-native data platforms, enterprise data governance, and the infrastructure needed to deploy models into production.luma.com
    • 🇩🇪 6:30 PM·Berlin, GermanyIn personData says you need a coatThe Data Berlin Meetup highlights practical geospatial analytics using SQLite alongside discussions on autonomous data platforms with dltHub. Technical topics center on modern open-source data engineering patterns, including ELT pipelines built with dlt and dbt, plus orchestration via Airflow andluma.comdltHub
    • 10:00 AMIn personCompose your robotics data platformBuild a custom robotics data stack using Foxglove's API to collect, debug, curate, and search telemetry. Develop extensions for custom message types, visualizations, and transformations. Leverage webhooks to construct event-driven workflows and embed the platform directly into custom applications.luma.com
    • 🇺🇸 6:30 PM·Denver, United StatesIn personMaven × CAT Dealer Analytics: A Private Denver DinnerAnalytics leaders across the CAT dealer network are convening for an open Q&A on dealership data, AI, and technical team skills. The session emphasizes direct architectural and technical discussions without pitches, focusing on operational dealership data and analytics strategies.luma.com

14. Thursday, October 15, 2026

    • 🇫🇷 Paris, FranceIn personSnowflake World Tour à Paris : Faire de l’IA une réalité d’entrepriseLe Snowflake World Tour aborde la modernisation des architectures vers des plateformes unifiées et cloud-natives. Pour l'ingénierie des données, l'événement détaille la création de pipelines intelligents, la gestion de données multimodales et gouvernées, et l'intégration de couches sémantiques poursnowflake.comSnowflake
    • 🇭🇺 6:00 PM·Budapest, HungaryIn person#2 Budapest Snowflake MeetupThe Budapest Snowflake Meetup focuses on multi-modal data architectures and enterprise governance. Technical sessions cover building customer 360 models in financial services alongside scaling access control from RBAC, masking, and row access policies to Secure Data Sharing and Organizationalluma.comSnowflake
    • 9:30 AM PDTOnlineGetting Everyone on the Same NumbersSelf-serve analytics and AI tools often cause metric drift, yielding conflicting results like different calculations for net revenue retention across teams. The solution requires establishing standardized metric definitions and feeding accurate business context into AI systems to ensure consistency.luma.comMotherDuck
    • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·New York, United StatesIn personData Leaders Dinner @ Snowflake Roadshow NYCData leaders are gathering alongside the Snowflake World Tour NYC for an industry dinner hosted by Matia, a unified DataOps platform covering ETL, reverse ETL, data cataloging, and observability.luma.comSnowflake

15. Friday, October 16, 2026

    • 9:00 AM PDTOnlineWhat's New with dbt Charts + Office HoursThe dbt Charts team is introducing updates to help data teams build and share dashboards directly within their workflows. Key technical features include using AI to accelerate dashboard development, alongside live troubleshooting and product feedback sessions to help engineers optimize dataluma.comdbt

16. Sunday, October 18, 2026

    • 2:00 PMIn personBuilding AI Data Agents with Microsoft FabricLearn how to build AI data agents using Microsoft Fabric, Python, SQL, and Azure. The session covers end-to-end architecture, configuration, and practical implementation patterns to integrate modern cloud data platforms, automated pipelines, and enterprise data into working AI-driven systems.luma.com

17. Tuesday, October 20, 2026

    • 🇲🇾 6:00 PM·Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaIn personMUG Kuala Lumpur #24 - Title of sessionThe Kafka User Group session covers event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka, focusing on publishing database changes to downstream services. It also explores using Kafka as the core messaging backbone for multi-service superapps, alongside Atlas Search indexes for handling near-match queries.luma.comKafka
    • 🇺🇸 8:30 AM·Denver, United StatesIn personBuilding a Data-Driven Organization in the Modern WorldDenver data leaders are gathering to discuss scaling data-driven organizations through robust infrastructure and team incentives. The session explores how AI is actively reshaping workflows, evolving data team roles, and transitioning analytical pipelines into collaborative multiplayer analytics.luma.com
    • 🇵🇱 5:00 PM·Warszawa, PolandIn personApache Iceberg™ Europe Community Meetup - WarsawThe Apache Iceberg Europe Meetup in Warsaw gathers data engineers to explore modern open table formats, cloud data architectures, and lakehouse patterns.luma.comIceberg
    • 🇨🇿 5:30 PM·Ostrava 20, CzechiaIn personData CircleAkce pro datové specialisty a inženýry pracující s databázemi, AI a LLM modely proběhne formou neformální unconference a diskuzních koleček v prostorách Škoda Digital. Setkání nabízí prostor pro technické debaty a sdílení zkušeností z datové praxe i architektury.luma.com
    • 🇨🇿 6:00 PM·Brno-město, CzechiaIn personDatabricks Brno meetup #1The meetup covers data ingestion from Oracle and SQL Server using Lakeflow Connect, and extending the Medallion architecture to five layers for production ML scoring. Talks also address native PII protection via Unity Catalog column masks, row filters, and PySpark Lakeflow declarative pipelines.luma.comDatabricks
    • 🇺🇸 9:00 AM·San Francisco, United StatesIn personStacked: Breakfast on the Agentic Data StackAI agents are driving massive query volumes with zero patience for lag, fundamentally altering data platform architectures. Data engineers must adapt systems for agent-scale traffic and monitor observability pipelines to catch incorrect agent outputs before they impact production.luma.com
    • 🇪🇸 6:30 PM·Barcelona, SpainIn personData & AI Product Management Barcelona meetup #19The Data & AI Product Meetup in Barcelona offers an unconference format for practitioners managing technical roadmaps and business alignment. It serves engineers and technical specialists involved in structuring data products, organizing technical work, and collaborating with stakeholders.luma.com
    • 7:30 PM GMT+3Helsinki dbt MeetupThe Helsinki dbt Meetup covers analytics engineering, data modeling, testing, and modern data stack integration. Technical sessions highlight Kemira's data engineering journey with dbt and best practices for harmonizing data stacks using Snowflake semantic models.meetup.comSnowflakedbt
    • 🇺🇸 1:00 PM·Peachtree Corners, United StatesIn personAtlanta dbt Meetup [In Person] : Data, Drinks & Community - OctoberThe Atlanta dbt Meetup convenes data practitioners to discuss the modern data stack and engineering workflows. Attendees will review recent dbt releases, evaluate post-Summit tooling developments, and participate in a townhall exploring enterprise AI adoption across their technical architectures.meetup.comdbt
    • 🇦🇹 8:00 PM·Vienna, AustriaIn personVienna dbt Meetup (in person)The Vienna dbt Meetup covers data engineering workflows using dbt and Snowflake, highlighting Slim CI, native defer-to-production, concurrent executions, and Cortex Code.meetup.comSnowflakedbt
    • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·San Francisco, United StatesIn personLow-Key Data Happy Hour - San FranciscoThis informal gathering brings together data professionals to discuss data engineering patterns, tooling, and architectures without slides or structured talks. It provides an open space for engineers to exchange technical experiences and discuss real-world data systems directly with peers.luma.com

18. Wednesday, October 21, 2026

    • OnlinePostgres at Scale: Why It StrugglesVanilla Postgres struggles under high-velocity time-series ingestion and AI workloads, causing autovacuum bloat and slow queries. Instead of costly migrations, data engineers can rethink architectures by separating compute and storage or using TimescaleDB hypertables and continuous aggregates.thenewstack.io
    • 🇦🇺 5:30 PM·Sydney, AustraliaIn personSydney Data Eng meetup, October EditionLucas Masina presents the design and implementation of an MCP server enabling AI tools to interact directly with Socrates, Atlassian internal data lake. The session details its architecture, consumption layer patterns, and integration across various AI tools for internal analytics and data access.luma.com
    • 🇸🇪 5:00 PM·Stockholm, SwedenIn person#40 - Orchestration vs Model SelectionThe Stockholm MLOps Meetup focuses on "Orchestration vs Model Selection" within machine learning engineering pipelines. Technical leaders from Hopsworks, CHI Software, and Confidential Mind discuss architectural trade-offs between workflow orchestration systems and model selection strategies inluma.com
    • 🇸🇦 6:30 PM·الرياض, Saudi ArabiaIn personData Platform Night Riyadh. By Tabby x Data & Analytics Saudi ArabiaTabby is hosting a technical meetup covering pipelines, warehousing, feature stores, and operating multi-region infrastructure under payment load. Sessions focus on aligning AI strategy with data platforms, embedding governance directly into pipelines via metadata and lineage, and the Tabby DWHluma.com
    • 9:30 AM PDTOnlineBehind the Agent: How Hazel Built an AI Coworker for Consumer BrandsHazel built an AI coworker for consumer brands by provisioning a separate MotherDuck database for each customer. The architecture leverages dbt documentation to inject data context directly into the agent, combining isolated multi-tenant analytical storage with memory that learns over time.luma.comMotherDuckdbt
    • 🇩🇰 6:30 PM·Copenhagen, DenmarkIn personCopenhagen dbt Meetup vol. 11The Copenhagen dbt Meetup covers analytics engineering workflows, including extending dbt version control and testing into BI layers with downstream impact analysis.meetup.comdbt
    • 🇨🇦 11:00 AM·Vancouver, CanadaIn personVancouver dbt Meetup, Oct 2026The Vancouver dbt Meetup covers analytics engineering workflows, data modeling, and modern data stack architecture. Featured technical sessions explore the convergence of data roles into full-stack functions and strategies for running DuckDB alongside Snowflake in production to optimize dbt projectmeetup.comdbt
    • 🇬🇧 7:00 PM·London, United KingdomIn persondbt Global Circuit: LondonThe London dbt Meetup covers analytics engineering, modern data stacks, DataOps, data modeling, and testing. Aimed at data practitioners, the session features a recap of dbt Summit, exploring community best practices and how teams leverage the dbt Fusion engine to build reliable, structured datameetup.comdbt
    • 3:00 PM EDTOnlineAsk the Experts: dbt Statedbt State enables data engineers to "build what's changed and skip what hasn't" across data pipelines. Key technical capabilities include automated change detection, freshness SLAs, and table cloning across environments like dbt Core v2 and the Core plugin to optimize runtimes.getdbt.comdbt
    • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·Washington, United StatesIn personData Viz DC: An Interactive Introduction to Data Physicalization with Jon SchwabishThis interactive session explores data physicalization, examining how core visual encodings, chart families, and data types translate into physical space. Participants explore "the design choices, the trade-offs, and the questions that a screen tends to hide" to improve overall data communication.luma.com
    • 🇺🇸 5:00 PM·Seattle, United StatesIn personSeattle Apache Iceberg™ Community MeetupThe Seattle Apache Iceberg Community Meetup centers on open-source data analytics and open table formats. Data engineers will explore technical innovations around Apache Iceberg, transactional data lakes, lakehouse architectures, and modern patterns for integrating generative AI and ML workloads.luma.comIceberg

19. Thursday, October 22, 2026

    • 12:00 PMIn personYour AI Strategy Is Only as Good as Your DataData engineers must address fragmented data estates and disconnected systems to move AI into reliable, scalable production. Building modern AI-ready platforms requires balancing data quality with data availability, implementing enabling governance, and evaluating when to refactor legacyluma.com
    • 9:30 AMIn personNew York NEXTVaultSpeed NEXT showcases AI agents that generate, convert, and maintain data pipelines grounded in a governed data layer using the Omnigent meta-harness. The event features technical workshops on engineering governed data architectures, alongside discussions on robust data foundations for AI.luma.com
    • 🇦🇪 6:30 PM·دبي, United Arab EmiratesIn personAI Builders and Databases DubaiThe Dubai ClickHouse Meetup focuses on real-time analytics at scale, gathering data professionals to explore architecture updates and operational patterns in the ClickHouse analytical database. The technical sessions cover data pipelines, high-throughput queries, and distributed analytics.luma.comClickHouse
    • 5:00 PM GMT+2Onlinenao community hour #17This community session explores agentic analytics and context engineering for modern data teams. Hosted by founders Claire Gouze and Christophe Blefari, the live agenda includes an introduction, product demonstration, and interactive discussion focused on building intelligent analytical workflows.luma.com
    • 6:30 PMIn personDataCraft Kaunas - Meetup 02Justinas-Juozas Dainauskas introduces a framework designed for automated LLM training and analysis. The architecture emphasizes stream-lined pipelines for model training and systematic data analysis, offering data engineers automated patterns to orchestrate, evaluate, and scale language models.luma.com
    • 🇳🇱 6:00 PM·Amsterdam, NetherlandsIn personEvening of technical talks on Apache Flink® in productionEngineers explore Apache Flink in production for real-time streaming architectures. Adyen shares how Flink powers real-time feature computation for machine learning in payment processing.luma.comFlinkIceberg
    • 10:00 AM PDTOnlineWebinar: Building a branded AI data product for 100K usersBambooHR scaled its embedded reporting offering, Elite Analytics, to over 100,000 users using Omni. By leveraging an external analytics platform for customer reporting architectures, their data engineering and product teams avoided diverting resources from their core engineering roadmap.luma.comOmni
    • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·Denver, United StatesIn personTooling additions that make agentic data science work possibleLLM-based tools accelerate ETL pipelines, data quality checks, and lineage retrieval. Integrating agents with documented DBT models, Atlan lineage, and Snowflake warehouse plugins enables precise analyses, showing that maintained metadata remains foundational for effective agentic automation.luma.com

20. Friday, October 23, 2026

    • 🇹🇼 3:00 AM·Taipei, TaiwanIn personTaipei dbt Meetup #50 Sports AnalyticsTaipei dbt Meetup gathers data professionals to discuss sports analytics and modern data transformation workflows. Presentations cover core analytics engineering practices, modern data stacks, data ops, data modeling, testing, and applying version control to build reliable data pipelines.meetup.comdbt

21. Saturday, October 24, 2026

    • 🇮🇳 10:30 AM·Pune, IndiaIn personData Engineering for the Agentic AI EraAI agents require data platforms to evolve beyond static, clean datasets toward fresh, reliable, contextual, and observable data. Engineering modern architectures for agentic workflows demands real-time data pipelines, robust governance, automated data quality, and agent-ready discovery mechanisms.luma.com

22. Monday, October 26, 2026

    • 7:00 PMIn personDatabricks Asset Bundles desde ceroDatabricks Asset Bundles permite gestionar proyectos como código y automatizar despliegues con buenas prácticas de CI/CD. Mediante databricks.yml y Databricks CLI, los ingenieros de datos configuran, validan y estructuran proyectos para promover artefactos entre entornos de Dev, Staging y Prod.luma.comDatabricks

23. Tuesday, October 27, 2026

    • 🇻🇳 7:00 PM·Láng, VietnamIn personTechmaker Coffee Talk #03: Knowledge Debt: “Khoản Nợ” Của Đội Ngũ DataData teams thường đối mặt với Knowledge Debt khi kinh nghiệm xử lý SQL, pipelines và kiến trúc chỉ nằm trong đầu một vài cá nhân. Tình trạng này làm tăng Bus Factor và cản trở vận hành hệ thống. Quản lý tri thức kỹ thuật đúng cách giúp giảm thiểu nợ tri thức khi bàn giao dự án.luma.com
    • 8:30 AMIn personData Foundation Dayluma.com
    • 🇸🇮 6:00 PM·Ljubljana, SloveniaIn personData Science TalksTechnical presentations cover model optimization and automated pipelines. One session explores SOAP, an optimizer using practical second-order preconditioning to fix Adam gradient descent bottlenecks.luma.com
    • 10:00 AM PDTOnlineDuckLake Performance Optimization: Faster Queries From Your LakehouseDuckLake query performance hinges on skipping files and row groups by tailoring Parquet writes to workload patterns. Optimizations include multi-column sorting via space-filling curves, co-tuning file and row group sizes, and maintaining catalog health through compaction and snapshot expiration.luma.com
    • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·Atlanta, United StatesIn personAtlanta Analytics and Experimentation Meetup - The Human/AI HandoffData and analytics practitioners explore pipeline automation and decision frameworks around human-in-the-loop systems. A panel of data scientists and analytics leaders addresses the challenge of when to automate, when to stay in the loop across modern experimentation architectures.luma.com
    • 7:00 PMIn personQubika | De pipelines inteligentes a AI: transforma tu dataEsta sesión técnica aborda la evolución de los proyectos de datos, enfocándose en la transición desde la construcción de pipelines y el procesamiento de información hacia la integración con inteligencia artificial y machine learning para ingenieros de datos y especialistas en la nube.luma.com

24. Wednesday, October 28, 2026

    • 🇫🇮 3:00 PM·Helsinki, FinlandIn personThe Data Team's New ToolsData engineering teams are updating workflows and architectures to adapt to AI. Tools like MotherDuck and dltHub are evolving to meet these demands, shifting requirements for engineers.luma.com
    • 🇬🇧 6:00 PM·London, United KingdomIn personOrchestra Office Launch PartyData orchestration platform Orchestra is opening its new headquarters with an office gathering featuring informal technical presentations and networking for practitioners. The session offers data engineers a space to discuss upcoming pipeline tooling, platform developments, and team roadmaps.luma.com
    • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·Washington, United StatesIn personData Horror Stories: spooky talks from beyond the governedData Engineers DC and Data Visualization DC are hosting a meetup highlighting technical failures and challenges. The event explores data pipeline failures with tombstone records, broken dashboards, and unmanaged data swamps, providing practitioners a forum to discuss pipeline and storageluma.com
    • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·Menlo Park, United StatesIn personData for Agents: The New Database UserModern data stacks are shifting to support AI agents as autonomous database users. As noted, "Agents don't fail on SQL, they fail on metadata." Key technical hurdles include data freshness, governance, access control, and mapping tabular schemas to ontology graphs with Doris and Apache Gravitino.luma.com
    • 🇺🇸 6:00 PM·San Francisco, United StatesIn personWomen in Data + Eng Happy Hour: Pre Data Outpost MeetupA community networking event brings together women in engineering, artificial intelligence, and data disciplines. The gathering offers practitioners a space to discuss technical concepts and build professional connections across the engineering domain.luma.com

25. Thursday, October 29, 2026

    • 🇮🇩 9:00 AM·Kota Jakarta Pusat, IndonesiaIn personIndonesia Data & AI ConferenceThe Indonesia Data & AI Conference gathers enterprise leaders to address technical priorities in data management and scalable analytics. Sessions cover AI adoption, data foundations, automation, and governance frameworks designed to turn enterprise data pipelines and GenAI investments into businessluma.com
    • 🇬🇧 9:00 AM·London, United KingdomIn personAI Breakfast - AI Can Build the App. Can You Trust the Numbers?Ceres Pharma modernized its data architecture by unifying data across 23 entities and 5 ERP systems using Snowflake and Astrato. The implementation establishes a centralized, governed semantic layer that powers self-service analytics, AI-built data applications, and reliable reporting.luma.comSnowflake
    • 🇨🇦 5:00 PM·Toronto, CanadaIn personDET Toronto Meetup - Oct 29Data Engineer Things is hosting a Toronto meetup bringing together data practitioners, including analytics engineers, BI specialists, and AI data engineers. The community gathering focuses on technical knowledge sharing, solving complex data engineering problems, and collaborative networking.luma.com
    • 🇺🇸 5:30 PM·Kansas City, United StatesIn personKansas City Data Professionals (October 2026)Right-sizing analytics pipelines prevents early technical debt while avoiding premature distributed complexity. Starting with single-node tools like Polars, Postgres, and DuckDB enables high performance before migrating to Databricks or Snowflake.luma.comIceberg

26. Friday, October 30, 2026

    • 🇺🇸 8:00 AM·Salt Lake City, United StatesIn person2026 DELPHI Data Science Initiative SymposiumThe DELPHI Data Science Initiative Symposium showcases biomedical data science research at the University of Utah through presentations and poster sessions. Data engineers can explore interdisciplinary collaborations, clinical analytics pipelines, and research architectures across campus.luma.com

27. Saturday, October 31, 2026

    • 🇮🇳 10:00 AM·Greater Noida, IndiaIn personDatabricks Community Connect: Building the Modern Data & AI StackDatabricks Community Connect brings together data engineers and practitioners to explore the modern Data and AI ecosystem. The technical meetup features practical insights, real-world architecture use cases, and knowledge sharing on how organizations build robust data, analytics, and AI platforms.luma.comDatabricks
    • 🇮🇳 12:00 PM·Bengaluru, IndiaIn personLakehouse, Lagers & Legends [Bangalore]: Bridging Operational Data and AI Governance with LTAP & Unity GatewayThis session covers unified operational and analytical architectures using Lakebase and LTAP to eliminate complex CDC pipelines. Engineers will learn to integrate live operational data with AI workloads while enforcing access policies, guardrails, and tracing through Unity AI Gateway.luma.comDatabricks