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About the event
Data is constantly evolving, especially over the last 5 years. We have seen an unprecedented development of new technologies that have disrupted that status quo. This has naturally led to the establishment of new roles & nothing is more on trend than Analytics Engineering – but what do Analytics Engineers really do and what value do they bring?
On Thursday 6th October we organised an incredible Data Meetup on all things Analytics Engineering, in collaboration with Dojo! Over 150 Data enthusiasts filled Dojo's incredible office space in Paddington for an evening of knowledge sharing, networking, a few drinks & great food!🤩 🙌
We had four fantastic talks covering the entire 'life cycle' of Analytics Engineering. We'd like to say a huge thank you to our wonderful speakers who made the night a true success: George Apps, Emanuela Ciotti, Oliver Laslett, Andrea Salvati & Rosie Kipling!👏
🎤 You can catch up on all the talks from the evening below:
Down With The DBT Monorepo - George & Emanuela from Dojo
Best Practice BI: It's All Just Semantics - Oliver from Lightdash
Enhance Code Collaboration with DBT Macros - Andrea from DAZN
Moving The B Line Button - Rosie Bumble
Guest speakers
Emanuela Ciotti
Senior Analytics Engineer at Dojo
Emanuela is an Analytics Engineer at Dojo. She joined less than 1 year ago to work with George in the central team, an excellence for data governance, modelling and insight across the wider data team. Prior to joining Dojo, she worked as BI analyst in the Marketing Analytics area at Farfetch. She is very passionate about data, food and travelling.
George Apps
Analytics Engineering Lead at Dojo
George is an Analytics Engineering Lead at Dojo. He joined almost 2 years ago to a small team with very little experience in the new tooling they were using. Now we have 50 dbt developers, the landscape has changed and a lot of his role is helping to make their lives easier with governance, custom tooling and a scalability mentality. He is always happy to chat about anything to do with data or cricket, and data about cricket is a real hit.
Oliver Laslett
CTO & Co-Founder of Lightdash
Oliver is CTO and Co-Founder at Lightdash, an open-source BI tool. He's worked with data in all its messiest forms: from magnetism experiments and aircraft engine data to e-commerce and product analytics. He has a passion for open-data and building open-source software. As a data geek, Oliver aims to inspire and encourage data analysts to pick up programming and start bringing software engineering practices to data.
Rosie Kipling
Senior Product Analyst at Bumble
Rosie is a Senior Product Analyst at Bumble. She joined Bumble in March 2021, and has since helped the BFF team in their Early Stage Product Discovery journey, increasing DAU by +90% YoY. Rosie started out her career in FP&A before moving to Product Analytics in 2019, where she was coached by Teresa Torres. In her spare time, Rosie enjoys playing tennis & golf, and long walks with her Golden Doodle Rory.
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Andrea Salvati
Lead Analytics Engineer at DAZN
Andrea graduated with a BsC in Economics and Finance from Bocconi University; and a MSc in Big Data and Business Analytics from IE University. His previous working experience includes working as an Auditor at KPMG, a Sales Intern at Google and a Strategic Business Consultant with Ideas In Motion in Rwanda. Andrea joined DAZN in 2019 as a Data Scientist working on product analytics and transitioned to leading one of the Analytics Engineering squad in 2021. Currently, he leads an end-to-end engineering squad responsible for the entire ELT framework.
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