What was announced at the dbt Coalesce 2024 keynote?

Cross-platform dbt Mesh with Iceberg (Announced), Visual editing experience (Preview), Advanced CI (Announced), Semantic layer integrations (Announced).

What were the highlights of the dbt Coalesce 2024 keynote?

Tristan Handy's theme was "One dbt": one workflow across clouds, data platforms, teams and skill levels, from dbt Core users to analysts in a new visual editor. The product segments added Apache Iceberg support so dbt Mesh works across platforms, AI help for writing tests and docs, Advanced CI to preview data changes, and semantic layer integrations for BI and AI. One dbt: teams on different clouds and data platforms, like Databricks and Snowflake, can reference each other's projects. A new visual editing experience in dbt Cloud lets less technical teams build on central dbt models. Models can be stored in Apache Iceberg format with a one-line config, so data is shared without replication.

Who gave the dbt Coalesce 2024 keynote?

Tristan Handy, on 2024-10-08 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Coalesce 2024 keynote

Tristan Handy · Oct 8, 2024 · 1h 32m · Las Vegas, Nevada

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Tristan Handy's theme was "One dbt": one workflow across clouds, data platforms, teams and skill levels, from dbt Core users to analysts in a new visual editor. The product segments added Apache Iceberg support so dbt Mesh works across platforms, AI help for writing tests and docs, Advanced CI to preview data changes, and semantic layer integrations for BI and AI.

Key themes: Data platforms, Open source, AI coding · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said1:31:50

1 2 3 4 5 6

1One dbt: teams on different clouds and data platforms, like Databricks and Snowflake, can reference each other's projects11:01
2A new visual editing experience in dbt Cloud lets less technical teams build on central dbt models11:46
3Models can be stored in Apache Iceberg format with a one-line config, so data is shared without replication41:09
4AI features generate tests and documentation to make models ready faster, rolling out now1:03:28
5Advanced CI in dbt Cloud shows the exact data changes a code change will produce before production1:07:34
6The semantic layer gained support for BI, AI and embedded analytics, with Tableau and Sigma integrations1:12:50

Announced

Announcement	Status
Cross-platform dbt Mesh with IcebergReference projects across data platforms	Announced
Visual editing experienceLow-code model building in dbt Cloud	Preview
Advanced CIPreview data changes from code changes	Announced
Semantic layer integrationsTableau Cloud connector, Sigma integration soon	Announced

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQj2mH7dl4I

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Tristan HandyFounder and CEO, dbt Labs

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Coalesce 2024 Keynote: Innovating with dbt

Companies named: AWS, Databricks, Sigma, Snowflake, Tableau, dbt Labs

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