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The Data Vault User Group Conference 2024

Our 2024 conference event brought together industry leaders, experts, and practitioners for insightful discussions and invaluable networking opportunities. Download free resources and see some of the highlights from the event below.

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2024 Conference Speakers

Your 2024 Conference speaker lineup didn't disappoint. From Federated Data Management to Data Mesh and LLMs, download the slides from each speaker below.

Alex Higgs

Product Manager/ Owner at Business Thinking Ltd.

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Navigating Data Vault Success

A grounded exploration of how day‑to‑day delivery, analyst involvement, and hands‑on learning help bridge the gap between technical detail and business value, guiding teams toward Data Vault solutions that support meaningful BI results.

Roberto Zagni

Principle Consultant and author of 'Data Engineering with dbt'

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Data Engineering with dbt - a pragmatic approach

A practical reflection on how lessons from the field and clear engineering principles guide a more sustainable approach to building dbt‑powered Data Vault solutions.

Chad Sanderson

CEO of Gable.ai and author of “Data Contracts"

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Federated Data Management

A federated approach to data management enables distributed ownership while maintaining governance consistency across complex enterprise data environments.

Francesco Longoni

Consultant Data Engineer at Business Thinking Ltd.

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Building a Data Vault at speed

This session shows how smarter patterns, clearer alignment, and better collaboration can transform Data Vault from a technical framework into a high‑value, business‑first data platform.

Barry Devlin

Senior Enterprise Data Architect and author of ‘Cloud Data Warehousing’

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Cloud Data Warehousing Redux

How do we make decisions, and should we entrust them to AI built upon cloud data warehousing?

Jonas De Keuster

Vice President of Product Marketing at VaultSpeed

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Combining Data Fabric and Data Mesh

Integrating Data Fabric with Data Mesh aligns centralised governance with distributed data ownership to create more adaptable and scalable enterprise architectures.

Andrew Jones

Author and Principal Data Engineer at Springer Nature

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Data quality: prevention is better than the cure

With a focus on preventing problems instead of correcting them later, this session highlights how quality principles and upstream controls help teams produce cleaner data and more stable analytics.

Alessia Pulieri

Business Intelligence Manager at the Independent Office for Police Conduct

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Migrating and Integrating Data at the Independent Office for Police Conduct

A public sector migration effort highlights how structured integration approaches improve data consistency, governance and operational reliability in sensitive environments.

Alexey Makhotkin

Creator of Minimal Modelling and Independent Researcher

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Incrementally documenting your database

Continuously documenting database structures ensures evolving systems remain understandable, traceable and easier to manage across iterative development cycles.

Francesco Puppini

Professor at Bologna Business School and author of ‘The Unified Star Schema’

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SQL with LLMs: Chatting with Your Data

A real‑world perspective on how modelling discipline, curiosity, and practical SQL experience shape the way LLMs understand data, showing how better structures and metadata enable more natural, conversational querying

Neil Strange

CEO of Business Thinking and Chair of the Data Community

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The future of Business Intelligence

Evolving BI systems are moving toward more automated, real-time and integrated architectures that enhance decision-making and reduce analytical latency across organisations.

Patrick Cuba

Author and Senior Solutions Architect at Snowflake

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Data Mesh & Data Vault on Snowflake

A practitioner’s view of combining domain‑driven design, Data Vault methods, and Snowflake capabilities to shape reliable data platforms that scale with the organisation’s needs.

Ramana Katabattina

Software Development Manager at Quest Software

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Accelerate your Data Vault journey with the power of erwin Suite

Using the erwin Suite, organisations can speed up Data Vault adoption through automated design, stronger governance controls and more efficient modelling workflows.

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