dbt Summit 2026: the keynotes and product sessions

dbt Summit 2026, scheduled for September 15–18 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, will focus on helping data teams prepare governed, scalable data foundations for AI agents and increasingly autonomous analytics workflows. Its keynotes will address improvements to dbt’s engine, AI-ready structured context, AI-assisted development through dbt Wizard, and open infrastructure, while a community keynote will cover the continuing development of dbt Core and its open ecosystem. Product sessions will demonstrate dbt State’s approach to reducing unnecessary compute, dbt Wizard’s development, analysis, and discovery capabilities, and the planned rebuild of dbt Core around a Rust-based Apache 2.0 engine, ADBC adapters, and improved documentation. Other sessions will examine the evolving role of semantic layers and MetricFlow in providing reliable agent context, Apache Ossie’s portable metric specification, open lakehouse infrastructure based on Iceberg, lineage integration between Fivetran and dbt, and methods for supplying agents with governed metadata, semantic models, and usage context.

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