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Ken Rickabaugh shared thisClosing out The AI Conference in San Francisco with plenty to think about. Best part was hearing directly from the people building this stuff. What’s working, what’s messy, and where the harder questions are showing up. A lot of strong conversation around ethical AI, governance, security, and what it takes to make AI genuinely useful inside the enterprise. Good week. Great city. Plenty to bring home. #AI #DataStrategy #DataLeadership #ResponsibleAI
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Ken Rickabaugh shared this✈️ Wheels up for San Francisco and The AI Conference 2026. Going to be a great few days hearing directly from the builders, researchers, and leaders pushing the cutting edge of AI forward — and getting a closer look at what’s moving from experimentation into real-world application. Looking forward to learning, comparing notes, and catching up with folks in SF. #AI #DataStrategy #DataEngineering #DataLeadership #theAIConference
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Ken Rickabaugh shared thisHaving been at #dbtSummit26, a lot of this resonates. What stood out to me most was the continued focused on making trusted, governed data easier to build, test, and put to work across the business. There was plenty to digest between the unified dbt direction, Fusion, testing improvements, dbt Charts, and the renewed commitment to OSS. And, as always, some of the more interesting questions are around what comes next. Angela Morgan, Darcy Norman, and Michael Carlone did a great job capturing both what was announced and what was left unsaid. Link below. #dbtlabs #brooklyndata #ODIKen Rickabaugh shared thisThis year's #dbtSummit26 brought new announcements, reinforced investments in the community, and left some things unsaid. In our latest blog, Angela Morgan, Darcy Norman, and Michael Carlone share our retrospective on dbt Summit 2026, from the retirement of Core and Fusion naming in favor of one unified "dbt," to new testing enhancements like batch testing and local unit tests, to dbt Charts as a potentially cost-effective BI offering for small companies. As they put it: "This renewed investment in OSS is a refreshing message to send to the community and makes us bullish on the direction Fivetran x dbt Labs is heading." 🔗 Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eaM_R8nGBack to Base Camp: A dbt Summit 2026 RetrospectiveBack to Base Camp: A dbt Summit 2026 Retrospective
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Ken Rickabaugh shared thisHeading to San Francisco next week for The AI Conference 2026 with the Velir / Brooklyn Data (Velir's data studio) team, September 29–October 1. Looking forward to conversations about putting AI to work, with trusted data behind it and a clear role in the experiences and workflows people already use. That’s where our digital and data teams come together: helping org's build the data foundations and practical AI apps that serve their employees and customers. If you’ll be there, let’s connect. Curious to hear what you’re building, what’s working, and where you’re getting stuck. #TheAIConference #AI #DataStrategy #AIReadiness
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Ken Rickabaugh reposted thisKen Rickabaugh reposted thisThat's a wrap on #dbtSummit26! Our team spent the week at the keynotes, breakout sessions, and roundtables, connecting with the community and there was plenty to celebrate along the way. David A. Gelman, Ph.D. kicked things off on Partner Day, joining a partner leadership panel on "Building an AI-Ready Data Business." Congratulations to Darcy Norman, our Staff Analytics Engineer, on being named a finalist for AI Innovator of the Year! And a happy birthday to Ken Rickabaugh, who got to ring it in with the team in Las Vegas this year. 🎂 Thanks to everyone who made the week so great! Nirmin Daredia, Nathan Schulte, Adrienne Chalfant Parker, Michael Carlone, Angela Morgan, Brandon Price, dbt Labs #dbtSummit26 #dbt #DataCommunity #AnalyticsEngineering
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Ken Rickabaugh reposted thisKen Rickabaugh reposted thisOur team will be on the ground at The AI Conference in San Francisco, September 29 – October 1! Dan Murphy, VP, AI Enablement, Ken Rickabaugh, VP, Data Growth, Alexander Soper, Director Client Services, and Sean Rice, Director Data Engineering, will all be onsite at Pier 48. If you're attending too, we'd love to meet up. Reach out and let's connect! #TheAIConference #AI #DataEngineering #DigitalExperience
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Ken Rickabaugh shared thisWheels up to Vegas for dbt Summit 2026! ✈️ New year, new name (see you, Coalesce 👋), plenty of familiar faces. Looking forward to catching up, meeting new people, and talking through shared goals and familiar challenges. It’s also my birthday! Spending it in Vegas with good people and a bunch of data nerds feels pretty on brand. 😂 Hope to see you there. #dbtSummit #dbt #DataEngineering #Analytics
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Ken Rickabaugh shared thisTwo weeks out. Vegas is getting close. I’ll be there with the Velir x Brooklyn Data team at Booth 139. If you’re heading to dbt Summit come find us or send me a note. September 15–18 | The Cosmopolitan See you there! #dbtSummit #dbt #DataEngineering #Analytics
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Ken Rickabaugh shared thisI barely Google anything anymore. If I have a question, I want an answer. Increasingly, AI is where I go to get it. That shift is why I’m interested in AEO. For brands, discoverability now includes showing up accurately and credibly in the answers people are getting from AI. The data connection is intriguing too. My focus is trusted data, clear definitions, strong architecture, and governance. A big payoff comes when that foundation gets activated in ways that affect the business. AEO is a tangible example. Velir is offering a free AEO Readiness Assessment using Scrunch to show teams how their brand appears in AI-powered search, where the gaps are, and where the quickest opportunities may be. Worth a look if this is on your radar. #AEO #AI #DataStrategy #DataActivationKen Rickabaugh shared thisSearch has changed. Buyers are asking AI before they ever land on a website, and if your brand isn't showing up in those answers, you may be losing the opportunity before you know it exists. That's where Scrunch, the AI visibility platform acquired by Sitecore, comes in — tracking how brands show up across AI-generated answers. Our AEO Readiness Assessment helps you find out how your brand shows up in AI-powered search, where the fastest wins are, and how you can gain the competitive edge. 👉 Sign up for your free assessment here: https://lnkd.in/ghcMQw9J
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Ken Rickabaugh liked thisKen Rickabaugh liked thisSpent the evening at the dbt Community Meetup at the Madison Avenue in NYC. The panel walked through the key ideas from dbt Summit 2026. Hosted by Sigma Computing and brought together by Brooklyn Data, the conversation covered a lot of ground on where data and AI are heading: 1) Data modeling matters more than ever. AI is only as reliable as the data underneath it. Well-tested, documented models and a shared semantic layer are what turn AI from a demo into something a business can trust. 2) Context engineering came up a lot too. Is it a new discipline or good modeling under a new name? The debate in the room was great. Thanks to David A. Gelman, Ph.D. for moderating and to the panelists for such an open conversation. Great meeting so many people building in this space. #dbt #DataEngineering #DataModeling #AI #MachineLearning
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Ken Rickabaugh liked thisKen Rickabaugh liked thisWe are hiring for a critical role accelerating our Databricks partnership!! https://lnkd.in/guE9MvMS
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Ken Rickabaugh liked thisKen Rickabaugh liked thisLooking forward to another full day of sessions and good conversations at The AI Conference! Great to catch up with the folks from the Velir team yesterday and meet the ASMBL team! And of course always great to see the iconic Oracle Park ⚾ 🏟️ Plenty to discuss around how agencies are helping businesses take AI from pilot to production, and where we can work together at Optimizely. If you’re here today, let’s connect! #theaiconference Dan Murphy Ken Rickabaugh Sean Rice Alex Soper Graham Smith Andy Van Oostrum Katie Dawson
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Ken Rickabaugh liked thisKen Rickabaugh liked thisThree of our 2026 Vertex Foundation Scholarship recipients are turning their personal experience with sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT) into meaningful pathways for advocacy for their communities. The Vertex Foundation is proud to have expanded its scholarship eligibility to reach students impacted by SCD and TDT, and their families, to continue empowering the next generation of leaders by providing financial support for their educational goals. Learn more about their stories and their vision of advocacy: https://lnkd.in/eT_8rwHG
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Ken Rickabaugh liked thisKen Rickabaugh liked thisBuilding Greybeam has taken me to some pretty cool places! Over the past year, I’ve been to Snowflake Summit, DBT conference, Big Data London, visited teams like Cloudflare, and even co-hosted a DuckDB meetup in SF! I love getting to talk about what we’re building, but honestly, the best part has been meeting the people who work with data infrastructure every day. Every conversation teaches me something new about how teams are actually using their data warehouses, where costs get out of hand, and what they wish was easier. A lot of what we’re building at Greybeam comes directly from those conversations. Grateful for every event, office visit, and conversation that gives me an excuse to nerd out about data with other people
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Ken Rickabaugh liked thisKen Rickabaugh liked thisIt was amazing to keynote the #TheAIConference with my talk about GraphRAG: The Definitive Guide. And great to be speaking right before the legend Tim O'Reilly about a new O'Reilly book. I am sure Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 planned it that way. 😁 You can download the full early access book for free here. Enjoy! https://lnkd.in/e78jczDx
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