{"id":760,"date":"2025-09-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/mcr\/?post_type=seminar&#038;p=760"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:00:02","slug":"meetup-manchester-databricks-user-group","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/mcr\/seminars\/meetup-manchester-databricks-user-group\/","title":{"rendered":"MEETUP: Manchester Databricks User Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4\">Databricks community! The Manchester Databricks User Group is officially returning\u00a0 making its debut at Data Decoded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\">We are excited to announce guest speakers from:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\"><strong>Hightouch<\/strong>\u00a0is a data and AI platform for marketing and personalisation. Find insights, run campaigns, and build AI agents with all of your data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\"><strong>dbt Labs &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help data practitioners create and disseminate organisational knowledge. dbt is the standard for AI-ready structured data. Powered by the dbt Fusion engine, it unlocks the performance, context, and trust that organisations need to scale analytics in the era of AI. Globally, more than 60,000 data teams use dbt, including those at Siemens, Roche and Cond\u00e9 Nast<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\"><strong>ThoughtSpot<\/strong>\u00a0is the Agentic Analytics Platform for every enterprise. Their mission is to create a more fact-driven world by empowering everyone to explore any data, ask any question, and uncover actionable insights faster\u2014leading to growth, better business outcomes, and efficiency in their organisations<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\"><strong>Ricky Patel<\/strong>\u00a0(Sales Engineer Manager) &#8211; ThoughtSpot<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\"><strong>Hicham Babahmed<\/strong>\u00a0(Partner Solutions Architect) &#8211; dbt Labs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4\"><strong>Asim Khadri<\/strong>\u00a0(Senior Solutions Engineer) &amp;\u00a0<strong>Gary Banks<\/strong>\u00a0(Enterprise Account Director) &#8211; Hightouch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-760","seminar","type-seminar","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"start_time":"2025-10-21 17:30:00","end_time":"2025-10-21 19:30:00","theatre":631,"speakers":"","businesses":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MEETUP: Manchester Databricks User Group - Data Decoded MCR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/datadecoded.com\/mcr\/seminars\/meetup-manchester-databricks-user-group\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MEETUP: Manchester Databricks User Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Databricks community! 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