Data Engineers in Toronto

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Monday, September 14, 2026 · 8:00 PM EDT

Implementing Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Copilot Studio Agents

Mitul Tailor

Senior Data & AI Engineer · Long View Systems

Building an AI agent is easy — managing it across dev, test, and production is the real challenge. Mitul demos ALM for Copilot Studio agents using Power Platform solutions: packaging, environment promotion, and deployment pipelines for enterprise-grade governance and change control.

36 attending

Monday, September 28, 2026 · 8:00 PM EDT

Streaming your database — Easier said than done?

Sigal Shaharabani

Technical Group Leader · Couchbase Ambassador

Lessons from building a resilient Change Data Capture (CDC) system for database streaming. Over 18 months the team tackled unexpected challenges in scaling, data formats, integrations, and deployment — here's what worked and what didn't.

23 attending

Monday, October 12, 2026 · 8:00 PM EDT

Introduction to the data build tool (dbt)

John Miner

Senior Data Architect · Insight Digital Innovation

A hands-on tour of dbt that goes well beyond the Jaffle Shop: seeds, view transforms, macros, slowly changing dimensions, incremental loads, data-quality tests, and auto-generated docs — all in an open-source sample project built on the Chinook schema against a Fabric SQL Database.

2 attending

Monday, November 9, 2026 · 8:00 PM EST

Deep Dive into Scalable, AI-Ready Spark in Microsoft Fabric

Iurii Iurchenko

Senior Data Engineer · Life Line Screening

A practical deep dive into Spark-based data engineering in Fabric: advanced Spark SQL, patterns for semi-structured data, reliable and maintainable pipelines, and notebook and table optimization — plus Fabric's built-in AI functions for text processing, enrichment, classification, and feature engineering.

2 attending

Monday, November 30, 2026 · 8:00 PM EST

The Integration Blueprint: Choosing the Right Path in Microsoft Fabric

Javier Villegas

IT Director · Microsoft MVP Data Platform

How do you design the right integration strategy in Fabric? A live demo-driven playbook for landing, transforming, and orchestrating data with Data Pipelines, OneLake shortcuts, Spark Notebooks, and Dataflows Gen2 — with decision criteria for Lakehouse, Warehouse, Eventhouse, and SQL Database targets.

2 attending

Monday, December 7, 2026 · 8:00 PM EST

City of Toronto Open Data Portal

Mac Nichols

Supervisor · City of Toronto Open Data

The team behind open.toronto.ca pulls back the curtain: how Toronto's Open Data Portal works behind the scenes, how it has evolved since launching in 2009, and where open data contributes to the city — straight from the staff who manage it.

2 attending

Monday, January 11, 2027 · 8:00 PM EST

Agentic Loops in the Data Stack: From Pipeline Failure to Auto-Remediation

Varun Joshi

Senior Data Engineer · AWS

Five AI agents changing how data teams operate — 24/7 pipeline monitoring, schema-drift detection at ingestion, and closing the gap from production failure to root cause in minutes. Real implementation patterns, including a baseline-learning monitoring agent and a tool-use driven incident-response loop.

2 attending

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