Tech Events in Leuven

Unlock'd hosts the Flutter Belgium Meetup #29. Are you a Flutter expert or just curious about what Flutter is? Everybody is welcome and the goal is to share and learn together about everything in the Dart & Flutter space.

There will be food, drinks, Lightning Talks, technical sessions, and a lot of room for networking. Hope to see you there!!!

Program:
18:00: Doors are open
18:15: Food for all
18:30: Lightning Talks
19:00: Session 1 - How to make a Toyota sing with Flutter - Senne De Laet (Unlock'd) and Dirk Vanderhenst (Toyota)
19:40: Session 2 - I Can Read Your Flutter App: Reverse Engineering, Clean Rooms and AI - Viktor Dubko
20:20: Open Space
21:00: Networking

Lightning talks:
Lightning talks are ~5 minutes talks. These are 'stand-up' talks so you can just go for it 'on the spot' if you have a cool demo, some new package or widget to talk about or just something you find interesting or funny to share with the group! Don't worry if you never gave a lightning talk before. It's a perfect opportunity to practise talks in a friendly environment.

Open space:
The open space is a ~30-40min workshop like session. The meetup participants are asked to suggest topics for the discussion. A topic can also follow from a Lightning Talk in which a topic is suggested or a question is shared. There can be multiple sessions in parallel and depending on interest everyone can choose which session they want to participate in.

Join the Flutter Belgium Slack:
https://join.slack.com/t/flutter-belgium/shared_invite/zt-81t45m0z-v8GpUna8LT9mILTK9oKbOA

Come and join your fellow peers to have a good time practicing writing code to get better at writing code in your real jobs.

We’ll start off with koffiekoeken and form pairs to do the Game of Life Code Kata.
After 45 minutes we’ll delete all our code and talk about new insights you’ve gained.
Then we’ll pair up with new people and do it all over again but with new constraints applied, like not using conditional expressions, or committing code on green within 2 minutes.

At some point we’ll break for lunch and we’ll figure something out for dinner too.

What to bring?

This event is very hands-on and it’s always better to come prepared.
Bring your laptop (and peripherals if this helps you code better).
Make sure you’ve installed GIT, and some programming languages you like.
Here are some kickstarting code repositories you can already clone to see if they are usable for you on your machine:
https://github.com/SoftwareSandbox/coderetreat-kotlin
https://github.com/SoftwareSandbox/coderetreat-java17
https://github.com/SoftwareSandbox/coderetreat-elm
https://github.com/TimmyGilissen/coderetreat-dotnetcore

Schedule

08:30 Welcome with koffiekoeken
09:00 Kick-off, facilitated by Tim Schraepen
09:30 First kata
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 More kata’s
17:30 Closing

Is this event for me?

If one or more of these apply to you, I’d say you’ll have a good time and learn something new:

• You’re a student and want to learn from people that code for a living
• You want to improve your coding skills
• You want to learn how to improve your AI context/harness engineering via software crafting skills
• You’ve never done Test Driven Development before
• You’re experienced and want to pair with somebody outside of your team
• You’re very experienced and want to help your peers grow their coding skills

Practical Info

Our host of the day is AE | Adapt & Enable and along with sponsoring the food and drinks, they’ve lent their office space (desks, monitors, meeting rooms, …) to help you become a better software developer.

dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures.

🏠Venue: AE, Interleuvenlaan 76, 3001 Leuven
🤝Organizers: Philipp Engels, Mateo Vansweevelt, Sam Debruyn
🅿️ Parking space available at the venue
🚂 Bus line 43 from the Leuven train station stops near the venue

To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy

Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come. Reach out - send a message in #local-belgium on Slack - if you need to cancel last minute or change your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going."

📝Agenda:

• 18h00: welcome with food & drinks
• 18h45: start presentations
• 20h00: networking & drinks

🗣️Presentations:

Building dbt projects with Agentic, Spec-Driven Development
ACA shares how its Data SDD framework supports day-to-day analytics engineering: building dbt models, debugging data platforms, and tracing issues from Power BI back into dbt.

by Davey Verleg, Analytics Engineer at ACA Group

As an Analytics Engineer at ACA Group, I combine traditional data engineering practices in dbt with modern tools and agentic AI to deliver reliable data models faster. I focus on data modelling and monitoring data quality, particularly in complex, rapidly changing business environments.

From AI Features to Trusted Insights: Building a Data Platform with Snowflake, dbt and Power BI
We built a data platform on top of the product at Parte. Raw operational data and AI traces land in Snowflake. dbt sits in the middle: it turns that raw data into a clean, tested model the business can trust. Power BI is where they follow adoption, quality, and cost. I’ll walk through that path at a high level, and why dbt is what keeps the reports stable while the AI features keep changing.

by Salah Laaroussi, Data&AI Engineer at AE

I’m Salah, a Data & AI engineer at AE. For over a year I’ve been a consultant at Parte, a property-management software company. Together with my colleagues we’ve been adding AI to their existing platform so day-to-day work for property managers can run with less manual effort.

We are always looking for speakers!
To submit a session for one of the next meetups, please use our Sessionize page.
Are you in doubt if you're ready to give a talk? Check out dbt Labs's guide on how to deliver a fantastic presentation!

➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: https://www.getdbt.com/community/
🤝 For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-belgium channel in dbt Slack (https://slack.getdbt.com/)!

dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust.

Learn more: https://www.getdbt.com/