DET Toronto Meetup - Oct 29

​Join us at Shopify's Toronto office on Thursday, Oct 29th for an evening of learning, networking, and fun.

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🎯 Theme: The Real Work of Data Engineering: AI, Scale, and the Mistakes That Teach Us

​Some of the best engineering lessons come from the things that didn't go according to plan.

​We are bringing Toronto's engineering community together to explore the real work behind building data and AI systems: the technical decisions, trade-offs, challenges, and lessons learned along the way.

​Because increasingly, the hardest problems don't sit neatly inside data engineering, software engineering, or machine learning. They sit at the intersection.

​🎤 Meet Our Speakers

• ​Derek Pyne
  Staff Data Engineer | Shopify
  The Use of River to Build Data Loops to Improve Models

• ​Jill Cates
  Staff Data Engineer | Shopify
  Can an AI Agent Fix Your Data Warehouse? Using health metrics to find tech debt and verify the fix

• ​Mitchell Posluns & Pranavan Pirahalathan
  Manager, Analytics Engineering & Data Scientist II | Wealthsimple
  From Craft to Context: How AI Turned Engineering Discipline into Critical Infrastructure

• ​Adeniyi (Ade) Bello
  Data Architect | Assent (PE backed by Blackstone + Vista Partners)
  Rethinking the Data Stack: Building a Zero-ETL, Go-Engineered Warehouse

​Who Should Attend?

​Whether you're a data engineer, software engineer, ML/AI engineer, analytics engineer, platform engineer, architect, or engineering leader working on these problems, we'd love to have you in the room.

​📍 Location: Shopify Toronto Office
📅 Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
⏰ Time: 5 - 8 PM ET

​Sponsors

• ​Lead Sponsor: Shopify

• ​Supporting Sponsors: Astronomer

​Cheers!

​DET Canada Team (Vipul Choudhary, Rushika Verma)

​Interested in speaking at a future event? How to Submit Talks

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