2026 dbt Community Awards: Meet All 10 Winners | dbt Summit 2026
The 2026 dbt Community Awards honored 10 people from the dbt community for their contributions to analytics engineering — from open source code and technical mentorship to community organizing and AI innovation. Presented live at dbt Summit 2026, these awards celebrate the practitioners, educators, and leaders who make the 70,000+ member dbt community run. 🏆 2026 dbt Community Awards winners: Ambassador of the Year — Bruno Lima Meetup Organizer of the Year — Jeremy Chia dbt Commit Co(median) of the Year — Ken Kwan Data Engineer of the Year — Karthik Rajashekaran Analytics Engineer of the Year — Angela Alves Ferreira Data Analyst of the Year — Selim Lestrat Technical Contributor of the Year — Daisuke Taniwaki Design Partner of the Year — Sophie Li AI Innovator of the Year — Vince Faller Community Champion of the Year — Marcelo Bour Congratulations to all of our 2026 winners — and thank you to everyone who nominated, supported, taught, organized, contributed, and showed up for the dbt community this year. 🧡 Join the dbt community: Connect with 70K+ data practitioners, ask questions, share what you're learning, and meet people building with dbt around the world: getdbt.com/community/join-the-community Same community. Bigger possibilities. #dbt #dbtCommunity #AnalyticsEngineering #DataEngineering #DataAnalytics #dbtSummit