Celebrating the 2026 dbt partner of the year winners
Last edited on Sep 15, 2026
Our partners help data teams level up their dbt implementations: faster rollouts, cleaner data foundations, and AI initiatives that ship. At Partner Day during dbt Summit 2026, we recognized five partners who did that work at the highest level this year.
Here’s who won, and why.
Partner of the year: phData
phData earned partner of the year for the fourth consecutive year for what its customers walk away with: dbt implementations and data foundations to build trusted agents on, and a certified bench ready to take on the hardest problems. As a Visionary-tier partner, phData is a team that shared customers trust with their most critical data programs.
“Winning dbt Labs Partner of the Year for the fourth year in a row says more about the depth of this partnership than any single project could. dbt has become the backbone of how we help clients turn raw data into something the business can actually trust and reason with. We’re proud of the work we’ve done together, and even more excited about where dbt is headed as it becomes central to how our clients build agentic and AI use cases on top of their data.” — Dustin Dorsey, Senior Director, Data Engineering, phData
Technology partner of the year: Snowflake
Snowflake earned technology partner of the year for the joint value that customers get out of the partnership. In every region, teams running dbt on Snowflake are standing up trusted, production-grade pipelines faster, with dbt Labs and Snowflake engineers working the same problems together rather than handing customers off to each other. It’s one of the most widely adopted foundations in the ecosystem.
“Snowflake and dbt Labs share a vision of empowering data teams to move faster with confidence, and this partnership continues to raise the bar for what our joint customers can achieve. Together, we’ve made it simpler than ever for organizations to build trusted, production-grade data pipelines on Snowflake. We’re proud to be named dbt Labs Partner of the Year and excited to deepen our collaboration to help even more customers turn their data into real business impact.” — Rodrigo Rocha, VP, Global ISV and Technology Partnerships, Snowflake
EMEA partner of the year: Cívica
Cívica earned EMEA partner of the year for the quality of what customers get, not just the volume. More customers in the region do their dbt work with Cívica than with any other partner, and every engagement is backed by a certified delivery team. It’s a Visionary-tier partner customers across EMEA rely on to get it right the first time.
“Being recognized as dbt Labs Partner of the Year in EMEA is a tremendous honor and a true testament to the hard work and dedication of our entire team. What excites us most about collaborating with dbt is the strength of its community: a vibrant ecosystem where open collaboration, innovation, and shared learning help drive the entire industry forward. We’re more motivated than ever to continue accelerating the future of data alongside this incredible network.” — Josep Roig, CEO, Cívica
APJ partner of the year: Datum Studio
Datum Studio earned APJ partner of the year for the depth of what it delivered for customers in Japan this year: more joint dbt work than any other partner in the region, as many customer wins as any partner globally, and one of the strongest certified delivery teams in APJ. In a market where technical depth is everything, Datum Studio was the team customers turned to this year.
“dbt has become the de facto standard for analytics engineering, and our role is to make that standard take root in the Japanese market, not just as a tool, but as a way of working. What excites me most about the partnership is where it’s heading: as AI agents start writing and reviewing transformations, the foundation dbt provides, lineage, testing, documentation, governance, and shared context, is what makes that work trustworthy at scale.” — Sohei Takechi, President and CEO, Datum Studio
Emerging partner of the year: 66degrees
66degrees earned emerging partner of the year for how fast it got to real customer work. In under a year, 66degrees went from a standing start to delivering dbt projects for customers, bringing Google Cloud depth to shared accounts, and showing up alongside dbt Labs at field and virtual events. This is what a partnership looks like when a team decides to invest.
“66degrees is honored by this recognition as dbt Labs’ Emerging Partner of the Year, which celebrates our long-term Fivetran partnership and our years spent building dbt directly into our core accelerators, including Hub66 and Paradigm Data, our agentic data product delivery agents. Fivetran and dbt together define a transformative direction for data architecture, establishing the seamless pipeline required for modern analytics and AI. As both platforms innovate, we look forward to evolving our accelerators and driving the next era of intelligent data delivery right alongside them, giving our customers a best-in-class data platform.” — Daniel Zagales, SVP, Data and Analytics, 66degrees
What this means for the dbt community
These five partners represent five different ways of showing up for customers: depth of delivery, regional expertise, and the speed to build something new. Congratulations to phData, Snowflake, Cívica, Datum Studio, and 66degrees on the well-earned recognition.
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