From selection to scale: how ING is operationalizing dbt across a global bank

ING is operationalizing dbt at global scale across one of the world's most complex and highly regulated financial institutions. That journey is now intersecting with an AI and agentic automation strategy.

In this talk, we'll share what worked, what didn't, and how we took dbt from validation to governed enterprise adoption. That means DataOps enablement, compliance by design, and how we balance global consistency with local autonomy across domains.

We'll also show how dbt Semantic Layer and the dbt MCP server are opening new ground: natural-language analytics, AI-assisted model development, and agentic workflows that operate within regulatory constraints.