What changes when 300 dbt users at Virgin Media O2 move to Fusion and dbt State

Virgin Media O2 has 42 million customers, 300 dbt users, 100 dbt projects, and spends millions of dollars in compute annually. At that scale, inefficiency isn't a nuisance. It's a cost.

This session shows what happened when we adopted the dbt Fusion engine across our single-tenant environment. Wait times fell. Compute spend dropped. And we broke our reliance on slow CI/CD cycles. We'll show the before-and-after with real numbers, quantifying the measurable gains we achieved in both cost and speed. We'll also cover how implementing static analysis raised quality, consistency, and trust across 100 dbt projects.

We'll close with what we're building on this optimized foundation: AI, dbt skills, and agentic workflows. This is about more than tooling. It's about unlocking speed, efficiency, and intelligence at scale.