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### 2026 changed everything when it comes to analytics engineering and we need to be ready for 2027! 

### The curricula for our new program is:

### Week 1 — Unstructured Data Modeling on Snowflake
- Processing PDFs and unstructured data best practices
- How to build vectors and optimize their retrieval
- Testing the data quality of unstructured data processing
- Scaling up data processing on Snowflake and cost management
- Building end-to-end RAG pipelines with Snowflake Cortex AI

### Week 2 — Building with Snowflake CoCo Agents
- Introduction to Snowflake CoCo and agentic data engineering
- Using CoCo to generate SQL, Python, and data transformation pipelines
- Building and deploying Snowflake Dynamic Tables with CoCo
- Creating custom agents and orchestrating multi-agent workflows
- Testing, debugging, and optimizing AI-generated data pipelines for production

### Week 3 — Scaling Airflow DAGs in Production
- How to guarantee an Airflow DAG produces the right results
- Everything needed to understand idempotent pipelines
- Building your first data contract with the WAP pattern on Iceberg
- Scaling Airflow with dynamic task mapping, concurrency, and resource management
- Monitoring, debugging, and recovering failed production pipelines

### Week 4 — dbt Fundamentals & Data Quality
- Introduction to dbt and Analytics Engineering
- dbt project structure, sources, models, and dependencies
- Materializations and dimensional data modeling
- Data testing, documentation, and lineage
- Implementing the Write-Audit-Publish (WAP) pattern with dbt

### Week 5 — Advanced dbt, AI & Semantic Layer
- Incremental models, Jinja, and macros
- AI-assisted dbt development with Claude Code and MCP
- Orchestrating dbt pipelines with Apache Airflow
- Semantic models, dimensions, entities, and metrics
- Building and querying metrics with dbt MetricFlow

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