Nationwide Building Society achieved what Databricks called the fastest deployment in financial services, from zero to production-ready platform in just 4 months. But speed wasn't the only goal. While other organizations struggled with technology sprawl and lengthy upskilling cycles, Nationwide's team made a critical decision from day one: adopt the dbt Platform alongside Databricks to put blinders on complexity and accelerate their legacy migration.

In this session, Dimitrios Traskas, Head of Engineering for Cloud Data Platforms, shares the recipe behind their rapid transformation: from supporting a new data strategy driven by CEO and CDO leadership, to enabling fraud prevention and customer personalization at scale. Learn how standardization, automated quality checks, and a thoughtful federated adoption model helped a 140-year-old institution deliver modern analytics in months, not years.