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What to Expect
The Snowflake Summit World Tour is coming to San Francisco and we’re bringing everything you’ll need to enable your data-driven enterprise.
During Snowflake Summit San Francisco, you’ll have the opportunity to attend sessions that span the entire analytics ecosystem: data loading and transformation, data modeling, business intelligence, and the unique benefits of deploying a cloud-built architecture.
You’ll learn how Snowflake and our partner technologies can be the center of your modern cloud analytics platform.
Cost to Attend: Free
This event is at capacity. By registering you will be added to the waitlist.
How You Will Learn
Breakout Sessions
With multiple customer sessions, Snowflake Summit is devoted to peer learning. If you have a goal to accomplish, you’ll find solutions from your peers presenting at Summit.
Keynote
Hear from industry leaders and see the future of the data-driven enterprise in the cloud. Get inspired and find new innovative ways to enable data-driven transformation as your organization today.
Zero to Snowflake
Learn how to set up a data warehouse in practically no time and get the actionable insights your business needs during our instructor-led hands-on workshops.
Tailored to You
C-Suite
As a business leader, you’ll attend thought leadership sessions to help you develop a plan for the future. We’ll also present results-oriented content, so you get the most from your existing data analytics investments.
IT
Learn how to optimize Snowflake and leverage your team to deliver more data insights more efficiently. You’ll hear from practitioners, who are driving their teams to new heights with the data warehouse built for the cloud.
Business Intelligence
With BI leaders from every industry, Snowflake Summit is the best place to find ideas for speeding time to insight and reducing unnecessary management overhead within your BI platform.
Agenda
Listen to business and technology pioneers about how to enable the data-driven enterprise through analytics, technology, people, and processes.
Expo Hall Doors Open
Registration and Breakfast
The Business Imperative to Break Data Barriers
How do you become the leading data warehouse? Put customers first and think BIG! Join Snowflake’s Chairman and CEO, Frank Slootman, as he details how Snowflake continues to smash the cost, technology, and architecture barriers that prevent organizations from instantly accessing and sharing the insights from all their data. Slootman will also reveal Snowflake’s current vision and how we will continue to help companies break data barriers.
Introducing the Snowflake Data Platform
What does it take to build a truly modern data platform from the ground up? Is it possible a single platform can address all your workloads and data challenges? Known for its ability to handle large scale analytics workloads, Snowflake has evolved to become the centerpiece for organizations’ data architectures around the globe. Join Snowflake’s VP of Product, Christian Kleinerman, to learn:
- The architectural differentiation that makes Snowflake so unique and impactful
- How Snowflake can be your data lake and so much more
- How easy it is to get started with a cloud-built data platform
Cisco's Success with Multicloud Data Analytics
When faced with multiple cloud and on-premises technologies it becomes a challenging task to choose the right data platform for the right workload. Attend this session to learn how Cisco has implemented a hybrid multicloud architecture with Snowflake for building data and analytics solutions. Cisco will share lessons learned during this journey and what changed in regards to architecture, people and processes for their successful implementation.
Live Q&A with Snowflake Customers
Join Cisco, Square and Logitech to get all your questions answered about how to enable data-driven decision-making. You’ll also learn about the data analytics strategies these organizations deployed to better serve their customers, create new market opportunities, and streamline their operations.
Lunch in Expo Hall
Breakout Tracks
Track 1: Business Value for Executives
Data-Driven Business Strategies
Adopting a data-driven strategy can transform your business. Whether you’re looking to increase revenue, optimize costs, or reveal new market opportunities, using Snowflake helps accelerate data-driven initiatives to meet your business goals.
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Build a Modern Data Lake with Snowflake
Michael Nixon
Senior Director of Product Marketing
Snowflake
Many companies have made significant investments in building data lakes as their central data repository yet they struggle to show real business impact from those efforts. Use Snowflake as or with your data lake to eliminate complexity while delivering rapid analytics and establishing critical governance requirements. For your new data lake project, learn how Snowflake can be the center of your data strategy, and for existing data lake deployments, learn how Snowflake can turn a failed data lake strategy into a successful one.
2:40pm - 3:25pm
Rapid Migration and Scaling with Snowflake
Randy Wigginton
Director of Platform Engineering
Square
Find out how, in just six months, Square migrated a petabyte of data to Snowflake, along with all of its ETL and supporting systems. This intricately coordinated effort across dozens of decentralized data teams and hundreds of developers culminated in a fairly smooth transition. Today, Square has over 2,000 daily users, thousands of reports, and hundreds of ETL jobs completing with minimal oversight from infrastructure teams.
3:35pm - 4:20pm
The Path to Secure Data Sharing and Monetization
Justin Langseth
VP Data Sharing
Snowflake
Learn how Snowflake customers use Snowflake to share, exchange, and monetize their data. This session will showcase Snowflake’s Secure Data Sharing technology and how organizations such as Heap, Braze, Weather Source, and others use the new Snowflake Data Exchange to enable their customers to securely access, query, and join data between organizations, while protecting PII and remaining in control of their data.
Track 2: BI Focused
All the Insights from All Your Data
Learn how Snowflake’s unlimited performance and concurrency accelerate business reporting and enable the once-elusive modern data lake. Hear from Snowflake customers and product leaders about how to modernize analytics in the cloud and put data to work for your organization.
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Using Snowflake to Unify Data, People and Technology
Avinash "Avi" Deshpande
Chief Software Architect
Logitech
Snowflake enabled Logitech’s cloud journey with minimal impact on its business operations. Snowflake is a big data platform that sources data for all of Logitech’s analytics initiatives from descriptive to prescriptive to predictive analytics, including NLP processing engines. You’ll also earn how Logitech enabled its Tableau users by building a hybrid data fabric to seamlessly integrate and deliver information across on-premises environments and the cloud, while empowering business users with rapid analytics.
2:40pm - 3:25pm
Beyond BI: Making Your Vision a Reality
Jamie Davidson
VP of Products
Looker
Pravin Darbare
Director of Data Systems
Yapstone
Anil Kumar Puli
Senior Data Engineering Manager
Yapstone
Discover how Yapstone uses the Looker BI tool and Snowflake for a wide variety of use cases across its organization to empower a data-driven culture and move beyond a dashboard-only approach. Guest speakers from Yapstone will discuss their journey to make their data vision a reality in a matter of weeks by integrating internal processes, customer workflows, metadata, and KPIs. Hear how they built an embedded data portal to deliver value to customers with a variety of use cases.
3:35pm - 4:20pm
An Introduction to AI, ML, and Data Science in Snowflake
Todd Beauchene
Senior Engineer
Snowflake
The Snowflake partner ecosystem powers a number of robust AI, machine learning, and data science solutions. You’ll learn the benefits of leveraging Snowflake as a flexible and scalable data platform to provide data for all these solutions. We will cover several examples, including using Jupyter Notebook with AWS SageMaker to build and train a model based on data in Snowflake.
Track 3: IT Focused
Snowflake Architecture and Management
Snowflake’s unique cloud-built architecture is effective for a wide range of workloads. Find out how Snowflake’s near zero-management solution and built-in security keeps you and your organization stress-free and focused on high-value projects.
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Architecting Modern Data Applications
Megan Schoendorf
Software Engineer
Snowflake
Are you building a SaaS startup or adding analytics to your organization’s existing SaaS offering? In this session, you’ll learn common architectural patterns for data applications along with reference architectures and best practices for assembling the right data stack for your applications’ needs. In addition, you’ll learn how other SaaS providers use Snowflake to deliver value-differentiated applications to their customers.
2:40pm - 3:25pm
Migrate to Snowflake - Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud
Joshua Skarphol
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
When shifting to the cloud, the right data migration strategy is critical. Learn key insights and guidance for migration strategies, including migrations from Teradata, Oracle, and Netezza. Snowflake experts will cover migration topics including source system documentation, migration approaches, modernization considerations, and prioritizing data sets for migration. You’ll learn which migration strategies will help you make the most of your Snowflake investment.
3:35pm - 4:20pm
Cloud Data Warehousing: Rethink Your Data Architecture
George Fraser
CEO
Fivetran
It’s time to modernize your data stack and move to the cloud. But for your analytics team to become truly agile, migrating your data warehouse isn’t enough. Learn how to revitalize your analytics architecture with a cloud-first environment and dramatically improve your data team’s agility.
Track 4: Workshop
Zero to Snowflake
Join this hands-on workshop to cut your time to insight, instantly scale and analyze all your data by all your users with the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Learn how to set up a data warehouse in practically no time to get the actionable insights your business needs.
Session 1: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Repeat Session 2: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hands-on Lab
Zero to Snowflake
Hashmap
Join this hands-on workshop and learn how to cut your time to insight, scale instantly, and enable all your users to analyze all your data using the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Learn how to set up a data warehouse in almost no time to get the data-driven insights your organization needs.
IMPORTANT: Due to space constraints, the Zero to Snowflake hands-on workshop will have limited availability.
Here’s what you will need for the sessions:
- Sign up for a Snowflake trial account.
- Pick up a sticker from the Zero to Snowflake booth granting you access to one of the sessions.
- You must show your trial account activation email to retrieve a sticker.
- Stickers are available on a first come, first served basis and are limited.
- Arrive 15 minutes before your designated session and show your sticker.
- Bring your laptop and charger.
Expo Hall Happy Hour
When and Where?
September 19, 2019
Hotel Recommendations
All Speakers
See the future of your enterprise with the Snowflake keynote, and learn how cloud-built analytics will help your own organization become data-driven.
Speakers will be continually added.
Frank Slootman
Chairman and CEO
Snowflake
Frank Slootman
Chairman and CEO
Snowflake
Christian Kleinerman
Senior Vice President of Product
Snowflake
Christian Kleinerman
Senior Vice President of Product
Snowflake
Rob Smoot
VP of Marketing
Snowflake
Rob Smoot
VP of Marketing
Snowflake
Avinash Deshpande
Head of Architecture, Data Solutions, ML & AI
Logitech
Avinash Deshpande
Head of Architecture, Data Solutions, ML & AI
Logitech
Randy Wigginton
Director of Platform Engineering
Square
Randy Wigginton
Director of Platform Engineering
Square
Jamie Davidson
VP of Product
Looker
Jamie Davidson
VP of Product
Looker
George Fraser
CEO
Fivetran
George Fraser
CEO
Fivetran
Ravi Ammamuthu
Director Data & Analytics Office
Cisco
Ravi Ammamuthu
Director Data & Analytics Office
Cisco
Anupama Rao
Manager, Data and Analytics Office
Cisco
Anupama Rao
Manager, Data and Analytics Office
Cisco
Virendra Singh
Principal Engineer Data & Analytics Office
Cisco
Virendra Singh
Principal Engineer Data & Analytics Office
Cisco
Vikram Kapoor
CTO
Laceworks
Vikram Kapoor
CTO
Laceworks
Anil Kumar Puli
Sr. Data Engineering Manager
Yapstone
Anil Kumar Puli
Sr. Data Engineering Manager
Yapstone
Pravin Darbare
Senior Director of Data Systems
Yapstone
Pravin Darbare
Senior Director of Data Systems
Yapstone