Data cloud World Tour

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This breakout session is sponsored by our partner Slalom. More details coming soon.

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In this session, we will delve into industry trends and challenges, and explore how the right Data Cloud strategy can accelerate and scale your AI/ML adoption. You will also learn more about how you can leverage the Snowflake Data Cloud and our upcoming roadmap to enable you to optimise your data and ML processes, while avoiding fractured data stacks and governance.

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Hear how local organisations are solving business problems with Snowflake and collaborate on business challenges that are yet unsolved. Sunny will deliver a behind-the-scenes look into how Snowflake’s IT teams are using our own Snowflake Data Cloud. He will also talk about how Snowflake built an internal application to analyse, predict, and optimise software spend; using data & machine learning to maximise operational efficiency & control.

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What!? Another new feature!? The power of Snowflake grows week by week, but that power is useless if developers cannot wield it. Investment goes wasted and value unrealised. There’s one space where novices become masters, and Snowflake Data Superhero Christopher Marland wants to take you there. Come and learn how to become a Snowflake Superuser.

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Join us to hear the latest Snowflake platform innovations including new out-of-the-box performance improvements, advanced analytics capabilities, and enhanced business continuity. You’ll also learn new ways to monitor, control, and optimise spend alongside our latest built-in workload optimisation.

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Snowpipe Streaming reduces ingestion cost as it is on demand compared to running a streaming receiver like Spark that is running 24-7-365. These serverless features self-heal, which reduces the cost of maintenance as well. In this session, you’ll see an ingestion and transformation pipeline build that saves cost on streaming data using new Snowpipe Streaming functionality.

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Join us to learn more about the latest enhancements to Snowflake’s integration with Streamlit and how you can start quickly building apps using Python.

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Discover how the Financial Services Data Cloud is servicing the largest banks, asset managers, data providers, solution providers and ecosystem participants across the industry. In a discussion with Aviva plc and Capital One UK learn how the Data Cloud is rapidly evolving to provide agility, scale and performance outcomes for these firms enabling their operational success.

Gain actionable insights from industry experts and learn how these leading organisations have met their data and technology challenges and achieved enterprise transformation goals to generate business value fast.
Understand industry best practices and how to harness the power of the Data Cloud’s platform capabilities with a modernised approach to data transformation.

Industry Pavilion in the Expo Hall

The Snowflake Retail Data Cloud launched in March 2022, with Snowflake’s dedicated use cases and solutions addressing key industry trends such as inflationary and recessionary pressure. Since launch, the retail, CPG, data and services provider ecosystem is thriving on Snowflake. Hear from industry leadership on how the power of the Retail Data Cloud has transformed their business, helping them optimise pricing and promotion strategies, deliver personalised experience, build a more resilient supply chain and develop more efficient and sustainable operations.

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A big part of data science and machine learning workflows is data pre-processing and transformation for creating useful features that serve as inputs for ML models. Once useful features are defined and computed, they need to be kept up to date with new data and used consistently with a single source of truth across all use cases and across teams.

In this session, we will show how Snowflake provides powerful functionality for supporting large-scale feature engineering through new capabilities for data transformation in Snowpark, and management of these features via feature store infrastructure linked to an end-to-end machine learning operations solution. This helps you bring feature engineering to where your data is, reducing need for unnecessary data movement and taking advantage of Snowflake’s scalability, security, and governance.

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Arccos Golf is a sports analytics company powered by Snowflake that uses data to help golfers improve their game. They do this by tracking shots with sensors and using artificial intelligence to generate insights, such as strokes gained analysis and optimal strategies for each hole. Arccos‘ products have been shown to be effective in helping golfers improve their game, with users on average shooting 3 strokes better after 10 rounds.

In this presentation we will talk about how Arccos Golf is storing and processing all the sensor data in Snowflake and running AI/ML models on top to provide personalised insights. We will also show a demo of LLM running in Snowflake to ask questions such as:

• Which pro-golfer am I most similar with?
• How can I improve my game?
• Can you describe this hole and optimal strategy to play this hole?

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As the largest general insurer in the UK, Aviva is no stranger to using data to drive its core operations, from pricing to supply chain. Now, with Snowflake and Amazon SageMaker, it’s carving out a new direction to further remove silos, transform the claims experience, and drive MLOps across its operations to maximise the value of AI/ML.

Join Dean Steel, Aviva’s Senior MLOps Engineer and Dan Hunt, Senior Partner Sales Engineer at Snowflake, as they break down Aviva’s bold new direction. You’ll learn what MLOps means for Aviva, how it’s restructured its teams to drive success, and how Snowflake and SageMaker combine to give Aviva the flexibility to operationalise any kind of AI/ML solution.

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Join us to learn about the latest Snowflake platform innovation to provide developers with enhanced flexibility to work and build with data.

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Snowflake is now a platform that seamlessly integrates large-scale processing and low-latency queries. Join this session to learn what’s new in the space of search at Snowflake. We will review new features in search optimisation that allow you to cut costs and do faster searches in semi-structured, text, and geographic data, be it from your BI dashboards or from data applications.

We will also share where we are going with text search and how we provide alternatives to former operators of Apache Lucene and Apache Solr to build integrated search that does not require copying data out of your data warehouse and maintaining a separate search index. This session will be highly relevant for users in cybersecurity, financial services, log analytics, business intelligence, and other industries and use cases.

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Every enterprise, in every industry, is amassing large troves of data, thereby bringing data governance to the forefront. Regulatory requirements aside, good governance is critical to unlocking the value of data. This session dives into Snowflake’s native data governance capabilities, looking at how data catalogs and lineage enable data discovery, adoption, and stewardship, and how sensitive data can be identified using Snowflake’s auto-detection capabilities and protected with native masking and row-level security.

The session will also explore how just-in-time machine learning and user-behaviour models for RBAC provisioning are used to effectively right-size access, roles, grants, and permissions. We will also explore how other ML-powered tools are used to automate and improve data governance processes.

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This session is sponsored by AWS. Sage’s Data for Good program has a simple mission – to fuel smart public policies and innovative solutions that empower small and medium-sized enterprises in today’s dynamic economy. In this session you will learn how this data has reached No.10 Downing Street and is being used to give an in-depth view of UK SMEs’ performance, to address barriers to growth and to underpin impactful innovation and support.

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JP Morgan Chase, one of the world’s leading banking institutions is rapidly innovating with cloud-native applications utilising Snowflake’s enhanced data platform capabilities. This session will provide insights into the latest data technology innovations servicing their global institutional customers.

Join this discussion to enrich your understanding of how financial firms are building the next generation of data services adopting the Financial Services Data Cloud’s unique data collaboration properties to connect buy-side to sell-side market participants improving the data experience and delivering commercial products with speed to market.

Industry Pavilion in the Expo Hall

The Media Data Cloud launched in October 2021, with Snowflake’s dedicated use cases and solutions for the new era of privacy-first, consumer-centric advertising. Nearly two years after launch, the media, entertainment, and advertising ecosystem is thriving on Snowflake. Hear from industry leadership on how the power of the Media Data Cloud has transformed their business, helping them build a more effective, efficient, and privacy-centered future.

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This session is sponsored by Matillion.

How do you achieve a scalable self-serve data culture with Matillion and Snowflake? Join this session to learn how Adaptavist:

• Built their Data as a Product solution (DaaP)

• Have implemented embedded analysts in teams across the organisation; favouring export of empowerment over import of domain knowledge

• Are enabling all their teams to trust and use data to make business decisions and deliver impact

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The discovery of large language models (LLMs) is enabling an array of dazzling new AI apps that can converse and reason remarkably like humans. This talk will explore how Snowflake can help you leverage LLMs for your own data, both now and in the future. You will learn how to build your own LLM-powered app using Snowflake and Streamlit, with live demonstrations of how to use generative AI and LLMs to power natural language data explanation, exploration, recommendation, discussion, and question answering.

This talk will also discuss Snowflake’s strategy, including its recent acquisitions of Streamlit and Applica, and present some new AI products being developed in-house. Finally, the speakers will explore this technology’s implications for app development, data storage, processing, and analytics, and conclude with thoughts on how Snowflake can help you navigate this rapidly changing future.

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Retailers are missing the big picture they need to be truly data-driven but this is only part of the solution. Join this discussion to understand how Accenture is helping retail enterprises with accelerated adoption of AI. How can AI be used to improve service levels, network costs, and leverage digital twin technology for better supply chain management? How do we create more visibility to improve customer service, reduce costs and drive employee experience for better workforce management?

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TUI Group is one of the world’s leading tourism companies, with 1,600 travel agencies, 6 airlines, around 150 aircraft and over 300 hotels. As a company that relies on data to serve its customers, TUI demands capacity and flexibility from its data platform—and it found those things in the cloud.

Join Andrew Carter, TUI’s Head of Technology, for a deep dive into the company’s data transformation journey. You’ll hear about the initial challenges that sparked change, the principles and policies that make up TUI’s cloud-based data architecture, the challenges encountered along the way, and how the company continues to optimise its processes today. It’s a must watch for anyone undergoing a similar journey.

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Join us for a panel session featuring accomplished data leaders. Discover how Snowflake has been instrumental in their career success. Learn about their journeys, from accelerating data-driven decisions to unlocking scalability and enhancing security. Gain insights on how Snowflake can propel your career in the data world. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the best!

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Organisations of all sizes want to be data-driven. To steer the organisation, decision makers need timely data generated by supply partners, internal operations, and the industry ecosystem. Transforming the data landscape to become a data-driven organisation comes with challenges. Join this session to learn about operating models of data governance in a data mesh.

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Financial services organisations are building an enterprise data strategy that requires data collaboration across internal and external stakeholders. For many, ESG sits at the heart of the organisation’s data strategy. In this session, see how organisations including NatWest have partnered with Snowflake to build an award-winning cloud-first ESG data architecture that can serve a full spectrum of use cases including commercial lending, transition finance and regulatory reporting. Learn about the components of NatWest’s ESG data strategy, learnings from their transformation journey, and the value derived from their partnership with Snowflake

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Join this session to learn how you can use Self-Service Analytics on Streamlit to create visually arresting charts, filters and aggregations-all out of the box. Learn about the benefits of saving and retrieving work any time you need it, helping replace licensed visualisation and reporting tools, and saving costs org-wide.

Industry Pavilion in the Expo Hall

Join industry leaders to learn how some of the largest global customers in the telecommunications industry are using Snowflake’s Telecom Data Cloud to grow revenue, monetise their data and maximise operational efficiency.

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Join us to hear the latest enhancements with Apache Iceberg, powering flexibility and open standards in the Data Cloud.

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Marketers are faced with many challenges today, from creating Customer 360 while still meeting evolving privacy regulations, to maximising campaign ROI with hyper-personalised campaigns. Thanks to Snowflake’s Modern Marketing Data Stack, marketers can overcome these challenges by:

– Breaking data silos to securely collaborate on data
– Delivering personalised, robust marketing campaigns
– Increasing ROI with top marketing applications built natively on the Data Cloud

Join Snowflake’s Blaine Carper, Marketing Strategy & Analytics Manager, to learn how marketers are leading with data and redefining modern marketing through Snowflake.

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CarTrawler is the leading B2B technology provider of car rental and mobility solutions to the global travel industry. And it uses Snowflake’s Data Cloud to drive insights and data science throughout the business.
Join Patrick Callinan, Director of Data Strategy and Insights at CarTrawler, to hear how the company has built a scalable, reliable, and secure foundation for advanced business intelligence and data science. Plus you’ll discover how CarTrawler uses that base to improve its customer offerings and deliver a better experience—and why Snowflake was the right partner to make it all possible.

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Learn how to easily deploy a modern security data lake to decouple the data platform from SIEM capabilities for streamlined log aggregation and out-of-the-box detection and response capabilities for greater visibility.

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Cloud Data Engineering for Dummies, Snowflake Special Edition, states: „Data engineering isn’t something you do once. It’s an ongoing practice that involves collecting, preparing, transforming, and delivering data.“ Snowpark Python presents a powerful new way to do data engineering.

In this session, we’ll focus building data engineering pipelines with Python. You’ll see the end-to-end process of creating a robust data engineering pipeline using Snowpark Python stored procedures. That pipeline will process data incrementally, be orchestrated with Snowflake Tasks, and be deployed via a CI/CD pipeline. You’ll also learn how to use Snowflake’s new developer CLI tool and Visual Studio Code extension.

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With the Snowflake Native App Framework you can bring your application to your customer’s data, natively in the Data Cloud! Join us to learn from Snowflake product experts and industry-leading customers about how you can use the Snowflake Native App Framework to build Snowflake Native Apps, distribute and monetise them via Snowflake Marketplace, and deploy them directly in your customers‘ Snowflake accounts.

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Generative AI presents a technological leap from past iterations of AI/ML transforming key workflows across the financial services industry. Join this session with State Street Alpha to discover how these organisations are leveraging investment in data with AI/ LLM and the development of a new customer experience for their global institutional clients.

Learn how Snowflake enables State Street Alpha to aggregate content at scale, integrate it with a large language model, make it available in a secure way, and remove friction for clients to get access to proprietary and publicly-available market data. Hear about the key business use cases applied with generative AI and where the industry is investing and applying this technology over the next 3-5 years.

Industry Pavilion – Expo Hall

With the launch of the Health & Life Sciences Data Cloud in Spring 2022, Snowflake introduced borderless data access and data sharing, enabling exceptional patient outcomes and medical innovation. Snowflake industry experts will be joined onstage by life sciences, provider and payer visionaries to share the latest capabilities of Snowflake’s platform, and how they are tackling critical use-cases like patient 360 and data sharing with the Healthcare & Life Sciences Cata Cloud one-year post launch.

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This session is sponsored by EY. Join this session to learn how powered by Snowflake, EY & Hastings have unlocked significant value across Hastings’ organisation since 2021.

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With Snowpark Python now generally available, many customers are now able to bring production workloads in Python to Snowflake. But, how? For instance, how should you think about the DataFrame API vs. user-defined functions vs. UDTFs? In this session, you’ll learn core design principles for building capabilities on top of Snowpark Python (across data engineering, data science, and data application workloads).

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In April 2023, the Hewitt Review revealed startling statistics regarding the staggering financial and social impact of health inequalities. The NHS bears an additional burden of £4.8 billion annually, while society loses £31 billion in productivity and £20 to £32 billion in tax revenue and benefit payments due to these disparities. We will shine a spotlight on the urgent need for transparent, timely, and high-quality data to serve as a catalyst for change, creating a more equitable healthcare system.

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Learn how the consumption-based pricing model empowers organisations to accelerate broader digital transformation, and unlock transformational business outcomes. This session will introduce the Snowflake FinOps Framework – A structured approach to understanding, managing and optimising spend on Snowflake’s platform. You’ll hear real-world customer success stories and takeaway best practices to govern and optimise Snowflake spend.

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In uncertain times, companies seek external data to provide richer insights into their customers and operations. That growing demand for external data also provides an opportunity. Do I have data that others could use as well? Yet taking data to market-and deriving revenue from it-remains daunting.

This session will draw from the experiences of companies who have successfully commercialised their data by offering data as an incremental service to existing customers or selling new data products. Participants will understand the opportunities and challenges of the data economy; discover how innovative business leaders have launched data products and services; and learn how to identify use cases, develop offers, determine pricing models and take data to market.

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Join us to learn about the latest Snowflake innovations and automations to help you understand and work with unstructured data at scale.

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Learn how to load data into Snowflake faster. This will be a tour of the speed and efficiency of different ingest patterns and technologies. In this session, you’ll learn best practices and patterns for Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, COPY from external and internal stages, and the Kafka Connector.

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Data providers, service and solution providers are an intrinsic part of the Financial Services ecosystem and therefore an essential part of a bank or asset manager’s data transformation strategy in the cloud.

Snowflake Financial Services Data Cloud is connecting key ecosystem participants enabling them to deliver and further monetise high value data, data models and applications in cloud to win, retain and service their customers through a frictionless customer experience.

Learn how leading financial services ecosystem partners are adopting Snowflake’s Financial Services Data Cloud firms to build, monetise, and deploy a new generation of data services in Financial Services.

Industry Pavilion in the Expo Hall

Join leaders in manufacturing to learn how the Snowflake Manufacturing Data Cloud powers supply chain performance and smart manufacturing with data collaboration and edge-driven advanced analytics in the cloud.

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Join Convex Insurance for an enlightening presentation sharing their firsthand experience with Dataiku and Snowflake, as they uncover the art of managing data democratization at scale. Discover actionable insights on building collaborative cultures, ensuring trust, and maximizing value generation in the data-driven business landscape.

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Join us to learn about the latest enhancements helping data scientists and ML engineers develop and productionise machine learning models natively in Snowflake.

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This session will discuss security, networking, and identity access management (IAM) around building multi-tenant data applications on Snowflake. It will dive into security, data control, and tenants‘ isolation options for builders looking to develop a secure multi-tenant application. We will cover secure connectivity, identity access management, data governance capabilities, encryption, data protection, high availability, auditing and monitoring, including all the new security features.

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Come and learn more about the newest native data governance and privacy capabilities that work across clouds and regions to bring visibility and control across your entire global data estate.

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Snowgrid is Snowflake’s uniquely differentiated technology layer that interconnects your business‘ ecosystems across regions and clouds so you can operate at global scale. Come learn more about the newest cross-cloud business continuity capabilities that are part of Snowgrid and how customers are leveraging them for resiliency and disaster recovery.

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Join us to learn about the latest Snowflake enhancements that remove the boundaries between streaming and batch, enabling data pipelines to be created more easily than ever before.

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The SQL improvements in Snowflake can’t stop, won’t stop. In the last year, we’ve enriched Snowflake SQL to make your queries shorter and easier to write. Join this session to learn more about new syntaxes and functions we’ve introduced and best practices on how to use them.

Industry Pavilion in the Expo Hall

Technology waves follow predictable adoption patterns but today, the pace in public sector is escalating. Snowflake is committed to supporting public sector organisations unlock citizen critical data to drive meaningful change and collaboration. The criticality of this data will traverse public and private organisations. Governments, private sector, and educational organisations can amplify their ability to protect, teach, and serve our communities. Join us and discover how Snowflake’s Data Cloud will impact the everyday lives of people, businesses, and markets around the world.