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Snowflake World Tour
Sydney
29 October | International Convention Centre
AGENDA
Registration and Networking
Opening Keynote
Vice President, Australia & New Zealand
Snowflake
Chief Executive Officer
Snowflake
Director of Product – Snowpark, Ecosystem, and Developer Platform
Snowflake
Director of Developer Relations
Snowflake
CIO
Bunnings
MORNING TEA
Public Sector Program
Dedicated Public Sector stream designed for our Australian public sector attendees with sessions covering how Data and AI are transforming citizen experience and how government agencies are leveraging the power of technology to build new use cases.
Global Public Sector CTO
Snowflake
Medical Informatics Registrar
NSW Health
Principal Data Engineer
Australian institute of Sport
Senior Strategy Manager
Cenitex (VIC PubSec)
Director, Systems Engagement
Domestic Family Violence & DNA Reform Program
Regional Services
Queensland Police Service
Director Data & Analytics
Worksafe VIC
CEO
Plate M
Executive Program
The Executive Program at Snowflake World Tour is an invite-only stream designed to enhance your experience. Business and data leaders will enjoy curated content, including a fireside chat with Snowflake executives Sridhar Ramaswamy and Chris Degnan. Attendees will hear from top Data and AI professionals and gain insights into industry trends, best practices, and innovations. This is an exclusive opportunity – prepare to be informed, inspired, and energized.
VP Sales Engineering APJ
Snowflake
Chief Executive Officer
Snowflake
Chief Revenue Officer
Snowflake
Vice President, Australia & New Zealand
Snowflake
Executive Director
MA Financial
Senior District Sales Manager
Snowflake
Senior Value Engineer
Snowflake
Managing Director, Data & AI Lead ANZ
Accenture
Director Strategic AI partnerships
NVIDIA
Head of Data & AI
David Jones
GM Data and Corporate Systems
Wesfarmers Group
ACCELERATE ENTERPRISE AI
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
What's New: Building AI Chat Experiences with RAG in Snowflake Cortex
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
WORKWEAR
Data to Innovation: Workwear Group’s Transformation Journey with Snowflake and AI
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
What's New: Building AI Chat Experiences with RAG in Snowflake Cortex
Looking to bring more value out of documents and other text data? Join us to learn about the latest serverless LLM functions and how you can get up and running with RAG-based AI chat experiences within minutes inside Snowflake.
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Jeff Hollan
Director of Product - Snowpark, Ecosystem, and Developer Platform
Snowflake
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
WORKWEAR
Data to Innovation: Workwear Group’s Transformation Journey with Snowflake and AI
In this session, Workwear Group shares the journey of transforming our data infrastructure using Snowflake and AI technologies. We will highlight the key challenges faced before implementation, the benefits gained through enhanced BI insights, and how AI and Streamlit are driving efficiency by streamlining internal tools. Additionally, we will present a case study where automation, Snowflake, AI, and Streamlit were used to eliminate a significant manual process, accelerating Workwear Group’s data-driven transformation.
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George Prieto
AI / Automation Lead
Workwear -
Felix Chou
Data Capability Lead
Workwear
STRENGTHEN YOUR DATA FOUNDATION
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
EY
Data Talks: The Symbiosis of Data and AI
Join us for a conversation between EY partner, Louisa Francis and Cochlear VP of Data and recently selected Corinium Global Intelligence Top 100 Innovators of 2024, Mal Wanstall. Covering a range of topics from the role of data products in your data foundations, to creating a culture of curiosity, and leveraging AI in reshaping industries. Expect to hear an honest view of the journey in driving transformative change with data and AI.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
What's New: Snowflake Horizon for Data Teams
Data privacy continues to be a paramount consideration for organizations looking to gain more value from their data as data privacy regulations evolve and now exist in over 70% of countries globally, according to the UNCTAD. Data owners are often making a challenging trade-off between not leveraging their sensitive data versus being able to collaborate and generate revenue from that data. Join this session to learn how the latest Snowflake Horizon product innovations in data privacy enable you to unlock more revenue and deeper partnerships with your sensitive, regulated and proprietary data, while protecting it with privacy-enhanced collaboration across multiple parties.
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Jonathan Golan
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
What’s New: Time-Series Analytics in Snowflake
Time-series data — also known as data with timestamps — is everywhere. From IoT sensors to financial markets to web data, time-series data is exploding in terms of velocity and volume with the advent of cloud infrastructure, smart devices and machine learning applications.
This type of data serves diverse purposes, ranging from helping identify machinery due for service to providing operational intelligence dashboards to evaluating financial trading strategies. Snowflake can enable such complex analytics on these large volumes of data in low latencies. Join this session to learn the latest time-series capabilities in Snowflake to unlock the power of your time-series data.
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Ahmed Hafez
Principal Sales Engineer
Snowflake
BUILD & DISTRIBUTE APPLICATIONS
11:45AM - 12:15PM
Best Practices: How to Build Enterprise-Grade Snowflake Native Apps
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
What's New: Unleashing Advanced Applications in Snowflake
Dive into the latest product innovations such as Snowpark Container Services, Snowflake Native App Framework, Hybrid Tables and more that enable developers to create cutting-edge and AI-powered apps. Plus, discover new enhancements that further streamline the app development journey.
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Daniel Myers
Director of Developer Relations
Snowflake
11:45AM - 12:15PM
Best Practices: How to Build Enterprise-Grade Snowflake Native Apps
Creating enterprise-grade applications can be quite complex. Join this session to learn about the best practices and latest capabilities the Snowflake Native App Framework provides to supercharge your application development. Learn about the security model and the diverse features of the Snowflake Native App Framework that enable the creation of secure applications such as the Streamlit permissions SDK. Explore the various UI extensibility options now available for Snowflake Native Apps with Snowpark Container Service, Streamlit in Snowsight, and other SDKs.
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Tim Buchhorn
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
INDUSTRY IMPACT
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
AWS Session
During this fireside chat, hear from leading digital financial services company: Zip about their journey to real-time digital and customer analytics. How they are building their Data Strategy and innovating within the insurance industry.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
COMMBANK
Accelerating AI to Build a Brighter Future
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Dr Andrew McMullan
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Snowflake for Financial Services
As financial services organizations look to adopt new technologies such as generative AI or accelerate their transformation agendas, a robust enterprise data strategy is becoming more critical than ever. Hear how other industry leaders have leveraged the Financial Services Data Cloud to streamline their data architecture, enable new data experiences via applications, and move from the art of the possible to AI implementation.
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Kaushik GD
Industry Principal, Financial Services
Snowflake
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
Snowflake Women in Data in Partnership with Accenture | Workshop & Lunch
The Building Blocks for a Strong Voice on LinkedIn
The world of work is changing rapidly, LinkedIn data shows that skillsets required for our jobs will change by up to 65% by 2030. Your digital brand is your most valuable professional asset today to position your industry leading expertise and advance your career. Join us for an interactive workshop with actionable, data driven guidance on how to build your professional brand authentically on LinkedIn.
Head of Strategic Accounts
Head of Content Solutions Australia
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Overview of Gen AI at Snowflake: Building Next-Generation AI Apps
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
How Next-Gen Data Clean Rooms Are Powering Advanced, AI-Driven, Multi-Party Collaboration
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Overview of Gen AI at Snowflake: Building Next-Generation AI Apps
Join this session to hear the latest on Snowflake’s current capabilities for generative AI, and learn how they can empower your applications. We’ll provide an overview of how Snowflake’s generative AI features, including Snowflake Cortex and Copilot, empower customers to build cutting-edge LLM applications with ease. Hear our perspective, current capabilities, roadmap and vision for AI.
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Travis Murphy
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
How Next-Gen Data Clean Rooms Are Powering Advanced, AI-Driven, Multi-Party Collaboration
Data clean rooms have evolved from a third-party cookie replacement for media to an advanced, multi-party compute and collaboration system that safely unlocks sensitive and proprietary data across industries in ways never before possible. In this session, we will explore capabilities of Snowflake Global Data Clean Rooms, including how developers can customize code analysis templates for various use cases, integrate with custom data clean room implementations and partners across the ecosystem, and securely integrate and enable AI models into the data clean room.
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Alex Lei
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Data Ingestion with Snowflake: Learn Best Practices and What's New
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Building Open Data Lakes And Lakehouses With Iceberg
Apache Iceberg provides an open storage standard that can democratize your data stored in disparate data lakes by providing freedom and interoperability to use various data processing engines. Join this session to hear all of the latest Snowflake platform enhancements for Iceberg Tables, along with onboarding improvements and new integrations.
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Somesh Bahuguna
Principal Sales Engineer
Snowflake
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Data Ingestion with Snowflake: Learn Best Practices and What's New
Data ingestion should not be hard! In this session, Snowflake product experts will provide an overview of what ingestion methods exist today with Snowflake, and when and why to use which ingestion option. Join us to gain a holistic understanding of how ingestion works in Snowflake, and see some of the latest capabilities in action. You’ll also learn about Snowflake’s native connectors such as PostgreSQL, and how it can remove friction from your data ingestion workload. In addition, we’ll discuss the connectors’ strengths and ideal use cases.
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Marko Slabak
Principal Sales Engineer
Snowflake
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
ESRI | CLOUDWERX | COALESCE
Sudden Data Overtime (- Why We’re Now in ‘Overtime’ on the Enterprise Data Match and What Happens if We Don’t Score…)
Join us for an insightful session where Cloudwerx and ESRI Australia explore the new reality of the Modern Data Stack (MDS)—no longer a competitive edge but a baseline for survival in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Hear how ESRI Australia transformed their fragmented data systems and manual processes into a unified, real-time data platform using Snowflake, Fivetran, and Coalesce. Learn why data is no longer just fuel for growth but the starting line for what comes next—and discover how failing to act now could mean missing out on the future entirely.
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Under the Hood: Snowflake Native Apps with Snowpark Container Services
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Under the Hood: Snowflake Native Apps with Snowpark Container Services
Snowpark Container Services empowers developers to securely execute code using virtually any language or library within Snowflake, unlocking potent applications in AI/ML and large language models. Snowflake Native Apps further enhance this capability by allowing these solutions to be packaged, delivered and monetized via Snowflake Marketplace. This session offers an in-depth look at the integration of Snowflake Native Apps with Snowpark Container Services, emphasizing the security implications of containers and the incorporation of Snowpark Container Services upgrades into the CI/CD processes of Snowflake Native Apps. Join us for a comprehensive exploration of these advanced technologies and their impact on future app developments.
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Parul Matta
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Enabling Sustainable Innovation in Retail: How to Drive AI Transformation with the Snowflake Retail Data Cloud
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
JUDO BANK
From start-up to world-class bank - how data feeds growth
In this session, Isaac David shares the unique growth journey of Judo Bank and how they became one of Australia’s most trusted business banks for SMEs – ranking fourth on the Financial Times’ Top 500 High-Growth Companies Asia Pacific list. From building the basics, to driving scale and optimisation. Learn how this company puts technology, or more specifically, data, at the heart of the business and delivered huge productivity gains, including a 26x reduction in costs.
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
RESOLUTION LIFE | nib | ZURICH
Financial Services & Insurance Panel
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Enabling Sustainable Innovation in Retail: How to Drive AI Transformation with the Snowflake Retail Data Cloud
The era of AI is in full swing within the retail industry. With mounting pressures from higher interest rates/inflation, rapidly evolving consumer demand, and geopolitical challenges, AI is often seen as the beacon of light shining the path toward success. Join this session to learn how to overcome data silos, unlock value from your data assets, and drive sustainable innovation for customers with AI.
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Leslie Lorenz
Industry Principal, Retail
Snowflake
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
RESOLUTION LIFE | nib | ZURICH
Financial Services & Insurance Panel
During this Financial Services panel, hear from Snowflake Insurance customers; nib, Zurich and Resolution Life about their journey to AI, how they are building their AI Data Strategy and innovating within the insurance industry.
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Simone Robertson
Major Account Executive
Snowflake -
Mathew Finch
Head of Data & AI
nib Group -
Emyr James
Chapter Area Lead - Data, Analytics & AI
Resolution Life -
David Martin
Head of Business Information Systems
Zurich
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
CANVA
35 Billion rows a day with Snowpipe Streaming
A presentation on the journey to leveraging Snowpipe Streaming for product analytics at Canva. Jack Caperon will discuss key challenges for integrating streaming with the Canva tech stack, the benefits it provides and the future roadmap it unlocks for Canva.
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Jack Caperon
Senior Software Engineer
Canva
AFTERNOON TEA
Hands-on Lab
Build and Manage Snowflake Cortex LLM Functions in Coalesce With Ease
Learn how to build and manage Snowflake Cortex LLM functions using Coalesce’s developer platform in a few simple steps. Join our finest product experts as they explain how to prepare your Snowflake data for advanced analytics and take advantage of Snowflake’s growing ML and LLM capabilities.
Senior Solutions Architect
Coalesce
Principal Solution Architect
Coalesce
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Document AI: Accelerate and Automate Information Extraction from PDFs at Scale
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
IAG ROLLiN’ INSURANCE
How Data Driven Discounts in Insurance Are a Sign of What’s to Come
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
STRIPE
Moving Money and Feeding the AI Monsters
Join us to explore how Stripe manages payment flows equivalent to 1% of global GDP, leveraging data science and machine learning at (monstrous) scales. We’ll share insights from our journey in adopting AI technologies, discuss practical lessons learned, and demonstrate how we’re enhancing payment processing for our users. The session concludes with an introduction to Stripe Data Pipeline, showcasing how you can integrate detailed payment data into your Snowflake environment to support your own AI journeys.
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Document AI: Accelerate and Automate Information Extraction from PDFs at Scale
In today’s AI era, the need for a streamlined document-processing operation with a collaborative framework that empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions has never been more critical. Approximately 80% of all data is unstructured, underscoring the vast, untapped potential that lies within documents of all formats. Existing processes are labor intensive, costly and do not scale, making them ineffective and siloed to different teams. This session will be a comprehensive presentation that explores the transformative power of Document AI in revolutionizing document processing, and democratizing both the process and data across all stakeholders, from engineering to operations.
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Arpit Bhardwaj
Sales Engineer
Snowflake
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
IAG ROLLiN’ INSURANCE
How Data Driven Discounts in Insurance Are a Sign of What’s to Come
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Marcus Verrall
Head of Technology and Data
IAG ROLLiN’ Insurance
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
What's New with Polaris Catalog and Iceberg Catalog Interoperability
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
A Practical Guide to Using Data Sharing for Operational Collaboration
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
What's New with Polaris Catalog and Iceberg Catalog Interoperability
Come learn about how an open source Iceberg catalog REST API can democratize data stored in disparate data lakes while providing the freedom, flexibility and interoperability to work with numerous different data processing engines.
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Alexei de Lauw
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
A Practical Guide to Using Data Sharing for Operational Collaboration
According to Gartner Research, companies can lose up to 30% in revenue annually due to inefficiencies resulting from incorrect or siloed data. Snowflake provides organizations with the tool set to break down silos by expanding internal collaboration, centralizing data from enterprise applications, running apps directly on data – without data movement or copy – as well as unlocking collaboration across customers, vendors and business partners. In this session, we’ll dive into how customers are realizing more value from their data through collaboration, and how even nontechnical users can discover the content made available to them across the Data Cloud through LLM-powered search.
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Jonathan Wolf
Senior Manager, Collaboration Platform Specialists
Snowflake
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Leveraging External Connectivity for Data Engineering and Machine Learning
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Leveraging External Connectivity for Data Engineering and Machine Learning
In this session, we will focus on how to easily connect to various data or resources to power end-to-end data engineering, machine learning and generative AI use cases. Join to hear best practices and the latest updates about how to connect over a private link for resources that are not available on the internet. We’ll also feature a live demo in this session.
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Leon Czechowicz
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
SLALOM
Data Product Modernisation at nib
Data product modernisation offers a high business value alternative to ‘lift and shift’ migration to Snowflake. Data products help streamline complexity for data consumers and business processes. Join us for this fireside chat with Pip Sidaway, Data Product Manager at nib, to learn how nib modernized their data to better serve diverse business needs, and how investing in Snowflake skills can open new opportunities for professionals across all roles. This session is a must-attend for anyone interested in accelerating their data-driven journey and building a modern culture of data within their organisation.
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Pip Sidaway
Data Product Manager
nib Group
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
FIVETRAN
Unlocking Data-Driven Success: A Deep Dive with Fivetran, Scape, and Blackmores
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
COLES
Inside the Data Journey of Coles - one of Australia’s most iconic retailers
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
FIVETRAN
Unlocking Data-Driven Success: A Deep Dive with Fivetran, Scape, and Blackmores
Join us for a panel discussion featuring Fivetran, Scape, and Blackmores. Discover how Fivetran’s data integration platform can streamline your operations and drive data-driven decision-making. Learn firsthand from data industry leaders as they share their experiences and insights.
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Alexandra Coffey
Account Executive, Commercial
Fivetran -
Matt Minor
Head of Group Data & Analytics
Blackmores Group -
Suvarna Yenugudhati
Data Platform Lead
Scape
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
COLES
Inside the Data Journey of Coles - one of Australia’s most iconic retailers
Coles is one of Australia’s iconic retailers, providing a range of fresh food, groceries, general merchandise, and liquor to millions of customers every week. Data plays an integral role in the company. Join us for an insightful fireside chat with Saurav Sachdev, Head of Data at Coles. Get an exclusive look into their data journey, covering crucial topics such as transitioning from on-premise to the cloud, data security, governance, and integrating data across business teams. Discover what the future holds with upcoming technological advancements. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights into the world of data at Coles!
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Glenn McPherson
Senior Regional Sales Director
Snowflake -
Saurav Sachdev
Head of Data
Coles