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Natalie Mead has focused on building technical go to market data strategies at a global level for over 25 years. She helps companies extend their technical focus from features and details into large scale business solutions to drive material organization changes.

Currently, Natalie is the Vice President of the APJ Sales Engineering team at Snowflake where her team builds architectures around the Snowflake Data Cloud. Her focus ranges from Data Science, Data Engineering, Applications to Data Collaboration and Snowflake Marketplace Solutions.

Previously, Natalie was the Senior Director of the Global Field CTO Office at Snowflake, where she oversaw the programming and vision of Principal Architects in security and workload platforms within the Sales Engineering organization. She and her team focused on driving early vision and adoptions of the Snowflake Products and Engineering roadmap to the field and end users for a complete, actionable view of the Snowflake Data Cloud.

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Rishu has 18+ years of Information Technology experience in the solution design and architecture, strategic design of future data platforms and roadmaps, predominantly focused on data and Information Management – particularly cloud native data platforms and technologies, big data, analytics, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence capabilities, Data Management and Artificial Intelligence.

Dash Desai, Sr Developer Advocate at Snowflake, has 20+ years of hands-on software and data engineering background. With his recent experience in Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning, Dash is able to apply his technical skills to help build solutions that solve business problems and surface trends that shape markets in new ways.

As a technical evangelist and developer advocate, he is passionate about evaluating new ideas and helping articulate how technology can address a given business problem. He also enjoys writing blog posts, hands-on tutorials, training materials, and conducting technical workshops.

Dash has worked for global enterprises and in agile environments as an engineer and solutions architect for tech startups in the Bay Area in varying verticals, such as VoIP, Online Gaming, Digital Health, NoSQL database, Big Data, and DataOps platforms.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dash-desai/

Sheena is an Artificial Intelligence expert with vast international working experience. Her passion and expertise lies in identifying opportunities in businesses that can be powered by AI solutions that deliver real life business benefits.

She is specialised in building vision based AI systems with image and video data using cutting edge research in cross domain industries such as Manufacturing, Oil and gas, Logistics, Telecom, Retail and others, spanning across the USA, India and ASEAN markets.

She was the lead Computer vision data scientist of the PROJECT: CORAIL, a smart underwater camera prototype for coral restoration. Check out the feature in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/04/22/intel–accenture-use-ai-to-save-the-coral-reef/#38543f315e60

In addition to her professional endeavours, she is a guest speaker at the National University Of Singapore Engineering. Her passion for thought leadership extends to authoring technical blogs and presenting at various conferences and industry events. She is deeply committed to the cause of women’s empowerment. As the Singapore ambassador for WiDS (Women in Data Science) she had the privilege to host a highly engaged and successful event during May 2023 for over a hundred women in collaboration with Dataiku, Snowflake and AWS.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheena-nasim/

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Vishnu is a Sales Engineer at Snowflake with experience in Data Engineering, Big Data Analytics and Cloud Architecture. He has worked with customers across a wide range of industries including, Financial Services, Retail and Digital Markets. Vishnu brings with himself diverse skillsets across the Data and AI Landscape.

Vishnu uses his implementation experience with other Data platforms and Cloud Services Providers to his advantage in assisting customers achieve their Data and AI goals.

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Marko is a Principal Sales Engineer at Snowflake who brings years of experience working with customers across multiple disciplines including data integration, data platforms and data science. With industry experience spanning the telecommunications, banking, and retail sectors Marko now assists clients in their journey as data driven businesses.

Mahdi has over two decades of dedicated experience in the dynamic landscape of the data industry. He is a seasoned software engineer recognised for his invaluable contributions to companies like Cloudera, Databricks and Snowflake.

Having honed his expertise in developing cutting-edge data solutions, Mahdi has played a pivotal role in architecting and optimising data platforms that drive business success. Mahdi specialises in leveraging advanced technologies to unlock actionable insights, empowering organisations to make data-driven decisions with confidence.

As a thought leader in the data engineering community, Mahdi is passionate about sharing his knowledge and expertise through speaking engagements, mentorship programs, and industry publications. Mahdi remains at the forefront of technological advancements, continuously expanding his skill set to stay ahead of emerging trends and developments.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blahblogh/

Sean is a Senior Sales Engineer based in Australia with over 10 years of experience in the data industry, with deep technical experience in Data Engineering, Data Science and Data Architectures. As a trusted advisor, Sean has closely worked with a wide variety of start-ups and enterprise customers to ensure the success of their Snowflake AI Data Cloud journey, by drawing from his experience as well as evangelising cutting edge technology and innovations through constant self-learning and application.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seankim6/

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Adrian is a Principal Sales Engineer based in Singapore working with enterprise customers in the financial services sector as well as high tech ‘digital natives’ across ASEAN. Adrian diligently works with customers to ensure that they see success in Snowflake’s Data Cloud from the initial architecture and design all the way to their go-live.

Adrian likes to combine DevOps practices with data and is recognised for the technical materials he produces integrating DevOps tooling and practices with Snowflake. Adrian is also highly passionate about learning and sharing all things data and cloud and has expanded his knowledge to a variety of solution stacks including Redshift, BigQuery, Redis and Kafka.

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Experienced Data Science professional with strong technical skills. Demonstrated history of driving engagement and projects in Financial Services, eCommerce industry. Detail-oriented specialist with outgoing personality. Motivated by the potential of technology to drive changes to people’s lives.

Day to day work involves stakeholder management, problem definition and framing, solution design, data transformation and preparation, and occasionally some machine learning.
Interested in domain of Data Science, Data Engineering, Architecture and Solutions

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Senior engineer and builder at Snowflake – working on supercharging AI & ML with the cloud’s infinite horsepower.