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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.

Graas provides a SaaS platform that uses predictive AI to scale revenue and drive profitable growth for eCommerce businesses. Himanshu leads data engineering and data analytics teams at Graas. He is responsible for defining data strategies and building data platforms at Graas that includes modeling, integrating, standardising data for the end user consumption. Himanshu has also taken up initiatives around ML, ML Ops and Gen AI which are helping in generating growth recommendations for the customers. Himanshu has over 20 years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering innovative data platforms and products. Himanshu is currently working as Vice-President for Data Engineering at Graas. Himanshu holds a Masters in Computer Applications from Indore University.

Prashant Wate is a Senior Sales Engineer in Snowflake Inc. He has more than 20 years of experience in IT solutions development, architecture, database design, big data solutioning and technology consulting. Worked in various business verticals like BFSI, Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities, Retail & CPG, Telecom

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashant-wate-4249a822/

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Experienced data professional with strong technical skills from analysis, consultancy, architecture and data science. Sarita has a demonstrated history of driving engagement and projects in the Financial Services and eCommerce industries. A 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.

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

Sumeet Tandure is a Senior Manager, Sales Engineering at Snowflake and has been using his long experience in the industry to help Customers for their solve their toughest data requirements. He has a wide set of skills stretching across Data, Cloud, and Infrastructure technologies. He is a certified Architect on Snowflake Big Data technologies and an experienced presenter in the data domain. Passionate about data and based in Bangalore, he loves to learn and help customers in their data journey.

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

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phani-raj-9830a31b/

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Evangelist for Snowflake in India where I help all walks of the business understand and harness the power of the Data Cloud, drive GTM, analyst/influencer relations and build communities.

Worked as a data scientist, product owner, program manager, industry analyst and a trusted advisor in the past with more than a decade of experience working with Fortune 1000 companies, guiding them on their mission critical priorities around AI Strategy, Governance, Risk Management, end-to-end program delivery, standardisation and automation.

I’ve helped clients save over $100mn over the course of my career after working on a multitude of projects in RPA, data labeling and annotation, autonomous driving, insurance fraud, environmental monitoring, MLOps, Responsible AI, AI for Good and AI platform negotiations. I’ve provided strategic services to clients across supply chain, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, defense and intelligence, banking and financial services, transportation, law enforcement, e-commerce, legal and several government and quasi-government organizations.

Here’s a quick summary of my career:

– Worked with over 500 clients (investors, vendors and end-user clients) in a consulting, program management and advisory capacity
– Advised over 1000 CIO’s, CDO’s, CDAO’s on their most urgent priorities in AI, share insights and best practices from their peers reducing time to value by up to 10x
– Authored several Gartner Research papers (including Magic Quadrants, Critical Capabilities, Hype Cycle, Cool Vendors), created two Gartner research products – Use-Case Prism as a result of cross-functional collaboration of over 50 teams and Buyers’ Selection Spotlight.
– Product designer, event and keynote speaker, and a contributor to open-source

With the diverse experience I have, I’m on a mission to help organisations on their technology priorities.

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David has spent over 20 years as a market specialist and business leader throughout the broad Asia Pacific and Japan regions. With a background as business leader and Chief Technologist he has been instrumental in defining and building software categories previously. He is now focused on the enormous opportunity the data cloud brings to business in Asia and helping evangelise the technical and business fundamentals to the broad community.