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How to Architect for Data + AI ROI

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DIVE INTO INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING AN
ENTERPRISE DATA + AI PLATFORM WITH BUSINESS OUTCOMES

With the right data, technology, and access to the ecosystem, any financial services firm can accelerate business-critical workflows. Accelerate is Snowflake’s annual virtual event where industry leaders showcase and share how they’re accelerating with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
Hear from DTCC and Clover on how they are modernizing their technology stacks to enhance data access. Learn about different data architecture patterns and how organizations can put secure self-service data consumption at its core. And hear from Capital One, Northwestern Mutual and AWS on the latest AI / ML use cases driving efficiencies, as well as new data experiences. Accelerate Financial Services will feature customer proof-points, demos, and real-world use cases that turn the art of the possible into real implementations.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

  • Executive Priorities: Hear from executives and thought-leaders from companies like Capital One and Northwestern Mutual on their current and future priorities, as well as how they’re looking to further their partnership with Snowflake.
  • Enterprise Data Success Stories: Discover how DTCC and Clover streamlined their data pipelines, tapping into their unstructured data, enabling internal data collaboration, and powering AI ROI with Snowflake.
  • New AI Capabilities: Understand how Snowflake is streamlining how financial services organizations can implement gen AI. Hear the latest announcements, including what the addition of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and DeepSeek-R1 models mean for your business.
  • AI Use Cases and Demos: Learn about how you can implement gen AI use cases for both internal and commercial use cases – all with security and compliance at the forefront. And see a live demo on how organizations can leverage gen AI to process unstructured data and accelerate their claims management workflows.

Agenda

 

SESSION DURATION SESSION DETAILS
40 Min
State of the Industry 2025—Financial Services

With a continuously changing macroenvironment and evolving customer demands, coupled with a more focused and nuanced understanding of AI and other emerging technologies, 2025 will be a critical year that defines the winners and laggards in financial services.

Join Rinesh Patel, Global Head of Financial Services at Snowflake, in a panel discussion with other industry leaders from Capital One and Northwestern Mutual on the headwinds and opportunities that executives need to consider as they build their enterprise data and AI strategy around their desired long-term business outcomes.

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30 Min
Accelerate—Data Pipelines

As financial services organizations look to adopt new technologies like generative AI, the ability to ingest, transform, and apply both structured and unstructured data becomes critical. In this session, learn how DTCC and Clover are architecting data pipelines so that they’re more open, resilient and cost-efficient. Hear best practices and what their build with Snowflake means for business-critical use cases, including trade reporting analytics and merchant risk analytics.

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35 Min
Accelerate—Enterprise Data

Legacy technologies and lack of open standards create challenges around how data is accessed, leveraged, and shared internally across the enterprise – ultimately impacting today’s data experience. In this session, learn how organizations are partnering with Snowflake to build their enterprise data strategy with self-service data access and data interoperability as defining principles. Hear how organizations are approaching building data products. And see a Snowflake demo in action on how organizations can make data products discoverable with new Internal Marketplace capabilities.

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40 Min
Accelerate—Enterprise AI

No other technology has captured the attention and imagination of the Financial Services industry as much as generative AI. But in 2025, financial institutions will face intense pressure to demonstrate tangible returns on their AI investments. The era of unchecked AI spending will come to a close, as boards and investors demand clear evidence of value.

In this session, hear how organizations are re-thinking their AI strategies with a clearer focus on AI ROI. Learn about Snowflake’s newest AI capabilities – including the addition of Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and DeepSeek-R1 models into Snowflake Cortex – and what it means for Financial Services AI use cases. And see a Snowflake demo in action as we showcase how organizations can leverage gen AI to process unstructured data to streamline and automate the traditionally resource-intensive claims management workflow.

Presenter:

Speakers

Lorraine Knerr

Global Head of GenAI and Data Solutions Strategy and Architecture
AWS

Awah Teh

Chief Data Architect
Capital One

Sathyanarayana Ananthaswamy

Director of Enterprise Architecture
Clover

Jonathan Zammit

Managing Director, Software Engineering
DTCC

Suresh Ponnusamy

Executive Director, Software Engineering
DTCC

Debanit Das

Senior Director, Private Asset and Real Estate Investments Technology
Northwestern Mutual

Rinesh Patel

Global Head of Financial Services
Snowflake

Jonathan Regenstein

Head of Financial Services AI
Snowflake

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Matt Harris

Senior Sales Engineer, Financial Services
Snowflake

Wray Fucci

Practice Director, Head of Professional Services, Financial Services
Snowflake

John Heisler

Senior AI Specialist
Snowflake