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Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for over 10 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and is a named inventor on more than 80 patents.

Katrina is currently the Head of the Streamlit Data Team at Snowflake, a leading provider of cloud-based data solutions. She is also a member of the NumFOCUS Board of Directors, serving as President. For almost twenty years, Katrina has worked extensively in the fields of scientific computing, machine learning, data mining, and visualization. Most notably, she has helped lead data science efforts at the UT Austin Applied Research Laboratory, Apple, Continuum Analytics (now, Anaconda), HomeAway (now, Vrbo), and Cloudflare. Katrina received her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Sri is a Product Manager on the data platform team at Snowflake, where she focuses on building extensible data pipelines. Prior to Snowflake, Sri worked at Microsoft for four and a half years building various Microsoft Azure Data services. Sri is passionate about data engineering and loves to explore how modern data management can enable businesses to unlock new use cases and scenarios. She has a master's degree in computer science from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from K L University.

Marie Coolsaet is a data scientist on the frostbyte team at Snowflake. In her role, she builds out demos to showcase how Snowflake adds value to the end-to-end data science story. Previously, Marie worked as a sales engineer in the data science software space. She draws on that experience when creating assets for Snowflake sales engineers.

Stefan heads up the corporate development function at Snowflake which includes both M&A and Snowflake ventures. Since joining the company, Williams has spearheaded multiple acquisitions and strategic investments that have accelerated internal efforts, enabled partners, and delivered value for Snowflake customers.

Williams joined Snowflake at the end of 2019 to head up the corporate development function. Prior to joining Snowflake, Williams was part of the corporate development and corporate venture capital team at Servicenow where he operated in a similar role. He has also previously worked at Genesys, Martinwolf M&A advisors and Towers Watson.

Adrien is a co-founder and CEO of Streamlit (acquired by Snowflake), which pioneered next-generation tools for data scientists. Dr. Treuille has been a Zoox VP, Google X project lead, and Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. He gives talks around the world, including to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and has won numerous scientific awards, including the MIT TR35. Adrien and his work have been featured in the documentaries “What Will the Future Be Like” by PBS/NOVA, and “Lo and Behold” by Werner Herzog.

Felipe has been Snowflake's Data Cloud Advocate since August 2020. In 2011, he moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. In 2013, while still at Google, he became a Developer Advocate on Data Analytics. His goal is to inspire developers around the world to analyze and understand their data in ways they never could before. You can hear from him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

Unmesh Jagtap is a Principal Product Manager at Snowflake where he focuses on Applications. Prior to Snowflake, Unmesh was a Director of Engineering at Twitter, where he led its real-time infrastructure group including storage, caching, pub-sub and streaming compute solutions. Prior to that he worked at Oracle's Parallel Execution group where he contributed to adaptive distribution methods, making parallel execution infrastructure NUMA aware and other SQL execution features such as small table replication. Unmesh is a graduate of Wharton Business School and Cornell University, and is an inventor on numerous patents at Snowflake and Oracle.

Kin is the Chief Evangelist for Postman, and has been writing about the API lifecycle for over a decade as the API Evangelist. Working with companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies to define the API lifecycles that have emerged across almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Kin works to evangelize and move forward OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON as part of Postman Open Technologies, acknowledging the critical role these API specifications are playing in our lives.

Allison is a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Infrastructure team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and has been at the company for 3 years. She was part of the small but mighty team owning the Snowflake Provider for Terraform since she joined CZI and has thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with engineers across the world on it. She is passionate about open-source work and always tries to push back upstream, because everyone can benefit from hidden bug fixes!