Data and AILeadership Forum EMEA

9:00 am

• Keynote
• From Investment to Impact: Unleash the Business Value of Data and AI
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• Move beyond the hype and unlock real-world business impact with data and AI. This compelling keynote, moderated by Snowflake News Anchor Ryan Green, gets you a front row seat with industry executives Mike Gannon, Chief Revenue Officer at Snowflake, Chris Niederman, SVP, WW Alliances and Channels at Snowflake and Ryan Thomas, AWS Specialist & Partners, WW Industries Leader at AWS to hear their perspectives on embarking on an impactful data and AI journey in today’s competitive landscape.

9:20 am

• Business Leadership INsights
• Part 1: Turning Data & AI into Operational Wins: a CIO Playbook for Business Leaders
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• In this session, Snowflake’s Chief Information Officer offers an inside look at Snowflake's experience - from internal AI use cases to the cross-functional collaboration that enables business-led transformation. You’ll hear how the CIO organization serves as a strategic partner to functions like finance, marketing, sales, and HR, helping drive efficiency, agility, and growth.
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• Part 2: Reimagining Product Development with a Data, Analytics and AI-First Approach
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• Today's product leaders face increasing pressure to create winning products and experiences. In this session, delve into how leading enterprises use data and AI to drive innovation, optimize development, and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Join us to explore how Snowflake empowers product and product operations leaders to transform the entire product lifecycle.
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• Part 3: Fueling Enterprise Growth with a Data-Driven GTM Engine
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• Join Snowflake leaders as they unpack how the power of Snowflake and the AI Data Cloud enables cross-org alignment and drives predictable revenue growth. This session will explore how a unified data strategy empowers the business to operate with a single source of truth, fostering seamless collaboration and optimizing every customer interaction.

9:40 am

• Industry Innovation Track
• Track 1: Loyalty as a Growth Engine: Building Deeper Consumer Relationships in a Value-Driven Economy
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• Join us for an inside look at the World of Hyatt - an industry-leading loyalty program fueled by data insights and AI. Hear from Laurie Blair, SVP Global Marketing & Loyalty at Hyatt Hotels about how they build deeper customer relationships, drive repeat business, and deliver personalized value to the program members. Whether you’re in retail, CPG, or hospitality, you’ll walk away with practical strategies for making loyalty a strategic differentiator.
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• Track 2: Client 360: The Future of Personalized Investment Management with Data and AI
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• How can financial services organizations leverage the transformative power of data and AI to build a comprehensive client 360 view, enabling predictive analytics for hyper-personalized advice and product suitability? Join us to discover how Snowflake customers are uniting client demographics, behavioral data, transaction histories and market insights to deliver tailored investment strategies and proactive guidance, translating to concrete, measurable outcomes in client satisfaction, retention and portfolio performance.
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• Track 3: Insights from the ER: How Data and AI Fuel the Future of Healthcare
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• How can healthcare and life sciences organizations leverage the transformative power of data and AI to truly improve business processes and ultimately drive better health outcomes? Join this fireside chat with Dr. Mike Weldon, an Emergency Physician at Alberta Health Services, and Jesse Cugliotta, Global Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences GTM at Snowflake as they discuss how data and AI are powering the future of healthcare and driving better clinician and patient experiences in the ED.
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• Track 4: Supply Chain Transformation with Data and AI: Lessons from an Industry Leader
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• This fireside chat explores the transformative impact of data and AI on modern supply chains, drawing on Micron Technology's pioneering experiences. The discussion will cover how organizations navigate the inherent complexities of global supply chains, from managing cyclical demand to embracing advanced analytics maturity—progressing from descriptive to cognitive stages.
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• Track 5: Transforming AI-Powered Marketing for Brands and Agencies
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• Snowflake and IPG recently announced an expanded partnership to build and deliver a modern, AI-powered marketing data infrastructure that will fundamentally transform how brands leverage AI for marketing. 
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• Hear from leadership at Snowflake and Acxiom to discover how their combined power delivers the speed, flexibility, and results modern marketers need in an ever-changing landscape.
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• Track 6: Accelerating the Mission: Driving Outcomes with Data and AI
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• Join us for a fireside chat with Sergio L. Weiberg, Director of Operations at Tennessee's Center for Enterprise Data & Analytics (CEDA), to hear how the State of Tennessee transformed its data infrastructure. Previously, the state’s agencies operated in siloed technology stacks with costly, inflexible MDM tools, resulting in inconsistent data and limited interoperability.

10:10 am

• Business Transformation Track
• Track 1: From Analytics to Action: Data Democratization Across the Enterprise
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• Join this fireside chat with Anahita Tafvizi, Chief Data Analytics Officer at Snowflake and Sinclair Schuller, Americas Responsible AI Leader at EY to learn about the role of data and AI in accelerating critical business use cases across the enterprise, considerations for your data architecture to support self-service data consumption and best practices for leveraging agentic products and LLMs for data and insights discovery.
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• Track 2: From Silos to Scale: How an Enterprise Data Strategy Sets the Foundation for Successful AI
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• As organizations are racing to get AI deployments off the ground, overlooking the value of a robust data foundation first means many of these programs will fail to scale or generate meaningful business value. Join this session with Amy Kodl, VP, GSI and Americas Alliances and Jim Rowan, Principal, Head of AI, Deloitte to hear first-hand why an enterprise data strategy is mission-critical to ensure the success of future AI deployments.
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• Track 3: From Experiments to Excellence: Practical and Trusted AI for Enterprise Impact
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• Business leaders today face new, critical challenges: How do we build a cohesive AI strategy that ensures interoperability between systems? How do we embed trust, safety, and ethical principles into our AI products from day one? This session with Baris Gultekin, VP Product Management at Snowflake and Amit Bansal, Global Data Business Lead at Accenture cuts through the complexity to provide practical recommendations for identifying the right use cases, building a foundation of trust, and implementing AI solutions that drive measurable and responsible value.