The World of Data, Apps and AI Collaboration
The Data Cloud World Tour is all about collaborating with data in unimaginable ways. Join us and your fellow data, technology and business leaders to learn about the latest capabilities of the Data Cloud and hear directly from our customers about their most exciting use cases. Topics covered will include the future of generative AI and LLMs, working with Apache Iceberg in Snowflake, bringing more development to the data with Snowpark Container Services and much more.
Whether you are a developer, a data scientist, an IT executive, or a business leader, the Data Cloud World Tour is your opportunity to discover, learn and experience how Snowflake’s Data Cloud can take your company and your career to new frontiers.
During the event you’ll have the opportunity to:
Cost: Free event
Location: Raffles City Convention Center, 80 Bras Basah Rd, Singapore 189560
Discover how the Data Cloud continues to break down silos, and helps you better access and understand all your data, while ensuring governance and data privacy. Learn how Snowflake supports multiple types of architectural patterns, such as data lake, data mesh, and others for whatever your current and future data strategies require.
Learn how developers can bring more work to the Data Cloud to accelerate end-to-end development, run faster and cheaper pipelines and build machine learning models. See first hand how new announcements around Snowpark and LLMs can expand what’s possible in Snowflake.
Learn about the latest enhancements to help you build, operate, scale and distribute your apps in the Data Cloud. Discover how organisations across industries are accelerating their time to market, differentiating their products and unlocking new revenue by building apps in the Data Cloud.
Head of Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (Group Digital Office),
Keppel
Chief Data Officer
OLAM Agri
Director of Enterprise Account, ASEAN
Alation
Senior Regional Vice President, ASEAN and India
Snowflake
Sanjay Deshmukh is the Senior Regional Vice President for Snowflake for ASEAN and India and is based in Singapore. He is responsible for building and executing a successful strategy to drive adoption and expansion of Snowflake’s Data Cloud in ASEAN and India region.
During a career spanning over 25 Years, he has led organizations in emerging technologies like Analytics, Cloud and Mobility through start-up, change and accelerated growth phase. He is passionate about helping customers transform their business and unlock the true value of their data.
In his earlier assignment, Deshmukh was Vice President at VMware responsible for the business in South-East Asia Korea region. He has previously worked for SAP India as Vice President for Business User and Platform Group and was instrumental in pioneering Business Intelligence and Analytics in India sub-continent in his role as the Country Manager for Business Objects.
VP, Head of Global Field CTO Office
Snowflake
Krishnan Parasuraman heads the Field CTO office in Snowflake and is responsible for driving Industry solutions, customer-co innovation and technical advisory services across customers and partners. Krishnan has over 20 years of industry experience in the fields of technology strategy, data management and AI across consulting, technical sales and business development roles.
Chief Data Officer and Director, Planning and Data Analytics
Sentosa Development Corporation
Kelly leads the planning and data analytics team in Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC). He oversees the end-to-end value chain of data from governance to value creation. He has more than 20 years of experience in delivering value through data across various industry verticals spanning Defence, Government, Logistics, Banking, Retail, F&B, Infocomm Technology and Telecommunications prior to SDC. He is passionate about the use of data to deliver business value and finds satisfaction in seeing analytics in action.
Big Data & Structured AI Technologist for Developer Programs, Asia Pacific South, NVIDIA
Dr. Deb Goswami is currently responsible for growing NVIDIA’s Accelerated Data Science and Machine Learning developer practice in the Asia Pacific South and ANZ Regions. With over a decade of expertise in scaling and enabling enterprise AI in the region, Dr. Deb is passionate about supporting the developer ecosystem in their AI journey.
Prior to joining NVIDIA, Dr. Deb worked on challenging AI problems across a variety of verticals in the APAC region, including Media (SPH, Head of Data), eCommerce (Traveloka, Head of AI), AdTech (Dentsu Aegis Network, Data Scientist) and Telco/Oil & Gas (Reliance Industries, Data Scientist).
Dr. Goswami read his PhD in Face Recognition from the University of Surrey, where he also studied for his BEng (Hons) in Electronic Engineering.
Senior Director, Product Management
Snowflake
Torsten currently serves as Senior Director of Product Management for Snowflake where he heads product management for Snowflake’s data engineering, data lake, and data science workloads as well as the Snowpark developer platforms. Before joining Snowflake, Torsten spent more than a decade at Microsoft in the SQL Server product group in Redmond, WA, serving in different roles in software development and product management. Considering himself a “database person”, Torsten holds a PhD in computer science from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.
Lead Developer Advocate
Snowflake
With experience in big data, data science, and machine learning Dash Desai is able to apply 18+ years of full-stack, hands-on software and data engineering skills to help build solutions that solve business problems and surface trends that shape markets in new ways than imagined before. As a Lead Developer Advocate at Snowflake, he is passionate about evaluating new ideas, trends, and helping articulate how technology can address a given business problem. Dash Desai has worked for global enterprises and in agile environments–for startups in the Bay Area in verticals, such as VoIP, Social Gaming, Digital Health, NoSQL database, and Data Cloud platforms.
Vice President, Solutions Engineering – APJ,
Alteryx
As a leader in sales engineering and a PreSales professional, Paul is in the rare position of being both tech- and business-savvy. Through his experience he has learnt to be multi-lingual, proficient in geek, sales, marketing, service, analytics and, most importantly, “plain and simple”.
Senior Performance Solutions Architect
Snowflake
Nic is a Platform Performance Specialist within the Office of the Field CTO at Snowflake, working with our customers to optimise their Snowflake use and drive high quality outcomes. Nic has been with Snowflake for two years, with ten years of experience in distributed systems, data management and business intelligence. When not working, Nic is probably walking his dog or playing hockey (poorly).
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Asia Pacific and Japan
Snowflake
Joseph (“Joe”) Duronio is the Director of Strategic Partners for APAC and Japan at Snowflake and based in Singapore. He has over 15 years of international experience in Technology, Financial Services, and Law. Prior to Snowflake, Joe served as both the Commercial Head of Americas and the Head of Global Partnerships for an Asia based fintech start-up. He built the firm’s global partnerships with consulting firms, hyperscalers and independent software vendors. He also led the firm’s expansion into the United States market, personally leading deals with the largest global insurance and financial companies.
Joe spent over 13 years at AIG, a global insurance and financial services conglomerate, where he started his career as a securities lawyer, supporting AIG’s asset management business. He later practiced insurance and securities law at AIG’s leading annuity and retirement services business. Joe transitioned from the legal to Vice President of Strategy, where he led strategic and digital transformation initiatives across a variety of entities including: registered investment companies, life insurance companies, broker-dealers, registered investment advisory businesses, and a joint venture with the Peoples Insurance Company of China (PICC), in Beijing.
Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in both mathematics and philosophy from NYU, a juris doctorate degree from Seton Hall University School of Law, and an MBA in Finance and Global Management from UCLA Anderson, where he also served as President of the Anderson Student Asset Management Fellowship. He is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bar Associations. Joe speaks fluent English, Spanish and conversational Japanese.
Principal Architect, Security, Field CTO Office
Snowflake
Wasim El-Omari is a Cyber Security Field CTO at Snowflake, he is based in Melbourne Australia, working in a Global Team focusing primarily on the APJ region. Wasim has more than 20 years of experience in Cyber Security. He has a background in Security Operations, Incident Response, Digital Forensics and Cloud Security. He has Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering in Telecommunications and a Master’s Degree in Information Security with a focused interest in Data Governance, Risk Management & Incident Handling.
His career has taken him globally to different regions and has worked with Fortune 100 companies and Federal Agencies to design, implement and validate effective security programs. He is focused on the Data Cloud at Snowflake and the security that it is intrinsically built for addressing digitisation challenges. He is passionate about being able to help customers address their digital challenges in the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Industry Principal, Consumer Goods, Snowflake
Freddy Guard serves as the Head of Industry GTM – Consumer Goods as part of Snowflake’s Retail Industry team. Freddy brings extensive experience in driving business outcomes through
data and analytics for large consumer brands and retailers across the globe. Freddy was most recently at Circana (IRi), a leading data and analytics company where he served as VP of Commercial Strategy and Enablement for the Supply Chain Center of Excellence. Prior experience includes leading analytics teams on the client side at PepsiCo, ConAgra Foods, and SAB Miller. With experience on the client side as well as with consulting companies, Freddy focuses on designing analytic capabilities with the end outcome in mind to drive change management and accelerate business results.
Sales Engineer
Snowflake
Changboon is an experienced Data Science professional with strong technical skills.
His past experiences includes being at UOB, where he was working on applying machine learning to solve business problems such as Detection of Early Delinquency and Attrition for SME Loans and Fraud Detection for Internet Banking.
Prior to UOB, he has also worked at OVO (Indonesia mobile wallet), Allianz (Retail Insurance) and Zenith Optimedia (Marketing Analytics). Chang Boon is a certified SnowPro Core and Professional Machine Learning Engineer on Google Cloud and is currently preparing for the AWS certifications.
He is always on the lookout for new topics to explore and widen his knowledge. He graduated with a Master of IT in Business from SMU where he was able to explore a breadth of technologies such as AI and IoT. His current topics of interest are DeFi and Ethical Machine Learning.
Outside of work, Chang Boon plays volleyball, video games and enjoys good food and company.
Head of Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (Group Digital Office),
Keppel
Enterprise Transformation and Migrations Leader,
AWS
A highly energetic and effective senior leader, an experienced executive with strength in leadership, large scale transformation, sales, partner eco systems and operational excellence. A wealth of experience in technology across FSI, Telecommunications and Media, FMCG, Utilities as well as other verticals with deep relationships and executive presence and a clear focus on business outcomes.
Stephen has experience in building high performing teams and leading large-scale businesses across services, sales, infrastructure, cloud, software and account management globally. Stephen has a clear focus on relationships, client centricity and aligning to the business.
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
Muhamad Ismail is a Senior Sales Engineer at Snowflake, a leading data cloud platform, where he brings over 15 years of experience in the field of data which includes stints at Fortune 500 companies and institutions of higher learning. Ismail has gained extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in data management, analytics, and cloud computing, making him a trusted advisor to many.
Throughout his career, Ismail has worked with a diverse range of clients, from startups to large enterprises, across various industries. This exposure has allowed him to understand the unique challenges faced by organisations in harnessing the power of data. In addition to his role at Snowflake, Ismail holds a Master’s degree in Analytics with a specialisation in Customer Insights, Marketing Investments, and Campaigns.
Chief Data Officer
OLAM Agri
Head of Engineering and Data
Unravel Carbon
Kevin currently leads the Engineering and Data teams at Unravel Carbon, a Decarbonization Platform for enterprises. He is responsible for building and leading the team that develops the product and Carbon Engine, which helps translate transactional and activity data into emissions estimates. He has experience working across a variety of data and engineering fields, and has successfully scaled multiple initiatives in high-growth environments in his previous roles. Prior to joining Unravel Carbon, he led data science for the Advertising business unit at DoorDash. Kevin graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with dual degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration.
Principal Sales Engineer
Snowflake
Director of Enterprise Account, ASEAN
Alation
Principal Architect, Data Engineering, Field CTO Office
Snowflake
Prashant is a Principal Data Platform Architect within the Field CTO at Snowflake, working with our customers to design their data platform/data lake on Snowflake. He has over 13 years of experience designing/building data architecture for BI and AI/ML use cases across Telco, FSI and pharma industries.
See the power of the Data Cloud with case studies and presentations by customers, partners and Snowflake teammates near you. Uncover new opportunities to collaborate with your business ecosystem and find out how you can drive even more value from the Data Cloud.
Join our keynote, breakout sessions and hands-on labs. Learn about the latest capabilities and newest innovations to the Data Cloud, including how Snowflake is the platform for AI / ML, now and for the future.
Meet and network with individuals and organisations that make up the Data Cloud. Connect with data heroes from your industry, solve your most pressing problems at the Meet the Expert booth and meet ecosystem partners that can help you unlock value from your data.