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SPEAKERS

Aarushi Arya

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

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Ahmad Faizi

Senior BI Developer
Domain

Alex Bowes

Sr. Manager, Professional Services Consulting
Snowflake

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Amelia Mantle

Solutions Architect
AWS

Dr. Amith Shetty

Clinical Director, System Sustainability and Performance
NSW Ministry of Health

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Anahita Tafvizi

Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Snowflake

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Andrew Spiegelman

Head of Data & Analytics
Service NSW

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Anton Schoeman

General Manager Technology
Challenger

Blake Baggett

Head of Data Operations
Entain

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Bob Zhu

Manager, Data Platform
VMIA

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Brendan Duck

GM Data Engineering
Xero

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Brian Smith

General Manager, Transformation
National Tiles Co Pty Ltd

Cathy Xu

Associate Solution Engineer
Snowflake

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Chantal Velasque

Head of Data & Analytics
Uniting

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Chris Jackson

Head of Insights & Analytics
VMIA

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Chris Lawrence

Senior Regional Sales Director
Snowflake

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Cyril Lam

VP of IT
Moose Toys

Dameon Russell

Platform Operations Excellence Lead
Woodside Energy

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Daniel Biegler

Snowflake Practice Lead, ANZ
Accenture

Daniel Brennan

Artificial Intelligence Lead
VMIA

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Daniel Mockler

Data Engineering Manager
Entain

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Dash Desai

Lead Developer Advocate
Snowflake

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Edmondo Rosini

Director, Education Sales, APJ
Snowflake

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Emma Blanusa

Senior Manager AI, ML and Data Science
nib group

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Glenn McPherson

Regional Vice President
Snowflake

Glenn Powell

Industry Principal, Public Sector
Snowflake

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Greg Turner

General Manager - Data & Analytics
Resolution Life

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George Prieto

AI and Automation Lead
Super Retail Group

Harmeet Chhabra

Director - Data Analytics Services
NSW Health

Jeff Hollan

Director, Product Management
Snowflake

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Jeff Tan

Senior Value Engineer
Snowflake

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Jill Robinson

Data Lead, Content & Discovery
Canva

Jim Warner

Senior Principal Architect, Global Retail CTO
Snowflake

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John Kim

Chief Data Officer
Zurich Financial Services Australia

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Katherine Enderling

Chief Data Architect
Industry Thought Leader

Kaushik Ghosh Dastidar

Industry Principal, Financial Services
Snowflake

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Kevin Hannon

Managing Director, Data Engineering Sales Specialist
Snowflake

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Kurt Gardiner

Senior Engineering Manager - Data & Machine Learning
nib Group

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Leon Czechowicz

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

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Leslie Lorenz

Industry Principal Retail
Snowflake

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Mahdi Askari

Field CTO - Data & AI
Snowflake

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Majid Miri

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

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Makenna Ralston

Chief Executive Officer
CommBank iQ

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Mark Starc

Sr. Solutions Architect - Migrations
Snowflake

Mary Law

APJ Cloud Partner Tech Lead
Snowflake

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Mauricio Olivera

Associate Director of Business Analytics and Intelligence
NSW Ministry of Health

May Lam

Chief Information Officer
Australian Payments Plus

Narendra Joshi

Principal Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft

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Omar Hafez

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

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Paul Zancanaro

Enterprise Account Executive
Snowflake

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Phillip Webb

Chapter lead
ASB Bank

Rishu Saxena

Principal Architect, Machine Learning, Field CTO Office
Snowflake

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Rohan Davies

Data Platform Lead
Woodside Energy

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Sai Namuduri

Data & AI - Platforms
David Jones

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Sean Kim

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

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Shalome Stone

Data & AI - Product
David Jones

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Sida Yuan

Data Lead, Content & Discovery
Canva

Somesh Bahuguna

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

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Suyash Masurkar

Head of Business Intelligence
Domain

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Tamara Pannett

Team Leader, Enterprise Sales
DOMO

Theo Hourmouzis

Sr. Regional Vice President, ANZ & ASEAN
Snowflake

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Tim Buchhorn

Senior Architect, Data Application, Applied Field Engineering
Snowflake

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TJ Chandler

Managing Director, FiveTran

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Todd Crosslin

Global Industry Principal, Healthcare & Life Sciences
Snowflake

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Travis Murphy

Senior Product Marketing Manager and Evangelist
Snowflake

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Vishnu Rajmohan

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

Wasim El-Omari

Senior Manager, Field CTO
Snowflake

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Aarushi Arya

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

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Ahmad Faizi

Senior BI Developer
Domain

Alex Bowes

Sr. Manager, Professional Services Consulting
Snowflake

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Amelia Mantle

Solutions Architect
AWS

Dr. Amith Shetty

Clinical Director, System Sustainability and Performance
NSW Ministry of Health

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Anahita Tafvizi

Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Snowflake

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Andrew Spiegelman

Head of Data & Analytics
Service NSW

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Anton Schoeman

General Manager Technology
Challenger

Blake Baggett

Head of Data Operations
Entain

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Bob Zhu

Manager, Data Platform
VMIA

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Brendan Duck

GM Data Engineering
Xero

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Brian Smith

General Manager, Transformation
National Tiles Co Pty Ltd

Cathy Xu

Associate Solution Engineer
Snowflake

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Chantal Velasque

Head of Data & Analytics
Uniting

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Chris Jackson

Head of Insights & Analytics
VMIA

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Chris Lawrence

Senior Regional Sales Director
Snowflake

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Cyril Lam

VP of IT
Moose Toys

Dameon Russell

Platform Operations Excellence Lead
Woodside Energy

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Daniel Biegler

Snowflake Practice Lead, ANZ
Accenture

Daniel Brennan

Artificial Intelligence Lead
VMIA

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Daniel Mockler

Data Engineering Manager
Entain

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Dash Desai

Lead Developer Advocate
Snowflake

Dash Desai, Sr Developer Advocate at Snowflake, has 20+ years of hands-on software and data engineering background. With his recent experience in Big Data, Data Science, and Machine Learning, Dash is able to apply his technical skills to help build solutions that solve business problems and surface trends that shape markets in new ways.

As a technical evangelist and developer advocate, he is passionate about evaluating new ideas and helping articulate how technology can address a given business problem. He also enjoys writing blog posts, hands-on tutorials, training materials, and conducting technical workshops.

Dash has worked for global enterprises and in agile environments as an engineer and solutions architect for tech startups in the Bay Area in varying verticals, such as VoIP, Online Gaming, Digital Health, NoSQL database, Big Data, and DataOps platforms.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dash-desai/

Edmondo Rosini

Director, Education Sales, APJ
Snowflake

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Emma Blanusa

Senior Manager AI, ML and Data Science
nib group

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Glenn McPherson

Regional Vice President
Snowflake

Glenn Powell

Industry Principal, Public Sector
Snowflake

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Greg Turner

General Manager - Data & Analytics
Resolution Life

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George Prieto

AI and Automation Lead
Super Retail Group

Harmeet Chhabra

Director - Data Analytics Services
NSW Health

Jeff Hollan

Director, Product Management
Snowflake

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Jeff Tan

Senior Value Engineer
Snowflake

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Jill Robinson

Data Lead, Content & Discovery
Canva

Jim Warner

Senior Principal Architect, Global Retail CTO
Snowflake

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John Kim

Chief Data Officer
Zurich Financial Services Australia

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Katherine Enderling

Chief Data Architect
Industry Thought Leader

Kaushik Ghosh Dastidar

Industry Principal, Financial Services
Snowflake

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Kevin Hannon

Managing Director, Data Engineering Sales Specialist
Snowflake

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Kurt Gardiner

Senior Engineering Manager - Data & Machine Learning
nib Group

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Leon Czechowicz

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

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Leslie Lorenz

Industry Principal Retail
Snowflake

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Mahdi Askari

Field CTO - Data & AI
Snowflake

Mahdi has over two decades of dedicated experience in the dynamic landscape of the data industry. He is a seasoned software engineer recognised for his invaluable contributions to companies like Cloudera, Databricks and Snowflake.

Having honed his expertise in developing cutting-edge data solutions, Mahdi has played a pivotal role in architecting and optimising data platforms that drive business success. Mahdi specialises in leveraging advanced technologies to unlock actionable insights, empowering organisations to make data-driven decisions with confidence.

As a thought leader in the data engineering community, Mahdi is passionate about sharing his knowledge and expertise through speaking engagements, mentorship programs, and industry publications. Mahdi remains at the forefront of technological advancements, continuously expanding his skill set to stay ahead of emerging trends and developments.

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Majid Miri

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

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Makenna Ralston

Chief Executive Officer
CommBank iQ

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Mark Starc

Sr. Solutions Architect - Migrations
Snowflake

Mary Law

APJ Cloud Partner Tech Lead
Snowflake

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Mauricio Olivera

Associate Director of Business Analytics and Intelligence
NSW Ministry of Health

May Lam

Chief Information Officer
Australian Payments Plus

Narendra Joshi

Principal Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Omar Hafez

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

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Paul Zancanaro

Enterprise Account Executive
Snowflake

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Phillip Webb

Chapter lead
ASB Bank

Rishu Saxena

Principal Architect, Machine Learning, Field CTO Office
Snowflake

Rishu has 18+ years of Information Technology experience in the solution design and architecture, strategic design of future data platforms and roadmaps, predominantly focused on data and Information Management – particularly cloud native data platforms and technologies, big data, analytics, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence capabilities, Data Management and Artificial Intelligence.

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Rohan Davies

Data Platform Lead
Woodside Energy

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Sai Namuduri

Data & AI - Platforms
David Jones

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Sean Kim

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

Sean is a Senior Sales Engineer based in Australia with over 10 years of experience in the data industry, with deep technical experience in Data Engineering, Data Science and Data Architectures. As a trusted advisor, Sean has closely worked with a wide variety of start-ups and enterprise customers to ensure the success of their Snowflake AI Data Cloud journey, by drawing from his experience as well as evangelising cutting edge technology and innovations through constant self-learning and application.

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Shalome Stone

Data & AI - Product
David Jones

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Sida Yuan

Data Lead, Content & Discovery
Canva

Somesh Bahuguna

Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake

Somesh is a ‘born in the cloud’ specialist who developed a passion for data since completing his masters where he lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

In his career he has expanded his knowledge with real world delivery in industries including big four financial services, retail, insurance along with digital native innovators. Now part of the Snowflake team he is a passionate technologist who delights customers by making problems that looked hard with data become simple.

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Suyash Masurkar

Head of Business Intelligence
Domain

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Tamara Pannett

Team Leader, Enterprise Sales
DOMO

Theo Hourmouzis

Sr. Regional Vice President, ANZ & ASEAN
Snowflake

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Tim Buchhorn

Senior Architect, Data Application, Applied Field Engineering
Snowflake

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TJ Chandler

Managing Director, FiveTran

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Todd Crosslin

Global Industry Principal, Healthcare & Life Sciences
Snowflake

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Travis Murphy

Senior Product Marketing Manager and Evangelist
Snowflake

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Vishnu Rajmohan

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

Wasim El-Omari

Senior Manager, Field CTO
Snowflake

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