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Snowflake’s Innovation Forum

Meet the Co-Founders

Thierry Cruanes & Benoit Dageville

Pullman Auckland
17 March
12:30 PM–3:00 PM NZDT
Auckland
17 March 2025
12:30 PM–3:00 PM NZDT

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Join us in Auckland on 17 March 2025 for Snowflake’s Innovation Forum, an exclusive event for data and AI professionals. This is your opportunity to engage with Snowflake Co-Founders – Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes – in person and gain first-hand insights into the future of data and AI.

What to expect:

  • In-person conversation with the Snowflake Co-Founders
  • Real world insights from a local Snowflake customer
  • Demos showcasing the latest AI features
  • Networking opportunities with peers from the Snowflake Community

We hope you can join us for an afternoon of cutting edge discussion and practical demonstrations designed for technical users.

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Agenda

START TIME SESSION DETAILS
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Registration Opens
1:00 pm - 1:10 pm
Welcome
1:10 pm - 1:20 pm
Snowflake AI+ Data Predictions 2025
1:20 pm - 2:00 pm
One NZ - Summer Collins
1:50 pm - 2:30 pm
In Conversation with Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes - Snowflake Co-Founders
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Innovation in Action - AI Demo Time
After 3:00 pm
Networking

Speakers

Benoit Dageville

Co-Founder & President of Products

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Thierry Cruanes

Co-Founder

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Tony Shaw

Country Manager
Snowflake

Natalie Mead

VP, Solution Engineering
Snowflake

Summer Collins

Chief Data and AI Director
One NZ

Soo Lee

Senior Product Marketing Manager & Evangelist
Snowflake

Noah Costar

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

Benoit Dageville

Co-Founder & President of Products

Benoit Dageville co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of Products. He oversees the company’s technical strategy and leads a team of engineers, product managers, and designers who are making data easily accessible and actionable to everyone.

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 from Université de Paris VI and is a named inventor on more than 270 patents.

Thierry Cruanes

Co-Founder

Thierry co-founded Snowflake. He oversees Snowflake’s technology vision and is actively involved in key aspects of product development.

Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. Prior to Snowflake, Theirry spent 13 years at Oracle focused on the optimization and parallelization layers in Oracle databases including as lead for the optimization group. Before Oracle, he spent seven years at the IBM European Center of Applied Mathematics working on data mining technologies. Thierry has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems Pierre and Marie Curie University and is a named inventor on more than 200 patents.

Tony Shaw

Country Manager
Snowflake

Natalie Mead

VP, Solution Engineering
Snowflake

Summer Collins

Chief Data and AI Director
One NZ

Soo Lee

Senior Product Marketing Manager & Evangelist
Snowflake

Noah Costar

Solution Engineer
Snowflake

EVENT DETAILS

WHEN & WHERE

Pullman Auckland - Princes Ballroom A & B
Pullman Auckland Hotel & Apartments - Corner Waterloo Quadrant &, Princes Street, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
17 March 2025
12:30 PM–3:00 PM NZDT

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