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Snowflake World Tour

Auckland

8 October 2025 | Cordis Auckland

AGENDA

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8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Opening Keynote

Tony Shaw
Country Manager, New Zealand,
Snowflake

Rosemary DeAragon
Global Industry GTM Lead – Retail & CPG
Snowflake

Padmaja Vrudhula
VP, Solution Innovation
Snowflake

Dash Desai
Principal Developer Advocate
Snowflake
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
MORNING TEA
BUILD YOUR DATA FOUNDATION

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

AWS Session

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Best Practices for Dynamic Tables


Session Descriptor

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Best Practices for Dynamic Tables


Come learn the best practices around monitoring (alerts); backup/restore (cloning, replications, practicing failover scenarios, using finalize constraints); scheduler configurations (intuition around target lag, scheduling tick overview, target lag vs scheduling refresh); debugging best practices (walk through some debugging workflows); running thousands of DTs and much more!

  • Beckham Vernon

    Associate Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

SCALE AI ACROSS THE BUSINESS

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Snowflake Intelligence & No-code Agentic AI

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Deloitte Session


ACCELERATE AI WITH APPS & COLLABORATION

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Eliminating Data Silos with Horizon Catalog & Internal Marketplace
Session Descriptor

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

CUSTOMER STORY - Stay Tuned


11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Eliminating Data Silos with Horizon Catalog & Internal Marketplace

Learn how to drive collaboration across your business ecosystem with the latest from Snowflake Horizon Catalog, including External Data Discovery, to effortlessly find data both within Snowflake and from external systems. See demos of the latest Internal Marketplace updates, including Organization Profiles and Request for Access, to streamline and accelerate the sharing of data, apps, and AI. Finally, learn how Iceberg Data Sharing and the Egress Cost Optimizer can increase interoperability and data availability while keeping your data sharing costs down.

  • Wessel De Meyer

    Senior Solution Engineer
    Snowflake



11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

CUSTOMER STORY - Stay Tuned

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Empower Business Decisions with AI-Powered Data Products on the Snowflake Internal Marketplace
Session Descriptor

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM

Empower Business Decisions with AI-Powered Data Products on the Snowflake Internal Marketplace

In this session, We will enable CDAO’s Enterprise Data Strategy by exploring the full lifecycle from the concept of data products—packaged, readily consumable data assets—to their distribution through Snowflake’s internal marketplace.

We will drive home 5 key points within this data product lifecycle:
1. Simplified data access for business users
2. Improved data discoverability and understanding
3. Increased data utilization and adoption
4. Accelerated time to insight
5.Metrics & Considerations

  • Srinivasan Kuppusamy

    Senior Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
LUNCH AND NETWORKING

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Revolutionising Data Movement with Snowflake Openflow
Session Descriptor

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Advanced Analytics with Cortex AISQL, Native Semantic Views & More
Session Descriptor

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Revolutionising Data Movement with Snowflake Openflow

Learn how to bring all your data together with Snowflake Openflow to build with limitless interoperability and deployment flexibility, no matter if it’s structured, unstructured, batch or streaming data. Make your integration pipelines ready for AI and the future.

  • Luke Roquet

    VP, Industry Strategy & Solution Sales
    Snowflake

  • Beckham Vernon

    Associate Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Advanced Analytics with Cortex AISQL, Native Semantic Views & More

Master AI-powered analytics in Snowflake. Learn how to leverage Snowflake’s powerful AI SQL functions for advanced analytics on unstructured, time-series, and geospatial data. We’ll also demonstrate how to use Semantic Views to bridge the gap between data and business understanding.

  • Asanka Aththanapola

    Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

CUSTOMER STORY - Fire and Emergency New Zealand

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Governance and Security in Horizon Catalog

Session Descriptor

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Governance and Security in Horizon Catalog

Learn how to streamline governance and security for data and AI with Snowflake’s latest updates to Horizon Catalog. Join us for new product overviews and live demos covering interoperability, Trust Center, MFA updates, Copilot for Horizon Catalog, sensitive data, data quality, lineage, and more.

  • Sandamali De Zoysa

    Sr. Technical Curriculum Developer
    Snowflake

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

EY Session

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

CUSTOMER STORY - Farmlands Co-operative Society

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Don’t Just Build Models — Operationalize Them
Session Descriptor

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Fivetran Session


1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Don’t Just Build Models — Operationalize Them

In this session, learn more about Snowflake’s end-to-end ML platform and how it supports creating production-scale deployments and operationalization of your models. We will dive into MLOps essentials and Snowflake’s capabilities for model management and model serving. You can easily bring models trained externally, or train them at scale using Snowflake ML, and then securely and scalably deploy them for inference with our flexible serving environments. At the end, we’ll bring this to life with a real-life scenario of managing production models, running continuous evaluations to train and deploy champion-challenger models.

  • Sheena Nasim

    Senior Architect, Machine Learning, Applied Field Engineering Office
    Snowflake

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
AFTERNOON TEA

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Best Practices for AI Governance and Security in Snowflake
Session Descriptor

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Managing Costs And Optimizing Performance In Snowflake

Session Descriptor

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Best Practices for AI Governance and Security in Snowflake

To effectively govern your AI models end to end, you need visibility and controls across the entire data lifecycle. This includes ensuring data quality for model inputs, using data lineage to track dependencies and workflows, and enforcing safeguards on model outputs. Join this session to learn best practices for governing models with Snowflake — improving data integrity, increasing transparency into your AI pipeline, and ensuring responsible AI deployment.

  • Noah Costar

    Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Managing Costs And Optimizing Performance In Snowflake

Learn how to better oversee, control and optimize the cost and performance of your Snowflake workloads through capabilities like Cost-Based Anomaly Detection, Tag-based Budgets and Performance Explorer. Join us for new product and feature overviews, best practices, and live demos.

  • Regan Murphy

    Senior Solution Engineering Manager
    Snowflake

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Accelerating Data Warehouse Migrations to Snowflake
Session Descriptor

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

CUSTOMER STORY - Spark NZ


3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Accelerating Data Warehouse Migrations to Snowflake

Learn how to accelerate and automate migrations with SnowConvert AI, featuring data ecosystem migration agents powered by Snowflake Cortex AI. SnowConvert AI is your free, automated solution designed to dramatically reduce the complexities, costs, and timelines associated with data warehouse and BI migrations. It intelligently analyzes your existing code, automating code conversion, data validation, and streamlining the entire migration process. Join us for an overview of the solution, migration best practices, and live demos.

  • Padmaja Vrudhula

    VP, Solution Innovation
    Snowflake

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

CUSTOMER STORY - Stay Tuned

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

SAP Modernization with Snowflake: Powering Your Data, AI, and Analytics Journey
Session Descriptor

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

SAP Modernization with Snowflake: Powering Your Data, AI, and Analytics Journey
  • Gopal Raghavan

    Principal Data Platform Architect, Applied Field Engineering
    Snowflake

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Hands-on Lab

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
NETWORKING RECEPTION
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