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Snowflake World Tour

Sydney

14 August | International Convention Centre

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AGENDA

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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Opening Keynote

Theo Hourmouzis
Sr. Regional Vice President, ANZ & ASEAN
Snowflake

Anahita Tafvizi
Chief Data Analytics Officer
Snowflake

Jeff Hollan
Director, Product Management
Snowflake

Dash Desai
Principal Developer Advocate
Snowflake

Makenna Ralston
CEO
CommBank iQ
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
MORNING TEA
BUILD YOUR DATA FOUNDATION

11:00 - 11:30

Easier Warehouse Management with Snowflake Compute Innovations


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11:45 - 12:15

Revolutionising Data Movement with Snowflake Openflow


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11:00 - 11:30

Easier Warehouse Management with Snowflake Compute Innovations


Learn how Snowflake is innovating to provide faster warehouses with Standard Warehouse- Gen2, while making compute easier to use with better price/performance through Snowflake Adaptive Compute. Join us for new product and feature overviews, best practices and live demos.

  • Majid Miri

    Senior Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

11:45 - 12:15

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.

  • Kevin Hannon

    Managing Director, Data Engineering Sales Specialist
    Snowflake

  • Vishnu Rajmohan

    Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

SCALE AI ACROSS THE BUSINESS

11:00 - 11:30

No-Code Agentic Data Analytics Platform




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11:45 - 12:15

Transform Your Data Estate for Agentic AI and Apps with Snowflake and Microsoft
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11:00 - 11:30

No-Code Agentic Data Analytics Platform




Discover how to build and deploy a no-code, agentic AI platform with Snowflake Intelligence. See how organisations are bringing together structured and unstructured data to make insights accessible across their entire enterprise via an AI-driven agentic interface, all within Snowflake. Join us for a product overview, best practices discussion and live demo.

  • Jeff Hollan

    Director, Product Management
    Snowflake

11:45 - 12:15

Transform Your Data Estate for Agentic AI and Apps with Snowflake and Microsoft

Explore how Snowflake and Microsoft collaborate to transform data and AI workflows. Learn to operate on a single data copy between Microsoft Fabric OneLake and Snowflake via Apache Iceberg, eliminating duplication. Discover Real-Time RAG AI Agents that integrate Snowflake’s trusted data and enterprise systems for instant Microsoft Copilot responses, without copying data. Unlock Real-Time Actions using PowerApps with live query and writeback to Snowflake, all with no code. Simplify and innovate with these powerful tools.

  • Narendra Joshi

    Principal Cloud Solution Architect
    Microsoft

ACCELERATE AI WITH APPS & COLLABORATION

11:00 - 11:30

Eliminating Data Silos with Horizon Catalog & Internal Marketplace



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11:45 - 12:15

Deploy Accurate Conversational Apps in Cortex AI with AI Data Agents

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11:00 - 11:30

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 Organisation Profiles and Request for Access, to streamline and accelerate the sharing of data, apps, and AI. Finally, learn how Snowflake Data Sharing and the Egress Cost Optimiser can increase interoperability and data availability while keeping your data sharing costs down.

  • Cathy Xu

    Associate Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

11:45 - 12:15

Deploy Accurate Conversational Apps in Cortex AI with AI Data Agents

Learn how to build and deploy accurate conversational apps and bring AI-powered data agents into production with ease and trust across your enterprise. Join us for new product insights, feature overviews, best practices and live demos.

  • Tim Buchhorn

    Senior Architect, Data Application, Applied Field Engineering
    Snowflake

INDUSTRY IMPACT


11:00 - 11:30

The Future of Retail & Consumer Goods




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11:45 - 12:15

RETAIL INDUSTRY PANEL From Experimentation to Reality. The phase of adding value?
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11:00 - 11:30

The Future of Retail & Consumer Goods




The retail and consumer goods industries are undergoing significant transformation, driven by shifting consumer behaviors, global economic changes, supply chain disruptions and, most importantly, rapid technological innovation. This session is designed for business and technology leaders in RCG, offering them insights and strategies needed to navigate and thrive in this evolving landscape. Learn from the transformational experience of the leading global consumer goods company, Snowflake industry experts and key partners as they explore how data and AI technologies are shaping the industries’ future.

  • Jim Warner

    Senior Principal Architect, Global Retail CTO
    Snowflake

  • Leslie Lorenz

    Industry Principal, Retail
    Snowflake

11:45 - 12:15

RETAIL INDUSTRY PANEL From Experimentation to Reality. The phase of adding value?

AI is now a current reality, not a future idea, and it’s revolutionising industries, especially retail. It’s changing how retailers work and engage with customers, from tailored suggestions to improved supply chains.

  • Sai Namuduri

    Data & AI - Platforms
    David Jones

  • Shalome Stone

    Data & AI - Product
    David Jones

  • George Prieto

    AI and Automation Lead
    Super Retail Group

  • Leslie Lorenz

    Industry Principal, Retail
    Snowflake

WHATS NEW & CUSTOMER STORIES

11:00 - 11:30

CANVA CUSTOMER STORY - Scaling Creativity: Canva's AI-Powered Data Journey with Snowflake

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11:45 - 12:15

Managing Costs & Optimizing Performance in Snowflake

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11:00 - 11:30

CANVA CUSTOMER STORY - Scaling Creativity: Canva's AI-Powered Data Journey with Snowflake

Ever wondered how Canva manages to keep up with hundreds of millions of users while delivering personalized experiences? Jill Robbinson, Canva’s Content & Discovery Data Lead and Sida Yuan, Senior Data Scientist, will reveal how Snowflake’s robust platform handles immense data ingestion and complex analytical workloads. Get an exclusive look at how Canva is tapping into Snowflake’s new GenAI capabilities and Semantic Layer to unlock powerful, natural language insights, paving the way for the next era of self-service data. Don’t miss this deep dive into data innovation!

  • Sida Yuan

    Senior Data Scientist
    Canva

  • Jill Robinson

    Data Lead, Content & Discovery
    Canva

11:45 - 12:15

Managing Costs & Optimizing Performance in Snowflake

Learn how to better oversee, control and optimise 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.

  • Aarushi Arya

    Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

AI-DRIVEN BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION FOR LEADERS

11:00 - 11:30

FIRESIDE CHAT Snowflake on Snowflake: Our Blueprint for the AI-Powered Enterprise

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11:45 - 12:15

Empower Business Decisions with Data Products


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11:00 - 11:30

FIRESIDE CHAT Snowflake on Snowflake: Our Blueprint for the AI-Powered Enterprise

At Snowflake, we’re not just the builders of the AI Data Cloud; we are its first and most demanding customer. Join this fireside chat to go behind the scenes and discover how we run Snowflake on Snowflake. Learn how our teams—from sales and marketing to finance and HR—use our own technology, including Cortex AI, to drive efficiency, accelerate innovation, and answer critical business questions.

  • Anahita Tafvizi

    Chief Data Analytics Officer
    Snowflake

  • Glenn McPherson

    Regional Vice President
    Snowflake

11:45 - 12:15

Empower Business Decisions with Data Products


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

  • Leon Czechowicz

    Data Cloud Architect
    Snowflake

HANDS-ON LAB


11:00 - 11:45

HANDS-ON LAB Unlocking Enterprise Insights with Data Agents and AI-Powered Snowflake Intelligence
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11:00 - 11:45

HANDS-ON LAB Unlocking Enterprise Insights with Data Agents and AI-Powered Snowflake Intelligence

Join us for an immersive Technical Lab session dedicated to the cutting-edge capabilities of Snowflake’s Gen AI. Dive deep into a comprehensive demo and code walkthrough showcasing how Snowflake Intelligence and Data Agents can empower users to unlock valuable insights from their data. This session will equip you with an understanding of agentic capabilities within Snowflake, providing you with the resources and practical knowledge to implement these innovations on your own datasets. Whether you’re a data scientist, analyst, or business user, you’ll leave with the tools and insights needed to harness the full potential of Snowflake in your analytics journey. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your genAI skills!

  • Dash Desai

    Lead Developer Advocate
    Snowflake

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Public Sector Lunch & Learn

Unlocking the Power of Data for Smarter Public Sector

Join our Public Sector Lunch & Learn to explore how data and AI are reshaping public sector services.

Designed for public sector leaders and innovators, this session will highlight the latest product advancements, practical use cases, and real-world success stories driving transformation across public sector.

Hear from Snowflake experts on key roadmap priorities that support secure, compliant, and connected government. Learn how trends like generative AI, whole-of-government data integration, and digital identity are redefining how services are designed and delivered, with a focus on trust, accountability, and citizen outcomes.

VMIA will share why curiosity, not just capability, is the is the next frontier in public sector data leadership, and how bold questions can unlock deeper insights.

We’ll close with a fireside chat featuring Service NSW on moving Beyond Silos, exploring strategies for data sharing, privacy, and building public trust in an increasingly connected government.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and spark new ideas for data-powered innovation in the public sector.

 

Andrew Spiegelman
Head of Data & Analytics
Service NSW

Chris Jackson
Head of Insights & Analytics
VMIA

Bob Zhu
Manager, Data Platform
VMIA

Daniel Brennan
Artificial Intelligence Lead
VMIA

Chris Lawrence
Senior Regional Sales Director
Snowflake

Glenn Powell
Industry Principal, Public Sector
Snowflake

Katherine Enderling
Chief Data Architect
Industry Thought Leader

1:30 - 2:00

NATIONAL TILES CUSTOMER STORY - Whatever you’re into, Now you Can: Lessons in Transformation from National Tiles
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2:15 - 2:45

Advanced Analytics with Cortex AISQL, Native Semantic Views & More



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1:30 - 2:00

NATIONAL TILES CUSTOMER STORY - Whatever you’re into, Now you Can: Lessons in Transformation from National Tiles

In this Fireside Chat, Brian Smith GM Transformation and Mark Chapman COO share National Tiles transformation journey and lessons learnt along the way. Discover how Domo with Snowflake was key to this national retailers success.

  • Brian Smith

    General Manager, Transformation
    National Tiles Co Pty Ltd

  • Tamara Pannett

    Team Leader, Enterprise Sales
    DOMO

2:15 - 2:45

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 and structured data using AI. We’ll also demonstrate how to use Semantic Views to bridge the gap between data and business understanding.

  • Travis Murphy

    Sr. Product Marketing Manager and Evangelist - ANZ
    Snowflake

1:30- 2:00

Snowflake Cortex AI's Agents & Enterprise Intelligence Capabilities


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2:15 - 2:45

How Moose Toys Maximizes Its Snowflake Investment with Coalesce for Faster, AI-ready Data


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1:30- 2:00

Snowflake Cortex AI's Agents & Enterprise Intelligence Capabilities


Explore Snowflake’s enterprise AI vision, innovations, and roadmap. You’ll see how Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex AI SQL, Cortex Agents, automatic Semantic Model generation and specialised AI tools work together inside Snowflake’s secure platform, turning multimodal data into transformational impact for enterprise customers without infrastructure headaches. Walk away knowing how these integrated capabilities give business users, data analysts and engineers the tools, speed and governance required to deploy AI into production.

  • Mahdi Askari

    Principal Architect, Data and AI, Applied Field Engineering Office
    Snowflake

2:15 - 2:45

How Moose Toys Maximizes Its Snowflake Investment with Coalesce for Faster, AI-ready Data


  • Cyril Lam

    VP of IT
    Moose Toys

  







2:15 - 2:45

PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRY PANEL Turning Data into Value: NSW Health’s Financial Insights Assistant

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2:15 - 2:45

PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRY PANEL Turning Data into Value: NSW Health’s Financial Insights Assistant

Data is no longer just information; it’s the essential currency of connected healthcare. This session will showcase how NSW Health is generating real-world returns from its data strategy by empowering its workforce with a self-service analytics model. You will see this framework in action through the Financial Insights Assistant, an innovative application that revolutionises financial decision-making. Experience how it uses natural language interaction to transform complex, unstructured data into clear, contextually relevant insights and practical recommendations. A compelling healthcare financial management use case will illustrate how this tool simplifies analysis for finance stakeholders, helping them understand and optimise service costs to build a more efficient and sustainable system.

  • Todd Crosslin

    Todd Crosslin

    Global Industry Principal, Healthcare & Life Sciences
    Snowflake

  • Mauricio Olivera

    Associate Director of Business Analytics and Intelligence
    NSW Ministry of Health

  • Harmeet Chhabra

    Director - Data Analytics Services
    NSW Health

1:30 - 2:00

DOMAIN CUSTOMER STORY Dashboards to Dialogues: Our Journey to Conversational Data Happiness
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2:15 - 2:45

The Future of Financial Services: Architecting for Data & AI ROI with Snowflake



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1:30 - 2:00

DOMAIN CUSTOMER STORY Dashboards to Dialogues: Our Journey to Conversational Data Happiness

Our presentation highlights Domain’s journey from traditional data access methods to a future of effortless insights. We’ll explore Domain’s evolving approach to achieve data happiness as well as the strategic decision to integrate Snowflake Cortex AI for its trust and scale, and demonstrate how this powerful tool now bridges the gap, allowing anyone to speak the language of data and unlock immediate answers.

  • Suyash Masurkar

    Head of Business Intelligence
    Domain

  • Ahmad Faizi

    Senior BI Developer
    Domain

2:15 - 2:45

The Future of Financial Services: Architecting for Data & AI ROI with Snowflake



Navigating an AI-powered, data-driven financial services future can be challenging, particularly as the industry faces greater pressure to demonstrate tangible returns on their AI investments. Join this Financial Services session and hear directly from industry leaders about their partnerships with Snowflake, the business and technology challenges they’re looking to solve and the key use cases they’re implementing. Plus learn what the latest Snowflake announcements mean for the industry. Whether you’re a business executive, a technology leader or a Snowflake user, this session will provide actionable insights on how to architect for data and AI ROI.

  • Kaushik GD

    Industry Principal, Financial Services
    Snowflake

1:30 - 2:00

Accelerating Data Warehouse Migrations to Snowflake



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2:15 - 2:45

WOODSIDE ENERGY CUSTOMER STORY Driving Efficiency and Innovation: Woodside Energy's Journey to a Unified Data Environment
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1:30 - 2:00

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.

  • Alex Bowes

    Sr. Manager, Professional Services Consulting
    Snowflake

  • Mark Starc

    Sr. Solutions Architect - Migrations
    Snowflake

2:15 - 2:45

WOODSIDE ENERGY CUSTOMER STORY Driving Efficiency and Innovation: Woodside Energy's Journey to a Unified Data Environment

This session will explore how Woodside Energy leveraged a single platform approach to simplify their data environment, optimize total cost of ownership, enhance operational efficiency, governance & accelerate data use. Attendees will gain insights into the key considerations and challenges faced during their platform journey, and how a data platform snowballs to ingesting more than a billion data records while serving a million user queries every day.

  • Dameon Russell

    Platform Operations Excellence Lead
    Woodside Energy

  • Rohan Davies

    Data Platform Lead
    Woodside Energy

1:30 - 2:00

XERO CUSTOMER STORY Goldilocks and the Data Platform



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2:15 - 2:45

CHALLENGER CUSTOMER STORY - Scaling Generative AI: The Data Readiness Imperative


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1:30 - 2:00

XERO CUSTOMER STORY Goldilocks and the Data Platform



Which bear has it right? The constant tug of war between centralised and federated, immediate value and strategic capabilities, safety and speed – balancing these in the AI era is certainly no fairy tale. Come along to hear about Xero’s never-ending quest to provide “just right” data.

  • Brendan Duck

    GM Data Engineering
    Xero

2:15 - 2:45

CHALLENGER CUSTOMER STORY - Scaling Generative AI: The Data Readiness Imperative


Join Anton Schoeman, Head of Architecture at Challenger, and Daniel Biegler, Head of Accenture’s ANZ Snowflake practice, as they discuss how trusted, AI-ready data, business-user enablement, and ecosystem collaboration are critical to scaling GenAI beyond pilots. Discover how Snowflake and Accenture are helping organizations like Challenger close the trust, skills, and governance gaps to drive real AI-powered reinvention.

  • Anton Schoeman

    General Manager Technology
    Challenger

  • Daniel Biegler

    Snowflake Practice Lead, ANZ
    Accenture

1:30 - 2:30

HANDS-ON LAB: From Data to Decisions: Building End-to-End AI Solutions with Snowflake & AWS
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1:30 - 2:30

HANDS-ON LAB: From Data to Decisions: Building End-to-End AI Solutions with Snowflake & AWS

Join this hands-on workshop to discover how Snowflake and Amazon Web Services seamlessly integrate to democratize AI for data professionals and business users alike. You’ll learn to build a complete AI solution with Snowflake Cortex agent and Amazon Q that orchestrates across both structured and unstructured data sources to deliver insights, and empowers natural language data querying—all while accelerating decision-making across your organization.

Perfect for: Data engineers, analysts, marketing professionals, and business stakeholders looking to harness AI without complex coding requirements.

Take away: A complete understanding of how to deploy production-ready AI solutions that bridge the gap between technical capabilities and business value, making advanced analytics accessible to every team member.

  • Mary Law

    APJ Partner Tech Lead, CSP
    Snowflake

  • Amelia Mantle

    Solutions Architect
    AWS

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
AFTERNOON TEA

3:15 - 3:45

Best Practices for AI Governance & Security in Snowflake



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4:00 - 4:30

Best Practices for Dynamic Tables



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3:15 - 3:45

Best Practices for AI Governance & 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.

  • Wasim El-Omari

    Senior Manager, Field CTO
    Snowflake

4:00 - 4:30

Best Practices for Dynamic Tables



Come learn the best practices around monitoring (alerts); backup/restore (cloning, replications, practicing failover scenarios, using finalise 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!

  • Sean Kim

    Senior Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

3:15 - 3:45

Don’t Just Build Models — Operationalise Them



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4:00 - 4:30

Macros, Models, and Meaning: ASB’s Data Product Story with dbt


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3:15 - 3:45

Don’t Just Build Models — Operationalise Them



In this session, learn more about Snowflake’s end-to-end ML platform and how it supports creating production-scale deployments and operationalisation 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.

  • Rishu Saxena

    Senior Architect, Machine Learning, Applied Field Engineering Office

4:00 - 4:30

Macros, Models, and Meaning: ASB’s Data Product Story with dbt


Discover how ASB is transforming its data landscape using dbt Cloud to power scalable, governed, and privacy-conscious data products. This session explores ASB’s journey from legacy systems to a modern Snowflake-based architecture, highlighting macro-driven development, template-based governance, and domain-aligned product curation. Learn how dbt enables ASB to build with consistency, monitor with confidence, and deliver data products that matter.

  • Phillip Webb

    Chapter lead
    ASB Bank

3:15 - 3:45

From Data to Trust: AI-Powered Innovation in Australia's Payment Infrastructure


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4:00 - 4:30

A Framework For Privacy-Preserving Collaboration: Where Sensitive Data Meets Business Value
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3:15 - 3:45

From Data to Trust: AI-Powered Innovation in Australia's Payment Infrastructure


Hear how Australia Payments Plus leverages AWS and Snowflake and their approach to using rich payment data responsibly to enable financial service innovation. Purpose-driven technology at scale

  • May Lam

    Chief Information Officer
    Australian Payments Plus

4:00 - 4:30

A Framework For Privacy-Preserving Collaboration: Where Sensitive Data Meets Business Value

A practical Product-oriented guide to leveraging Snowflake’s privacy-preserving Collaboration tools, including data protection policies, data clean rooms, synthetic data and more to unlock business value from sensitive data. Modern organisations are looking for ways to collaborate internally and externally on sensitive data of all kinds, while still respecting the sensitivity. Hear how Snowflake Data Collaboration capabilities enable leading organisations to obtain the best of both worlds.

  • Omar hafez

    Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

3:15 - 3:45

NIB CUSTOMER STORY How NIB Used Snowflake Cortex AI to Reduce Noise and Manual Work

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4:00 - 4:30

FSI INDUSTRY PANEL Accelerating Enterprise AI for Insurance

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3:15 - 3:45

NIB CUSTOMER STORY How NIB Used Snowflake Cortex AI to Reduce Noise and Manual Work

Unlock Snowflake’s power with Snowflake Cortex AI. We’ll share real-world examples, including reducing work item backlogs through intelligent prioritization and automating client data updates from free text across multiple source systems. Additionally, we use Streamlit as an interface for review and quality checks. Learn about our successes, challenges and practical tips for your Snowflake Cortex AI implementation.

  • Emma Blanusa

    Senior Manager AI, ML and Data Science
    nib

  • Kurt Gardiner

    Senior Engineering Manager - Data & Machine Learning
    nib

4:00 - 4:30

FSI INDUSTRY PANEL Accelerating Enterprise AI for Insurance

In this FSI industry panel our executive speakers will discuss business challenges in data governance and ethical AI, implementing Gen AI into your organisation and AI’s value within the insurance industry. Attendees will learn about preparing for AI with foundational data capabilities and tools to leverage to future proof for AI. Our executive panelists will share valuable insights on their AI journey and key use cases will be explored.

  • John Kim

    Chief Data Officer at Zurich Financial Services Australia
    Zurich

  • Paul Zancanaro

    Enterprise Account Executive
    Snowflake

  • Greg Turner

    General Manager - Data & Analytics
    Resolution Life

3:15 - 3:45

Accelerate Your Open Lakehouse with Fewer Dependencies



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4:00 - 4:30

ENTAIN CUSTOMER STORY Built Not Bought: Unlocking Big Impact with Snowflake

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3:15 - 3:45

Accelerate Your Open Lakehouse with Fewer Dependencies



Rethink how you build open, connected, and governed data lakehouses: integrate any Iceberg REST compatible catalog to Snowflake to securely read from and write to any Iceberg table with Catalog Linked Databases. Unlock insights and AI from semi-structured data with support for VARIANT data types. And enjoy enterprise-grade security with Snowflake’s managed service for Apache Polaris™, Snowflake Open Catalog.

  • Somesh Bahuguna

    Principal Solution Engineer
    Snowflake

4:00 - 4:30

ENTAIN CUSTOMER STORY Built Not Bought: Unlocking Big Impact with Snowflake

In this session, discover how Entain reimagined its enterprise data architecture by leaning into Snowflake’s native capabilities unlocking performance, scalability, and speed without overengineering.

We’ll kick off with our high-impact migration from SQL Server to Snowflake, showcasing how this shift delivered cloud-native scalability, reduced complexity across data operations, and paved the way for faster insights.
Next, we’ll explore how we’ve built out our core data warehouse layer using Snowflake Tasks enabling streamlined orchestration and scalable ETL with minimal operational overhead.

Finally, we’ll demonstrate how Streamlit has transformed the way our Finance team manages data enabling timely data capture, improving data integrity, and supporting real-time decision making for critical downstream processes.

  • Blake Baggett

    Head of Data Operations
    Entain

  • Daniel Mockler

    Data Engineering Manager
    Entain

3:15 - 3:45

DATA FOR GOOD PANEL The Power of Data Collaboration to End Data Disparity


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3:15 - 3:45

DATA FOR GOOD PANEL The Power of Data Collaboration to End Data Disparity


This panel will explore how organisations can leverage data and actionable strategies to build equitable healthcare ecosystems. Panelists will discuss how to align the healthcare ecosystem with the needs of diverse patient populations. This conversation will delve into how creating a more inclusive and equitable healthcare landscape drives accessibility and improves health outcomes for all.

  • Chantal Velasque

    Head of Data & Analytics
    Uniting

  • Todd Crosslin

    Todd Crosslin

    Industry Principal, Healthcare & Life Sciences
    Snowflake

  • Dr. Amith Shetty

    Clinical Director, System Sustainability and Performance
    NSW Ministry of Health

  • TJ Chandler

    Managing Director, FiveTran

3:15 - 4:00

HANDS-ON LAB: From Data to Decisions: Building End-to-End AI Solutions with Snowflake & Microsoft
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3:15 - 4:00

HANDS-ON LAB: From Data to Decisions: Building End-to-End AI Solutions with Snowflake & Microsoft

Join this hands-on workshop to discover how Snowflake and Microsoft seamlessly integrate to democratize AI for data professionals and business users alike. You’ll learn to build a complete AI solution with Snowflake Cortex agent and Microsoft Copilot Studio that orchestrates across both structured and unstructured data sources to deliver insights, and empowers natural language data querying—all while accelerating decision-making across your organization.

Perfect for: Data engineers, analysts, marketing professionals, and business stakeholders looking to harness AI without complex coding requirements.

Take away: A complete understanding of how to deploy production-ready AI solutions that bridge the gap between technical capabilities and business value, making advanced analytics accessible to every team member.

  • Mary Law

    APJ Partner Tech Lead, CSP
    Snowflake

  • Narendra Joshi

    Principal Cloud Solution Architect
    Microsoft

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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