Snowflake World Tour
Sydney
14 August | International Convention Centre
AGENDA
REGISTERATION AND NETWORKING
Opening Keynote
Sr. Regional Vice President, ANZ & ASEAN
Snowflake
Chief Data Analytics Officer
Snowflake
Director, Product Management
Snowflake
Principal Developer Advocate
Snowflake
CEO
CommBank iQ
MORNING TEA
BUILD YOUR DATA FOUNDATION
11:00 - 11:30
What's New: Easier Warehouse Management with Snowflake Compute Innovations
11:00 - 11:30
What's New: 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.
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Majid Miri
Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake
11:45 - 12:15
What's New: 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.
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Kevin Hannon
Managing Director, Data Engineering Sales Specialist
Snowflake
SCALE AI ACROSS THE BUSINESS
11:00 - 11:30
What's New: 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.
11:45 - 12:15
AWS Session
ACCELERATE AI WITH APPS & COLLABORATION
11:00 - 11:30
What's New: Eliminating Data Silos with Horizon Catalog & Internal Marketplace
11:45 - 12:15
What's New: Deploy Accurate Conversational Apps in Cortex AI with AI Data Agents
11:00 - 11:30
What's New: 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 Iceberg Data Sharing and the Egress Cost Optimiser can increase interoperability and data availability while keeping your data sharing costs down.
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Cathy Xu
Associate Solution Engineer
Snowflake
11:45 - 12:15
What's New: 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.
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Tim Buchhorn
Senior Architect, Data Application, Applied Field Engineering
Snowflake
INDUSTRY IMPACT
11:45 - 12:15
Retail Industry Panel
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.
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Jim Warner
Senior Principal Architect, Global Retail CTO
Snowflake
WHATS NEW & CUSTOMER STORIES
11:00 - 11:30
Canva Customer Story
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Sida Yuan
Senior Data Scientist
Canva
11:45 - 12:15
What's New: 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.
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Aarushi Arya
Solution Engineer
Snowflake
AI-DRIVEN BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION FOR LEADERS
11:00 - 11:30
Snowflake on 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”
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Travis Murphy
Sr. Product Marketing Manager and Evangelist - ANZ
Snowflake
HANDS-ON LABS
11:00 - 11:45
HANDS-ON LAB
LUNCH AND NETWORKING
Public Sector Lunch & Learn
Dedicated Public Sector stream designed for our Australian public sector attendees with sessions covering how Data and AI are transforming citizen experience and how government agencies are leveraging the power of technology to build new use cases.
Head of Insights & Analytics
VMIA
Head of Data & Analytics
Service NSW
Senior Regional Sales Director
Snowflake
Industry Principal, Public Sector
Snowflake
1:30 - 2:00
Domo Session
2:15 - 2:45
What's New: Advanced Analytics with Cortex AISQL, Native Semantic Views & More
2:15 - 2:45
What's New: 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.
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Rishu Saxena
Principal Architect, Machine Learning, Applied Field Engineering Office
Snowflake
2:15 - 2:45
Microsoft Session
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.
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Mahdi Askari
Principal Architect, Data and AI, Applied Field Engineering Office
Snowflake
2:15 - 2:45
Public Sector Industry Panel
1:30 - 2:00
Customer Story - stay tuned
2:15 - 2:45
The Future of Financial Services: Architecting for Data & AI ROI with Snowflake
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 the Financial Services keynote at Summit 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. And 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.
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Kaushik GD
Industry Principal, Financial Services
Snowflake
1:30 - 2:00
What's New: 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.
2:15 - 2:45
Woodside Energy Customer Story
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Dameon Russell
Platform Operations Excellence Lead
Woodside Energy -
Rohan Davies
Data Platform Lead
Woodside Energy
1:30 - 2:00
Customer Story - stay tuned
2:15 - 2:45
Accenture Session
1:30 - 2:15
HANDS-ON LAB: From Data to Decisions: Building End-to-End AI Solutions with Snowflake & AWS
AFTERNOON TEA
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.
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Leon Czechowicz
Data Cloud Architect
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!
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Sean Kim
Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake
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.
4:00 - 4:30
dbt Session
3:15 - 3:45
Coalesce Session
4:00 - 4:30
A Framework For Privacy-Preserving Collaboration: Where Sensitive Data Meets Business Value
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.
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Alex Lei
Senior Solution Engineer
Snowflake
3:15 - 3:45
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.
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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 AI for Insurance
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John Kim
Chief Data Officer at Zurich Financial Services Australia
Zurich
3:15 - 3:45
What's New: 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.
4:00 - 4:30
ENTAIN CUSTOMER STORY Built Not Bought: Unlocking Big Impact with 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.
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Blake Baggett
Head of Data Operations
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Daniel Mockler
Data Engineering Manager
Entain
3:15 - 3:45
Data for Good Panel
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Chantal Velasque
Head of Data & Analytics
Uniting
3:15 - 4:00