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What to Expect
The Snowflake Summit World Tour is coming to Chicago and we’re bringing everything you’ll need to enable your data-driven enterprise.
During Snowflake Summit Chicago, you’ll have the opportunity to attend sessions that span the entire analytics ecosystem: data loading and transformation, data modeling, business intelligence, and the unique benefits of deploying a cloud-built architecture.
You’ll learn how Snowflake and our partner technologies can be the center of your modern cloud analytics platform.
Cost to Attend: Free
How You Will Learn
Breakout Sessions
With multiple customer sessions, Snowflake Summit is devoted to peer learning. If you have a goal to accomplish, you’ll find solutions from your peers presenting at Summit.
Keynote
Hear from industry leaders and see the future of the data-driven enterprise in the cloud. Get inspired and find new innovative ways to enable data-driven transformation as your organization today.
Zero to Snowflake
Learn how to set up a data warehouse in practically no time and get the actionable insights your business needs during our instructor-led hands-on workshops.
Tailored to You
C-Suite
As a business leader, you’ll attend thought leadership sessions to help you develop a plan for the future. We’ll also present results-oriented content, so you get the most from your existing data analytics investments.
IT
Learn how to optimize Snowflake and leverage your team to deliver more data insights more efficiently. You’ll hear from practitioners, who are driving their teams to new heights with the data warehouse built for the cloud.
Business Intelligence
With BI leaders from every industry, Snowflake Summit is the best place to find ideas for speeding time to insight and reducing unnecessary management overhead within your BI platform.
Agenda
Listen to business and technology pioneers about how to enable the data-driven enterprise through analytics, technology, people, and processes.
Expo Hall Doors Open
Registration and Breakfast
The Business Imperative to Break Data Barriers
How do you become the leading data warehouse? Put customers first and think BIG! Join Snowflake’s Chairman and CEO, Frank Slootman, as he details how Snowflake continues to smash the cost, technology, and architecture barriers that prevent organizations from instantly accessing and sharing the insights from all their data. Slootman will also reveal Snowflake’s current vision and how we will continue to help companies break data barriers.
Introducing the Snowflake Data Platform
What does it take to build a truly modern data platform from the ground up? Is it possible a single platform can address all your workloads and data challenges? Known for its ability to handle large scale analytics workloads, Snowflake has evolved to become the centerpiece for organizations’ data architectures around the globe. Join Snowflake’s VP of Product, Christian Kleinerman, to learn:
- The architectural differentiation that makes Snowflake so unique and impactful
- How Snowflake can be your data lake and so much more
- How easy it is to get started with a cloud-built data platform
Customer Session
Customer Panel
Join ShopRunner, and Infutor to get all your questions answered about how to enable data-driven decision-making. You’ll also learn about the data analytics strategies these organizations deployed to better serve their customers, create new market opportunities, and streamline their operations.
Lunch in Expo Hall
Breakout Tracks
Track 1: Business Value for Executives
Data-Driven Business Strategies
Adopting a data-driven strategy can transform your business. Whether you’re looking to increase revenue, optimize costs, or reveal new market opportunities, using Snowflake helps accelerate data-driven initiatives to meet your business goals.
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Deliver Real Business Value with a Cloud Data Platform
Clarke Patterson
Head of Product Marketing
Snowflake
How can you and your organization get the highest value from your data? With so many possible uses cases to consider, creating and starting a journey can often be harder than it seems. Hear how Snowflake customers started their journeys at speed, and learn how you, too, can be a Snowflake hero by jump-starting your company’s data-driven journey. We’ll take you from initial education to enterprise-wide adoption on Snowflake, with an overview of industry-disruptive use cases.
2:40pm - 3:25pm
Connecting Brands Using Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse
Hussain Bohra
Senior Data Engineer
Shoprunner
ShopRunner connects top retailers and brands to online shoppers. Using Snowflake, the company collects page-view data, as well as detailed information about how users interact with pages to optimize the online shopping experience and provide a tailored platform for brands. In this session, ShopRunner will discuss how it developed custom user-defined functions (UDFs) using open source JavaScript libraries and webpack, and how it integrated them into Snowflake for its analytics platform
3:35pm - 4:20pm
The Path to Secure Data Sharing and Monetization
Daniel Kuperman
Director of Product Marketing
Snowflake
Learn how Snowflake customers use Snowflake to share, exchange, and monetize their data. This session will showcase Snowflake’s Secure Data Sharing technology and how organizations such as Heap, Braze, Weather Source, and others use the new Snowflake Data Exchange to enable their customers to securely access, query, and join data between organizations, while protecting PII and remaining in control of their data.
Track 2: BI Focused
All the Insights from All Your Data
Learn how Snowflake’s unlimited performance and concurrency accelerate business reporting and enable the once-elusive modern data lake. Hear from Snowflake customers and product leaders about how to modernize analytics in the cloud and put data to work for your organization.
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Build a Modern Data Lake with Snowflake
Michael Nixon
Senior Director, Product Marketing
Snowflake
Many companies have made significant investments in building data lakes as their central data repository yet they struggle to show real business impact from those efforts. Use Snowflake as or with your data lake to eliminate complexity while delivering rapid analytics and establishing critical governance requirements. For your new data lake project, learn how Snowflake can be the center of your data strategy, and for existing data lake deployments, learn how Snowflake can turn a failed data lake strategy into a successful one.
2:40pm - 3:25pm
Tableau + Snowflake | Analytics Built for the Cloud
Kirk Munroe
Strategic Customer Success
Tableau
Learn how modern cloud analytics technologies from Tableau and Snowflake are changing the data landscape. With these technologies, customers are enabling business users to analyze data with ease through governed, self-service analytics to make business decisions faster than ever. Leverage best practices from customers on building and scaling organization-wide analytics capabilities through the new Tableau Blueprint.
3:35pm - 4:20pm
Integrating and Transforming Data Using Snowflake Pipelines
Jordan Ude
Senior Sales Engineer
Snowflake
New data constantly arrives in various formats and business users expect up-to-date insights from reports and ad hoc query results. They can’t rely on stale data. Keeping up requires smooth operational pipelines from ingestion to transformation to reporting. Learn how to quickly ingest data from various sources, transform it into canonical forms in your data warehouse, and use it to derive insights. You’ll also learn how to express your transforms as SQL and build data pipelines that run 24×7 in Snowflake. We’ll also explain how to gather Change Data Capture (CDC) information to power your Snowflake data pipelines. Join this session to see how businesses already use these capabilities and how Snowflake partners are building innovative products on top of the data warehouse built for the cloud.
Track 3: IT Focused
Snowflake Architecture and Management
Snowflake’s unique cloud-built architecture is effective for a wide range of workloads. Find out how Snowflake’s near zero-management solution and built-in security keeps you and your organization stress-free and focused on high-value projects.
1:45pm - 2:30pm
Snowflake Best Practices
Michael Rainey
Senior Solutions Architect
Snowflake
One of the most common questions customers ask when they start with Snowflake is “What are Snowflake’s best practices?” Learn recommendations for how to apply key Snowflake concepts such as virtual warehouses, sizing, and multi-cluster workloads so you can get value from your deployment faster. In addition, you’ll get insight into managing and monitoring compute and storage costs and how to track and attribute costs to business units for chargebacks.
2:40pm - 3:25pm
Migrate to Snowflake - Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud
Michael Rainey
Senior Solutions Architect
Snowflake
When shifting to the cloud, the right data migration strategy is critical. Learn key insights and guidance on migration strategies, including migrating from Teradata, Oracle and Netezza. Snowflake experts will cover migration topics, including source system documentation, migration approaches, modernization considerations, and prioritizing data sets for migration. You’ll learn which migration strategies will help you make the most of your Snowflake investment.
3:35pm - 4:20pm
Three Models of Accelerating a Snowflake Implementation
Mike Pickett
SVP of Strategic Alliances
Talend
Learn how customers start fresh with their data warehouse strategy and quickly deploy Snowflake without the need to migrate legacy solutions. Others bridge their existing solutions and expand into new areas with Snowflake. You’ll also learn the third strategy: how organizations have done a full migration from their on-premise data warehouse to Snowflake’s cloud-built solution with the help of Snowflake and its partner ecosystem. Attend this session and you’ll also learn how organizations just like yours have deployed these strategies.
Track 4: Workshop
Zero to Snowflake
Join this hands-on workshop to cut your time to insight, instantly scale and analyze all your data by all your users with the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Learn how to set up a data warehouse in practically no time to get the actionable insights your business needs.
Session 1: 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Repeat Session 2: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hands-on Lab
Zero to Snowflake
Clarity Insights
Aptitive
Join this hands-on workshop and learn how to cut your time to insight, scale instantly, and enable all your users to analyze all your data using the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Learn how to set up a data warehouse in almost no time to get the data-driven insights your organization needs.
IMPORTANT: Due to space constraints, the Zero to Snowflake hands-on workshop will have limited availability.
Here’s what you will need for the sessions:
- Sign up for a Snowflake trial account.
- Pick up a sticker from the Zero to Snowflake booth granting you access to one of the sessions.
- You must show your trial account activation email to retrieve a sticker.
- Stickers are available on a first come, first served basis and are limited.
- Arrive 15 minutes before your designated session and show your sticker.
- Bring your laptop and charger.
Expo Hall Happy Hour
Hotel Recommendations
All Speakers
See the future of your enterprise with the Snowflake keynote, and learn how cloud-built analytics will help your own organization become data-driven.
Speakers will be continually added.
Frank Slootman
Chairman and CEO
Snowflake
Frank Slootman
Chairman and CEO
Snowflake
Christian Kleinerman
Senior Vice President of Product
Snowflake
Christian Kleinerman
Senior Vice President of Product
Snowflake
Matthew J. Glickman
VP of Customer and Product Strategy
Snowflake
Matthew J. Glickman
VP of Customer and Product Strategy
Snowflake
Hussain Bohra
Senior Data Engineer
ShopRunner
Hussain Bohra
Senior Data Engineer
ShopRunner
Jim Caccia
VP of Data Engineering & BI
Infutor
Jim Caccia
VP of Data Engineering & BI
Infutor
Mike Pickett
SVP of Strategic Alliances
Talend
Mike Pickett
SVP of Strategic Alliances
Talend
Fred Bliss
CTO
Aptitive
Fred Bliss
CTO
Aptitive