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Breaking Data Barriers

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September 19, 2019

The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square

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What to Expect

The Snowflake Summit World Tour is coming to San Francisco and we’re bringing everything you’ll need to enable your data-driven enterprise.

During Snowflake Summit San Francisco, 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

This event is at capacity. By registering you will be added to the waitlist. 

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.

8:00am
Expo Hall Doors Open
8:00am - 9:30am
Registration and Breakfast
9:30am - 10:00am
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.

10:00am - 10:45am
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
10:45am - 11:30am
Cisco's Success with Multicloud Data Analytics

When faced with multiple cloud and on-premises technologies it becomes a challenging task to choose the right data platform for the right workload. Attend this session to learn how Cisco has implemented a hybrid multicloud architecture with Snowflake for building data and analytics solutions. Cisco will share lessons learned during this journey and what changed in regards to architecture, people and processes for their successful implementation.

11:30am - 12:00pm
Live Q&A with Snowflake Customers

Join Cisco, Square and Logitech 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.

 

12:00pm - 1:45pm
Lunch in Expo Hall
1:00pm - 5:00pm
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

Build a Modern Data Lake with Snowflake

Michael Nixon

Senior Director of Product Marketing

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

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

Rapid Migration and Scaling with Snowflake


Randy Wigginton

Director of Platform Engineering

Square




Session Descriptor

Find out how, in just six months, Square migrated a petabyte of data to Snowflake, along with all of its ETL and supporting systems. This intricately coordinated effort across dozens of decentralized data teams and hundreds of developers culminated in a fairly smooth transition. Today, Square has over 2,000 daily users, thousands of reports, and hundreds of ETL jobs completing with minimal oversight from infrastructure teams.

3:35pm - 4:20pm

The Path to Secure Data Sharing and Monetization

Justin Langseth

VP Data Sharing

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

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

Using Snowflake to Unify Data, People and Technology

Avinash "Avi" Deshpande

Chief Software Architect

Logitech

Session Descriptor

Snowflake enabled Logitech’s cloud journey with minimal impact on its business operations. Snowflake is a big data platform that sources data for all of Logitech’s analytics initiatives from descriptive to prescriptive to predictive analytics, including NLP processing engines. You’ll also earn how Logitech enabled its Tableau users by building a hybrid data fabric to seamlessly integrate and deliver information across on-premises environments and the cloud, while empowering business users with rapid analytics.

2:40pm - 3:25pm

Beyond BI: Making Your Vision a Reality


Jamie Davidson

VP of Products

Looker

Pravin Darbare

Director of Data Systems

Yapstone

Anil Kumar Puli

Senior Data Engineering Manager

Yapstone

Session Descriptor

Discover how Yapstone uses the Looker BI tool and Snowflake for a wide variety of use cases across its organization to empower a data-driven culture and move beyond a dashboard-only approach. Guest speakers from Yapstone will discuss their journey to make their data vision a reality in a matter of weeks by integrating internal processes, customer workflows, metadata, and KPIs. Hear how they built an embedded data portal to deliver value to customers with a variety of use cases.

3:35pm - 4:20pm

An Introduction to AI, ML, and Data Science in Snowflake

Todd Beauchene

Senior Engineer

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

The Snowflake partner ecosystem powers a number of robust AI, machine learning, and data science solutions. You’ll learn the benefits of leveraging Snowflake as a flexible and scalable data platform to provide data for all these solutions. We will cover several examples, including using Jupyter Notebook with AWS SageMaker to build and train a model based on data in Snowflake.

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

Architecting Modern Data Applications

Megan Schoendorf

Software Engineer

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

Are you building a SaaS startup or adding analytics to your organization’s existing SaaS offering? In this session, you’ll learn common architectural patterns for data applications along with reference architectures and best practices for assembling the right data stack for your applications’ needs. In addition, you’ll learn how other SaaS providers use Snowflake to deliver value-differentiated applications to their customers.

2:40pm - 3:25pm

Migrate to Snowflake - Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud

Joshua Skarphol

Senior Sales Engineer

Snowflake




Session Descriptor

When shifting to the cloud, the right data migration strategy is critical. Learn key insights and guidance for migration strategies, including migrations 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

Cloud Data Warehousing: Rethink Your Data Architecture

George Fraser

CEO

Fivetran

Session Descriptor

It’s time to modernize your data stack and move to the cloud. But for your analytics team to become truly agile, migrating your data warehouse isn’t enough. Learn how to revitalize your analytics architecture with a cloud-first environment and dramatically improve your data team’s agility.

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

Hashmap

Session Descriptor

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:

  1. Sign up for a Snowflake trial account.
  2. 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.
  3. Arrive 15 minutes before your designated session and show your sticker.
  4. Bring your laptop and charger.

4:20pm-6:00pm
Expo Hall Happy Hour

When and Where?

The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square
335 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

September 19, 2019

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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 currently serves as Chairman and CEO at Snowflake. Frank has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Mr. Slootman served as CEO and President of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, taking the organization from around $100M in revenue, through an IPO, to $1.4B. Prior to that, Frank served as President of the Backup Recovery Systems Division at EMC following an acquisition of Data Domain Corporation/Data Domain, Inc., where he served as the Chief Executive Officer and President, leading the company through an IPO to its acquisition by EMC for $2.4B. Slootman holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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

Rob Smoot

VP of Marketing

Snowflake

Rob Smoot

VP of Marketing

Snowflake

Avinash Deshpande

Head of Architecture, Data Solutions, ML & AI

Logitech

Avinash Deshpande

Head of Architecture, Data Solutions, ML & AI

Logitech

Randy Wigginton

Director of Platform Engineering

Square

Randy Wigginton

Director of Platform Engineering

Square

Jamie Davidson

VP of Product

Looker

Jamie Davidson

VP of Product

Looker

George Fraser

CEO

Fivetran

George Fraser

CEO

Fivetran

Ravi Ammamuthu

Director Data & Analytics Office

Cisco

Ravi Ammamuthu

Director Data & Analytics Office

Cisco

Anupama Rao

Manager, Data and Analytics Office

Cisco

Anupama Rao

Manager, Data and Analytics Office

Cisco

Virendra Singh

Principal Engineer Data & Analytics Office

Cisco

Virendra Singh

Principal Engineer Data & Analytics Office

Cisco

Vikram Kapoor

CTO

Laceworks

Vikram Kapoor

CTO

Laceworks

Anil Kumar Puli

Sr. Data Engineering Manager

Yapstone

Anil Kumar Puli

Sr. Data Engineering Manager

Yapstone

Pravin Darbare

Senior Director of Data Systems

Yapstone

Pravin Darbare

Senior Director of Data Systems

Yapstone

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