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Breaking Data Barriers

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October 3, 2019

133 Houndsditch

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What to Expect

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

During Snowflake Summit London, 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.

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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
Sainsbury's: Where Curiosity Meets Big Business

Sainsbury’s is a beloved British institution with a long-standing reputation for quality and service, purveying fine food and much more at fair prices, from 1,400-plus UK stores for 150 years. From a butter shop on Drury lane, Sainsbury’s now has a stable of brands: Argos, Nectar, TU Clothing, Sainsbury’s Bank, and Habitat, in the modern-day incarnation of the business. Sainsbury’s want to build technology that is multi-brand and also democratizes the data it holds so it can always see a customer in 360 degrees irrespective of brand or channel.

Think for a second about the amount of data Sainsbury’s produces, having the 5th largest clothing business in the UK, the UK’s largest loyalty scheme, a significant digital footprint and online operation, a bank, hundreds of stores, thousands of colleagues, millions of customers and billions of transactions. In this session, Helen Hunter, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Sainsbury’s, will talk about just what it takes to catch and collate this data and turn it into information which is accessible for colleagues across the business; and share some of the ways data is used to ultimately improve what Sainsbury’s does for customers.

10:45am - 11:15am
Break
11:15am - 11:45pm
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 Founder and President of Product, Benoit Dageville, 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
11:45pm - 12:15pm
Live Q&A with Snowflake Customers

Join Sainsbury’s, Oney, and LeasePlan 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.

12:15pm - 1:45pm
Lunch in Expo Hall
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Breakouts
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


Tino Bourboulas

Sales Engineer

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

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

How LeasePlan Modernized with the Cloud


Tekin Mentes

Head of Data Engineering

Leaseplan

Session Descriptor

Find out how Snowflake enabled LeasePlan’s global data hub to establish its data as a service platform. LeasePlan’s Head of Data Assets, Tekin Mentes, will explain how the leasing and fleet management company migrated its on-premise data warehouse and big data systems to the cloud, while minimizing costs and improving the company’s time-to-market. He will also share the challenges of building data assets and how Snowflake plays a critical role in LeasePlan’s cloud modernization strategy.

3:35pm - 4:20pm

The Path to Secure Data Sharing and Monetization


Peter Jansens

Sales Engineer

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

Creating Value from Category Management Optimization and Vendor Collaboration

Elodie Perrigaud

Chief Data Officer

Oney

Session Descriptor

Retailers and ecommerce vendors generate enormous amounts of data. But how can retailers and ecommerce vendors ensure data creates additional value for their organizations? Thanks to Snowflake, Oney established a modern data sharing platform with an intuitive user experience to significantly increase the value of its data and reveal data monetization opportunities. Learn how Oney provides brands guided insights about sales and category management at a very granular level by calculating results on the fly and in record time.

2:40pm - 3:25pm

Tableau + Snowflake | Analytics Built for the Cloud


Francois Zimmermann

EMEA Technology Partner Evangelist

Tableau

Session Descriptor

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

Get the Most Out of BI and Snowflake


Michele Tessari

Sales Engineer

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

Learn how to best use Snowflake for your analytics, visualization, and BI tools. Learn how to optimize complex queries, address concurrency with dedicated virtual warehouses, and access semi-structured data. Business analysts will see firsthand how leading BI tools can deliver improved results with 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

Snowflake Best Practices



Graham Mossman

Sales Engineer

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

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

Delivering the Value of Data Management As a Business Model

Matthew Scullion

CEO

Matillion

Session Descriptor

According to IDC, about 54M data workers around the world face challenges associated with the complexity, diversity, and scale of their company’s data. Companies that use powerful solutions that can handle large volumes and diverse data formats can provide better and faster insights into their business — at scale. Hear lessons learned from Robbie Francis, managing director and founder of Eposability, a consultant service for the hospitality industry, and Matthew Scullion, CEO of Matillion, on helping clients get value from data insights using cloud-native, purpose-built solutions.

3:35pm - 4:20pm

Migrate to Snowflake and Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud

John Ryan

Senior Solution Architect

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.

Track 4: Workshop
Zero to Snowflake

Join this hands-on workshop and 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

Cervello
In516ht

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?

133 Houndsditch
133 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7AH, UK

October 3, 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

Benoit Dageville

Co-Founder and CTO

Snowflake

Benoit Dageville

Co-Founder and CTO

Snowflake

Helen Hunter

Group Chief Data Officer

Sainsbury's

Helen Hunter

Group Chief Data Officer

Sainsbury's

Rob Smoot

VP of Marketing

Snowflake

Rob Smoot

VP of Marketing

Snowflake

Matthew Scullion

CEO

Matillion

Matthew Scullion

CEO

Matillion

Elodie Perrigaud

Chief Data Officer

Oney

Elodie Perrigaud

Chief Data Officer

Oney

Tekin Mentes

Head of Data Engineering

Leaseplan

Tekin Mentes

Head of Data Engineering

Leaseplan

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