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Breaking Data Barriers

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October 1, 2019

Pier 61 - The Lighthouse

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What to Expect

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

During Snowflake Summit New York City, 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.

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 - 10:30am
Customer Session
10:30am - 11:00am
Break
11:00am - 12:00am
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
12:00pm - 1:45pm
Lunch in Expo Hall
12:45pm - 1:15pm
Live Q&A with Snowflake Customers

Join WarnerMedia and Adobe 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.

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

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

Scaling Adobe Audience Manager with Snowflake


Navin Chaganti

Data Engineer

Adobe

Session Descriptor

Adobe and Snowflake embarked on a migration journey of Adobe’s 150-terabyte Audience Manager legacy database, which had grown to a petabyte. To eliminate resource contention, Adobe redesigned ETL jobs to run multi-threaded processes leveraging dozens of warehouses. Join this deep dive into Adobe’s “overlap reporting” ETL jobs, and learn how to resolve cluster scaling and reduce runtime by a factor of three on Snowflake.

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

Warner Media’s Analytics & Insights Journey with Snowflake

Robert Jones

VP of Platforms & Strategic Operations

Warner Media

Session Descriptor

Warner Media Entertainment, News, and Sports (formerly Turner) has streamlined its data and insights architecture to give its stakeholders greater access to key data in a well-governed manner. This session will explore its approach to audience, content, and revenue analytics and how it leverages Snowflake. Learn Warner’s best practices as the media giant continues its journey building out its data analytics center of excellence.

2:40pm - 3:25pm

Tableau + Snowflake | Analytics Built for the Cloud


Seanna Miller

Strategic Customer Success Manager

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

Justin Twohig

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


Danny Bryant

Sr. Solutions Architect

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

Migrate to Snowflake - Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud

Danny Bryant

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

Three Models of Accelerating a Snowflake Implementation

Jake Stein

SVP Stitch and Frictionless Technologies

Talend


Tony Konkol

Applications Development Director

UW Credit Union

Session Descriptor

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

Intricity
Interworks

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?

Pier 61 - The Lighthouse
Pier 61 Chelsea Piers, 11th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

October 1, 2019

Hotel Recommendations

The High Line Hotel

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

Matt is an industry leader in enterprise data platforms. For over 20 years, he led the development of business-critical analytics platforms at Goldman Sachs. As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the entire data platform of Goldman’s $1T asset management business. Matt also co-led Goldman’s risk management platform where his team built Goldman’s first, company-wide data warehouse that helped it navigate the 2008 financial crisis.In 2015, Matt joined Snowflake to run Product Management and then went on to launch the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Today, Matt leads the Financial Services business globally where he is driving customer and product strategy for one of Snowflake’s most important industry verticals.

Matthew J. Glickman

VP of Customer and Product Strategy

Snowflake

Matthew J. Glickman

VP of Customer and Product Strategy

Snowflake

Jon Hyman

Co-founder & CTO

Braze

Jon Hyman

Co-founder & CTO

Braze

Navin Chaganti

Data Engineer

Adobe

Navin Chaganti

Data Engineer

Adobe

Jake Stein

SVP of Stitch and Frictionless Technologies

Talend

Jake Stein

SVP of Stitch and Frictionless Technologies

Talend

Robert Jones

VP of Platforms & Strategic Operations

WarnerMedia

Robert Jones

VP of Platforms & Strategic Operations

WarnerMedia

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