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Breaking Data Barriers

Sydney

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October 15, 2019

Hilton Sydney

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What to Expect

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

During Snowflake Summit Sydney, 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 Chief Revenue Officer, Chris Degnan, 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. Degnan will also reveal Snowflake’s current vision and how we will continue to help companies break data barriers.

10:00am - 10:30am
Origin: Transforming Origin into an Insights Driven Organisation

The $14.7 billion natural gas exploration and production company, and Australia’s largest energy retailer, deployed Snowflake to deliver data-driven insights across its enterprise. Attend this session and hear from Origin’s digital platform lead, Martin Redhead, who will present the design of Origin’s Integrated Data Hub, which is the cornerstone for Origin’s cloud-built data warehouse. Implemented in Snowflake, the hub forms a key component of Origin’s modern data analytics platform, which delivers insights in a fraction of the time and at a significant cost savings to the business.

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

Join Origin, Quantium, Harmoney, and Fitness & Lifestyle Group 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 Sessions
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

Fitness Lifestyle Group: How to Accelerate and Scale Your Cloud Data Warehouse

Adam Skinner

Chief Data & Technology Officer

Fitness & Lifestyle Group

Session Descriptor

Migrating all your data types to a single repository is likely one of the main reasons you chose Snowflake, but it is often a daunting and time-consuming task. Not only do you need to find a way to efficiently transform large amounts of data, but you need to find a way to connect to disparate data sources to extract data, transform and ensure it is secure in transit.

Join Adam Skinner, CTO of Fitness and Lifestyle Group, to learn why they choose Snowflake and Matillion ETL to meet their performance, scale, security, and cost savings objectives for analytics, master data management, and application modernization workloads.

2:40pm - 3:25pm

Build a Modern Data Lake with Snowflake

Regan Murphy

Sales Engineer

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.

3:35pm - 4:20pm

The Path to Secure Data Sharing and Monetization

Aamer Mushtaq

Principal 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

Tableau: Data, Culture, Technology - Troika for Making Sense of your Data

Mac Bryla

Technology Evangelist

Tableau

Session Descriptor

“Do you have data to back that up?” should be a question that no one is afraid to ask, and everyone is prepared to answer. Tableau and Snowflake provide superior technology to enable organisations to use data for decision making. But deploying the latest technology is not enough. It comes down to changing the culture where every individual is allowed and empowered to achieve great things because of the data at their fingertips.

2:40pm - 3:25pm

Quantium: The Story of Building a Data Analytics Product on Snowflake

Florian Pasquier

Executive Manager, Engineering, Product and Technology

Quantium

Session Descriptor

Quantium harnesses the power of data to drive transformational outcomes for their clients through advanced analytics and machine learning. From an on-premise and Spark centric environment to a richer and more diverse tool ecosystem, learn how Snowflake enabled Quantium to build, at scale, new data analytics products they offer their customers.

3:35pm - 4:20pm

Harmoney: Targeting Individual Customers with Predictive Modeling

Miles Davis

Business Intelligence Manager

Harmoney

Session Descriptor

Harmoney operates as an online marketplace lending platform, providing personal loans to consumers in Australia and New Zealand. Harmoney acquires the majority of its customers from online advertising, competing with much larger companies with superior budgets. Harmoney ​uses data science to determine which prospects ​are most likely ​and most cost effectively ​to ​convert to custome​rs.

With the combination of Snowflake and DataRobot, Harmoney was ​able to rapidly produce and deploy a predictive model, executing in near real time, to target Google Ads customers and maximize the return on advertising spend.

This session explores the business problem, how Harmoney applied a machine learning model and the resulting outcome to the business. Learn about the Harmoney-Snowflake implementation and how this enabled the development and delivery of an award winning data science solution.

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

Louis Lee

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

Tips and Tricks for Applying the Data Vault 2.0 Method in Snowflake

Kent Graziano

Chief Evangelist

Snowflake

Session Descriptor

Data Vault 2.0 is a system for designing and deploying data structures for enterprise data warehouse repositories. Attend this session and you’ll learn about unique capabilities in Snowflake to make your Data Vault 2.0 system more agile, flexible, and scalable. They include Snowflake features to: hyper-parallelize and automatically scale load processes; easily include JSON in your data vault; load data using multi-table inserts; easily separate PII or PHI data; use MD5 hash function; and virtualize your information marts. You’ll also hear details about a Snowflake customer and their Data Vault 2.0 success.

3:35pm - 4:20pm

Creating a Data Wellness Strategy to Positively Impact People’s Lives

Daniel Shah

Consulting Partner Director

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. See how Fitness & Lifestyle Group, a leading health and wellness group based in Australia, improved their users journeys and empowered their customers with data, resulting in improved conversion and sales completion metrics. Presented jointly by Adam Skinner, Chief Data & Technology Officer at FLG and Daniel Shah, Consulting Partner Director at Matillion.

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

Interworks
Servian

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?

Hilton Sydney
488 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

October 15, 2019

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Hilton Sydney 

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. 

Christian Kleinerman

Senior Vice President of Product

Snowflake

Christian Kleinerman

Senior Vice President of Product

Snowflake

Kent Graziano

Chief Technical Evangelist

Snowflake Computing

Kent Graziano

Chief Technical Evangelist

Snowflake Computing

Adam Skinner

Chief Data & Technology Officer

Fitness Lifestyle Group

Adam Skinner

Chief Data & Technology Officer

Fitness Lifestyle Group

Flo is a tech enthusiast who loves leveraging modern tools and techniques to transform the way we do business. Flo currently leads the Engineering function at Quantium, he’s passionate about bringing to life complex systems in the most pragmatic ways. Prior to Quantium, Flo had a rich journey throughout the software industry in Europe from high frequency trading to start up creation.

Florian Pasquier

Executive Manager, Engineering, Product and Technology

Quantium

Florian Pasquier

Executive Manager, Engineering, Product and Technology

Quantium

Martin is leading the digital transformation of the Integrated Gas business within Origin. As a certified professional AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer he employs a wide range of skills with specialty expertise in cloud architecture, cloud migration, systems architecture, software development and team management. With over 18 years’ experience as a system and solution architect, Martin has designed and led the delivery of major information, communications and software development projects to successful delivery for many large scale business and government organisations. He is considered an expert in the field of cloud architecture, machine learning, big data analytics and in-field communication systems.

Martin Redhead

Digital Platform Lead

Origin Energy

Martin Redhead

Digital Platform Lead

Origin Energy

Miles Davis

Business Intelligence Manager

Harmoney

Miles Davis

Business Intelligence Manager

Harmoney

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