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SNOWFLAKE SUMMIT SESSIONS
Explore Popular Sessions from this Year’s Event—Now On-Demand
Dive into all of the product innovations we announced at Summit—from generative AI and LLMs to Snowflake Native Apps.
Watch any of the 45+ recorded sessions on demand.
Hear from dozens of technology, data, and business thought leaders including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft VP Ali Dalloul, and Landing AI Founder & CEO Andrew Ng.
The on-demand Summit session tracks include:
- Keynote presentations
- Technical product deep dive sessions and demos
- Best of Summit: Best practices and customer sessions
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ON-DEMAND TRACKS
What’s New
Learn about the latest features and capabilities from core platform enhancements, to new use cases, and how you can start benefiting from them.
Best of Summit
The most popular sessions ranging from best practices for optimizing Snowflake, to how the Data Cloud is powering the future of generative AI, LLMs, and apps.
sessions AT A GLANCE
Generative AI’s Impact on Data Innovation in the Enterprise
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Nearly every enterprise is assessing the potential for Generative AI to better serve their users and customers. Join this CEO fireside chat with Jensen Huang from NVIDIA and Snowflake’s Frank Slootman to discuss trends in Generative AI and accelerated computing, the pace of disruption, and the impact on every industry and business model. Sarah Guo, former Greylock general partner and current founder and CEO of Conviction, will moderate.
Keynote
Opening Keynote
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Think you know Snowflake? Think again. Snowflake has been on a journey to break down silos to help organizations put their data to work. From high-performance analytics at scale to global collaboration across shared data to enabling full programmability without sacrificing governance, Snowflake continues to redefine what's possible with data ... and we're just getting started. Join Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman, President of Product Benoit Dageville, SVP of Product Christian Kleinerman, and Senior Director of Engineering and Founding Engineer Allison Lee as they unveil the next wave of innovations - including advancements in open table formats, generative AI and LLMs, flexible programmability with Snowpark, and much more. You'll also see live demos from Snowflake's engineering and product teams, and hear directly from some of the most well-known global organizations on how the Snowflake Data Cloud is helping them unlock their biggest data ambitions.
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Builder Keynote
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The Snowflake Data Cloud enhances collaboration across multiple teams to go from raw data to production-grade data pipelines, machine learning models, and applications, but how? Join this keynote to take a dive into technical demos and customer architectures, and learn how you can be part of the Snowflake builder community.
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Panel Discussion: Predictions on Generative AI and LLMs in the Enterprise
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In the fast changing world of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), it can be especially challenging to sift through the buzz and prioritize which use cases will have the biggest impact on your business. Join Christian Kleinerman, SVP Product at Snowflake, for a moderated discussion with some of the leaders in this space as they share their perspectives, predictions, and what enterprises should consider when adopting this technology. The panelists include: Andrew Ng (Founder & CEO, Landing AI), Ali Dalloul (VP Azure AI Platform, Microsoft) and Jonathan Cohen (VP of Applied Research, NVIDIA).
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Snowflake Native App Framework
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With the Snowflake Native App Framework you can bring your application to your customer's data, natively in the Data Cloud! Join us to learn from Snowflake product experts and leaders from DTCC and MyDataOutlet about how you can use the Snowflake Native Application Framework to build Snowflake Native Apps, distribute and monetize them via Snowflake Marketplace, and deploy them directly in your customers' Snowflake accounts.
What's New
Collaboration & Snowflake Marketplace
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Join us to learn how Snowflake enables collaboration across clouds at scale, and how Snowflake Marketplace enables business growth with new monetization models and helps answer business questions with generative AI and faster, easier access to data & apps than ever before.
What's New
Streamlit in Snowflake
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Join us to see how easy it is to go from Python script to an app in production using Streamlit's native integration in Snowflake. We'll show you through a demo how to use all the functionality that will be available as part of the upcoming public preview, as well as a sneak peak of the vision for Streamlit in Snowflake and what we are working on next.
What's New
Snowpark Container Services
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Join us to learn about the latest addition to Snowpark—a runtime option with GPU support that lets you run container images in Snowflake so that you can bring sophisticated LLMs, ML models, and higher up the stack app components to run where your governed data lives. Snowflake team will demo core functionality available as part of a private preview, followed by a demo from Goldman Sachs on how they are using this new runtime.
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Application Development
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We've entered a new era of application development. Instead of bringing data to applications, developers are bringing their applications to the data. Join this session to learn about the latest enhancements to help you build, operate, scale, and distribute your applications in the Data Cloud. You'll hear about best practices from builders who are leveraging different deployment models on Snowflake and learn from Snowflake product leaders about how you can build high-performance and differentiated applications with Snowflake's latest features.
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Snowpark and DevOps
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Snowflake is making it easier, faster, and more secure to build in the Data Cloud. Join this session to learn more about the newest enhancements to Snowflake DevOps and Snowpark runtimes and libraries that support even more end-to-end development natively in Snowflake. You won't want to miss out on all the new announcements.
What's New
Machine Learning with Snowflake
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Join us to learn more and get a deep dive demo of Snowpark ML model development library, which accelerates feature engineering and streamlines ML training in Snowflake, and how paired with Model Registry in private preview, data science and ML engineering teams can strengthen collaboration and further streamline the path from development to production.
What's New
Snowpipe Streaming with Dynamic Tables
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Streaming pipelines have become more and more difficult to build and operationalize as complexity increases. Join us to learn how Snowflake is simplifying streaming architecture to enable users to work with streaming data easily through Snowpipe Streaming and Dynamic Tables.
What's New
Iceberg Tables in Snowflake
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Join us to hear the latest updates on Iceberg Tables, a single table type that brings the easy management and great performance of Snowflake to data stored externally in open formats.
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Snowflake SQL Improvements
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The SQL improvements in Snowflake can't stop, won't stop. In the last year, we've enriched Snowflake SQL to make your queries shorter and easier to write. Join this session to learn more about new syntaxes and functions we've introduced and best practices on how to use them.
Best of Summit
T-Mobile: Scaling Snowflake Adoption with Automated RBAC, Governance, and Chargeback
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T-Mobile's Snowflake environment was designed to support thousands of users across hundreds of teams, while also being a pay-as-you-go platform. This model has scaled to govern over 100 separate business units and 5 petabytes of data across our organization in under two years. Join this session to hear how they set up their role-based access control process that enables their chargeback model, in addition to other governance procedures. Now, T-Mobile's confidence in their governance processes allows them to onboard even the most sensitive data sets.
Best of Summit
Optimizing Snowflake Query Performance
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Are you using Auto Clustering, Materialized View, Search Optimization Service, and Query Accelerated Service to their full potential? Are you wondering what is the best combination of Snowflake performance features to boost workload performance? This workshop shares a comprehensive overview of Snowflake query performance features, including Auto Clustering, Materialized View, Search Optimization Service, and Query Accelerated Service, and covers topics such as the use cases for each of those features, best practices, tips, and considerations. This workshop will provide actionable insights and practical tips to help you improve your Snowflake query performance. Join this session to get a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of these Snowflake performance features and learn how they can optimize query performance for different scenarios.
Best of Summit
How the Snowflake Native App Framework Helps DTCC Run Hypothetical Market Scenarios
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Each year, DTCC processes quadrillions of dollars in transactions. As part of their commitment to clients and the financial services industry, DTCC builds both "actual" and "hypothetical" portfolios that their analysts and clients can leverage to model and predict scenarios to be prepared to navigate market events. Clients are DTCC's top priority. Their goal is to spend more time on value-added services and less on platform management. The Snowflake Native App Framework allows DTCC to leverage compute capabilities directly where the data already lives within the end-customer's Snowflake account, and Streamlit allows them to build a rich UX for consumers to interact with. During this session, DTCC will discuss their journey building their Snowflake Native App.
Best of Summit
Building Apps with Snowflake's SQL API
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Data and APIs lay the foundation for creating modern applications. The SQL API is a REST API that can be used to build applications, automate administrative tasks, integrate custom plug-ins, and more. In this session, we cover how to use SQL API to build an IoT application from the ground up. We'll also explore our SQL API playground and how you can use it to experiment in your own Snowflake environment.
Best of Summit
Apps Native to Legend and Snowflake: Scalable Governed Data Collaboration at Goldman Sachs
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Join this session to learn how Goldman Sachs is utilizing the Snowflake Native App Framework to enable scalable governed data collaboration. In this session, Goldman Sachs will share how they leverage Snowflake to scale their technology-led businesses by leveraging the Snowflake Native App Framework in harmony with their open-source semantic layer, Legend, to boost performance, productivity, and governance for quants, researchers, data practitioners, ensuring data is accessible firmwide with minimum friction. They'll then dive into how they utilize Snowflake Secure Data Sharing and the Snowflake Native App Framework to seamlessly onboard market and alternative data from a variety of partners to serve their clients. They'll walk through how they are able to operationalize these pipelines while reducing the cost of onboarding new data, resulting in being able to determine a datasets utility from weeks to days, ultimately providing significant information advantages for the firm.
Best of Summit
Managing Change: DevOps in Snowflake
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Learn how to automate object maintenance. This session will cover managing infrastructure with code utilizing Terraform and Flyway. We will also show how you can use Snowflake Native Apps as a useful tool to manage many accounts and automatically deploy object changes.
Best of Summit
How Internal and External Data Drives Intelligent Third-Party Risk Management at Snowflake
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In order to maximize the value of a third-party risk management program, companies need to have a comprehensive, real-time picture of their vendors' risk profile that draws on data from various internal and external sources. These risk profiles are useful in making decisions during contract renewal and negotiation, vendor relationship management, and prioritization of risk mitigation projects. Combining data from various sources such as inherent risk data from the vendor management system, the security monitoring score from our Snowflake Marketplace partners, financial health, existing business relationship details from our internal sourcing system, and other data elements across different systems, Snowflake's Global Security Risk Compliance team leverages Snowflake to provide a 360-degree view of the risk that our third parties may introduce to Snowflake.
Best of Summit
How Cisco Runs Supply Chain Solutions and Collaborates with Suppliers on Snowflake
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For supply chains to run smoothly, many parties need to work in lockstep with each other and various data points need to be connected. Learn how Cisco uses Snowflake for supply chain solutions across supplier management, part failure analysis, logistics, and much more-and how they collaborate with their ecosystem of suppliers and contract manufacturers.
Best of Summit
How Fidelity Expedites Outcomes with Internal and External Cross-Cloud Data Collaboration
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Sharing data without moving data physically is a new paradigm. It eliminates data redundancy and gives access to readily available data to combine with existing data to get deeper insights. Fidelity is able to eliminate costly and time-consuming legacy methods of sharing data with external clients, such as SFTP file transfers or physical paper copies. You will learn how Fidelity enables data sharing with external parties in any region and on any cloud platform by creating multiple satellite Snowflake accounts on different cloud service providers (CSPs) in different regions, as well as with parties not yet on Snowflake. Data Clean Rooms help Fidelity enrich marketing data sets and provide more insights to the sales team on new opportunities. This session will explore the many ways in which Snowflake collaboration capabilities expedite data analytics and business outcomes at Fidelity.
Best of Summit
Security on Snowflake at Okta
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In this session, we will discuss the challenges of legacy SIEMs and why Okta decided to build their custom SIEM on top of Snowflake. By leveraging Snowflake as a security data lake and as an application-development platform, the security team was empowered to deploy evolving use cases from detection alerting, threat hunting, and security metrics.
Best of Summit
Reduce Ingestion Costs with Snowpipe Streaming and Dynamic Tables
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Snowpipe Streaming reduces ingestion cost as it is on demand compared to running a streaming receiver like Spark that is running 24-7-365. These serverless features self-heal, which reduces the cost of maintenance as well. In this session, you'll see an ingestion and transformation pipeline build that saves cost on streaming data using new Snowpipe Streaming and Dynamic Table functionality.
Best of Summit
How Warner Brothers Accelerated Data SLAs with the Snowpipe Streaming API
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To support Warner Brothers Discovery's key mission of delighting users, the data platform team collects approximately 2 billion clickstream data points a day (with spikes of up to 20 billion days) from client applications. This powers AI, analytics, business intelligence, and machine learning. These pipelines are based on hourly batch processing and use the Snowpipe Streaming API. With updates to the data platform team's server-side processing, they deliver cleaned deduplicated clickstream data with a sub-minute latency. In this session, you'll hear key learnings from their POC and architecture iterations they're working through.
Best of Summit
Fast Ingest with Snowflake
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Learn how to load data into Snowflake faster. This will be a tour of the speed and efficiency of different ingest patterns and technologies. In this session, you'll learn best practices and patterns for Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, COPY from external and internal stages, and the Kafka Connector.
Best of Summit
Operationalizing Snowpark Python
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With Snowpark Python now generally available, many Snowflake customers are able to bring production Python workloads. But how? For instance, how should you think about the dataframe API vs. user-defined functions vs. UDTFs? In this session, you'll learn core design principles for building capabilities on top of Snowpark Python (across data engineering, data science, and data application workloads).
Best of Summit
Streaming in Snowflake: Pragmatically Pushing Forward the State of the Art
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What do you get when you build state-of-the-art stream processing primitives into the Data Cloud from the ground up? The simplest, most powerful streaming solution ever created. In this talk, I’ll discuss our vision for streaming in Snowflake, how we aim to conquer the biggest open challenges (like the ease of use and balancing cost vs latency), what the first pieces of that vision look like today, and what more to expect in the near future.
Best of Summit
How the New York Stock Exchange Uses Snowpark to Reduce Costs
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) loads every transaction across all their markets into Snowflake. This includes every bid, ask, and sale of stock, bonds, and options. In order to comply with regulatory reporting, NYSE runs surveillance reports every day after the market closes. These reports generate market statistics, market quality information, and program trading reports that are all issued regularly for each of NYSE's markets. The information provided in each report is designed to increase transparency between the exchange and their customers, and to comply with SEC regulations for providing selected data on selected order executions. In this session, you'll learn how NYSE successfully migrated these surveillance reports to Snowpark with significant cost savings.
Best of Summit
Data Loading Best Practices: Maximize Speed, Minimize Cost
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Drawing upon experience with over 100 Snowflake deployments, this talk describes the best practices to efficiently load hundreds of terabytes of data while maximizing warehouse efficiency and minimizing cost. We'll cover everything from web scale migrations of over 300,000 tables to cost-effective streaming of mobile phone data varying from a few thousand overnight to millions of rows per minute. Regardless of whether you have a single terabyte or are rapidly heading north of a petabyte, you'll learn the best practices deployed by the largest, most sophisticated Snowflake customers.
Best of Summit
Dynamic Tables Under the Hood
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Dynamic Tables are Snowflake's fresh perspective on how to build declarative data pipelines. All users have to do is give us a query and data freshness target. Dynamic Tables will do the rest to incrementally transform your data. During this session, we'll demystify Dynamic Tables by peeking under the hood and covering how Dynamic Tables seamlessly integrate with the rest of Snowflake.
Best of Summit
AT&T: Building Enterprise Semantic Models
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Enterprise semantic layers promise to democratize access across an organization and improve efficiency through intuitive domain representations. To democratize access, the layers' constructs must adhere to the concepts and relationships of an enterprise ontology and derive from the low-level (often messy) enterprise databases and data lakes. The abstraction gap between an ontology and these low-level sources makes semantic layers challenging to build at the enterprise scale.Join this session to see AT&T's methodology for building semantic layers that use both patterns and generators to refine the constructs of an ontology by weaving data from databases and data lakes.
Best of Summit
Architecture Patterns with Snowflake
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Beyond traditional data warehousing, Snowflake's platform can be used for a variety of architecture patterns. Join this session to learn about the benefits of Snowflake for patterns including applications, streaming, machine learning and data science, and data lake.
Best of Summit
Apache Iceberg 101
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Join this session to learn about Apache Iceberg: the high-performance open table format for analytic datasets. Understand its basics, origins, transformative capabilities, and operational mechanisms. Bring the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data, while making it possible for various engines to safely work with the same tables, at the same time.
Best of Summit
Modernizing Marriott Data Platform with Snowflake
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Join this session to learn how Marriott modernized their data warehouse and data lakes with Snowflake, enabling near real-time streaming, and simplified governance. In addition, hear how Marriott is using Snowpark to perform parsing and flattening.
Best of Summit
AI, Data Science and Machine Learning (AI/ML) in the Data Cloud Today and Tomorrow
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Successful adoption of AI/ML are increasingly essential for competitive success: -How do you discover, collect, curate, and access the best data sets for optimal business outcomes in AI/ML? -How do you avoid fractured data stacks and governance to accelerate successful AI deployments? -How do you easily scale your data stack to the demands of AI/ML? -How do you enable seamless collaboration and maximize productivity between ML practitioners and end users-within your own organization and beyond? Enter the Snowflake Data Cloud! In this executive-level session, we will delve into industry trends and challenges, and explore how the Snowflake Data Cloud can accelerate and scale your AI/ML adoption. Hear our perspective, current capabilities, roadmap, and vision for AI/ML. Join us to see how the Snowflake Data Cloud can drive success for you in this exciting field.
Best of Summit
Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models with Snowflake
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The discovery of large language models (LLMs) is enabling an array of dazzling new AI apps that can converse and reason remarkably like humans. This talk will explore how Snowflake can help you leverage LLMs for your own data, both now and in the future. You will learn how to build your own LLM-powered app using Snowflake and Streamlit, with live demonstrations of how to use generative AI and LLMs to power natural language data explanation, exploration, recommendation, discussion, and question answering. This talk will also discuss Snowflake's strategy, including its recent acquisitions of Streamlit and Applica, and present some new AI products being developed in-house. Finally, the speakers will explore this technology's implications for app development, data storage, processing, and analytics, and conclude with thoughts on how Snowflake can help you navigate this rapidly changing future.
Best of Summit
A Beginner’s Guide to LLMs inside Snowflake
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Embark on an educational journey with us as we demystify the intriguing world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and show how you can leverage this power within Snowflake. This session will empower you with a practical understanding of the core technical concepts behind LLMs, providing a solid foundational understanding for beginners.Whether you’re new to the field or looking to strengthen your knowledge, we’ve got you covered. We’ll focus on elucidating the core mechanics underpinning LLMs, and how they are able to process and generate human-like text. We will take you on a step-by-step journey through the LLM technologies you can use in Snowflake, clearly explaining each component’s role and how they interact.But it doesn’t stop there. We will showcase how you can harness the power of LLMs yourself with a series of live demos. These demos will provide a practical visualization of the technology in action, supporting your understanding of the technical concepts covered in our session.By the end of this session, we aim to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of LLMs which foundational technologies within Snowflake you can use to harness this powerful technology. This is your chance to explore the backbone of one of the most exciting advancements in AI technology.
Best of Summit
Best Practices for Snowflake's Native Data Governance Capabilities
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Learn best practices to better know and protect your data with Snowflake's native data governance capabilities. Easily connect to your data ecosystem for full data estate management and secure collaboration. Come hear how Citi has adopted Snowflake's native data governance features to address their compliance and regulatory needs.
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Best Practices for Snowflake's Native Cost Optimization Capabilities
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As organizations scale Snowflake usage to more workloads and use cases, managing and optimizing costs relative to value are critical to success. In this session, Snowflake product management will share our approach to managing costs at Snowflake across the three pillars of visibility, control, and optimization. You'll see and learn how to use the latest cost optimization features in Snowflake.
Best of Summit
How Disney Parks Optimized Performance on Snowflake for Major Cost Savings
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Learn why large data sets require some special attention for performance. In this session, you'll walk away with best practices on how to save costs and improve customer experience through performance tuning and optimizing storage and compute.
Best of Summit
How Instacart Optimized Snowflake Costs by 50%
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Instacart has spent a lot of resources over the last year to optimize their Snowflake spend, resulting in cost savings of more than 50%. In this session, Instacart will share key insights and best practices on optimizing costs in Snowflake.
Best of Summit
Maximizing Snowflake Performance: A Comprehensive Best Practice Guide
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Do you ever wonder about the lifecycle of a Snowflake query? And how to investigate and understand factors that impact your query performance? This session aims to address these questions and more while providing actionable insights and practical tips to help you improve query performance. Topics addressed include a comprehensive overview of Snowflake query performance, covering the lifecycle of a Snowflake query, the Snowflake optimizer, factors affecting query performance, and best practices to improve performance. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of the Snowflake compiler and optimizer, learn troubleshooting techniques to identify performance bottlenecks, and see how Snowflake features and services can optimize query performance for different scenarios.
Best of Summit