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AstraZeneca Snowcamp

September 23 & September 24, 2026 | 11:00 AM ET

Join Snowflake on September 23 and September 24th for a 2-day virtual SnowCamp dedicated to the AstraZeneca team.

See details below. Register now to reserve your virtual seat!

Agenda details:

Day 1

Module 1: Orientation & Architecture

  • Snowflake AI Data Cloud overview and structure
  • Storage, Compute, and Cloud Services layers
  • Navigating Snowsight and Workspaces
  • Object hierarchy: databases, schemas, tables, views
  • Lab: Navigate objects, explore the shared dataset, create personal workspace

Module 2: Querying with Cortex Code (CoCo)

  • Introduction to CoCo as an AI coding assistant
  • Natural language to SQL generation
  • Iterative query refinement and debugging
  • Lab: Query the course dataset using CoCo, build persona-relevant reports

Module 3: Access Control & RBAC

  • Roles, privileges, and the grant hierarchy
  • Ownership and discretionary access control
  • Principle of least privilege
  • Lab: Configure grants, demonstrate deny→grant flow, persona-specific access scenarios

Module 4: Getting Data In

  • Stages (internal and external)
  • File formats and COPY INTO
  • Transformations during load
  • Lab: Load CSV/JSON data, apply transformations, validate results

Module 5: Cortex AI Functions

  • AI_SENTIMENT, AI_CLASSIFY, AI_EXTRACT, AI_SUMMARIZE
  • AI_COMPLETE for custom prompts
  • Applying AI functions to business data
  • Lab: Apply AI functions to course dataset per persona use case

Day 2

Module 6: Unstructured Data & AI

  • Working with files on stages
  • AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT for text extraction/OCR
  • Cortex Search for semantic retrieval
  • Lab: Process documents from stage, extract structured fields, build a search index

Module 7: Structured Data & Semantic Views

  • Building a semantic view via CoCo
  • Reviewing different components
  • Working with verified queries
  • Sample Q/A

Module 8: Cortex Agent

  • Building a Cortex Agent via CoCo
  • Assigning tools
  • Working with agent instructions
  • Interacting with agent

Module 9: Data Landscape & Marketplace

  • Snowflake Marketplace overview
  • Discovering and mounting shared datasets
  • Data sharing concepts
  • Lab: Browse Marketplace, mount a dataset, query third-party data, include a Cortex Knowledge Extension to an Agent

Module 10: Capstone Project

  • Implement most of the above concepts and build an agent to implement a “Talk to Data” use case.

 

Speakers
Jit Biswas

Senior Solution Engineer, Snowflake

Brendan Fucci

Account Executive , Snowflake

Andrew Samant

AI/ML Architect, Applied Field Engineering, Snowflake

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