1:00 PM PDT - Monday, Jun 3
Canada Connect ( ) Meetup, ACT601
Join your peers at the Canada connect() meetup, where attendees from across Canada congregate to build new connections. Stop in to meet local community leaders, exchange ideas and expand your professional network!
Data Mesh and Data Vault on Snowflake with Xero Effort, MD207
Xero has an advanced Data Vault/Data Mesh implementation on Snowflake. Join this session with Xero and Patrick Cuba, one of Snowflake’s experts on Data Vault, to learn how Xero used the context of domain-driven design (DDD) thinking with Data Vault design thinking to map the business architecture to the information domain through agility, automation and auditability.
Optimize Your First-Party Data in Snowflake to Drive Improved Marketing Outcomes , MA112
With the deprecation of third-party cookies, evolving privacy restrictions and the need to accelerate cloud strategies, marketers are challenged to unlock additional value from their data. With TransUnion’s identity framework you can build a single view of your customer across touchpoints and channels — laying the foundation to deliver the performance you need. Session attendees will learn about Data Health Assessments, a Snowflake Native App that helps marketers, publishers and platforms understand the quality and condition of their data, and how they can benefit from TransUnion’s identity solutions. Join us to understand how your data can be quickly improved without the need to send data out from your data cloud. Please note: Theaters are first come, first seated.
Optimizing Snowflake Spend and Maximizing Value Through FinOps, OO109
The current economic environment is putting pressure on leaders to accelerate and scale gen AI/ML-driven disruptions. This requires companies to accelerate their journey to the AI Data Cloud, and to do it cost-effectively. This session explores the application of FinOps best practices to help customers drive healthy and sustainable consumption. You will hear about our holistic framework covering People, Process and Technology pillars. This session is a must-attend for finance, IT professionals and Snowflake users keen on optimizing costs and better aligning consumption to business value.
How Adobe Optimizes Unitary Transactions in Applications with Snowflake, AD201
Adobe Campaign combines cross-channel customer data into a single view for personalized campaigns. The product uses a mix of SQL DB and Snowflake to efficiently power various use cases for marketers. Join this session to learn how we optimized unitary transactions by supplementing Snowflake with a SQL DB and syncing data between the two for a smooth customer experience. In addition, we will share how we optimized Snowflake cost with benchmarking and warehouse tuning.
2:00 PM PDT - Monday, Jun 3
Accelerating Adoption of Modern Data Stacks: A State of California Case Study, IN115
Transitioning from a monolithic data infrastructure to a modular infrastructure can be daunting. California's Office of Data and Innovation (ODI) offers a service to help state departments adopt modern data stacks. Discover how ODI collaborated with the California Department of Human Resources to adopt a modern data stack, including Fivetran, dbt and Snowflake. This session explores the role of analytics engineering practices in enhancing data accessibility and quality, enabling proactive workforce trend analysis; informed policy decisions around diversity, equity and inclusion; and identifying structural challenges to filling roles.
Japan Connect ( ) Meetup, ACT602
Meet fellow attendees at the Japan connect() meetup, where peers from across Japan gather to forge new connections. Take this opportunity to meet the Japan community leaders, share insights and broaden your professional network!
How Instacart Securely and Seamlessly Migrated 12PB of Data Across Snowflake Regions, GP219
Snowflake’s cross-cloud technology layer, Snowgrid, interconnects business ecosystems across regions and clouds, enabling organizations to easily replicate databases, shares, governance policies and even entire accounts securely across regions and clouds. Join this session to learn more about Snowflake's account replication capabilities, and hear how Instacart leveraged these capabilities to effortlessly migrate 12PB+ of data, objects and configurations across regions while minimizing downtime and manual intervention.
Snowflake at API Speed: ETL Without the L, DE305
Snowflake is a powerful platform that can combine different sources of data and create amazing possibilities. For some low latency requirements, it has been challenging to deliver due to the need to transform and ingest data in real time, and move the results to another data store that can serve in real time. In this session, we will explore how SailPoint is using Hybrid Tables, Snowpipe Streaming, a dbt adapter for Apache Flink, and Snowpark Container Services to break past these barriers. SailPoint will demonstrate how to build an end-to-end pipeline that transforms data arriving on Apache Kafka topics, ingests into Snowflake, and serves the data from a REST API hosted on Snowflake Container Services.
3:00 PM PDT - Monday, Jun 3
Australia Connect ( ) Meetup, ACT603
Get together at the Australia connect() meetup, where attendees from across Australia gather to make new connections. Meet local community leaders, exchange ideas and grow your professional network!
Lessons Learned Migrating 10K SQL Server Database Data to Snowflake at Navex, MD226
Join this session to hear Navex’s journey migrating 10,000 SQL Server databases to Snowflake. Hear why Snowflake was the clear choice for a modern data cloud, and how we streamlined our solution - reducing complexity and enabling more AI and ML workloads. We’ll provide tips for successfully navigating migration challenges.
Real-World Strategies and Features for Cost Management in Snowflake with ICE/NYSE, OO206
Learn from experts in the Center of Excellence at the Intercontinental Exchange/New York Stock Exchange (ICE/NYSE) about effectively implementing cost management practices in Snowflake. Join this session to hear best practices, insights and practical strategies for optimizing costs. You’ll also learn about Snowflake’s out-of-the-box features, which help with monitoring and controlling costs, including recent enhancements in Snowsight.
5:00 PM PDT - Monday, Jun 3
Opening Keynote, K1
Join us to kick off Data Cloud Summit 2024 in San Francisco! Come hear from Snowflake CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy, as he discusses the impact AI has had across every organization and how the Snowflake AI Data Cloud is helping to accelerate enterprise AI. Then, in a CEO fireside conversation, Sridhar together with NVIDIA Founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, will discuss what the future holds in this new AI era. Finally, Snowflake CMO, Denise Persson, will be joined by industry leaders to discuss their organizations' data initiatives and the successes and challenges of driving impact with data and AI.
6:00 PM PDT - Monday, Jun 3
Build, Deliver and Govern Data Products at Scale Using Data Mesh Principles, MD235
Data mesh is a popular approach to organizing data products and teams within large organizations using the principles of domain-oriented data, federated governance and self-service. In this hands-on lab, we will show how dbt Cloud can powerfully leverage Snowflake’s data mesh features so organizations can efficiently adopt these principles. Join to learn how dbt Cloud on Snowflake enables data teams to deliver high-quality data products faster, and allows platform teams to govern the mesh and validate product compliance - all while making data products discoverable and available so they can be readily used by people who have the proper permissions.