Name: Gen AI with Snowflake
Start: 2025-08-19T14:05:00Z
End: 2025-08-19T14:05:54.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Snowflake makes enterprise AI easy, efficient and trusted. Thousands of companies around the globe, including hundreds of the world’s largest, use Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to share data, build applications, and power their business with AI. The era of enterprise AI is here. Learn more at snowflake.com (NYSE: SNOW).

In today’s AI-powered world, organizations must continuously find new ways to accelerate time to value from all their data to stay ahead of the competition. For decades, data and AI platforms have required organizations to spend valuable time and resources on cluster spin-up and spin-down, disruptive upgrades, manual performance tuning and laborious optimizations.

Snowflake revolutionized the data world with our virtual warehouses that had automated cluster management, maintenance, upgrades and regular performance improvements — all without any downtime — for a truly easy-to-use service. Continuously improving our compute to make it even faster and even easier to use, with better price/performance has been a key priority. 

Register for this live demo event to learn more about:
 

- How Snowflake is continuously improving performance for customers through our innovations
- The latest warehouse and container services enhancements in Snowflake
- How customers are leveraging the latest compute innovations to drive business value and accelerate innovation
- See new innovations in action with 3 live demos

Snowflake Connect: Platform - High Performance Compute for the AI Era

To effectively govern your AI models end to end, you need visibility and controls across the entire data lifecycle. This includes ensuring data quality for model inputs, using data lineage to track dependencies and workflows, and enforcing safeguards on model outputs. 

Join this session to learn best practices for governing models with Snowflake to:

- Improve your data integrity
- Increase transparency into your AI pipeline
- Ensure responsible AI deployment

Best Practices for AI Governance and Security in Snowflake

Why attend: Data is often silo’d between various teams across an organization, spread across engines, clouds, regions and modalities. In this data mesh virtual event, we will show you how to break down silos by securely sharing data products by leveraging a data mesh architecture.  
  

Discover how to:    

- Build a unified data mesh by securely connecting and governing data across clouds and regions  

- Leverage open table formats like Apache Iceberg to enable bidirectional data sharing, without sacrificing governance  

- Power AI and machine learning initiatives by using secure data sharing, Snowpark API, Snowflake Cortex and Horizon Catalog.  


Who should attend:   

Data architects, data engineers and data leaders building collaborative strategies for more effective data sharing, faster time-to-market and cost efficiency.

Unlocking AI with an Interoperable Data Mesh: Democratize Data Products

Data is powerful, but only when you can transform it into actionable insights. With Snowflake and Microsoft Power BI, you can accelerate analytics for all users and queries, create interactive reports and dashboards to deliver real-time insights for informed decision-making.

In this step-by-step session, we’ll show you how to efficiently set up Snowflake with Power BI to visualize, analyze and report on your most important business data – all without any need for data movement. 

You’ll learn how to:

- Understand various methods of connecting Power BI with Snowflake.
- Understand the fundamentals and benefits of a star schema design.
- Connect Snowflake and Power BI in seconds.
- Easily profile data with Snowsight workspaces.
- Transform raw data into an optimal format for analysis within Power BI. 
- Analyze Snowflake data from Power BI and talk to your data with Power BI Copilot.
- Use the new Iceberg Tables with Power BI to unlock insights.
- Best practices and performance improvements.

Virtual Hands-on Lab: End-to-End Analytics with Snowflake and Power BI

Snowflake’s support for open formats and integrated data engineering capabilities empower data teams with a new paradigm for architecting more efficient data platforms. This new paradigm aims to overcome data fragmentation without compromising openness and flexibility, providing agent-ready bi-directional data connections, and empowering every data engineer — from novice to expert — to code and automate pipelines with greater confidence. The result: a connected business ecosystem that surfaces competitive opportunities faster, diagnoses challenges earlier, and democratized governed data products and AI.

Join this virtual event to learn how you can:

- Build a new architecture paradigm for AI
- Unlock in-the-moment insights with AI
- Use emerging open architecture patterns for greater efficiency and AI
- Power the new architecture pattern

Data Engineering Connect: Architect for AI using Open Formats

You can now run Apache Spark DataFrame code on Snowflake. Join our deep dive into Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark, a new public preview.

Built on Spark Connect, this feature allows Apache Spark clients like PySpark to seamlessly connect to the Snowflake platform. You can execute all your modern Apache Spark DataFrame, Spark SQL, and user-defined function (UDF) code directly against your data (in Snowflake, Iceberg Tables, or external storage) using Snowpark execution. Say goodbye to the complexities of maintaining separate Apache Spark clusters—no more managing dependencies, wrestling with version compatibility, or planning upgrades. 

In this webinar, we’ll go deep into the feature, how it works, and how to get started. What you’ll learn:

- The architecture: Understand how Snowpark Connect leverages Spark Connect to bridge your Apache Spark applications with the Snowflake engine.
- Developer experience: Watch live demos of Apache Spark code—including DataFrames, SQL, and UDFs—running directly on Snowflake’s managed compute.
- Check compatibility: Learn about the compatibility tooling in the SMA to find the best workloads and how to connect your existing Apache Spark DataFrame applications to Snowflake.

Demo: Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark Deep Dive

Data engineers are often working with complex integration needs but are constrained by rigid pipelines and resources. This largely prohibited the speed of innovation, especially to deliver new AI initiatives. Now with Snowflake Openflow, data engineers can build open, extensible and secure data integrations that enable real-time, scalable and bi-directional data movement. Powered by Apache NiFi, Openflow offers customers the option to use self-contained deployments and runtimes in Snowpark Container Services, as well as the ability to run bring your own cloud (BYOC) deployments in the customer’s cloud VPC. In this technical session, we will dive into the platform architecture.

Learn how to bring all your data together with Snowflake Openflow to build with limitless interoperability and deployment flexibility, no matter if it’s structured, unstructured, batch or streaming data. Make your integration pipelines ready for AI and the future.

Effortless Data Integration, Ready for AI: A Technical Deep Dive of Snowflake Openflow

Get a practical introduction to building end-to-end data pipelines in Python. This hour-long webinar will give you hands-on experience using Snowflake for scalable data processing. Learn how to connect to data, run transformations, orchestrate workflows, and automate pipeline execution with Snowflake.

In this session, we’ll show you how to: 

- Ingest csv files from AWS S3 bucket into Snowflake tables
- Load the tables into a Snowpark DataFrame
- Join tables and run aggregations within Snowpark
- Explore data with visualizations with Snowflake Notebooks
- Use pandas on Snowflake to read files from a git repository, run calculations, and visualize results

Virtual hands-on lab: Build End-to-End Data Pipelines in Python with Snowflake

As AI technology improves and infrastructure investments skyrocket, the urgency for enterprise leaders to move from experimentation to production and ROI also has grown. Agentic AI, in particular, has captured the market’s attention by offering a powerful path to unlock meaningful business value by automating tasks, generating insights and improving customer experience. 

Join leaders from Accenture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Luminate and Snowflake for a lively discussion on the future of agentic AI, practical tips to build AI agents and bring them into production securely at scale, and real-world examples of agentic deployments in the enterprise.

The Path to Production-Ready AI Agents

Open lakehouse architecture is revolutionizing data management, offering unmatched scalability, flexibility, and interoperability for modern analytics. 

Komodo Health’s AI-powered platform transforms real-world healthcare data into actionable insights for life sciences, payers, and providers. Processing 2M+ daily queries across 1,000+ environments, Komodo enables seamless decision-making for 330M+ patients. Join this session to explore how they leveraged Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables and an open lakehouse architecture to enhance interoperability and power their suite of applications. 

In this session, we will discuss: 

- Considerations for architecting an open lakehouse 
- How to transform data into Iceberg tables for analytics 
- How to securely share Iceberg tables via secure data sharing 
- How to leverage Snowflake Open Catalog to manage data 
- Implementation tips and learnings

Your Data, Your Way: Enabling Analytics with an Open Lakehouse

This hands-on lab explores several Time Series features using FactSet Tick Data from Snowflake Marketplace, including TIME_SLICE, ASOF_JOIN and RANGE BETWEEN for insights into trade data. Learn how to build an AI-powered chatbot to help drive additional insights from the data. 

What you will learn: 
--Leveraging powerful SQL functions such as TIME_SLICE, ASOF JOIN, RANGE BETWEEN and more 
--Analyzing Time Series data using Snowflake Notebooks 
--Accessing data from Snowflake Marketplace

Virtual Hands-on Lab: Time Series Analytics and LLM powered Chatbot with Pricing Data

Want to migrate to Snowflake in less than 90 minutes? Join our hands-on lab. 

Here's what you'll accomplish: 
--Leverage SnowConvert and the Snowpark Migration Accelerator to assess, move, and validate your data warehouse SQL and Spark pipelines to Snowflake. 
--Migrate data to Snowflake from various sources, including other data warehouses, data lakes, and on-premises systems. 
--Explore the possibility of running your existing Jupyter notebooks utilizing Spark directly within Snowflake.

Virtual Hands-on Lab: End-to-End Migration to Snowflake in Action: Data and Pipelines

Many data teams are overloaded with requests, struggling to deliver the right data to the right teams fast enough. This leads to organizational bottlenecks, slower time to market and limited scalability.  

To overcome these challenges, enterprises are adopting data mesh, a decentralized approach that aims to make data products easily discoverable and accessible, with a high level of governance, reducing the pressure on central teams.  

By improving data sharing across business units in a self-service manner, companies can increase data agility across their organization to drive better decision making and faster time to value.  

Join this demo to learn how:  
--Data owners can use Snowflake Internal Marketplace to create, document and share secure data products  
--Data consumers can discover, request and access data products with ease 
--Governance policies ensure compliance and access control for data products at all times, even across cloud regions and platforms

Data Mesh Demo: How to Build and Govern Your Data Products in Snowflake

In today’s complex business environment, enterprise AI agents must navigate intricate workflows and decision-making processes, requiring precise access to both structured and unstructured data.

Hear from Thomson Reuters on how they improved decision-making accuracy by building unstructured data preprocessing pipelines, a semantic model for accurate text-to-SQL and AI observability with Snowflake.

Learn how enterprises can leverage these capabilities to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency at scale.

Building Enterprise-Grade AI Agents with Snowflake Cortex AI

As enterprises continue to navigate the complexities of AI-driven transformation, the challenge of integrating structured and unstructured data into scalable, intelligent workflows has never been more critical. In this webinar, veteran technology journalist John K. Waters talks with industry expert Harshal Pimpalkhute about the evolving landscape of AI data agents and how organizations can prepare their data to maximize AI-driven insights.

Among other things, they will discuss the fundamental steps required to process, manage, and govern unstructured data—such as documents, text, and images—while ensuring seamless integration with structured datasets. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), text-to-SQL transformations, vector stores, and semantic modeling, key enablers of AI-driven decision-making.

Join us as we dive into strategies for improving data accuracy, orchestration, and retrieval services, ultimately enabling AI agents to act as powerful intermediaries between business users and enterprise data. Whether you are a data engineer, CIO, or AI strategist, this session will provide actionable insights to elevate your AI data strategy.

Unlocking AI-Powered Insights: Preparing Your Enterprise Data for AI Agents

Join Snowflake’s leading experts as they discuss the AI-accelerated future. They will share predictions about taking LLMs from inspiration to real value, adapting to an AI-powered workforce, securing AI in the enterprise, and more.

Regardless of where you are in your data strategy, we have a number of conversations to help you get value from your data today and achieve generative AI preparedness tomorrow.

This webinar covers upcoming trends across:

- Observability
- Autonomous agents
- Governance
- And more in the age of gen AI

Prepare yourself and your team to tackle your 2025 data initiatives.

AI + Data Predictions 2025: How Operationalizing AI Will Drive Technical Advances and Leadership Challenges

Processing geospatial data is often challenging because it comes from diverse sources, is stored in various formats, and uses different coordinate systems to understand spatial relationships between various features. Many companies struggle to activate their geospatial data into insights. Snowflake can support advanced geospatial processing with native SQL functions and Python UDFs.

Join us in this webinar to learn how you can

- Ingest and process geospatial data from GeoTiffs and Shapefiles
- Read geospatial data using Python UDFs
- Join different sources using nearest neighbor approaches
- Handle larger images efficiently with techniques like resampling and filtering
- Visualize geospatial data using Streamlit, QGIS, and H3 functions
 

By the end of this webinar, you will understand how to prepare data from satellite imagery and shapefiles for machine learning models and advanced spatial analysis within Snowflake.

Best Practices for Processing and Visualizing Geospatial Data in Snowflake

Generative AI is transforming how enterprises extract insights from sensitive data like documents and images — but cost and performance remain key challenges. Organizations are seeing real ROI by choosing platforms that support both large-scale batch NLP inference and real-time conversational AI.

In this webinar, Snowflake AI experts will share insights and demos on how to:

Develop high-quality, conversational apps faster for self-service analytics
Optimize natural language processing (NLP) pipeline performance with cost-effective LLM batch inference
Serve open-source LLMs and custom embedding models for inference with managed GPUs

Don’t miss this opportunity to see how Snowflake makes gen AI easy, efficient and enterprise-ready with built-in trust.

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