Snowflake Bangalore User Group + phData Community Meet

Name: Snowflake Bangalore User Group + phData Community Meet
Start: 2026-08-29T09:15:00+05:30
End: 2026-08-29T13:00:00+05:30
Location: IndiQube Logos, Ground Floor, Municipal No. 206, Mahatma Gandhi Rd, Craig Park Layout

Bengaluru

Snowflake and phData are delighted to partner and host this Snowflake Bangalore User group Meeting for August -2026, A demo heavy day with session covering Cortex AI features and Native app.

Aug 29, 3:45 – 7:30 AM (UTC)

About this event

Who Should Attend:
This event is open to anyone with a technical background, including data analysts, engineers, and tech enthusiasts. It's particularly beneficial for those looking to enhance their professional skillset by learning about Snowflake.
Why Attend?
By attending, you'll have the opportunity to:
Upskill: Leverage powerful technologies like Snowflake, which is crucial in today's data-driven era, to propel your career forward.
Network: Connect with like-minded professionals and industry experts, exchange ideas, share experiences, and build valuable relationships.
Don't miss this chance to learn from Snowflake experts, network with peers, and gain powerful new skills. Register now and take the first step towards mastering Snowflake!

When

Saturday, August 29, 2026
3:45 AM – 7:30 AM (UTC)

Where

IndiQube Logos, Ground Floor, Municipal No. 206, Mahatma Gandhi Rd, Craig Park Layout
Ashok Nagar
Bengaluru 560001

Agenda

3:45 AM
3:45 AM	Registration and Name Tag Collection
4:15 AM	Welcome and Introduction to Snowflake Bangalore User Group	By Sandip Pani, Snowflake Data Superhero and Principal Engineer at NextGen Healthcare
4:20 AM	Welcome and Introduction to phData	By Anand Devaraj, President, phData India
4:30 AM	Multimodal Data Analysis Using Snowflake Cortex AI Functions By Hamsini Ramesh - Associate Analytics Consultant, phData India	How Snowflake Cortex AI functions can convert unstructured data(multi modal such as images , audios, videos or documents) into structured, analytics-ready data, making it much easier to generate insights and support better business decisions.
5:05 AM	From Legacy Reports to Snowflake: Automating Migration Validation with Coco + Custom SQL MCP By Sowmya Iyer - Sr. Analytics Consultant phData, India	This session walks through how to automate server-to-server report validation during BI migrations to Snowflake, using Cortex Code Desktop and a custom SQL MCP server. It covers the validation skill that translates DAX logic into SQL per visual, running it against both the legacy server and Snowflake to produce an automated diff, how the custom MCP connects Cortex Code to the legacy SQL server, and finally the output in covering the required test cases.
5:40 AM	Tea Break
6:00 AM	Beyond Dashboards: Building Full-Stack Apps with Snowflake App Runtime By Sheshasai Surendranath Arkasali - Sr. Solutions Architect , phData , India	Streamlit in Snowflake made UI development effortless, and Native Apps revolutionized data sharing—but what happens when your app needs custom Docker containers, complex backends, non-Python runtimes, or GPU acceleration? In this session, we’ll demystify the Snowflake App Runtime (powered by Snowpark Container Services). We will explore what it actually is under the hood, compare it directly against Streamlit in Snowflake and standard Native Apps, and break down the specific engineering problems it solves.
6:30 AM	How Cortex AI Function Studio can help improve quality while reducing AI inference costs By Lohith Surya Raj Narukurti - Associate Data Engineer, phData India	Snowflake Cortex AI Function Studio is a tool that automatically finds the best AI model and prompt combination for your data task balancing accuracy and cost without any manual trial and error. Instead of defaulting to the most powerful and expensive model for every task, the studio uses a built-in optimization algorithm to identify the Pareto frontier the point where you get the highest accuracy for the lowest possible cost. The results are impressive: a +4 percentage point accuracy improvement while cutting costs by over 50%. All of this happens inside Snowflake, through a simple Create → Evaluate → Optimize → Deploy workflow making AI production-ready from day one.
7:00 AM	Session By Sandip Pani
7:20 AM	Closing Note
7:30 AM	Network over Light Lunch

Speakers

Sandip Pani

Nextgen Healthcare

Snowflake Data Superhero and Principal Engineer

Anand Devaraj

phData Solutions Pvt Ltd.

President

Hamsini Ramesh

phData India

Associate Analytics Consultant

Sowmya Iyer

phData India

Sr. Analytics Consultant

Sheshasai Surendranath Arkasali

phData India

Sr. Solutions Architect

Lohith Surya Raj Narukurti

phData India

Associate Data Engineer

Organizers

Shubhangi Singh

Snowflake

Head of Developer Marketing India

See bio

Sandip Pani

Nextgen Healthcare

Principal Engineer and Data Super Hero

See bio

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Snowflake Bangalore User Group + phData Community Meet

About this event

When

Where

Agenda

Speakers

Sandip Pani

Anand Devaraj

Hamsini Ramesh

Sowmya Iyer

Sheshasai Surendranath Arkasali

Lohith Surya Raj Narukurti

Organizers

Shubhangi Singh

Sandip Pani