You Could Stay Home. Or You Could Show Up to the Most Talked-About Data Event in Charlotte This Year. .. Your call.

The Charlotte Snowflake User Group is taking over the headquarters of CPI Security — one of the fastest-growing security technology companies in the country and a team that knows a thing or two about building systems that can't afford to fail. It's the perfect backdrop for a conversation about data that's ready for what's coming next.

And what's coming next? AI. But not the hand-wavy, buzzword-on-a-slide kind. The real kind — where your data either holds up or it doesn't.

Here's What's on the Ice ❄️

Matt Mullins, CTO of Cogniti, might just to say the quiet part loud: "your data isn't AI-ready, and no amount of prompting is going to save you." LLMs don't magically understand your schema. They interact with your data like a junior analyst on Day 1 — they need clear naming conventions, explicit relationships, and business logic baked into the data layer. Not in a Wiki. Not in a PowerPoint. In the database. Matt's going to show you what disciplined, AI-ready data actually looks like — and why getting this right is the difference between AI that accelerates your business and AI that confidently lies to your executives.

Sonny Rivera — OG Snowflake Data Superhero, Charlotte's own — will be in the building talking AI and Data Engineering with Snowflake Cortex. Snowflake isn't just a cloud data warehouse anymore. It's a full AI development platform, and Cortex Code is where the rubber meets the road for data engineers who want to build intelligent pipelines without leaving the Snowflake ecosystem. This session is practitioner-to-practitioner. No fluff, no filler.

Why This Event Hits Different

We're not streaming this. There's no recording. No replay link. No "I'll catch the deck later." The real value — the conversations in the hallway, the Snowflake team in the room, the data leaders and engineers trading war stories over food and drinks — that only happens if you show up.

Charlotte's data community is building something real, and this is where those conversations happen. Data engineers. Analytics engineers. Data leaders. Snowflake practitioners. All in one room, at a company that's actively pushing the edge of what's possible with modern data infrastructure.

Miss it and spend the next month hearing about it from everyone who went.

Or just come.

📍 CPI Security Headquarters

4300 Sandy Porter Rd, Charlotte, NC

🍕 Food & drinks on us 

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🎤 Two speakers you'll actually quote on Monday morning

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This is a community event. Bring a colleague. Bring a question. Leave with both answered.