STUG Meet Up

Name: STUG Meet Up
Start: 2024-09-04T16:00:00+08:00
End: 2024-09-04T18:30:00+08:00
Location: level 8/2 The Esplanade

Perth

Our meet up group is a community of customers and users of Snowflake, who come together to share knowledge and exchange best practices. Hear the latest from other Snowflake users, grow your professional network, ask questions, and we'll wrap up with an hour to network amongst your peers, with food and drink provided. Please register to join us!

Sep 4, 8:00 – 10:30 AM (UTC)

About this event

The user group is a community of customers and users of Snowflake, who come together to network, share knowledge and exchange best practices.
This provides you with an opportunity to meet our customers, hear about new products and features and to provide your valued feedback and insights to help improve our products.
Get community updates from your local Snowflake team, expand your professional network, share anecdotes from other users and the highlights from Snowflake Summit in San Francisco. This will be a fantastic opportunity for your voice to be heard on product aspirations and the road to the Snowflake World Tour in Sydney. 
Register now, we look forward to welcoming you!
Please register to join us!
For more information on STUG, please visit our webpage: https://www.snowflake.com/snowflake-technical-user-group-perth/

When

Wednesday, September 4, 2024
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM (UTC)

Where

level 8/2 The Esplanade
2 The Esplanade
Perth, 6000

Agenda

8:00 AM	Guest Arrivals & Registration
8:30 AM	STUG Welcome (Dan Dell'Agnello, HBF Health)
8:35 AM	Are you cyber ready? (Peter Stagg, Director, Simformatica)	Recently there has been a significant increase in successful hacking events. Many of these could have been prevented by some basic security processes. This is an overview of the essential eight and cissp suggested actions that aim to reduce the risk of being hacked. We will also discuss what snowflake has to aid in the risk mitigation of intrusion and your data being compromised.
9:00 AM	Snowflake Cortex - An Intro (Pons Ramalingam, BI Architect)	Snowflake Cortex is a set of advanced AI tools designed to help make sense of complex data. It can interpret and analyse various types of information, answer questions in natural language, and offer smart assistance for different tasks. The suite includes features like language understanding, search capabilities, a virtual assistant, and tools to customise and refine AI models to better suit specific needs. An example to demonstrate a capability of Snowflake Cortex.
9:25 AM	Pizza Break
9:40 AM	Summit Overview: Build and Distribute Apps Innovations (Clive Astbury, Director, Sales Engineering ANZ, Snowflake)
10:20 AM	STUG Wrap Up (Dan Dell'Agnello, HBF Health)
10:30 AM	Networking Drinks @ Henry's Rooftop	Level 2, The Reveley Lot 901, Riverside Drive, Perth, WA, 6000

Speakers

Peter Stagg

Simformatica

Director

Pons Ramalingam

Business Intelligence Architect

Dan Dell’Agnello

HBF

Head of Data Engineering

Clive Astbury

Snowflake

Director, Sales Engineering, ANZ

Host

Ahmed Hafez