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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 features that have become GA. This will be a fantastic opportunity for your voice to be heard on product aspirations and the highlights from the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco.

Register now, we look forward to welcoming you!

Please register to join us!

What You Will Learn 📝

✅ Doing data governance in 4 questions and how Snowflake can help

✅ Running dbt projects natively in Snowflake: A Game-Changer for Data Workloads

✅ Openflow, Unified Data Ingestion from Every Source. Where Data Does More. 

✅ Snowflake and Terraform: Our journey, wins and warnings. 

✅ A new edition of Snowflake Snippets. 

✅ The latest innovations, product announcements and highlights from Snowflake Summit 2025. 

Our speakers for this edition of STUG are: 

  • Peta Demidenko, Founder, PrivacyMayhem 

  • Maciej Tarsa, Senior Consultant, Mechanical Rock

  • Simon Yeoman, Founder, Unified Honey

  • Arno Theron, Junior Data Analyst, Quartex

  • Nelson Goh, Technical Lead - Data Products, Quartex

  • Sheldon Scott, Data Specialist, DataDivers.io

  • Devanand Natarajan, Senior Solution Architect

  • Iain Riley, Principal Digital Product Architect, Western Power 

  • Gary North, Senior Solution Engineer, Snowflake

Reasons to attend ✍️

🌐 Connect with the Snowflake community

🍕 Network, learn, and enjoy good vibes (and food)

To secure your spot, please be sure to RSVP to the event. We look forward to seeing you there! For any questions, please reach out to shirley.gao@snowflake.com

When

When

Thursday, September 4, 2025
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

Guest Arrivals & Registration
Welcome Address
Snowflake Summit Recap by Gary North, Snowflake
Doing data governance in 4 questions and how Snowflake can help by Peta Demidenko, PrivacyMayhem
Running dbt projects natively in Snowflake: A Game-Changer for Data Workloads by Maciej Tarsa, Mechanical Rock
Openflow, Unified Data Ingestion from Every Source. Where Data Does More by Simon Yeoman, Unified Honey
Snowflake and Terraform: Our journey, wins and warnings by Arno Theron and Nelson Goh, Quartex
Snowflake Snippets Tiny Tips for Big Impact by Devanand Natarajan, Sheldon Scott and Iain Riley
Closing Remarks and Wrap Up
Networking Drinks @ Lalla Rookh
Event Concludes

Speakers

  • Peta Demidenko

    PrivacyMayhem

    Founder

  • Arno Theron

    Quartex

    Data Analyst

  • Maciej Tarsa

    Mechanical Rock

    Senior Consultant

  • Devanand Natarajan

    Senior Solution Architect

  • Sheldon Scott

    DataDivers.io

    Data Specialist

  • Iain Riley

    Western Power

    Senior Business Analytics Consultant

  • Simon Yeoman

    Unified Honey

    Co-Founder

  • Gary North

    Snowflake

    Senior Solution Engineer

  • Nelson Goh

    Quartex

    Senior Data Engineer

Hosts

  • Peter Stagg

    Simformatica

    Director

  • Gary North

    Snowflake

    Senior Solution Engineer

  • Melanie Dietrich

    DataDivers.io

    Data Consultant

  • Pons Ramalingam

    Business Intelligence Architect

  • Alex Maund

    Quartex

    Head of Data

Organizer

  • Shirley Gao

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