STUG | Snowflake CoCo & Summit 2026 Highlights

Name: STUG | Snowflake CoCo & Summit 2026 Highlights
Start: 2026-06-24T16:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-06-24T19:30:00+08:00
Location: Central Park Perth - The Conference Room

Perth

Snowflake Technical User Group Perth is back this month featuring the latest platform updates and demos straight from Snowflake Summit 2026, a deep dive into hybrid IaC and snippets.

Jun 24, 8:00 – 11:30 AM (UTC)

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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 packed edition of STUG will dive into key announcements from Snowflake Summit 2026 and demo major product updates, including the latest on Snowflake CoCo (formerly Cortex Code). We're also back with Snippets so reach out to Simon if you have tid bits, best practices and insights to share with the community! 
What You Will Learn 📝✅ Inside Snowflake Summit 2026: Evolution of CoCo & Major Announcements
✅ Beyond Terraform: A Practical Hybrid IaC Approach for Snowflake Data & AI Platforms
✅ Snippets: Rapid fire demos & tid bits from the audience
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

Wednesday, June 24, 2026
8:00 AM – 11:30 AM (UTC)

Where

Central Park Perth - The Conference Room
158 Saint Georges Terrace, Perth, 6000
Perth 6000

Agenda

8:00 AM	Guest Arrivals & Registration	Sign in, enjoy some pizza and drinks.
8:30 AM	Welcome Address
8:35 AM	Inside Snowflake Summit 2026: Evolution of CoCo & Major Announcements	Simon and Gary hit San Francisco earlier this month for Snowflake Summit 2026. Join us to hear all of the key announcements from the event - including the latest updates on Snowflake CoCo (Formerly Cortex Code) and expect to see some demos of some cool new features and functionality.
9:10 AM	Beyond Terraform: A Practical Hybrid IaC Approach for Snowflake Data & AI Platforms	Terraform is excellent for managing Snowflake infrastructure, but not every platform component fits neatly into a single IaC tool. This session covers a real-world implementation that combines config driven Terraform modules for infrastructure provisioning with a custom Python deployer for schema level objects and Snowflake Container Services (SPCS). The presentation will cover the framework overview, CI/CD integration, pros, cons and how this approach enables a unified, Snowflake-native platform for both data and AI workloads. Presented by: Nikhil Guda, Principal Data & AI Platform Lead Cognizant
9:25 AM	Snippets	Snippets is an open forum for community members to share micro best practices and rapid fire demos. We welcome on-the-spot talks.
9:40 AM	Closing Remarks and Wrap Up
11:30 AM	Event Concludes

Speakers

Nikhil Guda

Cognizant

Principal Data & AI Platform Lead

Simon Yeoman

Unified Honey

Co-Founder & Snowflake Data Superhero 2026

Gary North

Snowflake

Senior Solution Engineer

Hosts

Peter Stagg

Simformatica

Director

Gary North

Snowflake

Senior Solution Engineer

Melanie Dietrich

DataDivers.io

Data Consultant

Pons Ramalingam

Business Intelligence Architect

Organizers

Shirley Gao

See bio

Simon Yeoman

Unified Honey Inc

Chapter Lead

See bio

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