Chocolate meets Snow (-flake) - where data meets delight this Christmas

Name: Chocolate meets Snow (-flake) - where data meets delight this Christmas
Start: 2025-12-01T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-01T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Lindt & Sprüngli (Schweiz) AG

Swiss German Region

Join us in Zurich for an evening with the Snowflake community. We’ll explore how companies use Snowflake to power data-driven decisions—from ensuring quality in chocolate production with IoT data, to enabling approval workflows for business users with Sigma Computing.

Dec 1, 5:00 – 8:00 PM (UTC)

About this event

You’re invited to the Snowflake User Group meetup in Zurich!
We’ll explore how organizations are building modern data applications using Snowflake at the core. The evening includes two sessions:
How IoT Data Helps Craft the Perfect Chocolate
Discover how premium chocolate makers use IoT sensors to track temperature, humidity, and pressure in real time. Learn how this data is stored and analyzed in Snowflake to ensure consistent quality, reduce waste, and improve production efficiency.
Building an Approval-Enabled Data App with Sigma
In this walkthrough, we’ll show how Sigma Computing can be used to build a business-facing application with an integrated approval workflow. Common use cases—like P&L corrections, master data updates, or budget approvals—are handled within Sigma, with approved data written back into Snowflake in a governed and auditable way.
Using Input Tables in Sigma
In this demo, we’ll take a closer look at Sigma’s Input Tables, a feature that allows users to add comments, adjustments, targets, and business context directly into dashboards. No exports, no spreadsheets, no back-and-forth. Just shared context, right where the data lives. 
Whether you’re in manufacturing, finance, or just looking to empower business users with governed write-back workflows, this event will give you practical insights into what’s possible with Snowflake and its ecosystem.
Drinks and networking included!

When

Monday, December 1, 2025
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC)

Where

Lindt & Sprüngli (Schweiz) AG
204 Seestrasse
Kilchberg, 8802

Agenda

How IoT Data Helps Craft the Perfect Chocolate

Premium chocolate is the result of precision, consistency, and craftsmanship. Behind the scenes, modern production lines rely on IoT sensors to monitor temperature, pressure, humidity, and other critical factors at every stage of the process. In this talk Alexander highlights how IoT data can provide real-time visibility into manufacturing operations and help ensure that every piece meets the highest quality standards. We’ll discuss how this data is stored and analyzed in a cloud data platform, enabling teams to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and innovate faster—without compromising taste.

Building an Approval-Enabled Data App with Sigma Computing and Snowflake

Join Sibel and Benjamin for a focused session where I’ll demonstrate how to create a data application in Sigma Computing that includes a full approval workflow and write-back into Snowflake. We’ll explore a typical scenario that requires both data corrections and managerial approval. For instance, you might need to handle P&L adjustments, master data corrections, or budget approval processes. Analysts will enter the relevant data changes, and we’ll show how it flows through an approval stage within Sigma before being written back into Snowflake. By the end of the session, you’ll have a clear understanding of how Sigma and Snowflake can work together to streamline approval workflows for a variety of data correction and approval use cases.