Snowflake Technical User Group Sydney | February 2026

Name: Snowflake Technical User Group Sydney | February 2026
Start: 2026-02-25T16:30:00+11:00
End: 2026-02-25T20:00:00+11:00
Location: Intelligen

Sydney

Snowflake Technical User Group (STUG) is a community of customers and users of Snowflake, who come together to share knowledge and exchange best practices. Join us for our first Sydney STUG of the year on 25 February!

Feb 25, 5:30 – 9:00 AM (UTC)

AIData CollaborationData Engineering

About this event

Welcome to 2026 Sydney STUG! We are excited to welcome our community back to the first Sydney Snowflake Technical User Group of 2026, and we look forward to seeing many familiar and new faces as we dive into another year of product innovation, customer stories, and technical presentations.
What to Expect: ✅  Case Study | Building Data That Moves Decisions - Bridging the gap between technical excellence and real-world ROI
✅ Technical Showcase | Snowflake’s little known, but powerful SQL capabilities
✅ Technical Showcase |  Beyond the Dashboard: Turning Predictive AI/ML into Actionable UI
✅ Cortex Code is GA! We'll show you what it's for and how it works. 
Our guest speakers for the February edition are: 
Sumali Wickramarachchi, Marketing Data Analyst, Cochlear
Raj Thakkar, Principal - Data & AI, Deloitte
Regina Lin, Solution Engineer, Snowflake
Reasons to attend ✍️🌐 Connect with the Snowflake community
📈 Level up your performance game
🍕 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, February 25, 2026
5:30 AM – 9:00 AM (UTC)

Where

Intelligen
Level 7/ 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000

Agenda

Arrival and Refreshments
Welcome and Introductions
Building Data That Moves Decisions - Bridging the gap between technical excellence and real-world ROI	Building Data That Moves Decisions is a story from the space between pipelines and people. It’s about what happens after the data is correct, the dashboards are built, and yet decisions still don’t move. Drawing on real experience working with foundational and business data products, this talk explores why technical excellence alone doesn’t create impact, and how collaboration, trust, and human-centred design turn data into real-world ROI. At its heart, this is an invitation for data engineers and data scientists to see the full journey of their work, not just to delivery, but to the moment a decision is made and a real outcome is changed. Presented by: Sumali Wickramarachchi, Marketing Data Analyst, Cochlear
Snowflake’s little known, but powerful SQL capabilities	Snowflake extends the power of traditional SQL commands by incorporating modern features that make it easy to go from raw data to insights. In this session Raj shares some handy tips and tricks with code examples to show you how he streamlines his delivery on Snowflake projects to get to a quicker outcome. Presented by: Raj Thakkar, Principal - Data & AI, Deloitte
Beyond the Dashboard: Turning Predictive AI/ML into Actionable UI	Join us for a quick demo on a predictive maintenance tool that integrates a modern React frontend with a robust Snowflake backend. Instead of basic dashboards, we're using Snowflake as an inference engine to analyse complex data streams as they arrive. I’ll walk through the integration between our React frontend and the backend AI/ML logic, showing how we transform raw telemetry into actionable system intelligence. Presented by: Regina Lin, Solution Engineer, Snowflake
Cortex Code is GA!	Cortex Code is GA! We'll share what it's for and how it works.
Drinks & Nibbles	Join us after the presentations have wrapped for a relaxed evening connecting with peers over drinks & nibbles.
Event Wrap

Speakers

Raj Thakkar

Deloitte

Principal - Data & AI

Sumali Wickramarachchi

Cochlear

Marketing Data Analyst

Regina Lin

Snowflake

Solution Engineer

Organizers

Phillip Lim

Snowflake

Marketing Manager

See bio

Shirley Gao