June 30, 2023 — Snowflake will host its 5th Annual Snowflake Summit June 26-29, welcoming nearly 12,000 in-person attendees and over 11,000 virtual registrants in Las Vegas, Nevada. We just wrapped up the conference and the biggest data, apps and AI event.
The four-day conference brings together customers, partners, technical experts, and executives from around the world, where Snowflake unveils new innovations that enable customers to bring generative AI to their data and build apps at scale. , all within a secure and controlled environment. data cloud. Snowflake Summit features 4 major keynotes, a total of 440+ sessions across 11 different session tracks, 250+ customer speakers, 200+ ecosystem partners, 20+ hands-on labs, captured by conference attendees Hundreds of SnowPro certifications and more were featured.
Snowflake Chairman and CEO Frank Slootman and NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang kick off the event on Monday, June 26 to share what AI, Large Language Models (LLM), and GPU-accelerated computing can do for society. We talked about impact. Any industry or business model. Snowflake and his NVIDIA have also partnered to provide companies of all sizes with a fast path to securely create customized generative AI applications using their own data, all within the Snowflake Data Cloud. I also made it clear that there is This was followed by the Snowflake Summit opening keynotes on Tuesday, June 27, with Slootman, Snowflake co-founder and president of products, Benoit Dageville, Snowflake senior vice president of products Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake SVP and Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy took the stage. , when it unveiled expanded capabilities and product innovations that will propel the data cloud forward:
- Snow Park Container Service: Snowflake has introduced Snowpark Containers Services, which is currently in private preview. This allows developers to securely deploy, manage, and scale generative AI, full-stack apps, and more, all within Snowflake, including configurable infrastructure options such as GPUs. Snowflake customers will also have access to a wide range of third-party services within their account, including his LLMs, notebooks, MLOps tools, and more.
- Document AI: Snowflake has launched a new LLM developed by Snowflake. Currently in private preview. This LLM, built from the recently acquired Appplica and its pioneering generative AI technology, enables customers to understand documents and extract insights from unstructured data without machine learning expertise. .
- iceberg table: Iceberg Tables will soon be available in private preview. Organizations can work with data in their own storage in Apache Iceberg format, whether data is managed by Snowflake or managed externally, while benefiting from Snowflake’s ease of use, performance, and integrated governance You will be able to .
- Snowflake Performance Index: Snowflake regularly passes savings on to customers in the form of performance improvements. The new Snowflake Performance Index (SPI) provides transparency and metrics on Snowflake’s continued performance improvements, and since Snowflake began tracking this metric over the past eight months, stable customer workloads have achieved query times of 15. It reveals % improvements and confirms how Snowflake continues to progress. Price per performance for customers.
- Snowflake Native App Framework: Snowflake announced that the Snowflake Native App Framework, currently in public preview on AWS, is now available for developers to build and test Snowflake Native Apps. Customers can now install over 25 new Snowflake Native Apps from the Snowflake Marketplace to run against their data. in your Snowflake account.
- Progress in the Snowflake Marketplace: With growing data available exclusively on the Data Cloud on Snowflake Marketplace, Cybersyn offers unique economic datasets for businesses, investors and governments. To make it easier for customers to take advantage of this growing library of data offerings, Snowflake has also introduced a generally available Marketplace Capacity Drawdown Program. This will allow a customer to seamlessly purchase data and his Snowflake Native Apps with his Snowflake Capacity commitment.
- Improved developer experience and expanded streaming capabilities: Snowflake highlighted a set of new features aimed at developers. The Snowpark ML API enables more efficient model development and is currently in public preview. Snowpark Model Registry for scalable MLOps (currently in private preview). Streamlit in Snowflake’s advancements, coming soon to public preview for turning models into interactive apps. Advanced streaming capabilities.
On Wednesday, June 28, Snowflake announced that Snowflake’s Product Director and Streamlit co-founder Dageville, Amanda Kelly, Snowflake’s Director of Product Management, James Malone, and Builders by several members of Snowflake’s Developer Relations team. Hosted a keynote speech. Keynotes highlight how organizations can move from raw data to production-grade data pipelines, ML models and apps, with testimonials from customers EDF Energy and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) was picked up. Closing out the conference, Kleinerman will present a keynote panel on Thursday, June 29, featuring Landing AI founder and CEO Andrew Ng, Microsoft Azure AI VP Ali Dalloul, and NVIDIA VP of Applied Research Jonathan Cohen. I moderated and discussed predictions about the impact of generative LLM. for businesses.
Snowflake Invests in Customer and Partner Ecosystems Built on the Data Cloud
Over 250 customer sessions from organizations such as AstraZeneca, ExxonMobil, Fidelity Investments, Okta, PetSmart, Saks and Warner Bros. Discovery shared best practices and strategies for driving data-driven outcomes. In addition, Disney led the organization and reimagined the possibilities of the data cloud across the industry.He was named the winner of the 2023 Data Driver Awards North America, a premier data cloud award honoring Snowflake customers. rice field. AstraZeneca was named the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Data Driver Award winner and Spark New Zealand was named the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) Data Driver Award winner.
Snowflake’s Extensive Partner Ecosystem to Share Over 100 Announcements at Snowflake Summit, Highlighting How Organizations are Leveraging the Data Cloud to Transform Industries with Joint Solutions, AI and ML Strategies, Cutting-Edge Data Apps, and More Did. In addition, Snowflake has more than 970 partners building Powered by Snowflake applications (as of April 30, 2023) and more than 430 partners published on the Snowflake Marketplace (as of April 30, 2023). shared record growth. As Snowflake continues to invest in its partner ecosystem, Snowflake has announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft to enable new product integrations across generative AI, data governance, low-code/no-code application development, and more. Additionally, Snowflake and Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now leverage Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with direct access capabilities that seamlessly integrate with Snowflake Data Cloud.
Amidst the excitement of customers and partners, the Snowflake Summit honored early-stage companies leveraging Snowflake to build innovative applications and products in the 2023 Snowflake Startup Challenge. Hundreds of organizations entered his Startup Challenge and he competed for the chance to be one of the three finalists. There, you will receive potential investment from Snowflake Ventures totaling up to $1 million, and exclusive mentorship and visibility opportunities from the NYSE. Judges, including Dageville, Snowflake CMO, Denise Persson, NYSE CIO Chuck Adkins, and Altimeter founder and CEO Brad Gerstner, can learn financial and operational Announcing Maxa as the final winner of the Snowflake Native App for Rapidly Automating ERP Insights. All within his Snowflake customer account. Snowflake also announced an investment in Reka (June 2023) by Snowflake Ventures and a partnership with AI21 to help more customers unlock the value of their enterprise data using LLM. In addition, Snowflake Ventures announced an investment in Cart.com (June 2023) to provide deeper analytics and enhanced collaboration to joint customers, and Snowflake after its acquisition of Neeva (May 2023). shared new details about his LLM future at.
Snowflake Holds Snowflake Summit 2024 in San Francisco, Continuing Founding Roots
Snowflake Summit 2024 concluded with the announcement that Snowflake Summit 2024 will be held June 3-6, 2024 in San Francisco, California. The first user of Snowflake, his conference, his Snowflake Summit 2019, will be in San Francisco, and the Data Cloud company will return to his birthplace of the Bay Area for his Snowflake Summit 2024. As Snowflake continues to innovate in the data cloud and drive customer impact, organizations around the world are invited to attend Snowflake Summit 2024. save the date Snowflake Summit 2024.
San Francisco Mayor London N. He said. “Snowflake is no exception and a great example of a leading company driving impactful change across the industry. I can’t wait for it to snow in San Francisco.”
“Data mobilization is a business imperative, and Snowflake Summit 2023 showed how powerful organizations can be when they leverage their data to build game-changing innovations in the data cloud.” Snowflake’s Chief Marketing Officer, Denise Persson, said. “This year’s event brought together the world’s leading data and AI professionals to learn, share and explore new ways to move the industry forward. I look forward to seeing how they continue to push these boundaries.” Heading to San Francisco for the 2024 Snowflake Summit. ”
About Snowflake
Snowflake enables any organization to harness their data using Snowflake’s data cloud. Customers use the data cloud to unify siled data, discover and securely share data, power data applications, and run diverse AI/ML and analytics workloads. Wherever your data and users reside, Snowflake provides a single data experience across multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries use the Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses, including 590 2022 Forbes Global 2000 (G2K) companies as of April 30, 2023. For more information, please visit snowflake.com.
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