This session explores Gemini's capabilities, architecture, and performance benchmarks. We'll delve into the significance of its extensive context window and address the critical aspects of safety, security, and responsible AI use. Hallucination, a common concern in LLM applications, remains a focal point of ongoing development. This talk will highlight recent advancements aimed at mitigating the risk of hallucination to enhance LLMs utility across various applications.

Snowflake had a big challenge: How do you enable a team of 1,000 sales engineers and field CTOs to successfully deploy over 100 new data products per week and demonstrate every feature and capability in the Snowflake AI Data Cloud tailored to different customer needs?

In this session, Andrew Helgeson, Manager of Technology Platform Alliances at Snowflake, and Guy Adams, CTO at DataOps.live, will explain how Snowflake builds and deploys hundreds of data products using DataOps.live. Join us for a deep dive into Snowflake's innovative approach to automating complex data product deployment — and to learn how Snowflake Solutions Central revolutionizes solution discovery and deployment to drive customer success.

Roche, is one of the world’s largest biotech companies, as well as a leading provider of in-vitro diagnostics and a global supplier of transformative innovative solutions across major disease areas. Over the past few years, they’ve undergone a migration to the cloud, adopted a modern data stack and implemented data mesh in order to double down on improving data reliability.

Join the data team at Roche to learn how they’ve leveraged data observability to support their sociotechnical shift to data mesh. They walk through their multi-year data observability journey, digging into how they implemented Monte Carlo in a global organization. They’ll also share their approach to data mesh at Roche and deep dive into a current use case. 

Accor, a world-leading hospitality group offering experiences across more than 110 countries in 5,500 properties, 10,000 food & beverage venues, wellness facilities or flexible workspaces, relies on its more than 45 hotel brands from luxury to economy and its most awarded traveler loyalty program to connect deeply with customers and increase their lifetime value. With a rich store of data centralized in Snowflake, the team set out to enable their marketing and business teams with a platform that would allow them to autonomously deliver hyper-personalized experiences and campaigns.

Join the session to learn about Accor’s CDP journey and how Hightouch, as their Composable CDP, helps them drive customer engagement, loyalty, and revenue.

This talk will share lessons learned from building an internal data platform to support several Cybersecurity SaaS applications. At Tenable, we have put the data model at the centre of our platform. A centralised data model provides consistent data experience for your application builders and customers alike and provides a focus for discussion and standardisation.

The discussion will highlight the following key areas:

1. Choose cloud: Cloud will accelerate your rate of delivery and reduce cognitive load for your team

2. Get started: Platforms need users and their feedback should drive the evolution of the platform.

3. Maintaining a product mindset: Treat your data platform like a product by maintaining a backlog while working towards longer term vision.

4. Structure your team for success. Using lessons learned from Team Topologies, structure your team to reduce cognitive load and keep the team focussed on delivering value.

5. Making it easy for teams to onboard onto the platform.

The next big innovation in data management after separation of compute and storage is the open table formats. These formats have truly commoditized storage, allowing you to store data anywhere and run multiple compute workloads without vendor lock-in. This innovation addresses the biggest challenges of cloud data warehousing — performance, usability, and high costs—ushering in the era of the data lakehouse architecture.

In this session, discover how an AI-powered data lakehouse:

• Unlocks data for modern AI use cases

• Enhances performance and enables real-time analytics

• Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 75%

• Delivers increased interoperability across the entire data landscape

Join us to explore how the integration of AI with the lakehouse architecture can transform your approach to data management and analytics.

Many organisations know of the importance of data culture, especially when undertaking a digital transformation (I.e cloud transformation). And the ?holy grail? of getting it right is often well stated. But what about the bad, and the ugly as well as the good? And what does that look like when you are talking about an organisation the scale of Lloyds Banking Group? This talk is intended to draw back the curtain behind our data culture journey here at Lloyds (though not making it all about us) as a way to truly highlight some of the pitfalls, successes and approaches we have and are taking on our data culture journey.

Explore a transformative shift in healthcare with Ranjit Gill, CIO of the AAH (Hallo Healthcare Group) and Pete Lydon, Director Sales Engineering at Actian. This session highlights Hallo's adoption of a cloud-first strategy, effectively managing over 21 million billing entries and thousands of daily orders. Learn how cloud analytics has not only streamlined massive data flows but also significantly enhanced patient service delivery, establishing new benchmarks in healthcare efficiency and responsiveness.

The data engineer role has expanded far beyond data pipeline management. Data engineers are now tasked with managing scalable infrastructure, optimizing cloud resources, and ensuring real-time data processing, while keeping costs in check - which continues to be quite challenging.

In this session, Revefi will demonstrate Raden, the world’s first AI data engineer. Raden augments data teams with “distinguished engineer level” expertise in data architecture, system performance, optimization, and cost management.

Raden uses GenAI and AI to address these challenges by working with your team as an 👩‍✈️ AutoPilot and/or 👨‍✈️ CoPilot by automating critical functions such as Data Quality, Data Observability, Spend Management, Performance Management, and Usage Management, allowing your data team to tackle complex use cases with ease.

Join us to discover how you can revamp your data engineering practices and dramatically improve the ROI from your data investments 

Morrisons are driving business transformation with data, in part through near real-time ingestion of disparate datasets, which enable centralised critical actionable data within Google Cloud, but also operationally, by focussing on outcome driven data teams. Learn how being data driven is challenging, how data volume can be problematic, but also how the benefits of available live data enable success and aid future business growth.

Join us for an insightful fireside chat featuring Kroo Bank where as we dive into the world of data stack modernization within the fintech landscape. Kroo Bank is a rising star in the UK banking sector. They'll sit down with Aiven to share challenges and strategies when looking at their technology stack when facing the need to scale fast for their customers.

Key topics will include:

• Transitioning to a strongly asynchronous architecture to enhance performance and reliability.

• Optimizing data infrastructure for better performance and data observability.

• Exploring multi-cloud strategies and advanced streaming technologies.

• Evaluating Aiven's open source services for improved scalability, cost-efficiency, and disaster recovery.

Gain insights into how Kroo Bank plans to navigate the complexities of the digital age ensuring sustainable growth and innovation in a competitive market!

Overcome the limitations of your legacy data warehouse or BI systems and reap the benefits of a cloud-native stack with LeapLogic, Impetus’ automated cloud migration accelerator. Join our session to explore how LeapLogic’s end-to-end automated capabilities can fast-track and streamline the transformation of legacy data warehouse, ETL, Hadoop, analytics, and reporting workloads to the cloud. Gain actionable insights from real-world success stories of Fortune 500 enterprises that have successfully modernised their legacy workloads, positioning them at the forefront of the GenAI revolution. 

High-performance analytics can be a game-changer, but the infrastructure to support it often comes with a hefty price tag. In this talk, I'll share strategies to build a cost-effective sub-second analytics platform using open-source tools and lessons learned from cloud services. I'll cover the trade-offs between self-hosting and managed offerings and discuss ways to optimize infrastructure costs — from maximizing cloud 'nuggets' to ensuring your engineering team is right-sized and focused on solving important business challenges. Drawing from patterns, caveats, and success stories observed with our clients, the goal is to power lightning-fast analytics without breaking the bank.

Electric vehicles produce billions of diagnostic data points, combining these data with advanced cloud-based battery models we can use software to unlock longer battery lifetimes, increased range, faster charging and predict safety issues. 

Elysia Battery Intelligence from Fortescue Zero is built on over 15 years of experience in electric motorsports. Elysia provides battery manufacturers and owners with actionable battery insights using Snowflake’s data platform as the backbone of their AI-driven battery analytics. In this session, Pezhman Zarabadi and Matt Clarke will demonstrate how Elysia are leveraging Snowflake to scale Elysia, enabling seamless conversion of innovative battery research to new features. They will also discuss Elysia’s recently announced collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover to monitor their entire portfolio of electric vehicles.

In this session, Chad Sanderson, CEO of Gable.ai and author of the upcoming O’Reilly book: "Data Contracts," tackles the necessity of modern data management in an age of hyper iteration, experimentation, and AI. He will explore why traditional data management practices fail and how the cloud has fundamentally changed data development. The talk will cover a modern application of data management best practices, including data change detection, data contracts, observability, and CI/CD tests, and outline the roles of data producers and consumers. 

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of modern data management's components and how to leverage them for better data handling and decision-making.

Maintaining customer loyalty has become increasingly difficult, causing organisations across all industries to revisit their customer-oriented decision-making by using data and technology that will ensure their customers' experiences drive business value. But where exactly should organisations start?

The key is through building cloud native data technology solutions and deploying bespoke segmentations that provide deep customer insights, so you can turn these insights into action.

In this session, CACI’s Director of Data Science, Richard Tomlinson, and Director of Data Technology, Jon Ede, will demonstrate how the winning combination of innate customer understanding, integrated technology and the power of data science is enabling leading organisations to put the customer at the heart of all decision-making across the organisation.

In today's data-driven landscape, the ability to efficiently harness the power of AI is crucial for businesses seeking to unlock valuable insights and drive innovation. This session will explore how BigQuery, Google Cloud's leading data warehouse solution, can accelerate your AI initiatives. Discover how BigQuery's serverless architecture, built-in machine learning capabilities, and seamless integration with Google Cloud's AI ecosystem empower you to build, train, and deploy ML models at scale. Whether you're a data scientist, engineer, or business leader, this session will provide you with actionable insights and strategies to supercharge your AI efforts with BigQuery.

Snowflake had a big challenge: How do you enable a team of 1,000 sales engineers and field CTOs to successfully deploy over 100 new data products per week and demonstrate every feature and capability in the Snowflake AI Data Cloud tailored to different customer needs?

In this session, Andrew Helgeson, Manager of Technology Platform Alliances at Snowflake, and Guy Adams, CTO at DataOps.live, will explain how Snowflake builds and deploys hundreds of data products using DataOps.live. Join us for a deep dive into Snowflake's innovative approach to automating complex data product deployment — and to learn how Snowflake Solutions Central revolutionizes solution discovery and deployment to drive customer success.

Join Chris Maydom (Data Scientist, BT) and Helen McKenzie (Geospatial Advocate, CARTO) as they explore how mobility data can reveal deep insights into UK road usage. Learn how hyper-local mobility data can be leveraged to unlock a wide range of insights, and hear how CARTO’s cloud-native technology facilitates this advanced analysis at scale. 

Discover Sainsbury's journey of data democratisation through Snowflake's Data AI Cloud and how, by embracing the modern data platform, the team is transforming analytics, ML and access to data. From generating insightful reports to crafting machine learning models, we're personalising experiences for both our customers and colleagues. Every day, thousands of decisions are enhanced by this data-driven approach, showcasing Sainsbury's commitment to harnessing the power of data for retail excellence. Join us to learn how Sainsbury's leverages Snowflake to inform decisions and shape the future of retail.

Data Observability is the new frontier of modern data management. Leading enterprises rely on Acceldata to ensure data quality, streamline operations, optimize costs, and maintain compliance. Join us to discover how to implement Enterprise Data Observability across on-prem and cloud environments, creating a single source of truth for data leaders, engineers, scientists, and business users. Learn from a seasoned industry expert who has successfully operationalized data governance at petabyte scale and delivers reliable data for AI and analytics initiatives.

As generative AI ramps up, there is a new urgency for database and analytics modernisation as the most popular and impactful AI innovations can be found in the cloud. Learn how to build a modern, cloud-based data foundation for data-driven applications, real-time analytics, and high-performance, immersive gen AI experiences.

Join us as we dive deep into the world of spatial analytics and discover how to leverage location data to its fullest potential. Whether you're working with massive datasets in a Spark environment, harnessing the power of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery, or analysing live data feeds in real time, this session will equip you with the tools and knowledge to:

• Uncover hidden patterns and trends in your data that traditional analytics might miss.

• Gain a deeper understanding of your customers and their behaviours.

• Optimise operations and improve efficiency.

• Make data-driven decisions with confidence.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how spatial analytics can revolutionise your data platform and drive your business forward.