Discover how Workday built an AI-powered self-service analytics platform that doesn't compromise on governance using Lightdash. We'll discuss concrete strategies for transforming your data organization from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage, backed by real implementation insights.

Cloud automation is powerful but tricky. This talk explores its evolution—from scripts and policies to AI-driven agents—and reveals a three-phase framework for practical adoption. Attendees will learn what to automate, how AI changes the game, and which risks, standards, and strategies shape the next generation of CloudOps

Cloud automation is powerful but tricky. This talk explores its evolution—from scripts and policies to AI-driven agents—and reveals a three-phase framework for practical adoption. Attendees will learn what to automate, how AI changes the game, and which risks, standards, and strategies shape the next generation of CloudOps

This demonstration showcases how conversational AI can create tangible objects through an innovative AWS-powered workflow. Using Amazon Bedrock, Nova Pro, and SageMaker, the system transforms user conversations into personalized 3D-printed keychains. The live demonstration illustrates how businesses can combine generative AI and manufacturing to create unique, personalized customer experiences.

Discover how to turn your customer data into actionable insights using Generative AI. In this session, you'll see how Fivetran and dbt make it easy to prepare data from platforms like HubSpot and Zendesk, and how to use that data to power a Gen AI app that answers your business questions in real time.

Agentic AI is everywhere, but do we always need an agent? In this fast-paced and interactive session, we’ll play a game of “Is It an Agent?” and try to figure out which problems really need agents… and which are just apps in disguise.

Agentic AI is everywhere, but do we always need an agent? In this fast-paced and interactive session, we’ll play a game of “Is It an Agent?” and try to figure out which problems really need agents… and which are just apps in disguise.

We kick off the evening in style with a warm welcome and lots of great insights from our very special guest AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr on how AI is redefining the boundaries of software development and inspiring new possibilities in engineering.

We kick off the evening in style with a warm welcome and lots of great insights from our very special guest AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr on how AI is redefining the boundaries of software development and inspiring new possibilities in engineering.

Semantic models promise clarity in analytics, but building them is still a challenge. See how leading data teams auto-generate models from BI metadata—giving data teams consistent definitions, faster validation, and trustworthy context for AI-driven insights.

Okta is rebuilding its data platform, moving from disconnected pipelines to a scalable, well-governed foundation with Snowflake and dbt. In this session, you’ll learn how we improved CI/CD, enabled self-service, and are now testing a prototype to make dbt models ready for AI.

Let’s kick off Coalesce 2025 with a bang! At our opening keynote, you’ll hear how dbt is redefining data work in the age of AI. You’ll hear from dbt Labs CEO and Founder Tristan Handy for his perspective on how AI is rapidly pushing our industry forward and how the dbt Fusion engine is redefining the dbt standard. Tristan will also be joined by Fivetran CEO George Fraser as they discuss their shared vision of an open data infrastructure. dbt Labs product and technical leaders will also share the latest innovations in dbt including: how Fusion is making the development experience more efficient and intelligent than ever before, and our progress on embedded cost optimization and AI experiences designed to help our users expedite workflows while keeping costs and data quality in check. Throughout, dbt customers and partners will connect the dots between dbt’s vision and product roadmap with real-world customer outcomes. Get a front-row seat to the action. For our Coalesce Online attendees, join us on Slack in #coalesce-2025 to stay connected during keynote!

F. Hoffmann-La Roche is the world’s leading provider of cancer treatments, biotech company, 4th largest pharmaceutical company and currently Europe’s 3rd largest company by market cap.

This session will explore Roche’s Snowflake environment, Approach to Data Mesh incl. Object tagging as mandatory Data Governance, Cortex AI incl. MCP Server, Data Observability supporting Data Mesh incl. Use Case deep dive & success stories, and Roadmap with Pharma Technical Domain.

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Learn how to streamline governance and security for data and AI with Snowflake's latest updates to Horizon Catalog. Join us for new product overviews and live demos covering interoperability, Trust Center, MFA updates, Copilot for Horizon Catalog, sensitive data, data quality, lineage, and more.

In this session we will introduce Snowflake’s latest developer tools for secure authentication, Git integration, collaborative notebooks, code workspaces, unified data engineering, and workflow automation - all aimed at streamlining product development and deployment.

We will also demonstrate how Snowflake enables engineers to query, aggregate, and extract insights from structured and unstructured data—including sales, support transcripts, and images—using AISQL functions and Cortex AI models. The demo highlights Snowflake Intelligence’s Data Agents, which let you interact with multimodal data sources and external apps, generate visualizations, and produce direct answers via natural language.

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Excited to try out cutting-edge Snowflake features, but don’t have the time to do it? Join us to learn how you can create and automate anything in Snowflake with just a few clicks – no coding required.

Find out how you can take advantage of your favorite capabilities like Snowflake Cortex, Iceberg Tables and more in your next data project, while creating more time in your day for innovation. This lab offers a crash course in how to build data pipelines in minutes with Coalesce’s data transformation platform.

You’ll learn how to:

•Speed up development by 10x with ready-made templates for common data transformations •Accelerate AI- and ML-focused innovation by operationalizing Snowflake Cortex in your data pipelines •Simplify the process of using Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks, Materialized Views, Snowflake external data loading with Snowpark, and more For the best experience, please sign up for a Snowflake trial account before the event. Once you’ve activated your Snowflake account, create a Coalesce trial account via Snowflake’s Partner Connect portal.