#SDBigData Meetup #28

Your favorite Big Data meetup is back in action for a discussion on Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud

Food and drink will be graciously provided by our executive meetup sponsor, Snowflake

Agenda as follows:
5:15-6:00pm Socializing over food and beverages
6:00-6:15pm Welcome and announcements from Trace3
6:15:-7:15pm Snowflake Data Warehouse
7:15-7:30pm Wrap-up and extended discussions

Snowflake’s mission is to enable every organization to be data-driven. Their cloud-built data warehouse makes that possible by delivering instant elasticity, secure data sharing and per-second pricing, across multiple clouds. Snowflake combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

Speaker: Stephen James, Senior Sales Engineer

Stephen James has been a Senior Sales Engineer at Snowflake for the past 1.5 years supporting the sales organizations from Los Angeles to San Diego. He comes with deep knowledge of data warehousing having started his journey in 2003 with Netezza. Stephen also spent considerable time at Microsoft leading teams doing data warehouse consulting and support as well as other smaller startups in the big data space. He loves to discuss Snowflake with customers and its differentiating architecture and is most passionate about Time Travel and Cloning!