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Talks & writing

Hands-on AI agent workshops in the Bay Area, and writing on interoperability, Iceberg, and data engineering.

Events

Snowflake Bay Area User Group session at the Snowflake Silicon Valley AI Hub
Snowflake Bay Area User Group, Menlo Park, Oct 6, 2026
2026-11-04TechEquity AI Summit, Fall 2026: Day 2, Data, Agentic AI & Open SourcenextSnowflake Silicon Valley AI Hub, Menlo Parkspeakers & registration
2026-10-06Build a Production AI Agent with Snowflake CoCoSnowflake Bay Area User Group, Menlo Park, with Shayak Sen, CoCo Engineering Leadevent page
2026-09-29From One Agent to Many: Multi-Agent Orchestration with CoCoTechEquity AI Forum, Menlo Parkwatchevent page
2026-08-20Foundation to Intelligence, Level 3: Cost IntelligenceTechEquity AI Forum, Menlo Parkwatchevent pagerecap
2026-08-06Build a Production-Ready AI Agent with CoCo in 60 MinODSC AI x Snowflake, San Franciscoevent page
2026-07Foundation to Intelligence Series with Cortex CodeTechEquity AI Forum, Menlo Parkwatchblog
2026-06-28Build a Working AI Agent in 60 Min with 100 Developers & 107M GitHub EventsTechEquity AI Forum, Menlo Parkwatchblog

Videos 12 recordings

Foundation to Intelligence IV: Multi-Agent OrchestrationSep 2026 · TechEquity AI Forum Foundation to Intelligence III: Cost IntelligenceAug 2026 · TechEquity AI Forum Foundation to Intelligence II: Extend & ExposeJul 2026 · TechEquity AI Forum Foundation to Intelligence I: BuildJun 2026 · TechEquity AI Forum Mastering the Future of Data, AI & Cloud Solutions2024 · Temy Building Enterprise Data Governance & Data Quality @ Weatherford2024 Consistency in an Interstellar Era: Earth to Mars2023 · Yugabyte What's New with YugabyteDB and AWS2023 · Yugabyte Unlocking Game-Changing Insights w/ Fivetran & Hashmap2021 · Fivetran / Hashmap What's Most Important When Building New Data Products?2021 · Fivetran / Hashmap The Importance of Data Engineering2021 · The Analytic Mind Managing Data at Global Scale2021 · Behind the Data Cloud, Snowflake

Snowflake Engineering Blog

Oct 2026pg_lake 3.5: Universal Postgres Iceberg REST CatalogPostgres can attach to any Iceberg REST catalog, including Polaris, Lakekeeper, and Nessie, and query those tables with SQL alongside live data. 2026Snowflake Horizon vs. Databricks Unity CatalogGovernance compared: data discovery, lineage, access control, and compliance. 2026Iceberg Catalog: Horizon vs. Unity CatalogOpen table format governance, catalog interoperability, and multi-engine reads.

Snowflake & Databricks Interoperability builders blog · 5 parts

Architecture, patterns, and AI integration for running Snowflake and Databricks together without migrating or duplicating data. Built from enterprise deployments across Financial Services, Philanthropy, Retail, and Technology.

Part 18 Architecture Patterns for Write Once, Read Many Part 2Connecting Databricks Unity Catalog to Snowflake via Iceberg REST Part 3External-First CLD: Databricks Writes, Snowflake Reads Part 4SF-Managed Iceberg: Snowflake Writes, Databricks Reads Part 5CLD + Cortex AI: Adding Intelligence to the Interop Stack

Earlier writing

2024YugabyteDB on AWS Graviton: The Winning Combination for Distributed SQLAWS Partner Network Blog. 22% better performance per price on Graviton; PrivateLink, compliance, deployment patterns. 2024Building an Enterprise Data Governance & Data Quality OfficeWeatherford, video. 100+ stakeholder interviews, NIST/GDPR/ISO alignment, Executive Council ratification. Feb 2024Azure Storage Performance: Deep Dive with Distributed Database WorkloadsTowards AI. Premium SSD, Premium SSD v2, and Ultra SSD under TPC-C with YugabyteDB. Nov 2023The Future of Money and Financial ServicesFive takeaways from Money 20/20 USA. 2022Modern Data ModelingTen rules for dimensional modeling in the cloud era. 2022Snowflake vs. Redshift vs. BigQueryPerformance, cost, and enterprise fit. 2022Yugabyte: Where Data Lives ForeverDistributed SQL, durability, and global consistency. 2021Building a Data Engineering Center of ExcellenceTowards Data Science. Operating a 70+ person global data engineering team.
Aug 2021The Making of a Modern Data Leader at Sherwin-WilliamsFivetran feature by Theo Hopkinson on the Sherwin-Williams Data-as-a-Service transformation.
2018Tableau vs. Power BIStrengths and weaknesses for enterprise analytics.

Conference circuit

Snowflake Summit, Gartner Data & Analytics, MIT Sloan Data Symposium, Oracle Open World, Money20/20, Dell Tech World, AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, PostgreSQL Conference, CDO & Data Leaders Summit, TechEquity AI Forum.