Denise Persson is the Chief Marketing Officer and leads the corporate marketing strategy for Snowflake, the leading cloud data platform. Denise has over 20 years of technology executive marketing experience at high-growth companies, helping lead through growth and IPO including Apigee, ON24, and Genesys where she has built, led, and managed marketing teams globally. Kelly and Denise discuss Denise’s perspectives on how marketing has evolved, the impact of social media, thoughts on leadership, and of course all things Snowflake.

Roberto Rivera has worked in the marketing analytics space for the past twenty years and is currently a manager at Kaiser Permanente. Randy and Roberto discuss digital marketing with Snowflake, timesaving with dbt, “intrapreneurship” at large enterprises, and Japanese-style cold brew.

Drew Banin is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Fishtown Analytics, the makers of dbt. Randy and Drew discuss the beginnings of building dbt, Wolfram’s graph-based theory of the universe, and sports journalism while enjoying a gin and tonic. 

Prakash Bharathi is an Enterprise Architect at Hashmap. Kelly Kohlleffel, VP Sales Marketing & Alliances, sits down with Prakash to get his perspective on his recent experience using both Matillion and Snowflake and the value they bring when paired together.

Tim Hall is the VP of Products for InfluxData, the creators of the open-source time-series platform InfluxDB. Their technology is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes of time-stamped data produced by IoT devices, applications, networks, containers, and computers. Kieran and Tim discuss working with cutting-edge technology companies and how great products are built. Topics include Apache Arrow, Flight, InfluxDB, Templates, and learning from their failures.

Chris Herrera is a Systems Architect for one of the largest oilfield services companies operating in 120 countries around the world. Chris has worked internationally as a leading expert in software architecture for the Oil and Gas industry covering everything from working hands-on in the oil field to serving as CTO of Hashmap before moving to his current position. Today, Randy and Chris discuss Chris’s daily work and his perspectives on the place of cloud technologies.

Kieran and Randy discuss something many of us are doing a lot of these days - working from home. They share their best tips and tricks for handling your day to day work-life at home; from desks to keyboards and everything in between.

Kieran and Randy take a look at Snowflake, one of the hottest and most widely used cloud data warehouses, and discuss why they find it to be an essential part of a modern data stack. Topics include data cloning, TimeTravel, metadata metric tables, CDC streams, and craft beer.

Wee Hyong Tok is a Product and AI Leader who has worked for Microsoft for over 11 years, in the intersection of product and machine learning. Currently, he is the Principal Data Science Manager for the Azure Global team. Wee Hyong discusses his experiences working on the Azure Global team and how customers are utilizing Big Data and Machine Learning to gather critical business insights.

Kent Graziano is the Chief Technical Evangelist for Snowflake and an internationally-recognized industry expert in cloud and agile data warehousing. He is also a best selling author, award-winning speaker, Oracle ACE Director (Alumni), Knight of the OakTable Network, and certified Data Vault Master. In this episode, Randy and Kent discuss Kent’s thoughts on data, modeling, and the future of analytics engineering.