In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” host Ryan Green interviews Snowflake’s Torsten Grabs about some of the big news coming out of Snowday, with a particular focus on Snowpark for Python, which is now generally available for building Python pipelines and ML models directly in Snowflake.

Snowpark for Python, now generally available, empowers the growing Python community of data scientists, data engineers, and developers to build secure and scalable data pipelines and machine learning (ML) workflows directly within Snowflake—taking advantage of Snowflake’s performance, elasticity, and security benefits, which are critical for production workloads. Using user-defined table functions (UDTFs) and the new Snowpark-optimized warehouse with higher memory, users can run large-scale model training workloads using popular open-source libraries available through Anaconda integration.

In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake” host Daniel Myers sits down with Anvilogic’s Security Strategist and Head of Product Marketing, Jade Catalano. Founded by a team of security industry vets, Anvilogic has helped ease legacy security systems into the future, enabling organizations to quickly detect, hunt, and respond to threats. This conversation covers the challenges of modernizing legacy security systems, how to manage an excess of data, a product demo, and more.

Lightfold, a young analytics consultancy based in Brisbane, Australia, came into being in 2019, just before COVID hit, with the goal of helping companies gain mastery over their data by helping them build modern data stacks centered around Snowflake. In this episode of “Data Cloud Now,” Ryan Green, chats with three members of the Lightfold leadership team–CEO John Cosgrove, Data Evangelist Graeme Lewis, and Director, Design and Product, Kylie Willett–about their company’s origin story and about the way in which Snowflake’s technology has fundamentally changed the way organizations think about data.

The retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry is experiencing a global shift in how consumers, retailers, and brands interact. Long-term trends such as digitization and e-commerce, higher customer expectations, and supply chain transformation are accelerating. Businesses with a strong data foundation are rapidly adapting, and launching new digital capabilities and services.

The simplicity of Snowflake—especially when it comes to scaling—is described by Nauman Hafiz, CTO of Constellation as a superpower. In this interview, Nauman sits down with Itamar Ben Hemo, CEO of Rivery, to discuss the impact of the data cloud on their business. They discuss moving from data engineering to data science, working with today's top brands, and freeing businesses to get the most value out of their data.

How can you activate all your company's data to deliver the maximum marketing value? In this interview, Hightouch's Founder and Co-CEO Kashish Gupta and Warner Music Group's Customer Intelligence Platform Director Tom Dinneny weigh in on this question and more. They discuss the value of separating compute and storage, current industry trends, and their partnership with Snowflake.

Data has become the center of nearly all our marketing decision-making. In this interview, Snowflake CMO Denise Persson sits down with Data Cloud Now host Ryan Green to discuss the impact of the Modern Marketing Data Stack. They discuss how this report, which examined more than 6000 customers' use of technologies and applications, has led to invaluable findings—and how it can help marketers soar to heights previously thought unimaginable.

Coherent Spark solves a common problem plaguing millions of Excel spreadsheet users: How to easily capture spreadsheet logic and bring it into the cloud to integrate it with modern systems? In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake,” Coherent Spark CTO Peter Roschke explains how the Spark platform takes advantage of the processing power of Snowflake to tackle that challenge. With Spark, the logic of Excel spreadsheets of any size or complexity, including enormous legacy spreadsheets containing millions of formulas, can be converted quickly into a cloud-compatible format capable of driving applications for all types of use cases.

In this episode of “Powered by Snowflake” host Daniel Myers queries the mind of Neustar’s Head of Product and Customer Intelligence, Ryan Engle. Neustar is an Identity Resolutions Platform, responsible for powering more than 90% of caller ID in the United States. This conversation covers fascinating topics such as the challenges of sharing customer data in a highly regulated industry, how the Native Application Framework allows Neustar to work directly within their clients’ environments, and how Snowflake “auto-magically” keeps data fresh and up to date.