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Learn about the benefits of Snowflake Notebooks on Container Runtime and Snowflake's Internal Marketplace in this month's edition of the Snow Report. The issue also offers helpful tips on how to use Cortex AI to build AI apps and enterprise-grade AI agents as well as details about upcoming events.

Massive data sets can overwhelm native Pandas, causing memory issues and slow performance. Pandas on Snowflake eliminates these constraints by running Python code directly in Snowflake, with no rewrites needed. This demo shows how to transform and visualize large data sets using the familiar Pandas API with Snowflake’s distributed compute. Boost your data workflows and maintain security and governance, all while staying within the Pandas ecosystem.

Headquartered in Sydney, Domain Group is a leading Australian property marketplace. Its mission is to inspire confidence in life’s property decisions, and its property marketplace tools reach an average audience of 7 million Australians every month. A long-time Snowflake customer, Domain has started to work with Cortex Analyst in order to enable its staff to query its large data sets using natural language.

Snowflake’s Trust Center, now in general availability, delivers a unified way to identify, address, and monitor security risks. Discover how scanner packages (Security Essentials, CIS Benchmark, and more) streamline compliance checks, reduce costs, and simplify account security across multiple clouds. See how to configure scans, resolve vulnerabilities, and enforce best practices for user authentication, network policies, and more. Take a proactive approach to safeguarding sensitive data and learn how the Trust Center supports Snowflake’s shared security model.

2degrees is a full-service telco, infrastructure owner, and energy retailer connecting people and businesses all around New Zealand. The combined business has approximately 1,600 employees who serve 2 million-plus customers.

Join Sales Engineer Gabriel Mullen as he demonstrates how Snowflake’s Dynamic Tables streamline real-time data pipelines. Discover a simple, declarative approach to ingest data incrementally, maintain cost efficiency, and keep insights fresh. This demo will walk through setting target lag, leveraging incremental refreshes, and automating orchestration, allowing you to power analytics and BI dashboards with minimal overhead and maximum performance.

This month's edition of the Snowflake Snow Report provides information on Snowflake's Data for Breakfast events and the Accelerate 2025 virtual event series. It also provides details on Snowflake Cortex Agents, now in public preview, pandas on Snowflake, Snowflake ML, and much more.

In this demo, we’ll show you how to create a custom Data Metric Function (DMF), associate it with your tables for continuous data quality monitoring, and query the results from a centralized table. Watch to learn how built-in monitoring helps you track critical data objects, identify quality issues, and take quick action to ensure reliable, high-integrity data across your organization.

Learn how Snowflake is expanding its partnership with Microsoft to bring OpenAI’s state-of-the-art models to Snowflake Cortex AI.

Over the past few years, Spark New Zealand has tackled the challenge of creating a strong data foundation by moving all of its data warehouses into Snowflake to create a centralised data platform. Now, explains Pritha Chattopadhyay, Domain Chapter Lead at Spark, this telecommunications leader and digital services provider is diving into artificial intelligence with the help of Snowflake Cortex AI. Tune in to learn about the benefits it provides.