The Department of Defense (DOD) Data Strategy is robust, providing an overarching vision, focus areas, guiding principles, essential capabilities, and goals for transforming DOD into a data-centric enterprise. Data Champions welcomes Dr. Clark Cully, DOD Deputy Chief Data Officer, and Albrecht Powell, Accenture Enterprise Data Management Global Lead, who will discuss progress against data-sharing goals, overcoming the challenges of collaborati...

The role of quality data has become very critical for the success of organizations’ digital transformation efforts. However, true value can only be derived after the raw data has been sorted, processed and analyzed without increasing infrastructure costs. Organizations are looking to drive agility and maximize the potential of their digital transformation initiative(s) by building new systems or modernizing consolidating existing on-prem...

Snowflake and AWS recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact study to learn how several companies leveraged Snowflake and AWS Marketplace to increase profits, save costs, and accelerate time to market for their data applications while improving scalability and performance, simplifying day 2 operations, and streamlining procurement. This webinar will help you understand the ROI of building on Snowflake. Accord...

Welcome to Data Champions! The Data Champions Meetup program is honored to welcome Dan Morgan, Chief Data Officer, Department of Transportation, and Tony Gehr, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Digital Transformation Lead, Leidos, to our December 17 virtual event. December’s Data Champions will look at the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (21st Century IDEA) and how the Department of Transportation is leveraging...

To gain consumer trust and ensure regulatory compliance, getting data security and governance right is crucial to your data strategy. Join part 4 of Snowflake’s Data Cloud – Best Practices Series where product managers will describe how to manage your critical data assets and learn about: Adding masks to sensitive data Restricting access to rows based on roles access How to track sensitive information using tags for better policy e...

Join us for this behind-the-scenes look into how Snowflake’s IT and security teams are using our own Snowflake Data Cloud to protect our environment. Many companies adopt a security framework such as NIST, CIS, or ISO to set standards for workflows such as asset management. But few can track their performance against these standards with metrics, because the supporting data is siloed away in spreadsheets or separate systems. Though that...

Data is your organization’s second most valuable asset. The first is your people! Learn how to enable all your data teams with fast access to accurate data. Whether you’re focused on powerful self-service BI analytics, or developing innovative data science models, see first-hand how Snowflake can accelerate all your analytics initiatives. Join part 2 of Snowflake’s Data Cloud – Best Practices Series to learn how to bett...

As the volume of data being created grows exponentially, applications increasingly need to collect, analyze, and operate on massive volumes of data. The result is that every app is becoming a data app. Join part 1 of Snowflake’s Data Cloud – Best Practices Series to learn: Insights and best practices for building these apps and where data applications are going How to apply architectural principles and patterns to develop data appl...

From trends in health and human services and economic output, to specifics around occupational, food, and public safety, the federal government produces an unimaginable amount of data on a daily basis. However, a plethora of silos, within and across agencies, pose serious barriers to truly gleaning the transformational insights of which this data is capable. With a recent mandate from the White House to harness data across the government and s...

Join Qlik and Snowflake on Tuesday, January 28, for a Federal Data Mixer to learn how your agency can truly leverage data as a strategic asset. At this free, open-to-the-public event, we’ll spend about an hour: Discussing the Snowflake and Qlik integration, including Snowflake’s architecture and Qlik’s platform Providing an interactive demonstration of how Qlik and Snowflake work together to help federal agencies achieve data...