7 Strategic Snowflake AI & Semantic Layer tips

Dan Galavan on why semantic layers are back, and what that means if you are building data and AI on Snowflake. The talk covers the semantic layer's origin story, AI-augmented design and human-in-the-agent-loop review, data and AI quality assurance on Snowflake, data modelling as a core skill, Apache Ossie, and the governance questions agentic AI raises, from FinOps through Horizon Catalog to observability and auditability. Galavan is an independent data management and governance consultant, a certified Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect and one of 126 people worldwide in the Snowflake DSH programme. Food and networking from 6pm, talk at 6.30pm, at the Clayton Hotel Charlemont. Free, with 49 already signed up. Why go: one named practitioner going deep on a single problem beats a panel, and semantic layers are what data teams are actually arguing about right now. Best for data engineers, architects and anyone running Snowflake in production.