SVGENAI: SWEng with AI tools + Snowflake Cortex AISQL
SVGENAI meetup
We are focused on fostering learning, networking and career development of AI enthusiasts and practitioners around Silicon Valley.
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This session is supported by:
GraidTech - SupremeRAID™: Maximizing Storage Performance for AI/ML Workloads
🗓️ Agenda
5:30 pm - Checkin. Enjoy food 🍕 🥤 and networking 🤝
6:00 pm - Welcome and announcements
Lightening Talks & Demos
SupremeRAID: Maximizing Storage Performance for AI/ML Workloads by GraidTech
Using LLM to develop a chess playing robot - by Ryan O'Driscoll of Beckhoff Automation
Talk-1: Software Engineering Adapting to the AI Revolution: Thriving in the Age of GenAI by Jules Damji @ Databricks
Talk-2: Snowflake Cortex AISQL by James Cha-Early @ Snowflake
7:45 pm - Q&A and networking
8:00 pm - Wrap-up
Lightening Talks & Demos
SupremeRAID: Maximizing Storage Performance for AI/ML Workloads by GraidTech
Using LLM to develop a chess playing robot - by Ryan O'Driscoll of Beckhoff Automation
We welcome quick talks and demos. submit your talk idea
Talk-1: Software Engineering Adapting to the AI Revolution: Thriving in the Age of GenAI
As generative AI and agentic AI rapidly transform the software landscape, developers face a pivotal moment of change and opportunity. This talk explores how software engineering is not becoming obsolete, despite the doomsayers’ predictions. Instead, the approach to development is rather evolving—requiring new skills, mindsets, and approaches.
Drawing on insights from leading voices in the field, we’ll examine how AI is reshaping workflows, what it means for the engineer's role, and how to thrive in this new era. We are at the early stages of incremental and governed automation and code generation.
Finally, we will share how a handful of the Apache Spark™ developers at Databricks are experimenting and exploring with Agentic AI tools.
Speaker
Jules S. Damji is a technical staff member and developer advocate at Databricks Inc., an MLflow contributor, and Learning Spark, 2nd Edition coauthor.
Talk-2: Snowflake Cortex AISQL
A revolutionary AI-powered query language that transforms how you analyze data.
This is your chance to see how AI-powered operators seamlessly integrate with familiar SQL commands to process text, images, and audio data together, unlocking insights from both structured and unstructured sources. Whether you're a seasoned analyst or curious explorer, this demo will show you how to build scalable AI pipelines using SQL you already know.
Speaker
James Cha-Earley a developer advocate at Snowflake who gets excited about helping developers do cool things with AI and data in the cloud.
Our Sponsors 🙏
GraidTech - SupremeRAID™: Maximizing Storage Performance for AI/ML Workloads
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The Silicon Valley Gen AI Meetup is organized by Sujee Maniyam , Dave Nielsen and Shermie Miller-Zhang