Join the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator in San Francisco for an evening with Keith Belanger, 30-year veteran Senior Data Architect and Snowflake Data Superhero.

Stop Prompting. Start Specifying: A Spec-Driven Approach to AI-Assisted Data Engineering.

Agenda

  • 6:00 PM | Check-in, Drinks, Networking

  • 6:30 PM | Main Talk: Spec-Driven Data Engineering (Keith Belanger)

  • 7:00 PM | Builders Open Mic (3-min builder demos)

  • 7:15 PM | "Who’s Hiring / Who’s Looking" Shoutouts

  • 7:25 PM | More drinks & nibbles until 8PM

Keith will introduce Spec-Driven Data Engineering and show how teams can use business concepts, specifications, and engineering standards to guide AI-assisted development in Snowflake — instead of relying on one-off prompts and asking, “Does this look right?”

You’ll explore how to move from:

  • Prompts → clear specifications

  • Subjective outputs → measurable outcomes

  • One-off AI assistance → repeatable engineering workflows

👨‍🍳 Cooking with CoCo Keith recently published the Snowflake Cookbook, so he’s bringing a little of that flavor to San Francisco with his “Cooking with CoCo” theme. During the demo, Keith will use CoCo, Snowflake’s agentic AI capability, to show Spec-Driven Data Engineering in action. Think less “throw some prompts together and see what happens” and more “follow the recipe, define what good looks like, and build toward it.”

📚 Bonus: Keith will be giving away copies of his Snowflake Cookbook to attendees!

Come for the Session, Stay for the People

This isn’t just a presentation. We’re making plenty of room to meet other people across AI, data engineering, software, product, and startups in the Bay Area.

If you’re working on an AI project, testing a new tool, or learned something useful recently, you can also jump in for a 3-minute lightning talk and share it with the room.

Supported by Snowflake. Useful Links

  • odsc.ai

  • Free access to more talks/trainings: Ai+ Training platform

  • ODSC Blog: opendatascience.com

  • Slack Channel: Join the Community

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