Snowflake eyes growth in Canada, expands Toronto engineering hub
BNN Bloomberg
Much of the new technology unveiled by American data cloud company Snowflake at its annual convention this year, billed as the 'world’s largest data, apps and AI event,' is powered by its Toronto engineering hub.
At this year’s Snowflake Summit that is taking place June 26-29 in Las Vegas, Snowflake announced innovations that would enable developers to build apps and work with generative AI in the data cloud, with the Snowflake Native App Framework.
“Engineers working in Toronto have built the Snowflake Native Apps, which is now powering the whole Large Language Model and generative AI revolution,” said Qaiser Habib, director of engineering at Snowflake Canada. “So anything required to build an application, publish it to the marketplace for others to install it, use it and even to make money out of it, that's all built right here in Toronto.”
Traditionally, someone building an AI-based application would need to build it outside the data cloud where their customer’s data resided. With Snowflake Native Apps, Habib said, all the work can be done within Snowflake, enhancing data security.
