9th Oct 2023
Inaugural Snowflake Data Cloud DSH Council
Snowflake offices London, UK
Session title: DSH Showcase ❄️

Thurs 29th June , 9:10 PT, 17:10 Irish Standard Time / BST
❄️Livestream interview : Generative AI, at the Snowflake Data Cloud Summit, Las Vegas
Generative AI tips, gotchas, data governance, and the future of the data professional.

24th May 2023
The Knowledge Gap Conference 2023
Session title: Generative AI augmented Data Modeling ❄️

3rd June 2022
The Knowledge Gap Conference 2022
Session title: Continuously selling Data Modeling

23rd May 2022
World Wide Data Vault Consortium 2022 : Hands-on-Lab delivery
Hands-on lab using SqlDBM Data Modeling Tool, Data Vault Data Modeling, and the Snowflake Data Cloud. 

Hands-On Lab: Cloud based Data Modeling with SqlDBM on Snowflake. Credit: Dan Galavan.

22nd February 2022
The Data Engineering and Data Architecture Group (DEDAG)
Presentation: The Evolution Of Data Sharing & Data Marketplaces, using Snowflake as a reference.

24th March 2021
Webinar & Hands on lab
Snowflake Data Cloud Data Modeling with the SqlDBM Online Data Modeling Tool

27th Oct. 2020
Guest Lecturer at Rotterdam University, the Netherlands
Cloud Data Warehousing using Snowflake as a reference architecture, delivered to Data Engineering students. 

22nd Sept 2020
Webinar: Optimizing Data Vault architecture on the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform

Data Modeling Meetup, Munich, Germany

26th May 2020
Dublin, Ireland
Snowflake and Power BI

Dan presents at the Microsoft Community Café, Dublin, Ireland, to walk through the architectural principles of the Snowflake cloud data warehouse, the enhanced PowerBI Snowflake connector, and demonstrates both PowerBI and Snowflake in action.

16th May 2020
Dublin, Ireland
Graph Databases

An interview on Graph databases to Great Data Minds’s Mike Lampa and Kalia Garrido. Areas covered included an introduction to Graph databases, use cases, anti-patterns, the hype, and what have they got to do with Kevin Bacon?

21st November 2019
Dublin, Ireland
Zero to Snowflake

Will deliver a hands-on crash course on how the only data warehouse built for the cloud offers instant elasticity, secure data sharing, per-second pricing and many other features to enable the data-driven enterprise.

5th November 2019
Technical University Dublin, Ireland
Delivered two lectures to Computer Science Masters students on behalf of Sonra giving an introduction to cloud data warehousing using the Snowflake Data Cloud as a reference platform.

17th October 2019
Webinar: a 360° view of the patient primary care journey on the Snowflake Data Cloud.

1st October 2019
Snowflake Ireland launch, Dublin Ireland
Changing the game with Cloud Data Warehousing

A 360° view of the patient primary care journey on the Snowflake Data Cloud.

1st October 2019
Snowflake Ireland launch, Dublin Ireland
Changing the game with Cloud Data Warehousing

A 360° view of the patient primary care journey on the Snowflake Data Cloud. 

29th June 2019
SQL Saturday Cork, University College Cork, Ireland
Azure Data Factory & Data Vault datawarehousing

19th April 2019
23rd TDWI Roundtable, Hannover, Germany
Deploying a Data Vault on a Snowflake Data Cloud.

9th April 2019
Data for Breakfast – Dublin, Ireland
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud. 

7th February 2019
Dean Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
Building a realtime cloud data warehouse in 4 simple steps

9th-Jun-2018
SQL Saturday Cork
Enterprise Data Warehousing – The Data Architectural Perspective

24th-Feb-2018
SQL Bits 2018, London, UK
Lightning Talk – Graph Database in Azure DB and SQL Server 2017

5th- Dec-2017
Dublin SQL Server User Group
Christmas 2017 Lightning Talks – Graph Database in Azure DB and SQL Server 2017

6th-Dec-2016
Dublin SQL Server User Group
Christmas Lightning Talks Extravaganza – SQL Server and Data Lineage

18-Jun-2016
SQL Saturday 501 Dublin
MS SQL Server Master Data services 2016 – How far can it take your business?

• Of 142 session submissions 25 were selected including this one
• SQL Saturday 501 – venue – the National College of Ireland, Mayor Street, IFSC, Dublin 1.

07-May-2016
SQL Bits 2016, Liverpool
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services

08-Dec-2015
Dublin SQL Server User Group
MS SQL Server Master Data Services 2016 – Entity Synchronization

29-Oct-2015
SQL Server World Summit, Seattle
Master Data Services – How far can it take your business?

Speaking at the Microsoft SQL Server PASS World Summit

18-Sep-2015
Dublin SQL Server User Group
MS SQL Server Master Data Services – How far can it take your business?

21-May-2015
Belfast SQL Server User Group
MS SQL Server Master Data Services – How far can it take your business?

09-Dec-2014
Dublin SQL Ireland User Group
Master Data Services Whistle-stop Tour

25-Sep-2014
Irish Computer Society/IASA
Mining Bitcoins or Business Automation – Which is More Profitable?