Speaking Events

Big Data London 2026 – 7 Strategic AI & Semantic Layer Tips’
AI Context Theatre, Thursday, 24th Sep 2026, 15:20 – 15:50

In my talk, I will show you how to navigate this, including live demos using the Snowflake Platform, covering areas such as: – The Semantic Layer Origin Story – Why AI is prompting a Semantic Layer ‘resurgence’ – AI augmented design improvements, Human in the Loop (HITL), and Quality Assurance – Data Modeling as a key skillset in this context – The Semantic Layer Open Standard (Open Semantic Interchange – OSI) – Semantic Layer & Agentic AI Governance – How to position Semantic Layers in Data & AI Strategy So do join me in the AI Context Theatre, Thursday, 24th Sep 15:20 – 15:50! Hope to see you there!

Data Product Discovery – Webinar now available
20th Nov 2025, 10am EST, 3pm GMT

Navigating from Data Discovery Chaos to Findable, Transparent, and Trustable Data Products!

The TrueDataOps Podcast & Livestream  
23rd April 2025, 8am PST, 4pm BST
Sharing my views on DataOps in industry, Generative AI & DataOps, and what’s next

Dan Galavan , TrueDataOps Podcast recording now available!
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The 9th Annual Data Innovation Summit 
Stockholm, Sweden, 25th April 2024
Session title: Building your Data Modeling expertise using SqlDBM on the Snowflake Data Cloud
Dan Galavan - speaking at the 2024 Data Innovation Summit : SqlDBM Modeling, the Snowflake Data Cloud, and Data Strategy
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Inaugural Snowflake Data Cloud DSH Council, 9th Oct 2023
London, UK. Session title: DSH Showcase ❄️
❄️Livestream interview : Generative AI, at the Snowflake Data Cloud Summit, Las Vegas, 29th June 23, 9:10 PT, 17:10 IST / BST
Generative AI tips, gotchas, Data Governance, and the future of the data professional.
Dan Galavan shares his thoughts on Generative AI governance with Howard Lio, Snowflake Community Manager, during a Livestream Interview at the 2023 Snowflake Data Cloud Summit.
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24th May 2023
The Knowledge Gap Data Architecture Conference 2023
Session title: Generative AI augmented Data Modeling ❄️
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3rd June 2022
The Knowledge Gap Data Architecture Conference 2022
Session title: Continuously selling Data Modeling
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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
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27th Oct. 2020
Guest Lecturer at Rotterdam University, the Netherlands
Cloud Data Warehousing using the Snowflake Data Cloud as a reference architecture, delivered to Data Engineering students.
22nd Sept 2020
Webinar: Optimizing Data Vault architecture on the Snowflake Data Cloud

Data Modeling Meetup, Munich, Germany

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26th May 2020
Dublin, Ireland
Snowflake and Power BI at the Microsoft Community Café

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?

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21st November 2019
Dublin, Ireland
Zero to Snowflake Data Cloud 

Delivered 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, Guest Lecturer
Delivered lectures to Computer Science Masters students on 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.

29th June 2019
SQL Saturday Cork, University College Cork, Ireland
Azure Data Factory & Data Vault Data Warehousing
19th April 2019
23rd TDWI Roundtable, Hannover, Germany
Deploying a Data Vault Data Warehouse on the Snowflake Data Cloud.
11th April 2019
SQL User Group – Belfast, Northern Ireland
Azure Data Factory orchestration of a Data Vault data warehouse
Data for Breakfast – Cloud Data Warehousing – Dublin, Ireland, 09-Apr-2019
Introducing the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Microsoft SQL Server User group, Cork, Ireland, 20th Feb 2019
Using Azure Data Factory for data integration with a Data Vault data warehouse
Building a Realtime Cloud Data Warehouse – in 4 simple steps
Dean Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, 7th Feb 2019
SQL Saturday Cork, Ireland, 9th-Jun-2018
Enterprise Data Warehousing – The Data Architectural Perspective
SQL Bits Conference 2018, London, UK, 24th-Feb-2018
Graph Database in Azure DB and SQL Server 2017
Dublin SQL Server User Group, Ireland, 5th- Dec-2017
Christmas 2017 Lightning Talks – Graph Database in Azure DB and SQL Server 2017
Dublin SQL Server User Group, 6th-Dec-2016
Christmas Lightning Talks Extravaganza – Microsoft SQL Server and Data Lineage
SQL Saturday 501 Dublin, Ireland, 18-Jun-2016
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, IFSC, Dublin, Ireland
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services in a Nutshell
SQL Bits 2016, Liverpool, UK, 07-May-2016
MS SQL Server Master Data Services 2016 – Entity Synchronization
Dublin SQL Server User Group, 08-Dec-2015
Master Data Services – How far can it take your business?
Microsoft SQL Server World Summit, Seattle, U.S.A., 29-Oct-2015
Speaking at the Microsoft SQL Server PASS World Summit
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services – How far can it take your business?
Dublin SQL Server User Group, 18-Sep-2015
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services – How far can it take your business?
Belfast SQL Server User Group, 21-May-2015
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services – Whistle-stop Tour
Dublin SQL Ireland User Group, 09-Dec-2014
Mining Bitcoins or Business Automation – Which is More Profitable?
Irish Computer Society/IASA, 25-Sep-2014