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ODSC AI Skills Accelerator | San Francisco In-person Crew: Elen G Josh Charlotte Maria
Event Details
Date: October 8, 2026 Time: 6:00-8:00 PM PT Location: Creative Landing Spaces SoMa Loft for Team Offsites, Workshops & Conferences Admission: Free with registration
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.
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.
We’ll have:
- Short community lightning talks - Pizza, drinks, and plenty of time to meet people
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.
Agenda
6:00 PM | Check-in, Refreshments, Networking 6:30 PM | Main Talk: Spec-Driven Data Engineering (Keith Belanger) 7:00 PM | Community Lightning Talks (3-min builder demos) 7:25 PM | More drinks & nibbles until 8PM
Supported by Snowflake. Come ready to learn something useful, meet a few new people, and talk about what you’re actually building.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
