Snowflake World Tour Tokyo 2026
Overview
The Tokyo stop of the annual conference series that data cloud vendor Snowflake runs across cities worldwide. More than 40 of its 100-plus sessions are customer case studies drawn from finance, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, telecom, and logistics. The 2026 theme is "Making AI Real for Business." The previous edition drew over 10,000 registrations across 113 sessions, reportedly the largest city stop on the World Tour.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2022
- Founder
- Held for the Japanese market by Snowflake G.K.
Rolled out worldwide as the regional counterpart to Snowflake Summit, the vendor's US user conference; the Tokyo stop grew alongside Japan's expanding user community
Transition
- 2022 Large-scale user events begin in Japan
- 2025 Held September 11-12 with over 10,000 registrations, 113 sessions, and 170 speakers; community membership grew from 700 to over 1,800 in a year
- 2026 Held September 10-11 with more than 100 sessions and over 40 customer case studies
Voices
Felt keenly that knowing and understanding are different, and reframed how partial optimization takes hold inside organizations after a finance-industry session (from data engineer Zaki's report, in Japanese)
Walking the EXPO floor surfaced several services that could take load off their team, alongside lateral connections across multiple communities (from data engineer Zaki's report, in Japanese)
A first-time attendee at a technical event enjoyed broadening their knowledge and felt hopeful about future data use after seeing new features and an active user community (from Keywalker's report, in Japanese)
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