Practical Building Agents - The Science Behind and a Snowflake Use-Case
About the event
Location: OneEleven, 325 Front St. W, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2Y1 4th floor, left of the elevators
Snowflake Toronto User Group: Practical Building Agents - The Science Behind and a Snowflake Use-Case
We are excited to invite you to the next Snowflake Toronto User Group meeting on Thursday, September 24th, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Talks will start promptly at 6:00 PM.
On the Agenda: A working session on how AI agents are actually built, taught as a class rather than a guided lab.
Most agent tutorials hand you a framework and a happy path. This one goes underneath. We cover what a language model actually is and what that means for system design, why context is the whole game, how tool use differs from classic RAG, how semantic search and chunking really work, and what separates a true agent from a chatbot with tools. If you have used Cortex Agents or ADK without knowing what a skill is under the hood or what the framework is doing on your behalf, this session is for you.
The second half applies it. We design a pipeline failure triage agent live, on the board, in the room. The nightly load ran green, the row counts are wrong, and nobody is awake. That last constraint breaks the usual human-in-the-loop pattern and forces some genuinely interesting decisions about approval, memory and trust. We close with two concrete deployment paths: schedule it in Snowflake CoWork, or run your own orchestration loop on Snowpark Container Services when you need full control.
Ryan and Augusto then walk through a working end-to-end version they built.
Bring questions. The flow is meant to shift with the room.
Networking & Community: A light meal and refreshments will be served, and attendees will receive exclusive items from the Snowflake community. Don't miss out on this opportunity to network with fellow Snowflake users and gain valuable insights.
RSVP now to secure your spot and join our growing community. Please register to participate in this exciting event!
Agenda 🗓️ 5:00 - 5:20pm - Arrival 5:20 - 5:45pm - Light Meal and Drinks 5:45 - 6:10pm - Intro 6:10 - 7:10pm - Presentation and Demo 7:10 - 8:00pm - Networking and happy hour
