ODSC AI Skills Accelerator x Snowflake \| Boston
Meetup "Stop Prompting. Start Specifying: A Spec-Driven Approach to AI-Assisted Data Engineering"
When: September 3 at 6 PM ET
Speaker: Keith Belanger, 30 Year Veteran Sr. Data Architect - Snowflake Data Superhero.
Where: The West End Museum, Museum Space in the Center of Boston, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 7 (on Lomasney Way), Boston, MA 02114
Join ODSC AI and Snowflake in Boston for a practical session exploring a different way to build data solutions with AI coding agents, moving beyond one-off prompts toward a more structured, repeatable approach.
This event is part of the ODSC AI Skills Accelerator, bringing together AI and data professionals for expert-led sessions focused on building real-world AI and data systems.
About the Session
AI coding agents are rapidly changing how we build data solutions, but much of today's AI-assisted development still begins with a prompt and ends with a subjective question: "Does this look right?"
What if we approached it differently?
In this session, Keith will demonstrate how data engineering teams can move beyond one-off prompting with Spec-Driven Data Engineering, using business concepts, specifications, and engineering standards to guide AI-assisted development in Snowflake.
See how shifting from prompting to specifying can make AI-assisted data engineering more repeatable, measurable, and outcome-driven.
👨🍳 Cooking with CoCo
Keith recently published the Snowflake Cookbook, so he’s bringing a little of that flavor to Boston 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.”*
📚 And there’s a bonus: Keith will be giving away copies of his Snowflake Cookbook to attendees!
Why Join?
Come for the practical insights and stay to connect with Boston’s AI, data engineering, and developer community over complimentary food and drinks. 🍕🥂
