All Data and AI Weekly #206: 08 Sept 2025

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#206: 08 Sept 2025

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NiFi + AI + AI Data Cloud + Iceberg.

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Monthly NYC and Youtube Events

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Code and Open Source Projects

AWS New York Summit
https://github.com/tspannhw/conferences/tree/main/2025/awsny

Hex + Snowflake Hackathon
https://github.com/tspannhw/hackathons/tree/main/2025-07-15

Apache NiFi + AI Agents + Cortex AI + Snowflake AISQL

https://github.com/tspannhw/TrafficAI/tree/main/Agents

https://github.com/tspannhw/transit-ridership

https://github.com/tspannhw/conferences

https://github.com/tspannhw/hackathons/tree/main/2025-07-15

This Week's Highlights

Building Smarter AI Agents with MCP Connector: An insightful article from InfoQ explores the role of the MCP (Multi-Modal Connector Protocol) connector in building smarter, more modular AI agents. It details how this connector facilitates interoperability and enhances AI agent capabilities.
- Read more: InfoQ Article
Creating Stock Market Reports with GPT-5 and Agents: Learn how to create dynamic stock market reports in under 200 lines of code using OpenAI's GPT-5, the Agents SDK, and the Polygon.io MCP server. This Polygon.io blog post demonstrates a practical application of AI agents for data analysis.
- Read more: Polygon.io Blog

Featured Projects

We're highlighting two of our recent projects this week. Take a look and see how they can be used to streamline your data workflows.

Weather-Snowflake: This project demonstrates how to ingest weather data into Snowflake, providing a practical example of building a data pipeline for external data sources.
- Explore the project: GitHub - tspannhw/weather-snowflake
Example-RSSToCSV: A straightforward utility for converting RSS feeds into a CSV format. This is a great tool for anyone looking to easily process and analyze data from news feeds and blogs.
- Explore the project: GitHub - tspannhw/Example-RSSToCSV

Interesting Reads & Repositories

Consuming APIs Securely in Snowflake: A Snowflake blog post detailing best practices for securely integrating external APIs into your Snowflake workflows.
- Read more: Medium - Snowflake
Understanding Apache Fluss: A deep dive into the architecture and concepts of Apache Fluss from Jack Vanlightly.
- Read more: Jack Vanlightly's Blog
Adaptive Cortex Complete: This repository combines machine learning with Snowflake LLMs for advanced data processing.
- Explore the project: GitHub - Adaptive_Cortex_Complete
VibeVoice: Check out this Microsoft project for realistic, expressive voice synthesis.
- Explore the project: Microsoft VibeVoice
Introducing EmbeddingGemma: A new open model for text embeddings, now available on the Google Developers Blog.
- Read more: Google Developers Blog
Augmenting Data in Pipelines with NLP: This Medium article provides insights on how to enhance data pipelines with Natural Language Processing.
- Read more: Medium - ISS Lab

Upcoming Events & Webinars 🗓️

The Path to Production-Ready AI Agents: A Snowflake event to discuss deploying AI agents at scale.
- Date: September 12, 2025
- Learn more: Snowflake Events
Virtual Hands-on Lab: Build an LLM-Powered App: Learn to build a full-featured LLM app in under 10 minutes with Snowflake Cortex AI.
- Date: September 9, 2025
- Register: Snowflake Webinars
Unlock Actionable Insights from Unstructured Data with Cortex AI: A customer webinar showing how to use Cortex AI to gain insights from unstructured data.
- Date: September 16, 2025
- Register: Snowflake Webinars
Build Data Engineering Pipelines using Snowpark: A hands-on lab on building data pipelines in Snowflake Notebooks.
- Date: September 17, 2025
- Register: Snowflake Webinars
Build and Democratize AI-Ready Data Products in Snowflake: A virtual hands-on lab focused on creating and sharing AI-ready data products.
- Date: September 25, 2025
- Register: Snowflake Webinars
What's New in Snowflake: A product demo highlighting new features and capabilities in the Snowflake platform.
- Date: September 25, 2025
- Register: Snowflake Webinars
Snowflake Summit Wrap-Up: Sep 9 Virtual Summit.
Data and AI Leadership Forum: Join industry leaders to discuss the future of data and AI.
Bloomberg Technology Summit London 2025: A premier event for technology leaders and innovators.
Financial Services Builders Series EMEA: A webinar series for developers in the financial services industry.
Effortless Data Integration for AI: A Technical Deep Dive of Snowflake OpenFlow: A webinar on leveraging OpenFlow for your AI data integration needs.