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Tim Spann is the Senior Solutions Engineer for Snowflake in the North East covering US Financial companies, formerely Principal Developer Advocate for Milvus @ Zilliz, the ML, IoT and Big Data Zone leader and blogger at DZone and an experienced data engineer with 15 years of experience. He runs multiple New Jersey and New York City meetups as well as other events. He has spoken at over 200 in-person and virtual events including Philly Open Source, ApacheCon, Strata NYC, Oracle Code NYC, IoT Fusion in Philly, meetups in Princeton, NYC, Philly, Berlin and Prague, DataWorks Summits in San Jose, Berlin and Sydney.

Snowflake, Iceberg, AI, GenAI, ML, Python, Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, NiFi, Data Engineering, Unstructured Data Processing.

2026

• Snowflake Summit 2026 (June 2–5, 2026 — San Francisco, CA)
  • Speaker: Presenting on NiFi and Agents (how to bring streaming AI and Apache NiFi to Snowflake).
• Budapest Data+AI Forum 2026 (May 20, 2026 — Budapest, Hungary)
  • Speaker: Virtual speaking session on real-time data streaming architectures.
• NODES AI 2026 (April 15, 2026 — Virtual)
  • Session: Ghost-busting with Neo4j Graph Analytics in Snowflake
  • Details: Co-presented with Stu Moore (Neo4j). Demonstrated Snowflake Intelligence Graph Agents categorizing "spooky apparitions" utilizing Snowflake and Neo4j (presented in Ghostbusting outfits).
• MCPconference New York (March 11, 2026 — New York City, NY)
  • Details: Participated as a Senior Solutions Engineer at Snowflake for this one-day gathering focused on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification and production enterprise infrastructure.
• Conf42 LLMs 2026
  • Session: SQL Automation & Operations
• NYC Snowflake Users Group: Hands-On Demo (March 24, 2026 — New York City, NY)
  • Talk: Beyond the Prompt: Future of AI Data Cloud

Late 2025

• NODES 2025 (November 2025)
• Community Over Code NA 2025 (September 2025 — Minneapolis, MN)
  • Session: Building Agentic AI Applications: A Real-Time Data Pipeline

Tim’s speaking circuit heavily focuses on Agentic AI, Real-Time Data, and Open Source integration with Snowflake.

• Building Agentic AI Applications: A Real-Time Data Pipeline: A comprehensive blueprint for unifying real-time streams (Kafka, REST, unstructured data) and routing them through Snowflake OpenFlow (Apache NiFi) into a searchable knowledge base via Snowpipe Streaming v2.
• Utilizing Real-Time Transit Data for Travel Optimization: Using Apache NiFi to ingest REST feeds of public transit data (MTA New York/New Jersey), transforming it into Parquet files, and storing it in Apache Iceberg tables.
• NiFI Man: “We're here – but should we have come?”: Analyzing live conditions (air quality, travel advisories, flight delays) using Apache NiFi, Kafka, and Iceberg.
• Adding Generative AI to Real-Time Streaming Pipelines (FLaNK AI): Orchestrating Slack chatbots using NiFi, Kafka, HuggingFace, and OLLAMA LLMs.

• SNACK-AI: The 2026 Pattern
  • What it is: Tim's definitive 2026 architectural pattern for powering AI applications at any scale (from mobile phones to massive enterprise clusters).
  • Acronym Breakdown:
    • Snowflake Platform
    • NiFi (Apache)
    • Apache Iceberg
    • Cortex AI (Agents, Search, Model Context Protocol)
    • Kafka (Apache Kafka)

• SNACK-AI Repositories:
  • SNACKAI-CoCo-ipsearch (IP address search and geolocation with Cortex Code)
  • SNACKAI-CoCo-LabQuestions (Lab question generator and analyzer with Cortex Code)
• SnowGhostBreakers: The code and AI implementation for his NODES AI 2026 Ghostbusters talk.
• TrafficAI: Concrete real-time transit AI application demonstrating Snowflake OpenFlow and Snowpipe Streaming v2.
• conferences (2026): His open repo tracking speaker submissions and schedules.
• SpeakerProfile (2026): His archive of talks, PDFs, and slide decks.

Tim writes prolifically across multiple platforms (Medium, Substack, DEV.to, DataInMotion.dev) under his handles @tspann and @PaaSDev.
The "All Data and AI Weekly" Newsletter (2026):

• Issue #248 (June 29, 2026): Post-Summit Momentum — Agentic Enterprise Goes Full Speed. Focuses on Dynamic Iceberg Table Replication, Streamlit, and Cortex AI & Agents.
• Issue #247 (June 22, 2026): Focuses on Adaptive Compute, Dynamic Tables, Postgres Data Mirroring, and Snowpipe Streaming.
• Issue #236 (April 6, 2026): An Easter Basket Full of Data Goodness. Highlights the Agentic Enterprise Control Plane, Ontology on Snowflake, and Batch Cortex Search.
• Issue #229 (February 16, 2026): General platform updates leading into the spring tech season.

Medium Articles / Deep Dives:

• SNACK-AI: 2026. Apache NiFi, Apache Iceberg, Apache Kafka... (December 2025)
• Building Real-Time Multimodal AI Agents with Snowflake Preview (May 2026)
• Building an Open Lakehouse: Integrating Snowflake with AWS Athena and Apache Iceberg (January 2026)
• Air Quality Deja Vu 2026 (Snowflake, Cortex Code, Sensors)
• CoCo Anywhere, But Where Should I? (Focus on Agentic Coding / Snowflake Cortex)

• FLaNK-Stack on YouTube: Tim's primary technical channel bridging Apache Flink, NiFi, Kafka, and Snowflake.
• NODES AI 2026 VOD: Ghost-busting with Neo4j Graph Analytics in Snowflake (Neo4j.com)
• Snowflake Summit 2026 VODs: Tim regularly updates his newsletter with playlists of his technical sessions post-Summit.

• 🔭 I’m currently working on talks on Snowflake, AI, Kafka, Iceberg, NiFi, ...

• 👯 I’m looking to collaborate on SNACK AI Stack (Polaris + Iceberg + NiFi + Streamlit + Snowflake + Kafka + AI)

• 💬 Ask me about Snowflake, Unstructured Data Processing, Apache NiFi, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Apache Iceberg, Cloud Native Data, Unified Data Ingest, Streaming, Messaging, IoT, Java Deep Learning, Edge Devices, Big Data

• 📫 How to reach me: @PaasDev https://dev.to/tspannhw

• 😄 Pronouns: They call him, "Tim"

• ⚡ Fun fact: Cats

• ⚡ Meet Me Online: https://luma.com/SNACKAI

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• Articles: https://www.datainmotion.dev/

• Everything Apache NiFi: https://github.com/tspannhw/EverythingApacheNiFi