Snowflake Announces ASEAN Annual Data Drivers Awards Winners, Honoring Leaders Reimagining the Future of Data Collaboration

2 Sep 2022 • 9:16 AM MYT
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Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the Data Cloud company, today announced the finalists and winners of the fourth annual Data Drivers Awards for Southeast Asia, the premier data awards that honor Snowflake customers leading their organizations and reimagining what’s possible with the Data Cloud across their industries.

This year’s Data Drivers Awards winners consist of data leaders from Southeast Asia businesses and organizations including Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), Globe Telecom, Lomotif, M1, Singlife with Aviva, and Funding Societies. Snowflake’s annual Data Drivers Awards finalists and winners represent the top individuals and organizations using the Snowflake Data Cloud to innovate, grow, and delight their customers.

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From left to right, Sanjay Deshmukh, Senior Regional Vice President, ASEAN and India, Snowflake; Dan Noel Natindim, Vice President for Enterprise Data Office, Globe Telecom (ASEAN); Manish Kumar, Head of Data Management and Engineering, Funding Societies; Ned Lowe, Head of Engineering at Singlife with Aviva; Danny Thien, Director, Head of Data, M1; Edgar Ricardo Contreras Borjas, Backend and DevOps Team Lead, Lomotif.

“Snowflake customers continue to push the envelope of what’s possible with data, unlocking new ways to drive impact across the Data Cloud. They demonstrate how a well-implemented cloud data analytics strategy drives innovation, increases business agility, improves time-to-market and enhances customer experience,” said Sanjay Deshmukh, Senior Regional Vice President, ASEAN and India at Snowflake. “This year’s award recipients represent some of the most innovative data leaders we’ve seen to-date, pioneering new ways to build and collaborate in the Data Cloud.”
The 2022 Data Driver of the Year award winners are:

  • ​​The top award category, Data Driver of the Year is presented to Singlife with Aviva, a leading financial services company headquartered in Singapore. Following the merger of Aviva Singapore and Singlife, Singlife with Aviva developed a central data cloud platform on Snowflake to consolidate existing data from Aviva Singapore and Singlife in a single view of its customer and advisor base, creating a connected financial ecosystem and allowing the newly merged company to fully leverage its data for data science and machine learning.

  • M1, Singapore’s first digital network operator, was awarded the Data Collaboration Award for leveraging Snowflake as part of their digital transformation journey, with the aim of hyper-personalizing their customer experience and streamlining their operations to be more efficient. Besides using Snowflake as their data lake and data warehouse, M1 has also played a key role in spearheading this data solution for the Keppel Group of companies.

  • The Data Executive of the Year award recognizes a key individual (CTO, CIO, or VP-level) who serves as a strategic leader, pioneering cloud data analytics within their organization and breaking new ground in their industry. Dan Noel Natindim, Vice President for Enterprise Data Office, Globe Telecom (ASEAN) is recognised for his pioneering work in driving large scale transformation on Snowflake at Globe Telecom.

  • The Powered by Snowflake award recognises an organization that builds the most innovative data-driven applications on Snowflake. Lomotif took home the prize this year for this award.

  • The Data for Good category recognizes an organization using enhanced data analytics to help save, extend, and improve lives and/or the environment, globally. This year, GovTech, who is driving Singapore's Smart Nation initiative and public sector digital transformation, was honored for their work in enabling Government Agencies to quickly access authoritative quality data to build better data insights, enhance inter-agency data collaboration, power citizen services delivery, and support initiatives towards a greener and more sustainable City in Nature.

  • The Data Hero of the Year recognizes a technology trailblazer who has pioneered the Data Cloud into their organization.The winner this year is Manish Kumar, Head of Data Management and Engineering, Funding Societies.


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