Biotech Special: Life Sciences at Snowflake with Harini Gopalakrishnan

The growing use of large datasets and ML in the life sciences has created new demand for data technologies. Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing company that provides a platform for storing and analyzing large volumes of data.

Harini Gopalakrishnan is the Field CTO of Life Sciences at Snowflake. She joins the show to talk about data challenges and solutions in biotech.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

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