Snowflake reveals 4th Data Drivers Awards winners for Southeast Asia

Snowflake, the data cloud company, has listed the winners of the 4th annual Data Drivers Awards for Southeast Asia. These awards honour Snowflake customers leading their organisations and reimagining what’s possible with the data cloud across their industries.

Source: Snowflake. Winners of the 2022 Data Drivers Awards for SEA post with a Snowflake representative.
Source: Snowflake. From left: Sanjay Deshmukh, Senior Regional VP, ASEAN and India, Snowflake; Dan Noel Natindim, VP 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 VP, 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 winners are: 

Data Driver of the Year was presented to Singlife with Aviva, a 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 presented with the Data Collaboration Award for leveraging Snowflake as part of their digital transformation journey, with the aim of hyper-personalising 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.

Data Executive of the Year is given to someone (CTO, CIO, or VP-level) who serves as a strategic leader, pioneering cloud data analytics within their organisation and breaking new ground in their industry. Dan Noel Natindim, VP for Enterprise Data Office, Globe Telecom (ASEAN) has been recognised for his pioneering work in driving large-scale transformation on Snowflake at Globe Telecom. 

The Powered by Snowflake award recognises an organisation that builds the most innovative data-driven applications on Snowflake. Lomotif, a global short video-sharing social networking platform based in Singapore, took home the prize this year.

The Data for Good category recognises an organisation using enhanced data analytics to help save, extend, and improve lives and/or the environment, globally. This year, GovTech, which drives Singapore's Smart Nation initiative and public sector digital transformation, was honoured for its 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 spotlights a technology trailblazer that has pioneered the data cloud in their organisation.The winner this year is Manish Kumar, Head of Data Management and Engineering, Funding Societies, a Singapore-headquartered company providing a digital financing platform for Southeast Asian small and medium-sized enterprises.

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