Generative AI is moving from experiments to production, and organizations need professionals who can build systems on real enterprise data — structured tables alongside unstructured documents, contracts, and transcripts. Whether you're a student, early-career professional, or experienced practitioner, this four-course program takes you from Snowflake fundamentals to working AI agents. Created by Snowflake's developer advocates, it emphasizes hands-on learning with in-product exercises, so you finish with skills you can apply on the job — not just concepts. You will learn: How to work with Snowflake's core objects including virtual warehouses, databases, UDFs, stored procedures, and Snowpark DataFrames How to run common AI tasks — summarization, translation, sentiment analysis, classification — with Cortex AI functions How to select and prompt a foundation model, and fine-tune one to distill a larger model or match a desired style How to build retrieval-augmented generation apps on unstructured documents with Cortex Search How to build Text-to-SQL apps that answer natural-language questions from structured data with Cortex Analyst How to give users a front end for those apps with Streamlit How to design AI agents that plan, select tools, and synthesize insights across multiple data sources How to evaluate agent reliability, write orchestration instructions, and set up observability How to integrate agents with external applications using Model Context Protocol
5 stars! The instructor is incredible – it felt like having him right there in the room, guiding every step of the way while keeping the experience fun and super engaging.
If you are already working on Snowflake and want a kickoff on a Generative AI journey based on Snowflake, this course is a great start.
Hay partes que estan obsoletas, o el codigo no funciona
I was able to follow and complete all the tasks in practice, fantastic! The only thing missing was the MCP part in my cursor; I was missing the line of code to connect to Intelligence Snowflake.
Very good introduction to Snowflake and what you can do using all its tools!
I like the course, but it could have been have more assignments so that candidates have enough experience on each functions.
Really good course. You can clearly see new organizational use cases for incorporating AI and why building Apps can really make a difference.
Fantastic introduction with a passionate, if quirky, host. I loved his enthusiasm and insight for Snowflake and hope to see more of his work in future courses.
Easy to follow Snowflake AI capabilities using real-time examples
Very intuitive! It would be great if we can have Intermediate and advanced level for Devs, Data professionals a well.
Excellent course! Loved it. Looking forward to an advanced version. The instructor was really good.
Grate Course For Beginners, Appreciate you're effort.
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I've taught as an adjunct professor at the undgrad and grad level and have sat through numerous courses on a variety of subjects over the years. So, I know how challenging it can be to create and deliver course material. The Northstar instructor for this class was absolutely incredible--I was blown away. His communication skills, which included humor and excellent explanation of the material, were outstanding. It was like watching an actor with top notch technical skills--he held your attention while explaining the introductory Snowflake material.
Thank You for an Exceptional Learning Experience! Dear Peter Olson, I wanted to express my sincere gratitude and thank you wholeheartedly for the outstanding course on Intro to Snowflake for Devs, Data Scientists, Data Engineers. Your deep technical knowledge and passion for the subject were evident throughout, and it made a real difference in the learning experience. I am in awe of your exceptional knowledge in the area and truly appreciate how you covered all the important aspects of Snowflake in such depth, and the way you integrated practical examples into each module was incredibly helpful. Your encouraging, motivating and forward-looking teaching style made even complex topics approachable and engaging. The datasets you chose and the way you demonstrated their use added so much clarity and value, and they played a big part in helping me successfully complete the assignments. Thanks once again for making this course not only informative but also truly enjoyable. It’s been a great learning journey, indeed !! With Thanks and Best regards, Kavita Tripathi, AMBCS
This is an excellent course—I learned a lot about Snowflake. The instructor explains concepts in simple terms and uses analogies that make the content engaging and enjoyable. It’s important to note that if you're using a free trial version of Snowflake, you may encounter some limitations, such as restricted access to Snowflake Cortex functions or the Auto-Ingest feature.
Excellent presentations from the Snowflake team, while all topics, subjects, particulars arranged very meticulously. In my observation, this may take somewhere from from 15 - 18 hours for one to complete, though it's mentioned as a 10-hrs course in the overview.
A fantastic beginner-to-intermediate course for anyone stepping into the Snowflake ecosystem. I really enjoyed this course—it's structured, practical, and does a great job of gradually building both foundational and advanced Snowflake skills. Module 1 gives a clear understanding of Snowflake’s architecture (warehouses, databases, stages), while Modules 2 and 3 dive into powerful features like Time Travel, Cloning, Snowpark, Snowpipe, and even building GenAI applications with Snowflake Cortex. The hands‑on exercises are realistic and show how Snowflake is used in modern data engineering, data science, and app‑development workflows. I especially appreciated the walkthrough of creating data pipelines, training machine learning models using Snowpark DataFrames, and deploying interactive apps with Streamlit. Overall, this course strikes a great balance between explanation and real‑world application. Highly recommended for developers, data scientists, and data engineers looking to boost their Snowflake and AI Data Cloud skills.
This was an amazing course! it was well put together and covers alot of ground. It was very easy to follow along, and this information was digestible. If you are looking for a course with lots of hands-on activity, then you will certainly be satisfied with this course. Also, the course instructor keeps you very engaged!
What an amazing course! Very well explained, structured, easy to follow. This guy should be the model of other coursera courses. I'll be definitely be checking out other Snowflake courses taught by him. A+
Wow. The content is good and enough to start with snowflake. But the tutor (Peter Olson) is really one of the best tutors I have met on Coursera and other platforms. Really engaging and funny person.
Course provides all the necessary information about snowflake tool and its capabilities to begin the journey in any of the data related stream which one wish for using it.
5 stars! The instructor is incredible – it felt like having him right there in the room, guiding every step of the way while keeping the experience fun and super engaging.
Fantastic introduction with a passionate, if quirky, host. I loved his enthusiasm and insight for Snowflake and hope to see more of his work in future courses.
The teacher was clear, funny, and really helpful in this journey! The material was well-resumed and concise. Good amount of practice, easy to follow.
I really like the content and the instructor's way of making everything more approachable. It made learning much easier and more enjoyable.
Talented gifted tutor, mind-blowing technology, clear, concise, simple, progressive, effective, rythmed teaching. An exceptional course !
Hands down the best course on the topic - clear, detailed, comprehensive and with many hands-on examples. Thank you Peter :)
Beautifully explained, great cadence, superb enthusiasm from Peter Olson. One of the best courses I have taken. Thank you.
This is a solid introduction to Snowflake but it does feel it is the tip of the iceberg as there is much more to learn.
Very intuitive! It would be great if we can have Intermediate and advanced level for Devs, Data professionals a well.
Excelente curso, la profesor de los videos es excelente maestro y ayuda a entender Snowflake con naturalidad.