Chalk at Snowflake 
Summit 2026

Meet us in San Francisco and see how Chalk powers real-time feature engineering to make AI real for businesses operating with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

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Experience the future of enterprise data and intelligence

Snowflake Summit is the premier annual conference for the AI data cloud, where thousands of professionals, developers, and executives gather to explore AI, machine learning, and app development.

When

June 1-4

2026

Where

Moscone Center

San Francisco, CA

Chalk

Booth #2611

Visit us at booth #2611

Stop by our booth in Moscone South to see live demos, meet our team and learn how Chalk powers real-time AI applications.

Live product demos

Watch Chalk work its magic live — no slides, just real features doing real things.

1:1 conversations

Skip the pitch deck. Pull up a chair and geek out with our forward deployed engineers, one-on-one.

Featured use cases

See how top ML teams are using Chalk to build recommender systems, detect fraud, authorize payments and much more, all in real-time.

Daily proof solves

Show up every day for a shot at winning. Luck favors the ones who keep coming back.

Latest swag™

Fresh drops, limited supply, zero guarantees — grab your Chalk gear before it's gone.

Buckle up

Keep your eyes peeled for the fastest moving ride in town - and no, it's not just our ultra-fast data pipelines.

Speaking sessions

Join us for insightful sessions featuring Chalk experts and customers sharing real-world experiences and technical best practices.

Grindr x Chalk Customer Story

The Infrastructure Behind Grindr’s AI Transformation

In this session, Grindr's CPO, AJ Balance, and Chalk's CEO, Marc Freed-Finnegan, break down the Snowflake and Chalk stack that’s powering Grindr’s AI and what it means to ship real AI products at consumer scale for a global community of tens of millions.

AJ Balance
AJ BalanceCPO, Grindr
Marc Freed-Finnegan
Marc Freed-FinneganCo-Founder & CEO
Monday, June 1 @ 3:30 PM
Moscone Center

Technical Deep Dive

A Computation-First Architecture for Real-Time ML Feature Stores

In this talk, Chalk's Co-Founder, Elliot Marx, unveils a computation-first feature store architecture where Chalk extends Snowflake into real-time decision systems.

Elliot Marx
Elliot MarxCo-Founder
Tuesday, June 2 @ 01:00 PM
Moscone Center

Meetings & conversations

Connect with Chalk's executive team, techincal leader and subject matter experts at Snowflake Summit to see how real-time feature pipelines power smarter ML.

Technical meetings

Deep-dive sessions with Chalk engineers — architecture reviews, integration workshops, proof-of-concept discussions.

Executive meetings

Strategic conversations with Chalk leadership — roadmap, partnership, and go-to-market alignment.

Experiences

Some of the best moments at Summit happen off-schedule. Chalk's after hours events are where data and AI teams meet, swap war stories, and maybe grab a drink. No big productions — just the right people in the right room.

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kickoff party

Chalkin’ It Out 
@ Snowflake Summit

The best Summit conversations happen after hours. Join Chalk at Joyride Pizza for an opening night kickoff party, located right outside Moscone North. Good pizza, better conversations, and data and AI builders worth meeting. Spots are limited — RSVP now.

JUNE 1, 2026 / 8:00-11:00 PM
Joyride Pizza - Yerba Buena Gardens
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SPONSORED EVENT

Sigma Social: 
Partners in the Park

Join Chalk and friends at the biggest partner event of the week: a 1000+ person happy hour complete with live music, food trucks, beer gardens, games, and networking.

June 2, 2026 / 6:00-10:00 PM
Spark Social
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Meet the team

Marc Freed-Finnegan
Marc Freed-FinneganCo-Founder & CEO

Marc spent many years at Google where he helped to launch the first version of Google Wallet. He went on to start Index, which Stripe acquired as its in-store payment solution—now called Stripe Terminal.

Elliot Marx
Elliot MarxCo-Founder

Elliot started his career at Affirm where he built the early risk and credit data infrastructure system (the inspiration for Chalk). He then co-founded Haven Money, which Credit Karma acquired to power its banking products.

Andrew Moreland
Andrew MorelandCo-Founder

Andy worked at Palantir on large government data infrastructure projects. He then co-founded Haven Money (with Elliot), which now powers Credit Karma Money.

Melanie Chen
Melanie ChenFDE Manager

Melanie manages the post-sales forward deployed engineering and customer success teams at Chalk. Melanie previously worked on data infrastructure at Plaid, in addition to time at Airbnb, Two Sigma, and several founding teams.

Alexandra Kane
Alexandra KaneVP, Revenue

Alex is a seasoned enterprise SaaS GTM leader, scaling marketing and revenue teams from Series A through C across categories including AI, HRTech, and security. Her expertise has helped build beloved brands and turn pipeline engines into category-defining growth machines.

Kyle Koch
Kyle KochVP, Account Management

Kyle is a GTM leader who has built post-sale organizations at category-defining companies — including Sprinklr and Databricks — and now applies that experience to helping customers successfully deploy real-time AI infrastructure.

Caprice Turner
Caprice TurnerDirector, Account Management

Caprice has spent 10+ years partnering with companies of all sizes helping them unlock lasting value from the technology they invest in. She brings a people-first approach to account management and a has a track record of building long-term relationships.

Chuck Lenhard
Chuck LenhardVP, Recruiting

Chuck has been leading recruiting teams at early stage startups for 10+ years with a a focus on high talent bars and scalability, notably at Plaid, AngelList, Block (formerly Square), and StubHub.

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