Snowflake, a global AI data cloud company, announced on the 4th that it had selected Lotte Shopping and Nexon's Jaemyun Lee as the Asia Pacific region representative for the 'Data Drivers Awards', which recognizes companies and data engineers who have effectively utilized its data cloud platform.
The Data Driver Awards is an annual event that recognizes companies and leaders who have driven innovation within their organizations and achieved outstanding results in data collaboration using the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The awards ceremony, which is in its 7th year, was held at the Snowflake Summit 2025 held in San Francisco, USA on the 2nd, and representative companies and individuals from 7 sectors including North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, Japan (APJ) were announced.
Lotte Shopping was selected as the Asia Pacific representative in the 'Data Analysis Innovation' category. Lotte Shopping was highly evaluated for integrating four separate data platforms within its e-commerce business division into Snowflake's single platform, reducing operating costs by approximately 32% and improving system performance and environmental efficiency by more than 45%. Under the leadership of CDO Shim Jun-hyeok, the company significantly improved the utilization of data platforms by establishing an interactive BI system, linking customer data platform (CDP) and customer relationship management (CRM) campaigns, and introducing a dynamic pricing system. It is also expanding its next-generation data strategy, including generative AI and large language models (LLM).
The individual category 'Data Hero of the Year' went to Nexon's Jaemyun Lee, Data Engineering Team Leader. Team Leader Lee was recognized for his contributions to democratizing data within the company and creating a data-based decision-making culture by building 'Monolake', a Snowflake-based data integration solution. Last year, Nexon was also selected as the best 'Data Driver' company in the Asia Pacific region.
Snowflake Korea CEO Ki-young Choi said, “Snowflake is helping customers maximize the value of their data to achieve business innovation, and Lotte Shopping and Nexon have shown outstanding results through their data strategies.” He added, “We will continue to work with various domestic industries to create data success stories representing the region.”
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