AI Hype to Accountable Outcomes: Snowflake, Maia, and Leading the Data Org

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In the first part of a three-part series, Baris Gultekin, VP of AI at Snowflake and Thomas Mazzaferro, a 4x Top 100 CDO, share what actually works when it comes to scaling AI responsibly in the modern enterprise.

Watch the video to learn:

- What an AI-ready operating model really looks like today

- How AI agents are taking on 90% of repetitive data engineering work

- How to navigate team structure and governance changes for AI agent adoption

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Baris Gultekin

Vice President of AI at Snowflake

Baris leads the AI & ML product teams at Snowflake, building Cortex AI for LLM inference, Agents, Snowflake Intelligence, Search, Document AI, as well as traditional ML platform.

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Thomas Mazzaferro

4x Top 100 CDO

Thomas joins us to share what actually works when it comes to scaling AI responsibly in the modern enterprise.

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