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Snowflake Summit 2025 marked a major shift in the modern data stack bringing AI closer to your data, simplifying operations, and making every layer more connected. From Cortex AI SQL and Native Agents to Adaptive Compute and enhanced governance with Horizon Catalog, Snowflake is evolving from a warehouse into the execution engine for intelligent apps.

Elena Cuevas of Confluent shares that partnerships thrive when it’s not “you or me”, but what you can do together.

Strategic partnerships don’t work without trust. And in the data streaming world, trust begins with transparency. In this episode, Elena Cuevas, Sr. Manager of Cloud Partner Solutions Engineering at Confluent, joins Joseph Morais to unpack what it takes to collaborate with hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. From managing competitive overlaps to future-proofing enterprise data architectures, Elena shares her battle-tested strategies for driving alignment across complex stakeholder ecosystems.

In the past, mainframe users have been limited to expensive legacy tools, but today, it's possible to embrace agility, and security with integrating open source tools into the mainframe.Watch this how to video to see how mainframe users can also get on board to achieve superior test coverage, by testing more often, and throughout the whole development cycle.

Wondering if your company's AI budget is normal? New research shows you're not overspending—everyone is doubling down on AI. Key stats.