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Learn about recent additions to the Snowflake Horizons catalog as well as new resources for updating your data skills in this month's edition of the Snow Report. You'll also find information on Summit 2025, Snowflake's premiere annual conference, as well as links to podcasts, news announcements, and more.

Securely move SAP your data with Fivetran's Hybrid deployment option. Move security-restricted data with pipelines hosted in your own environment, controlled by Fivetran's easy-to-use control plane.

SeatGeek’s API sprawl was slowing them down—internally and externally. That changed with Kong Konnect. In this quick story, see how SeatGeek used Kong’s API platform to improve visibility, streamline management, and handle over 86 million monthly requests. If you're dealing with fragmented APIs or struggling to scale developer experience, this one's worth a watch.

As part of our Women Leaders in Technology (WLIT) series on The AI Forecast, we’re joined by Melissa Dougherty, Global Managing Director of Partner Sales, Financial Services. Each quarter, we’ll take a break from the regularly scheduled AI programming on The AI Forecast to direct our attention to this important topic in tech.

Universities must integrate scalable, automated data solutions to centralize information, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance decision-making, ensuring a seamless, student-centric experience. To discuss how to do just that, Ilia Xheblati, Director of Analytics Engineering at Northeastern University, joined us to get to the heart of embracing scalable, automated data solutions so universities can eliminate inefficiencies, streamline decision-making, and create a more connected, student-centric experience.

Ready to Build Production-Grade AI Agents? Astera AI Agent Builder makes it easy for teams to design, test and launch autonomous AI agents. It connects directly to enterprise data and systems through a visual, drag-and-drop interface.

To do data differently means no tradeoffs. You stop choosing between speed and trust. Between flexibility and control. Between the platform your team wants, and the one your business actually needs. It means putting your data to work - in real time. It means scaling AI with trusted data. And it means freeing yourself from vendor lock-in and runaway costs, so you can focus on outcomes, not infrastructure.

In this episode, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions is joined by Teresa Tung, Global Data Capabilities Lead at Accenture. They discuss how enterprises can accelerate and broaden the application of data to attain more business value through agentic AI, the pivotal role of proprietary data as a competitive advantage, and the need for data practitioners to adapt to new responsibilities involving data quality and AI agent interaction.

What is an AI Agent? In under 30 seconds, Marcus Merrell, co-host of Test Case Scenario, breaks down the key difference between a basic LLM (like ChatGPT) and a true AI agent. Hint: one gives you answers — the other takes action. Subscribe for more insights on software testing, AI, and quality engineering from the experts at Sauce Labs.#AI.