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At Snowflake Summit '26, Chris de Groot, Manager of Data Engineering Customer Service, and Jay Stricks, Group Product Manager, Insights Platform, took the stage to share Booking.com's massive data transformation. In their session, "Booking.com's Data Travels: Platform Foundations to Agentic Analytics," they laid out a masterclass on how to make a colossal, fragmented data landscape entirely AI-ready.

How an agroindustrial leader in Latin America unified ERP across 19 countries.

Live from Snowflake Summit '26, tech leaders from around the globe gathered to discover how the world’s most innovative companies are making AI real for business. But few sessions delivered as much raw, practical insight as the one presented by Frankie Woodhead, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Thrive Learning. Heading up a fast-growing, £20m ARR LearnTech business that serves over 500 global customers and 5 million users, Woodhead didn't give a standard product pitch.

When Substack first launched in 2017, the company set out to give writers a better business model, built on subscriptions and direct relationships with readers. Since then, Substack has expanded into multi-format publishing across text, audio, and video, while building powerful tools for community and discovery, for creators, writers, and thinkers of all kinds.

In the explosive new landscape of generative AI (GenAI), the difference between a proof of concept and a production-grade system is scale. For artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure startup Agent Taskflow Inc. (ATF), this wasn't just a future goal; it was a foundational requirement. Founded in 2023, ATF provides a platform for rapid AI agent bootstrapping, multi-agent orchestration, and comprehensive observability.

In the early days of a company, decisions move quickly because the founder carries most of the context. Priorities are clear. Communication is simple. The team is small enough that alignment happens without much effort. As a company grows, that stops working. More customers introduce new use cases. More products create more tradeoffs.

For small enterprises with big ambitions, Tapcart opens up a world of possibilities. Founded in 2017, the Los Angeles–based SaaS company is on a mission to democratize access to world-class mobile commerce tools for every brand. A big part of making that happen is its partnership with Bitrise. Few people have seen the evolution of that partnership more closely than Sahand Ansari.

Pleo operationalized Customer 360 data in HubSpot without sacrificing governance or accuracy.

Every second a product sits out-of-stock on a shelf, revenue quietly drains away. Customers walk out empty-handed, and businesses lose customers as well as valuable insights into what’s actually happening on the floor. At Focal Systems, we have built Shelf AI, a system that continuously “sees” store shelves, detects stockouts, and guides teams to replenish in time—so products are on the shelf when customers need them.