Inside Snowflake's AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child)

Snowflake VP of Product Management Chris Child joins Tristan Handy to unpack Snowflake's AI roadmap and what it means for data teams. They discuss the evolution from Snowpark to Cortex and Snowflake Intelligence , how to govern agents with row- and column-level controls, and why Snowflake is investing in Apache Iceberg and the Open Semantic Interchange initiative ( dbt Labs recently open sourced MetricsFlow, the technology that powers the dbt Semantic Layer , to align with the goals of OSI). Chris also shares a vision for the next five years of data engineering: fewer bespoke pipelines, more standardization and semantics, and a bigger focus on business context and data products. For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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Inside Snowflake's AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child) is an episode from The Analytics Engineering Podcast by dbt Labs, Inc..

This episode is 57:27 long.

This episode was published on Dec 14, 2025.

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