Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

In this interview, Stefan Williams, VP of Corporate Development, shares Snowflake Ventures’ top priorities and why the pace of innovation across the AI Data Cloud matters for startups. Learn how native platform capabilities, including Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, and the Cortex REST API, help reduce complexity and unlock faster innovation. The Snowflake ecosystem is where startups gain secure, trusted access to data and the opportunity to work with some of the world’s largest customers.

AI agents are only as good as the data they can access. In this video, we explore the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it creates a bridge between AI models and Apache Kafka. Learn how MCP allows AI agents to securely produce, consume, and manage Kafka topics in real-time—transforming your event streams into actionable context for LLMs.

This demonstration shall suggest those baby steps that should encourage most of us (the testers) to inculcate the habit of exploring* GenAI and LLMs. The exploration shall help understand why, what, where, when and how we should use these rapidly moving technologies to bring efficiency and better thinking in our day-to-day testing work.

Let's talk about the real-world journey of operationalizing AI—what it looks like behind the scenes when you’re scaling solutions, building support systems, and doing it all with a lean team. There are plenty of brilliant AI experts—folks doing deep work, research, experimentation, and implementation. This session complements and focuses on how to operationalize, centralize and scale your team, organization and company!