Inside Snowflake's AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child)
From The Analytics Engineering Podcast by dbt Labs, Inc.
December 14, 2025 · 57 min
About this episode
Chris Child from Snowflake discusses the company's AI roadmap and its implications for data teams.
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 https://roundup.getdbt.com . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.
People in this episode
Host: Tristan Handy
Guest: Chris Child
Topics covered
- AI roadmap
- data engineering
- data governance
- standardization
- business context
- data products
Keywords
- Snowflake
- AI roadmap
- data teams
- data engineering
- governance
- standardization
- business context
Sponsors
dbt Labs
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Snowflake, Open Semantic Interchange
Products: Snowpark, Cortex, Snowflake Intelligence, Apache Iceberg, MetricsFlow, dbt Semantic Layer
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