Alation at Snowflake Summit 2025: Empowering Data Intelligence

Discover how Alation's Agentic Data Intelligence Platform can transform your Snowflake deployment at this year's must-attend data conference.

Are you ready to transform your data strategy and maximize your Snowflake investment? Join us at Snowflake Summit 2025, where Alation will showcase how our Agentic Data Intelligence Platform helps make your Snowflake deployment smarter, faster, and more trusted.

What is Snowflake Summit 2025?

Snowflake Summit is the premier annual event for data professionals using Snowflake's Data Cloud. This year's conference brings together thousands of data leaders, engineers, scientists, and business professionals from around the world to share knowledge, explore innovations, and discover new opportunities within the Snowflake ecosystem.

When and where is Snowflake Summit 2025?

Snowflake Summit 2025 will take place from June 2-5, 2025, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The event offers four days packed with keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on labs, and networking opportunities.

Who should attend?

Snowflake Summit caters to a diverse audience of data professionals, including:

• Data engineers and architects

• Data scientists and analysts

• IT professionals

• Business intelligence experts

• C-suite executives and decision-makers

• Anyone looking to optimize their Snowflake deployment

Alation at Snowflake Summit 2025

Visit us at Booth #2507 to connect with our experts and discover how Alation helps organizations find the right data quickly, automate governance, improve data quality, and build reusable data products that empower both people and AI—at scale.

Featured sessions

Don't miss these exciting sessions featuring Alation customers and partners:

Quenching The Thirst for Data: Swire Coca-Cola's Data Journey

Monday, June 2, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Bharathi Rajan, VP of Enterprise Data, Insights & Applications at Swire Coca-Cola USA, will share her team’s approach to building a federated data platform across the Coca-Cola bottling ecosystem. Discover how data consumers—from sales teams to data scientists—are gaining trusted access to key data assets to inform decisions, drive AI success, and spark innovation. Learn how Swire is scaling data literacy and governance programs to enable broad data discovery and empower users at every level.

Bharathi Rajan leads Enterprise Data and Application at Swire Coca-Coca USA, where she is responsible for Data Strategy, Data Governance, Data Engineering and Data Systems and Architecture. A results-driven executive with extensive expertise in enterprise data management, applications optimization, and strategic technology implementation, Bharthi brings a cross-industry perspective on transforming data into business value. Prior to Swire, Bharathi held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs and Optum Health.

Shifting Gears: How Alation Turbo-Charged O'Reilly Auto Parts' Journey to Snowflake

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

Join Dwayne Foresee as he highlights how O’Reilly Auto Parts is maximizing the value of its Snowflake environment by deploying Alation’s data intelligence platform. In this quick-hitting 20-minute session, you’ll see how the retailer has cataloged essential data, built robust governance policies, and delivered end-to-end data lineage—all while cutting costs and improving confidence in data use. Gain insight into how your team can use metadata to validate data quality and enable faster, smarter business decisions.

Dwayne Foresee is a results-oriented IT leader with 30 years of management experience and a career spanning 40 years in Information Technology. He has a history of building and leading high-performing teams to implement complex data solutions, including data governance programs, MDM solutions, and large-scale data warehouses. Dwayne's experience includes overseeing the successful implementation of Alation at O'Reilly Auto Parts which is directly supporting their strategic migration to Snowflake. His insights into leveraging data governance to facilitate cloud data warehousing transitions are particularly relevant to today's data-driven organizations.

How Boston Children's Hospital Unlocks Sensitive Data's Power with Governance

Wednesday, June 4, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM PT

Jared Hawkins, Sr. Director of Enterprise Data, Analytics & Reporting at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), reveals how trusted data is helping BCH improve global pediatric health. This session covers the hospital’s data governance journey using Alation and Snowflake to enhance data usability, drive adoption, and foster trust. Learn how these efforts are unlocking the full potential of analytics and AI to improve care delivery and patient outcomes.

Jared Hawkins is Senior Director of Enterprise Data, Analytics & Reporting at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he leads data strategy, product development, and advanced analytics initiatives to drive innovation in pediatric healthcare. With over a decade at BCH, Jared has deep expertise in healthcare technology, informatics, and computational modeling, and he is passionate about transforming the patient and provider experience through data-driven solutions. A seasoned executive and entrepreneur, Jared also serves as a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, where he mentors the next generation of health tech leaders.

Unifying Data Cataloging & Security: Fortune Brands' Success with ALTR & Alation

Tuesday, June 3, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM PT

Laura Malins, VP Product at ALTR, will explore how Fortune Brands Innovations unified its Snowflake environment across multiple subsidiaries through a seamless integration with Alation. Discover how the joint solution supports accurate data classification, simplifies visibility for non-technical users, and gives administrators greater control. Learn how this Snowflake Native App helps streamline compliance and governance while speeding up deployment across the enterprise.

Why connect with Alation at Snowflake Summit?

As Snowflake's featured partner with, Alation empowers organizations to maximize their AI potential in the AI Data Cloud. Our Agentic Data Intelligence Platform integrates seamlessly with Snowflake Horizon, helping customers find, understand, and trust their most critical data assets while building a strong data culture.

Connect with us at Snowflake Summit to discover how Alation can help you:

• Get your data AI-ready: Deliver clean, trusted data for AI initiatives with integrated data quality metrics and proactive issue detection aligned with Snowflake Horizon.

• Optimize cloud migration: Accelerate your journey to Snowflake by identifying which data matters most, maintaining visibility throughout migration, and ensuring compliance as you move to the Data Cloud.

• Improve data analysis with metadata: Leverage interactive column-level lineage to understand data relationships, visualize impacts, and make better decisions with context-rich metadata.

How Alation Powers the AI Data Cloud

Alation offers comprehensive solutions to maximize your Snowflake investment:

• Automate governance policies at scale: Use Alation's Policy Center to manage and enforce policies across all Snowflake data from a single control point, ensuring only the right people access the right data.

• Streamline data classification: Easily ingest, apply, and synchronize Snowflake Object Tags to find, protect, and govern your data while maintaining compliance with regulations.

• Enable self-service with smarter SQL: Get compliance guidance and visibility into the best data as you query with Alation's Intelligent SQL Editor, allowing everyone to self-serve without expert assistance.

• Optimize your Snowflake costs: Discover how Peak Performance, a Snowflake Native App from our partner Spreems, helps improve Snowflake credit consumption, storage, and query efficiency.

"Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake is a great option for any enterprise beginning their data cataloging journey. Alation's deep data governance integration with Snowflake and self-service analytics capabilities makes it fast and easy to use and govern critical data stored in the Snowflake Data Cloud."

— Sunny Bedi, CIO and CDO, Snowflake

With Alation and Snowflake, you can build a foundation of trusted data that powers innovation, fuels informed decision-making, and accelerates your AI initiatives. Together, we help you unlock the full potential of your data while maintaining governance and compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

Join us for coffee!

Recharge with Alation, and enjoy a caffeine boost on us!

Join us on Tuesday, June 3 from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM at lounge #2303, located in Basecamp North, for a complimentary espresso pick-me-up and chat with our experts about your data challenges. We're excited to show you how Alation can transform your Snowflake deployment and accelerate your data intelligence journey.

Register today

Don't miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and discover how Alation and Snowflake can drive your data strategy forward. Register for Snowflake Summit 2025 today and add our sessions to your agenda. See you at Booth #2507!

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