CDO Connect.
Identify · Govern · Trust · Act
For Chief Data Officers and governance leads: access control designed for humans with known roles does not survive contact with agents operating at machine speed.
Who gets to act on your data autonomously.
A closed-door discussion for data and governance leaders on proving an agent action was safe, not merely recording that it happened.
Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents, but access control built for humans with known roles does not work at machine speed. 56% of respondents in Snowflake research reported at least one governance or compliance challenge blocking production deployment.
AI Agent Identity reached general availability at Summit 2026, giving every agent a cryptographic identity, per-agent role-based access control and a complete audit trail. Snowflake and Omdia research across 2,050 leaders puts return on gen AI and agent investment at 49%.
What we'll be exploring.
Talking points on the table include, but are not limited to:
Human-shaped access control breaks
Why roles and reviews designed around people fail once agents act continuously.
Cryptographic identity per agent
What AI Agent Identity provides, and what it lets you prove afterwards.
The 49% return
Where organisations are actually seeing it, and what separates them from the 56% stuck.
Proving it was safe
Building the audit trail that answers the question before the regulator asks.
APAC Series. Six cities.
We are entering the era of the agentic enterprise, embedding intelligence directly into the operating fabric of the enterprise.
Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO, Snowflake
Brought to you by Snowflake and Innovatus Media.
Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) is the AI Data Cloud company, helping organizations mobilize their data with governed, secure access so teams can analyze data, build data-intensive applications, and power AI and agentic workloads at scale.
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