Our top 10 moments from Snowflake Summit 2025

The Snowflake Summit featured a packed week with fresh perspectives on the role of agents, semantic layers, and data governance. The event showcased successful strategies from teams at the NBA, HubSpot, Ramp, and Chime, including focusing on organizational influence, collaboration, and speed to build relationships. Key takeaways include recognizing that measuring data team ROI is a myth, prioritizing people over tools, and building with the goal of publishing and sharing work. The summit also highlighted the importance of distribution, politics in data jobs, and focus on new, novel, and gnarly challenges. Additionally, partnerships between Hex and Snowflake were announced, including direct support for Snowflake's Semantic Views inside of Hex.