Snowflake Startup Accelerator Showcase: Building the Future of Enterprise AI

How do you scale an AI startup from an initial idea to an enterprise-grade solution? Hear from the Snowflake Startup Accelerator team and a cohort of founders who are leveraging Snowflake to transform complex data into intelligent, scalable products

Snowflake for Startups Program

Ryan Lieber

Ryan Lieber will introduce the Snowflake for Startups Program, which provides several initiatives (e.g.,Startup Package, Startup Accelerator & Cortex REST API) focused on supporting early-stage companies from a financial, technical and co-marketing perspective as they look to build their businesses on top of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

Learn how the program supports startups with technical enablement, go-to-market guidance, and direct access to Snowflake’s ecosystem to help scale innovative AI and data-driven products.

From Accelerator to Agentic AI: Building Enterprise Context

Ekai

How do startups move from the Snowflake Startup Accelerator to delivering high-impact AI solutions for major industries?

In this session, the leadership team at Ekai will share their journey of building enterprise AI products powered by Snowflake. They will explore how they tackle one of the biggest challenges in AI: Enterprise Context.

You’ll learn how Ekai developed an AI Backbone that transforms fragmented enterprise data into intelligent, agentic AI systems, along with the technical and commercial strategy required to scale across industries such as manufacturing and media.

Unlocking the 80%: Turning Unstructured Data into Governed AI Intelligence

EmergeGen

Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because of the models. It fails because 80% of critical enterprise data - including contracts, PDFs, and emails - remains unstructured, ungoverned, and inaccessible to decision-making systems.

In this session, EmergeGen, a Snowflake Native App, will demonstrate how organisations can unlock this hidden intelligence. Using ontology-based reasoning, EmergeGen converts messy unstructured data into governed, analysis-ready intelligence without data leaving the Snowflake environment.

Key Highlights

• Native Integration - Build a governed intelligence layer directly inside the Snowflake Data Cloud
• Beyond the LLM - Use ontologies to make AI systems explainable and trustworthy
• Real-World Impact - Case studies from MSD Partners (Private Credit) and 101 Logistics

Speakers

Ryan Lieber - Snowflake Startup Accelerator EMEA & AJP
Tero - Chief Commercial Officer, Ekai
Hussnain - AI Architect, Ekai
Allan Beechinor - EmergeGen

Event Schedule

📍 26 March
18:30 - Ryan Lieber, Snowflake - Introduction to the Snowflake Startup Accelerator
18:45 - Ekai - From Accelerator to Agentic AI
19:10 - EmergeGen - Unlocking the 80%: Unstructured Data to Governed AI

Food & Drinks

Food and drinks will be provided during the event.