46:33Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin: No AI Strategy Without a Data Strategy & Why Skills Are the New Apps
Baris Gultekin — VP of AI at Snowflake and co-creator of Google Now — joins Alp Uguray to unpack why the next era of AI won't be defined by better models, but by where intelligence lives relative to data. From the hard lessons of Google Assistant's brittle architecture to Snowflake's "bring AI to the data" thesis, Baris explains why trust, governance, and semantic understanding are the real unlock for enterprise agents. They explore how skills — modular instructions that agents load on-demand like Neo learning karate in The Matrix — are replacing traditional applications, how agent-to-agent protocols like MCP are reshaping the enterprise stack, and why the pie is growing so fast that the entire AI economy is lifting all boats.