That's a wrap on Snowflake Summit 2026! One theme stood out: enterprises are ready to move beyond AI hype and put agents to work. We had great conversations about how Sema4.ai helps organizations operationalize AI agents with the business context, governance, and accuracy needed for real-world production. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and shared what's next on your AI journey. #Sema4AI #SnowflakeSummit2026

Enterprise AI is moving fast. The organizations winning aren't the ones experimenting, they're the ones deploying. Sema4.ai CTO and Co-Founder Ram Venkatesh joins A Global Tech Podcast to discuss why governance and business context separate impressive AI from reliable AI, and how organizations are putting agentic AI to work in real operational workflows. 🎙️youtube.com/live/W8oaDUWnXLU

Next Tuesday: See how Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC reduced invoice reconciliation from hours to minutes with AI agents. Plus, hear how enterprise AI agents are expanding into additional business workflows. Save your spot: event.on24.com/wcc/r/5335325…

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS: Women's Lacrosse Holds Off Maryville to Capture NCAA Championship @FSC_WLAX secured a 9–7 victory over Maryville University on Saturday at Judson Stadium, clinching the 2026 NCAA Division II National Championship! #LetsGoMocs 📰: fscmocs.com/news/2026/5/23/n…

Yeahh Mocs! 🙌 Congrats Audrey, Brayden, & team!! 🔥

Enterprise AI is standardizing fast. Building is easier. Execution is packaged. The real gap is understanding the work itself. Ram Venkatesh, CTO and Co-founder at Sema4.ai, breaks down why the semantic layer is becoming the foundation for enterprise AI. Link to the blog in the comments below.

Finance teams are under pressure to close faster and reconcile with precision, but manual processes cannot keep up. AI agents are changing that. Purpose built finance agents automate invoice reconciliation, payment processing, and AP operations with 90% automation, reducing work that once took days to minutes with enterprise grade security. Learn more: sema4.ai/office-of-the-cfo/

When AI moves into finance, the stakes shift entirely. It stops assisting and starts deciding, and that changes everything about how you need to govern it. Finance requires: •zero error tolerance •real audit trails •the ability to step in instantly Co-Founder and SVP of Product and Customer Experience @paulcodding on governing in finance. ⬇️

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You’re never out until you’re out. Play the game in front of you. Not the game you wanted to happen. Not the game that just happened. Not the game you hoped would happen. But the game that is happening. It's a remarkable lesson for basketball, for all of sport, and really, for all of life. In the Elite 8 of the NCAA tournament, the UConn Huskies came out flat against the No. 1 seed Duke. The Huskies trailed by 15 at halftime. No. 1 seeds were 134-0 all time in the NCAA tournament when leading by 15 or more points at halftime. That’s across the entire NCAA tournament history. Every round. Every year. UConn had every reason to give up. But they simply refused. Most people check out when the odds turn against them. But UConn never stopped playing to win. Their big man Tarris Reed Jr. put the Huskies on his back. He played incredibly on both sides of the ball. The Huskies cut the lead to 13. Then to 11. Then to 7. Then to 5. And then, in the final seconds of the game, they cut the lead to two. Duke inbounded the ball, UConn pressured and forced a turnover. With less than a second on the clock, Braylon Mullins—who had shot 0 for 4 from three—put up a deep 3 from the logo, and nailed it. UConn 73. Duke 72. 134-1. After the game, UConn coach Dan Hurley said this about Mullins: "The courage. You have a young man, he's a rare human being. The toughness about him, to take the shot, on a tough shooting night, but he was due." It was an off night. And yet with everything on the line you have no choice but to pull the trigger. Shooters shoot. That's confidence in the process. March Madness is an ultimate test of emotional regulation. Over 3 weeks and 6 games, nothing ever goes to plan. You prepare. You practice. You visualize. Then stuff happens. The difference between those who collapse and those who rise? How they respond, especially when things don’t go their way. What's true in basketball is true in life. It's easy when everything is going your way. But things will go wrong. You'll fall behind. The score won't look good. Most people check out when the odds turn against them. UConn never stopped playing their hardest. Not when they were down 19. Not when they were 1 for 11 from three. Not when history said it was over. It’s called having a next play mentality: You can't control what already happened. You can't control the score. You can only control the next play. One stop. One bucket. One possession at a time. That's how you erase a historical deficit against the No. 1 team in the country. It's how you work through the biggest challenges in life too. Excellence does not mean control. It does not mean perfection. It means refusing to quit on yourself when the situation looks hopeless. It means trusting your preparation even when nothing is falling. It means playing the game in front of you. Not the game you wanted. Not the game you hoped for. The game that is happening. Stay in the arena. Play the next play.

Basketball Capital of the World….Storrs Connecticut. 🐺💙🏀

Atlanta developers & engineers-great oppt to join our team. Learn more at the open house on Wed.

Join us at the @Snowflake Silicon Valley AI (SVAI) Hub for a hands-on developer workshop exploring how to build production-ready AI agents directly inside Snowflake. "Building Production-Ready AI Agents on Snowflake: A Developer Deep Dive" 🗓 Wednesday, March 25 ⏰ 4:30–7:00 PM PDT Save your spot: luma.com/n72a0mv3?tk=5eoPG9

We’ve loved connecting with everyone this week at the @Gartner_inc Data & Analytics Summit. If you’re in Orlando, stop by Booth #207 and join our session today at 2:00 PM ET: “From Data Silos to Intelligent Action: Building Enterprise AI Agents That Work with Your Data.” See live demos and learn how organizations are moving beyond stalled automation to AI agents that execute real work across enterprise data.

A mentor once told me this: Confidence is less about knowing you’ll win and more about knowing you’ll bounce back even if you don’t. Real confidence is built on resilience. Adaptability. Tolerance for uncertainty. Fear loses when you embrace that failure is never final.

Enterprise AI’s real breakthrough isn’t better answers. It’s execution. As enterprises move past “AI pilot purgatory,” agents are becoming the trusted execution layer connecting data to real action across systems. In 2026, you won’t ask AI to write an email. You’ll ask it to manage the campaign and it will run end to end. Read more: aijourn.com/ai-application-f…

2025 was the year enterprise AI moved from promise to production. Sema4.ai launched Team and Enterprise Editions, expanded strategic partnerships, and delivered real AI agents across finance, compliance, procurement, and operations with measurable impact.

Subconscious Fact of the Day: Gratitude interrupts fear at the neurological level. Not hope. Not positive thinking. Gratitude. Focus on what's working and your brain stops scanning for threats. That's how you shift from survival mode to growth mode.

Static SaaS is out. Autonomous agents are in. 🚀 According to @Gartner_inc, by 2026, 40% of enterprise apps will have integrated AI agents. In a recent feature from @hypepotamus, our co-founder and CEO, Rob Bearden, explores how Sema4.ai is helping enterprises stay ahead of that shift. Learn more 👇 bit.ly/4rIVkzJ

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