Snowflake World Tour 2026: Chicago

Snowflake brings its World Tour to the Hyatt Regency on Wacker Drive for a full free day built around a single argument: AI agents are changing how work gets done, and the organizations moving fastest are the ones that fixed their data foundation first.

The program runs three session tracks:

• Modernizing data infrastructure to actually support AI workloads rather than bolt them on.
• Preparing data for AI, covering unified and governed pipelines, which is usually where agent projects stall.
• Building and deploying trustworthy AI agents grounded in real business data, including evaluation and governance.

Expect keynote content plus breakouts and hands-on sessions, with the usual vendor-conference caveat that the platform framing is Snowflake's own. That said, the track structure is unusually practitioner-oriented for a vendor day, and the data-readiness material transfers regardless of stack.

Useful for data engineers, platform teams and analytics leaders in Chicago who are being asked to put agents into production and need the infrastructure argument in one place.

Doors and registration open at 8:00 am, with programming through 5:30 pm. Registration is free through Snowflake's World Tour page.