At Snowflake Summit 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy captured a truth that every enterprise pursuing AI eventually faces: there is no AI strategy without a data strategy. Trusted, governed data is the foundation for every scalable AI effort. In leading enterprise programs to unify customer data and enable ML-driven personalization, I have seen how gaps in governance stall progress. One organization I worked with was onboarding ML teams to a new