We are hosting another call with Walter Adana, SVP of Alliances for Alation, a leader in Data Intelligence. Alation is one of the few companies that has won partner of the year awards from both Snowflake and Databricks. During our discussion, Mr. Aldana will provide an update for Snowflake and Databricks trends and budget dynamics, Generative AI capabilities of both companies, Microsoft Fabric, provide insight into product investments that are launching this year around Cortex, Container Services, Mosaic, and others.
Walter Aldana is currently SVP of Alliances for Alation, a leader in Data Intelligence and a Snowflake Partner (Dec. 2021-Present). Prior to Alation, he served as VP of Business Development at Dataiku, a collaborative data science software platform for teams of data scientists, analysts, and engineers (2020-Nov. 2021). Before that, he was VP of Alliances at Databricks, a cloud platform analytics company for data engineering and collaborative data science. He was Vice President of Global Alliances at Snowflake (from 2015 to 2019). In this position, he created all global GTM programs and initiatives with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP), technology partners and system integrators to build a global scalable business.