At GITEX Global 2025, TechIntelPro engaged in a thought-provoking conversation with Fawad A. Qureshi, Global Field CTO at Snowflake, to unpack how Snowflake is redefining enterprise data collaboration and AI responsibility worldwide.
From building platform gravity that attracts users by choice — not lock-in — to advancing ethical AI policies at the World Economic Forum, Fawad explains how Snowflake’s engineering mindset embraces failure, scales trust, and powers the global data cloud economy.
This interview offers invaluable insights for technology leaders navigating data scalability, AI ethics, and enterprise resilience.
Watch the full video interview above.
Fawad A. Qureshi is a technology leader with over 20 years of global experience, currently serving as a Global Field CTO at Snowflake, advising C-level executives on data, AI, and cloud technologies. He is also a World Economic Forum Data Advisor and a LinkedIn Learning Instructor, focusing on responsible AI, data governance, and using data for good. His mission is to help organizations unlock the strategic value of their data and contribute to a more sustainable world.
Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud, a global network enabling organizations to mobilize data with scale, concurrency, and performance. It unites siloed data, facilitates data discovery and sharing, and executes analytic workloads. Snowflake provides a single experience across clouds, powering data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing.
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