Ericsson, Snowflake Unite on Enterprise AI Data Strategy

Ericsson and Snowflake are deepening their partnership around a core principle: unified data access must precede meaningful AI deployment. Ericsson VP Elena Fersman described the company's nearly two-decade transformation from a radio hardware firm into an AI-native enterprise, now deploying natural language network querying powered by Snowflake Cortex AI. Snowflake EVP Christian Kleinerman emphasized that governance is now an accelerant, not a constraint, with products CoCo and CoWork serving technical and business users respectively. Both executives stressed that siloed data remains the primary barrier to enterprise AI success, while proper governance creates the bounds needed for safe agentic AI deployment.