Mike Palmer

AI agents are rewriting how work gets done, handing individuals a democratized path to productivity while running 24/7 across centralized enterprise data, watching for changes and taking action that genuinely accelerates the business. But the same qualities that make agents powerful also make them dangerous: they need auditing and permissions like the people they replace, answer to humans who require governing, and coordinate with other agents and shifting data at a scale our controls were never built for. Mike Palmer, Sigma's CEO, makes the case for a governed control plane between Snowflake and every AI app. This session is being conducted under Chatham House Rules. To foster an open and candid discussion, participants are expected to treat all information shared during the session as confidential. Information, comments, viewpoints, and materials discussed may not be referenced, disclosed, attributed, distributed, or shared outside of this session without the express permission of the organizers and participants.

The 10% drop in B2B software stocks and the Economist's "SaaSpocalypse" headline pointed to one shift: AI made it cheaper to build what enterprises used to buy. Best-of-breed is giving way to end-to-end platforms, but, like any foundation, the platform is what makes scale sustainable and provides security, governance, cost and access that reaches everyone. Get the foundation right, and every app and agent built on top inherits that strength. Sigma CEO Mike Palmer walks leaders through a clear path for building, buying and retiring your SaaS spend. This session is being conducted under Chatham House Rules. To foster an open and candid discussion, participants are expected to treat all information shared during the session as confidential. Information, comments, viewpoints, and materials discussed may not be referenced, disclosed, attributed, distributed, or shared outside of this session without the express permission of the organizers and participants.