AI-Powered BI: The Role of Semantic Views in Enabling Conversational Analytics
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
Many organizations today are looking to move from traditional BI to AI-powered, talk-to-your-data experiences. Yet most organizations still depend on established BI and dashboarding environments. The challenge is delivering AI-driven insights while maintaining consistency and trust across both.
In this webinar, experts from TDWI and Snowflake will discuss how a modern semantic layer can provide the foundation for this transition. A robust semantic model ensures that conversational analytics and traditional dashboards draw from the same governed, high-quality data definitions—keeping everyone aligned, no matter how they access information. We’ll also explore how AI is transforming semantic modeling itself and why enterprises are now treating their semantic models as strategic assets. Topics include:
- How semantic views connect conversational and traditional BI analytics for a unified experience
- Ways AI is driving adaptive, learning-based data semantics and smarter governance
- Why open, interoperable semantic frameworks are key to scalable, future-proof analytics
- How semantic models set the stage for agentic AI and autonomous data experiences
Guest Speaker
Josh Klahr
Director of Analytics Product Management
Snowflake
Josh Klahr is the Director of Product Management at Snowflake, where he helps drive the core analytics product roadmap and strategy. Josh has over 25 years of experience working with data and analytics. Prior to joining Snowflake, Josh was VP of product management for Splunk, where he was responsible for the Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud product lines. He has also spent time in product management roles at Yahoo!, Pivotal Software, Greenplum, and AtScale.
Date: December 9, 2025
Time: 9:00 am PT
Fern Halper, Ph.D.