Data Science Connect - AI Demo Day

Kelly Kohlleffel from Fivetran presents a demo on how the modern data stack is evolving to serve AI agents as primary data consumers rather than just human users. He demonstrates how Fivetran's managed data lake service allows multiple compute engines—including Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and ClickHouse—to operate off a single, standardized set of data stored in formats like Iceberg, Delta, and Parquet. Using a demo harness with Claude and VS Code, Kelly shows how an agent can programmatically interact with data via REST APIs to ensure accuracy and performance across various platforms without the need to move data between them. The presentation concludes with an overview of how this approach provides organizational optionality and standardization for diverse teams like data science and analytics engineering.