Beating the 4% Problem: How Posit + Snowflake Deliver Real AI ROI | CDO Vision Los Angeles 2026

Only 4% of enterprise AI initiatives show measurable ROI, so where's the other 96% going wrong? In this session from CDO Vision Los Angeles 2026 (AIM Media House's invite-only summit for Chief Data Officers and enterprise AI leaders), Chetan Thapar, who leads product for Posit's Snowflake integration, breaks down why "activity" isn't the same as "value," and shows how real customers are closing the gap. What's covered: - The "illusion of productivity": why faster workflows don't automatically mean ROI - Three traps killing AI ROI: measuring activity instead of outcomes, missing back-office attribution, and treating governance as a blocker instead of an enabler - Where to actually invest: revenue acceleration, spend compression, and risk reduction - Why partnering (vs. building alone) doubles the likelihood of reaching deployment - How Posit's open-source data science tools (RStudio, Positron, Shiny, Quarto, TidyModels) run natively inside Snowflake via Posit Team (Workbench, Connect, Package Manager) - Real customer stories: Pinterest: how their people analytics team unlocked secure, governed data science on sensitive employee survey data NMDP: scoring 42 million donors daily to match lifesaving transplants Dairy New Zealand: delivering economic forecasts 4x faster An insurance customer cutting model build and scoring time from 24 hours to 2 hours (and inference from 2 hours to 24 seconds) - A look at governed AI agents for exploratory data analysis, coding, debugging, and self-service analytics, powered by Snowflake Cortex Learn more about Posit for Snowflake: https://posit.co/solutions/snowflake