Persson: AI generates fully customized customer presentations to save significant time
Denise Persson · The Dashboard Is Dead: What Snowflake's CMO Does Instead · Jun 18, 2026 · at 14:36
Snowflake CMO Denise Persson discusses the daily high-value agentic workflows her marketing and sales teams use to automate meeting preparation.
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“Now you can create complete, you know, custom presentation depending on exactly on that customers, what they care about. That's pretty, pretty huge time-said.”
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