Data leaders today are under pressure to deliver fast, reliable analytics while infrastructure demands keep expanding. In this session, you’ll hear independent research from Dresner alongside Firebolt’s perspective on how top innovators are approaching the future of analytical data infrastructure.

We’ll cover the priorities shaping modern teams:

• Performance is a top selection criterion, with leaders finding new ways to balance speed, efficiency, and security.
• Cloud-first dominates, but hybrid is the pragmatic reality for teams facing regulation, latency, and cost pressures.
• SQL-first approaches remain central, stretched to handle complex modeling and governance at scale.
• Advanced features like UDFs, ranking, and text analysis are expected — and innovators are proving they don’t have to come at the expense of speed.
  

Join analyst Brian Lett and Firebolt experts to see what your peers are prioritizing now—and how to act on it.

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