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The launch marks a significant milestone in Snowflake’ s regional growth strategy and reflects the company’ s continued investment in helping organisations across Latin America accelerate innovation while maintaining strong governance, security and data management practices. and improve operational performance through AI-powered insights.“ At Transbank, we are driving a profound technological transformation to continue improving our processes and strengthening our customer experience. Our collaboration with Snowflake enables us to advance our use of data and new technologies, including artificial intelligence capabilities, to operate more efficiently and make more agile, strategic decisions,” said Vicente Tredinick, Head of the Operations and Technology Division at Transbank.

Danilo Lazaro, Regional Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, said Chile was moving steadily towards a enhancements across its interoperable data platform, together with Snowflake CoCo, Snowflake CoWork and Snowflake Horizon Catalog. The new capabilities are designed to help organisations securely scale AI adoption, strengthen collaboration, improve enterprise data governance and support businesses embracing the emerging era of the agentic enterprise.

Snowflake believes its Chilean presence will allow closer collaboration with customers, partners and developers while supporting local innovation and skills development. By establishing operations in the country, the company aims to help

Chile has become an increasingly attractive destination for global technology companies because of its advanced digital infrastructure, strong institutional framework, high levels of market connectivity and a highly skilled technical workforce. Snowflake said these advantages made the country a strategic hub for expanding AI adoption and supporting enterprise Digital Transformation initiatives.

“ Chilean organisations are ready to move fast on AI, and we’ re here to empower them to transform AI ambition into real business outcomes,” said Bruno Barreto, Vice President of Latin America, Snowflake.

“ Snowflake enables organisations to innovate from a shared, trusted view of their data, helping them scale AI while maintaining the governance and security capabilities that enterprises demand.”

The company is building on an established customer base in Chile, including Transbank, which is using Snowflake technology to strengthen its data strategy digital infrastructure model that was highly attractive to Snowflake. He said the country’ s combination of institutional stability, extensive connectivity and highly qualified professionals positioned it as a strategic technology hub and a continental benchmark for AI-led innovation.

The Chile launch also followed announcements at Snowflake Summit 2026, where the company introduced public and private sector organisations modernise data estates, simplify analytics, accelerate AI deployment and create trusted foundations for future digital services. The investment further reinforces Snowflake’ s long-term commitment to Latin America and its expanding enterprise customer community while creating new opportunities for responsible innovation, cross-border collaboration and sustainable economic growth. •

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