In the healthcare and the public sector industries, AI only works when the data underneath it is trusted, governed and easy to access. During the recent Snowflake Accelerate 2026 virtual event, several organizations shared the key steps to getting real AI results, and they all started by solidifying their data foundation first. In healthcare, that’s resulted in reducing the time lost to fragmented patient and operational data. In the public sector, connecting siloed systems has helped departments better understand what’s happening across programs and services.