Snowflake Summit will reveal the future of data apps, and our research and analysis point to a new modern data stack that is emerging where apps will be built from a coherent set of data elements that can be composed at scale. Snowflake Inc. is likely to expose its vision to be the best platform on which to develop this new breed of data apps, and this Breaking Analysis lays out a likely path for Snowflake to execute on this vision. The graphic describes how the world of apps is moving from one that is process-centric to one that is data-centric, with four layers to the emerging data stack.