Snowflake BUILD 2024
Nov 12, 2024 · Online
BUILD 2024 Opening Keynote: Building In The AI Data CloudNov 12, 2024 · 59m · Christian KleinermanSnowflake's developer conference keynote was organized in three chapters: data architecture on your terms, enterprise AI and ML you can trust, and collaboration. Open Catalog and Iceberg streaming went GA, Document AI went GA, and Snowflake Intelligence was first shown as a platform for data agents, with hybrid tables GA on AWS as the closing news.
Key themes: Data platforms, Agents, Open source
- 1Streaming and read-write support for Apache Iceberg tables became generally available
- 2Snowflake Open Catalog, the managed Polaris catalog for Iceberg, became generally available
- 3Document AI, natural-language extraction from documents, became generally available and works with COPY
- 4A Snowflake connector for SharePoint feeds documents into Cortex Search, free on the Marketplace
- 5Snowflake Intelligence was introduced as a platform for no-code data agents, preview expected within about a month
- 6Hybrid tables, the Unistore transactional table type, became generally available on AWS
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Iceberg streaming and read-writeSnowpipe Streaming and writes for Iceberg tables | GA |
| Snowflake Open CatalogManaged Apache Polaris catalog | GA |
| Storage lifecycle policiesExpire or archive records by rule, private preview | Preview |
| Document AIExtract properties from documents in natural language | GA |
| Snowflake connector for SharePointIndex SharePoint documents for Cortex Search | Announced |
| Snowflake IntelligenceNo-code data agents, preview in about a month | Coming |
| Internal MarketplaceCurated data products inside an organization | GA |
| Hybrid tablesTransactional and analytical in one table type, on AWS | GA |
Companies on stage
Named or launching: Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Snowflake
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