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Snowflake Summit

Snowflake · 6 keynotes · 2024, 2025, 2026 · mostly Data platforms and Agents · 37 announcements

Year by year

Key themes and the top highlight of each edition
YearKeynote
2026Christian KleinermanJun 2, 2026 · 1h 38m · videoAgents, AI coding, Data platformsSnowflake Data Stream introduced: Kafka wire-compatible event capture that lands topics as Snowflake tables, private preview soon
2026Sridhar Ramaswamy, Daniela Amodei, Julie SweetJun 1, 2026 · 1h 1m · videoAgents, Data platforms, GovernanceRamaswamy declared "the era of the agentic enterprise", built on four parts: enterprise data and context, models, applications and a control plane
2025Christian KleinermanJun 3, 2025 · 1h 41m · videoAgents, Data platforms, PricingAdaptive Compute announced: Snowflake picks cluster sizes and scaling automatically instead of users sizing warehouses
2025Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, Sarah GuoJun 2, 2025 · 58m · videoAgents, Data platforms, ModelsSnowflake highlighted deeper Apache Iceberg support, used by companies like Booking.com, via Catalog Linked Databases
2024Benoit Dageville, Christian KleinermanJun 4, 2024 · 1h 56m · videoData platforms, Governance, AgentsDynamic tables, the declarative incremental pipelines used by more than 3,000 customers, became generally available
2024Sridhar Ramaswamy, Jensen HuangJun 3, 2024 · 35m · videoData platforms, Open source, AI infrastructureSnowflake framed its next chapter as making AI easy for everyone, on the same simplicity it brought to data

Announcements

37 announcements

AnnouncementStatus
Snowflake Data StreamKafka wire-compatible streaming into Snowflake tables, private preview shortlySummit 2026Coming
Cortex Function StudioCreate and evaluate custom AI functionsSummit 2026Preview
Code bundlesDeploy and run Python or Java files directly, no wrappersSummit 2026Preview
Cortex trainingManaged fine-tuning and reinforcement learning of foundation modelsSummit 2026Announced
Streamlit in Snowflake on a new runtimeGeneral availability of hosted StreamlitSummit 2026GA
Snowflake app runtimeRun Node.js and full React apps in SnowflakeSummit 2026Preview
Cortex Code for desktopThe CoCo coding agent as a desktop appSummit 2026GA
Agent identity and data movement policiesPolicies that know when an agent acts, and limits on where data movesSummit 2026Announced
Multi-party approvalsTwo administrators must approve sensitive operations, private previewSummit 2026Preview
Horizon ContextCatalog signals and semantics for CoCo and agentsSummit 2026Announced
Postgres data mirroringMirror Snowflake Postgres tables into SnowflakeSummit 2026Preview
Open sharing via Iceberg RESTShare with non-Snowflake consumersSummit 2026Preview
SAP integrationZero-copy integration with SAP dataSummit 2026GA
Intent to acquire NatomaMCP-powered, governed connectivity to enterprise applicationsOn AcquisitionsSummit 2026Announced
Adaptive ComputeAutomatic cluster sizing and scalingSummit 2025Preview
Snowflake OpenflowManaged data integration for structured and unstructured sources, GA on AWS per the recapSummit 2025GA
dbt Projects on SnowflakeBuild, test and deploy dbt projects natively, with dbt FusionSummit 2025Coming
Snowflake PostgresManaged Postgres with Snowflake security, from the Crunchy Data acquisitionSummit 2025Announced
SnowConvert AIFree SnowConvert plus AI-assisted migration testingSummit 2025Announced
Cortex AISQLNatural-language AI operators inside SQLSummit 2025Preview
Semantic ViewsShared business definitions for AI and BI tools, shareable on the MarketplaceSummit 2025Preview
Snowflake IntelligenceAgents for business users over data, public preview soonSummit 2025Coming
Data Science AgentAutomates steps of the ML workflowSummit 2025Preview
Standard Warehouse Generation 22.1x faster core analytics performanceSummit 2025GA
Cortex Knowledge ExtensionsGA planned soon for Cortex AI observabilitySummit 2025Coming
Dynamic tablesDeclarative incremental transformation pipelinesSummit 2024GA
Apache Iceberg tablesSnowflake-managed or externally managed Iceberg tables in all cloudsSummit 2024GA
Snowpark Container ServicesGA on AWS, public preview on AzureSummit 2024GA
Snowflake TrailObservability for Snowpark: logs, metrics, traces and a log explorerSummit 2024Announced
Snowflake NotebooksPublic preview, with an optional container runtime with GPUsSummit 2024Preview
Snowflake CopilotNatural-language SQL assistantSummit 2024GA
Snowpark pandas APIDistributed, pandas-compatible APISummit 2024Preview
Cortex Fine-TuningOne-command fine-tuning of base models on your dataSummit 2024Preview
Cortex AnalystNatural-language questions over structured data for appsSummit 2024Announced
Cortex SearchManaged hybrid search to build chatbots over text data, public preview soonSummit 2024Coming
Polaris CatalogOpen catalog for Apache Iceberg with interoperability across AWS, Google Cloud and AzureSummit 2024Announced
NVIDIA AI Enterprise in Snowflake Cortex AINeMo Retriever and NVIDIA accelerated computing for Cortex AI and Snowpark Container ServicesSummit 2024Announced
About and year over year
Announcements per year
202412
202511
202614
GAPreviewComingAnnounced

Companies on stage: IBM, Salesforce, Samsung, SAP, Workday, Snowflake, Accenture, Anthropic, Natoma, OpenAI, Sanofi, Crunchy Data, dbt Labs, Fiserv, Microsoft, Sigma, Associated Press, Booking.com, CB Insights, Meta, Mistral AI, NYSE, Oracle, Stack Overflow

Sources: official keynote videos, their captions and the hosts' recaps, summarized by AI; watch the source for exact wording. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

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