Snowflake Summit 2024
Jun 4, 2024 · San Francisco, California · 2 keynotes · Summit 2025 · Summit 2026
Snowflake Summit 2024 | Platform KeynoteJun 4, 2024 · 1h 56m · Benoit Dageville, Christian KleinermanThe product keynote ran through a long list of launches meant to match the "GA faster" promise: Iceberg tables and dynamic tables went GA, Snowflake Notebooks and the pandas API on Snowpark entered preview, and Cortex gained fine-tuning, Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search for building chat apps over structured and text data.
Key themes: Data platforms, Governance, Agents
- 1Dynamic tables, the declarative incremental pipelines used by more than 3,000 customers, became generally available
- 2Apache Iceberg tables became generally available, with Snowflake-managed or externally managed catalogs
- 3Microsoft Fabric OneLake support for Iceberg makes Snowflake data show up in Power BI, Teams and Excel both ways
- 4Horizon governance added data classification, custom and automatic classification, tag propagation and a Trust Center
- 5Snowflake Notebooks entered public preview, with a container runtime for GPUs and an inline Copilot
- 6Snowflake Copilot became generally available
- 7Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search were introduced to build chat experiences over structured tables and text documents
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Dynamic tablesDeclarative incremental transformation pipelines | GA |
| Apache Iceberg tablesSnowflake-managed or externally managed Iceberg tables in all clouds | GA |
| Snowpark Container ServicesGA on AWS, public preview on Azure | GA |
| Snowflake TrailObservability for Snowpark: logs, metrics, traces and a log explorer | Announced |
| Snowflake NotebooksPublic preview, with an optional container runtime with GPUs | Preview |
| Snowflake CopilotNatural-language SQL assistant | GA |
| Snowpark pandas APIDistributed, pandas-compatible API | Preview |
| Cortex Fine-TuningOne-command fine-tuning of base models on your data | Preview |
| Cortex AnalystNatural-language questions over structured data for apps | Announced |
| Cortex SearchManaged hybrid search to build chatbots over text data, public preview soon | Coming |
Snowflake Summit 2024 | Opening KeynoteJun 3, 2024 · 35m · Sridhar Ramaswamy, Jensen HuangSridhar Ramaswamy's first Summit as CEO set the next chapter as making AI easy for everyone on the AI Data Cloud, with a promise to ship to general availability faster. The headline launch was Polaris Catalog, an open catalog for Apache Iceberg, and Jensen Huang joined from Taipei to announce that Snowflake adopted NVIDIA AI Enterprise for Cortex AI.
Key themes: Data platforms, Open source, AI infrastructure
- 1Snowflake framed its next chapter as making AI easy for everyone, on the same simplicity it brought to data
- 2Polaris Catalog announced: an open catalog for Apache Iceberg, interoperable with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and other engines
- 3Ramaswamy committed to "permanently accelerating" delivery and getting features to GA faster, not only previews
- 4Cortex AI serves models from Google, Meta, Mistral AI, NVIDIA and Reka plus Snowflake's own Arctic family, fully managed
- 5Partner Coda Brain, a natural-language assistant over enterprise data built on Cortex AI, entered private preview
- 6Snowflake adopted NVIDIA AI Enterprise, bringing NeMo Retriever and accelerated computing to Cortex AI next to customer data
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Polaris CatalogOpen catalog for Apache Iceberg with interoperability across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure | Announced |
| NVIDIA AI Enterprise in Snowflake Cortex AINeMo Retriever and NVIDIA accelerated computing for Cortex AI and Snowpark Container Services | Announced |
Companies on stage
Named or launching: Microsoft, Mutual of Omaha, Woodside Energy, Snowflake, Coda, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, Nvidia, Reka
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