Snowflake Summit 2025
Jun 3, 2025 · San Francisco, California · 2 keynotes · Summit 2024 · Summit 2026
Snowflake Summit 2025 Platform KeynoteJun 3, 2025 · 1h 41m · Christian KleinermanThe 2025 platform keynote moved Snowflake from answering questions to agents: Snowflake Intelligence for business users, Cortex AISQL to call models from SQL, Semantic Views for shared business meaning, plus Openflow for ingestion, dbt projects running natively, Adaptive Compute, a managed Postgres service and free SnowConvert AI migrations.
Key themes: Agents, Data platforms, Pricing
- 1Adaptive Compute announced: Snowflake picks cluster sizes and scaling automatically instead of users sizing warehouses
- 2A much simpler pricing model for data ingestion was announced
- 3Snowflake Openflow, a managed ingestion service for structured and unstructured sources such as SharePoint and Slack, was announced
- 4dbt projects will run natively in Snowflake, including the next-generation dbt Fusion engine, under a dbt Labs partnership
- 5Snowflake Postgres, a managed Postgres service from the Crunchy Data acquisition, was announced
- 6SnowConvert became free for everyone, and SnowConvert AI adds AI-assisted code conversion and testing for migrations
- 7Snowflake Intelligence, an agent experience for business users with cited answers, was introduced, public preview soon
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Adaptive ComputeAutomatic cluster sizing and scaling | Preview |
| Snowflake OpenflowManaged data integration for structured and unstructured sources, GA on AWS per the recap | GA |
| dbt Projects on SnowflakeBuild, test and deploy dbt projects natively, with dbt Fusion | Coming |
| Snowflake PostgresManaged Postgres with Snowflake security, from the Crunchy Data acquisition | Announced |
| SnowConvert AIFree SnowConvert plus AI-assisted migration testing | Announced |
| Cortex AISQLNatural-language AI operators inside SQL | Preview |
| Semantic ViewsShared business definitions for AI and BI tools, shareable on the Marketplace | Preview |
| Snowflake IntelligenceAgents for business users over data, public preview soon | Coming |
Snowflake Summit 2025 Opening Keynote With Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, And Sarah GuoJun 2, 2025 · 58m · Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, Sarah GuoRamaswamy opened Summit 2025 with a Sam Altman fireside chat and unveiled Snowflake Intelligence, Openflow, and Cortex AISQL for enterprise AI.
Key themes: Agents, Data platforms, Models
- 1Snowflake highlighted deeper Apache Iceberg support, used by companies like Booking.com, via Catalog Linked Databases
- 2Sam Altman and Conviction founder Sarah Guo joined Ramaswamy on stage for a fireside chat on AI and agents
- 3OpenAI and Snowflake said their partnership has driven down the cost of accessing frontier models
- 4Discussion turned to natural-language interfaces for data, foreshadowing the Snowflake Intelligence launch
- 5Altman called an AI agent completing complex scientist-level tasks unassisted a moment that felt like AGI
- 6Snowflake was named the official data collaboration partner of the LA 2028 Olympic Games
- 7NYSE President Lynn Martin joined Ramaswamy for a separate keynote conversation
| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Data Science AgentAutomates steps of the ML workflow | Preview |
| Standard Warehouse Generation 22.1x faster core analytics performance | GA |
| Cortex Knowledge ExtensionsGA planned soon for Cortex AI observability | Coming |
Companies on stage
Named or launching: Crunchy Data, dbt Labs, Fiserv, Microsoft, Sigma, Snowflake, Anthropic, Associated Press, Booking.com, CB Insights, Meta, Mistral AI, NYSE, OpenAI, Oracle, Stack Overflow, USA TODAY
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