BUILD 2024 keynote
Christian Kleinerman · Nov 12, 2024 · 59m · Online
Summary
Snowflake'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 · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Streaming and read-write support for Apache Iceberg tables became generally available15:25
- 2Snowflake Open Catalog, the managed Polaris catalog for Iceberg, became generally available17:10
- 3Document AI, natural-language extraction from documents, became generally available and works with COPY19:17
- 4A Snowflake connector for SharePoint feeds documents into Cortex Search, free on the Marketplace40:50
- 5Snowflake Intelligence was introduced as a platform for no-code data agents, preview expected within about a month51:18
- 6Hybrid tables, the Unistore transactional table type, became generally available on AWS58:04
Announced
5 available the same day| 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 |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq0YxaBsYnA
- Christian KleinermanEVP of Product, Snowflake
Companies named: Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Snowflake
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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