Summit 2024 keynote
Benoit Dageville · Christian Kleinerman · Jun 4, 2024 · 1h 56m · San Francisco, California
Summary
The 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 · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Dynamic tables, the declarative incremental pipelines used by more than 3,000 customers, became generally available27:48
- 2Apache Iceberg tables became generally available, with Snowflake-managed or externally managed catalogs30:16
- 3Microsoft Fabric OneLake support for Iceberg makes Snowflake data show up in Power BI, Teams and Excel both ways34:14
- 4Horizon governance added data classification, custom and automatic classification, tag propagation and a Trust Center45:26
- 5Snowflake Notebooks entered public preview, with a container runtime for GPUs and an inline Copilot1:24:20
- 6Snowflake Copilot became generally available1:26:30
- 7Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search were introduced to build chat experiences over structured tables and text documents1:41:32
Announced
4 available the same day| 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 |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EQpUv0U4Ac
- Benoit DagevilleCo-founder and President of Product, Snowflake
- Christian KleinermanEVP of Product, Snowflake
Companies named: Microsoft, Mutual of Omaha, Woodside Energy, Snowflake
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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