Summit 2025 keynote
Christian Kleinerman · Jun 3, 2025 · 1h 41m · San Francisco, California
Summary
The 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 · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Adaptive Compute announced: Snowflake picks cluster sizes and scaling automatically instead of users sizing warehouses21:46
- 2A much simpler pricing model for data ingestion was announced23:47
- 3Snowflake Openflow, a managed ingestion service for structured and unstructured sources such as SharePoint and Slack, was announced32:03
- 4dbt projects will run natively in Snowflake, including the next-generation dbt Fusion engine, under a dbt Labs partnership39:36
- 5Snowflake Postgres, a managed Postgres service from the Crunchy Data acquisition, was announced55:33
- 6SnowConvert became free for everyone, and SnowConvert AI adds AI-assisted code conversion and testing for migrations57:40
- 7Snowflake Intelligence, an agent experience for business users with cited answers, was introduced, public preview soon1:23:01
Announced
1 available the same day| 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 |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXpqQk0CBZY
- Christian KleinermanEVP of Product, Snowflake
Companies named: Crunchy Data, dbt Labs, Fiserv, Microsoft, Sigma, Snowflake
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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