Summit 2026 keynote
Christian Kleinerman · Jun 2, 2026 · 1h 38m · San Francisco, California
Summary
Kleinerman's 2026 platform keynote put Cortex Code at the center of every workflow, from pipelines to governance, and added Snowflake Data Stream for Kafka-compatible streaming, the Snowflake app runtime for full React apps, agent identity and data movement policies for governing agents, Horizon Context, a new interactive query compiler and open data sharing over Iceberg REST.
Key themes: Agents, AI coding, Data platforms · AI-written summary from the published transcript
- 1Snowflake Data Stream introduced: Kafka wire-compatible event capture that lands topics as Snowflake tables, private preview soon21:13
- 2Cortex Function Studio entered public preview to build and evaluate custom AI functions23:46
- 3The Snowflake app runtime entered public preview, running Node.js (Python soon) so full React apps run inside Snowflake30:34
- 4Cortex Code ("CoCo") for desktop became generally available, alongside Excel, VS Code and CLI form factors32:02
- 5Governance for agents: agent identity in policies, data movement policies and multi-party approvals for sensitive operations41:09
- 6A new interactive query compiler was introduced for faster interactive workloads53:05
- 7Open sharing lets non-Snowflake consumers read shared data through Iceberg and the Iceberg REST catalog, in public preview1:07:02
Announced
3 available the same day| Announcement | Status |
|---|---|
| Snowflake Data StreamKafka wire-compatible streaming into Snowflake tables, private preview shortly | Coming |
| Cortex Function StudioCreate and evaluate custom AI functions | Preview |
| Code bundlesDeploy and run Python or Java files directly, no wrappers | Preview |
| Cortex trainingManaged fine-tuning and reinforcement learning of foundation models | Announced |
| Streamlit in Snowflake on a new runtimeGeneral availability of hosted Streamlit | GA |
| Snowflake app runtimeRun Node.js and full React apps in Snowflake | Preview |
| Cortex Code for desktopThe CoCo coding agent as a desktop app | GA |
| Agent identity and data movement policiesPolicies that know when an agent acts, and limits on where data moves | Announced |
| Multi-party approvalsTwo administrators must approve sensitive operations, private preview | Preview |
| Horizon ContextCatalog signals and semantics for CoCo and agents | Announced |
| Postgres data mirroringMirror Snowflake Postgres tables into Snowflake | Preview |
| Open sharing via Iceberg RESTShare with non-Snowflake consumers | Preview |
| SAP integrationZero-copy integration with SAP data | GA |
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About this keynote
Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtqKJV6gyGQ
- Christian KleinermanEVP of Product, Snowflake
Companies named: IBM, Salesforce, Samsung, SAP, Workday, Snowflake
Last changed 2026-09-24.
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