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Snowflake Summit 2026: Platform keynote

Christian Kleinerman · Jun 2, 2026 · 1h 38m · San Francisco, California

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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

Where each highlight is said1:37:30
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  1. 21:13

    Snowflake Data Stream introduced: Kafka wire-compatible event capture that lands topics as Snowflake tables, private preview soon

  2. 23:46

    Cortex Function Studio entered public preview to build and evaluate custom AI functions

  3. 30:34

    The Snowflake app runtime entered public preview, running Node.js (Python soon) so full React apps run inside Snowflake

  4. 32:02

    Cortex Code ("CoCo") for desktop became generally available, alongside Excel, VS Code and CLI form factors

  5. 41:09

    Governance for agents: agent identity in policies, data movement policies and multi-party approvals for sensitive operations

  6. 53:05

    A new interactive query compiler was introduced for faster interactive workloads

  7. 1:07:02

    Open sharing lets non-Snowflake consumers read shared data through Iceberg and the Iceberg REST catalog, in public preview

Announced

3 available the same day
ComingSnowflake Data StreamKafka wire-compatible streaming into Snowflake tables, private preview shortly
PreviewCortex Function StudioCreate and evaluate custom AI functions
PreviewCode bundlesDeploy and run Python or Java files directly, no wrappers
AnnouncedCortex trainingManaged fine-tuning and reinforcement learning of foundation models
GAStreamlit in Snowflake on a new runtimeGeneral availability of hosted Streamlit
PreviewSnowflake app runtimeRun Node.js and full React apps in Snowflake
GACortex Code for desktopThe CoCo coding agent as a desktop app
AnnouncedAgent identity and data movement policiesPolicies that know when an agent acts, and limits on where data moves
PreviewMulti-party approvalsTwo administrators must approve sensitive operations, private preview
AnnouncedHorizon ContextCatalog signals and semantics for CoCo and agents
PreviewPostgres data mirroringMirror Snowflake Postgres tables into Snowflake
PreviewOpen sharing via Iceberg RESTShare with non-Snowflake consumers
GASAP integrationZero-copy integration with SAP data

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About this keynote

Keynote page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtqKJV6gyGQ

On stage

Companies named: IBM, Salesforce, Samsung, SAP, Workday, Snowflake

Last changed 2026-09-24.