Data platforms
21 keynotes · 10 conference series · 2024 to 2026
Databases, lakehouses, warehouses, streaming, analytics and data engineering.
Keynotes where data platforms was a key theme
21 keynotes
| Date | Keynote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2026 |  Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026Ali Ghodsi · 58m · 6 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Security | Agents, Data platforms, Security | The problem is not AGI in labs but that agents are not yet doing autonomous work inside companies, Ghodsi argued | 6 |
| Jun 2, 2026 |  Snowflake Summit 2026Christian Kleinerman · 1h 38m · 13 announcedAgents, AI coding, Data platforms | Agents, AI coding, Data platforms | Snowflake Data Stream introduced: Kafka wire-compatible event capture that lands topics as Snowflake tables, private preview soon | 13 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Snowflake Summit 2026Sridhar Ramaswamy, Daniela Amodei, Julie Sweet · 1h 1m · 1 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Governance | Agents, Data platforms, Governance | Ramaswamy declared "the era of the agentic enterprise", built on four parts: enterprise data and context, models, applications and a control plane | 1 |
| May 18, 2026 |  Dell Technologies World 2026Michael Dell · 1h 6m · 5 announcedAI infrastructure, Open models, Data platforms | AI infrastructure, Open models, Data platforms | New open models on the Dell AI Factory include MiniMax M2.7, DeepSeek V4, GLM 5.1 and Kimi K2.6, joining Gemma 4 | 5 |
| May 12, 2026 |  SAP Sapphire 2026Christian Klein · 1h 25m · 7 announcedAgents, Enterprise apps, Data platforms | Agents, Enterprise apps, Data platforms | The SAP Business AI Platform merges SAP's AI foundation, Business Data Cloud and Business Technology Platform | 7 |
| Oct 29, 2025 |  Confluent Current 2025Jay Kreps · 1h 48m · 8 announcedData platforms, Agents | Data platforms, Agents | Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data | 8 |
| Oct 14, 2025 |  dbt Coalesce 2025Tristan Handy · 1h 38m · 4 announcedData platforms, Open source, Agents | Data platforms, Open source, Agents | dbt Labs had announced its merger with Fivetran the day before; Handy explained what it means for the community | 4 |
| Oct 14, 2025 |  Oracle AI World 2025Larry Ellison · 1h 34m · 3 announcedData platforms, AI infrastructure, Agents | Data platforms, AI infrastructure, Agents | Leading models like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Llama are trained on public internet data; the next step is reasoning over private data | 3 |
| Sep 18, 2025 |  MongoDB.local 2025Dev Ittycheria · 1h 18m · 5 announcedData platforms, Agents | Data platforms, Agents | Dev Ittycheria opened MongoDB.local NYC 2025 on what the ideal database for the AI era looks like | 5 |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025Ali Ghodsi · 22m · 11 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | Databricks now counts more than 15,000 customers running on the platform across every major cloud | 11 |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Snowflake Summit 2025Christian Kleinerman · 1h 41m · 8 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Pricing | Agents, Data platforms, Pricing | Adaptive Compute announced: Snowflake picks cluster sizes and scaling automatically instead of users sizing warehouses | 8 |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Snowflake Summit 2025Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, Sarah Guo · 58m · 3 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Models | Agents, Data platforms, Models | Snowflake highlighted deeper Apache Iceberg support, used by companies like Booking.com, via Catalog Linked Databases | 3 |
| May 20, 2025 | SAP Sapphire 2025Christian Klein · 1h 44m · 4 announcedEnterprise apps, Agents, Data platforms | Enterprise apps, Agents, Data platforms | Klein argued fragmented data breaks down in the age of AI, so data must come with end-to-end business context | 4 |
| Dec 3, 2024 |  AWS re:Invent 2024Matt Garman · 2h 46m · 12 announcedAI infrastructure, Data platforms, Models | AI infrastructure, Data platforms, Models | EC2 P6 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell chips were announced | 12 |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Snowflake BUILD 2024Christian Kleinerman · 59m · 8 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | Streaming and read-write support for Apache Iceberg tables became generally available | 8 |
| Oct 8, 2024 | dbt Coalesce 2024Tristan Handy · 1h 32m · 4 announcedData platforms, Open source, AI coding | Data platforms, Open source, AI coding | One dbt: teams on different clouds and data platforms, like Databricks and Snowflake, can reference each other's projects | 4 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Confluent Current 2024Jay Kreps · 1h 37m · 3 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | AI applications need data that is relevant and up to date with what is happening right now, Kreps argued | 3 |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Oracle AI World 2024Larry Ellison · 1h 11m · 2 announcedCloud, Security, Data platforms | Cloud, Security, Data platforms | Ellison declared "the beginning of the multicloud era," with Oracle Database available inside other clouds | 2 |
| Jun 12, 2024 | Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024Ali Ghodsi · 28m · 4 announcedData platforms, Open source, Governance | Data platforms, Open source, Governance | Databricks confirmed it is acquiring Tabular, founded by the original creators of Apache Iceberg | 4 |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Snowflake Summit 2024Benoit Dageville, Christian Kleinerman · 1h 56m · 10 announcedData platforms, Governance, Agents | Data platforms, Governance, Agents | Dynamic tables, the declarative incremental pipelines used by more than 3,000 customers, became generally available | 10 |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Snowflake Summit 2024Sridhar Ramaswamy, Jensen Huang · 35m · 2 announcedData platforms, Open source, AI infrastructure | Data platforms, Open source, AI infrastructure | Snowflake framed its next chapter as making AI easy for everyone, on the same simplicity it brought to data | 2 |
By year and related themes
| Theme | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data platforms | 8 | 8 | 5 |
Often together with: Agents (15), Open source (7), AI infrastructure (4), Governance (3), Security (2)
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