Taking place from 2nd-5th June 2025 in San Francisco, Snowflake’s flagship annual Summit hosted over 20,000 attendees, with 500 sessions and 36 hands-on labs across four information-packed days.
From major infrastructure updates by Benoit Dageville and EVP Christian Kleinerman, to visionary keynotes by CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman summarising the future of AI within the platform, it was clear that Snowflake is no longer just a data warehouse—its goal is to become the data backbone for all modern enterprises.
Major Announcements
- Agentic AI: A unified foundation between data and outcomes to simplify and scale with security in mind
- Cortex AISQL: Cortex AISQL integrates AI capabilities directly into Snowflake’s SQL engine. What does that mean in real terms? Your organisation can process text, images and audio faster and more cost effectively. Your teams can access cutting edge AI tools and gain deeper insights in a shorter space of time – uncovering more from both structured and unstructured data. Find out more here > Cortex AISQL: Reimagining SQL into AI Query Language for Multimodal Data
- Snowflake Intelligence: Speed up decision making by using natural language to converse with your data in a way never possible before.
- Empower your teams to ask questions and understand the ‘why’ on demand without being blocked by limited resources or overstretched analyst teams to generate reports on their behalf. Snowflake Intelligence also enables you to build agents to perform tasks or trigger workflows to help your teams work with efficiency and aid decision making in real time. Find out more here > Snowflake Intelligence: Talk to Your Data, Unlock Real Business Insights
- AI observability in Snowflake Cortex AI: Coming soon. No-code monitoring of gen-AI applications, and access to LLMs within Snowflake’s secure perimeter.
- Data Science Agent – Coming soon on private preview
As an accredited Snowflake Partner, what are the Clekt team excited by?
- AI powered business intelligence (BI) got our delivery team talking. Semantic views and conversational analytics is a trend that is predicted to grow, and so having these features baked into Snowflake natively was a major plus. If you’d like to find out more, you can read the Snowflake blog post here > Snowflake’s Native Semantic Views: AI-Powered BI for the Enterprise
- Snowflake Openflow. Openflow presents a service that moves data from source to destination seamlessly but most importantly, guided by governance. Why are our team excited? Ultimately, Openflow means companies can be set up for more advanced use cases such as AI, ML or workflow creation in a shorter space of time thanks to this streamlining and prebuilt connectors. If you’d like to find out more, click here > Snowflake Openflow Revolutionizes Data Movement for AI and Interoperability
Takeaways
2024 marked a significant year for Snowflake with the acquisition of Crunchy Data, 26% year-on-year growth, and a 124% net revenue retention rate—and 2025 already looks set to eclipse it.
With Snowflake positioning itself as the leading platform for data with native AI capabilities, the momentum is undeniable. For organisations looking to simplify complex data architectures while embracing the future of intelligent automation, Snowflake is quickly becoming the go-to platform for enterprises around the world.
If you’d like to explore how your business could migrate to the Snowflake platform, or you to would like to unlock enhanced capabilities, the Clekt team are here to help. Our specialist and accredited team can advise and design the best approach for your needs aligned to budget and timescale requirements.
