AI agents, open data and governance take center stage at Snowflake Summit
Snowflake Inc. is using its Summit 2026 conference today in San Francisco to present a vision of what it calls the “agentic enterprise,” unveiling a broad set of products and enhancements that it says help organizations build, govern and operate artificial intelligence systems on top of trusted enterprise data.
The announcements span data interoperability, AI governance, security, application development and knowledge-worker productivity, all tied together by a growing portfolio of AI agents.
AI’s long-term value depends less on foundation models and more on the ability to connect those models to enterprise data, business context and operational systems, Christian Kleinerman, Snowflake’s executive vice president of product, said in a briefing,
“Models keep changing, and capabilities keep advancing, but the data is constant,” he said. “We are helping our customers combine their data with whatever model is leading in the industry and provide governance for both.”
