Snowflake Unveils AI Agents, Governance Tools at Summit

Snowflake used its Summit 2026 conference in San Francisco to unveil a sweeping set of products centered on what it calls the agentic enterprise. Announcements cover data interoperability, AI governance, security, and developer tools, all built around expanding AI agent capabilities on enterprise data. Key releases include Iceberg v3 support, expanded Horizon Catalog governance features, and a new Agent Identity system giving each AI agent distinct permissions. The company also rebranded its coding agent as CoCo and introduced Snowflake Datastream, a managed Kafka-compatible streaming service.