Benoit Dageville on agentic enterprise
From Snowflake Summit 2026 Platform Keynote · · Snowflake Inc.
“As I mentioned, we have now entered the era of the agentic enterprise. And to thrive in this new era, you really need two things. First, the foundation. The world best AI agents must be powered by the world best data platform. Second, you need a unified architecture. Both AI and data must live on a single integrated platform. building an isolated AI stack. Repeat the exact same mistakes we talked about earlier. Basically recreating silos, fracturing your governance, and driving up cost and complexity.”
On , Benoit Dageville, Cofounder at Snowflake, spoke about agentic enterprise during Snowflake Summit 2026 Platform Keynote on Snowflake Inc..
About Benoit Dageville
At the Snowflake Summit 2026 Platform Keynote on June 2, 2026, Snowflake co-founder Benoit Dageville discussed the company's architectural vision and recent product developments. Dageville stated that in 2012 he and co-founder Thierry Cruanes identified two fundamental problems with data: data was siloed between traditional warehouses and Hadoop systems, and maintaining consistent security and governance was difficult due to scattered data. He said Snowflake was created to address these issues by building a platform that unifies structured and semistructured data, decouples compute from storage, and eliminates workload interference. Dageville described the current era as the "agentic enterprise," arguing that organizations need a unified architecture where AI and data live on a single integrated platform to avoid recreating silos and fracturing governance. He introduced several new capabilities, including private link support and customer-managed keys for Snowflake Postgres, a managed version of the PG Lake extension for synchronizing data from Postgres into an open lake, and Post data mirroring for low-latency table mirroring. Dageville also announced interactive workloads with interactive tables and warehouses, changes to cluster size for performance improvements, and pre-caching features. He concluded by stating that Snowflake's platform unifies AI and data to power the agentic enterprise.