Snowflake Summit 2025 – live event coverage as the Summit unfolds in San Francisco

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We’re reporting live from Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francisco to bring you all the key details from the company’s keynotes.

First up this evening, a welcome keynote from Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy who will begin by exploring how AI has impacted all organizations. He’ll be joined by OpenAI Founder and CEO Sam Altman to discuss the future of AI.

Tomorrow, we’ll get into what’s new for Snowflake, so stay tuned for all the updates as they happen!

It’s day one of Snowflake Summit 2025, and our priority is heading over to the registration desks for badge collection. The main event starts tomorrow, but tonight we’re being welcomed by Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy who will be joined by OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

We’ve just picked up our attendee badge at the Moscone Center ready for this week’s Summit. Today, it’s a chance to have a leisurely look around the venue before we join this evening’s welcome keynote.

Snowflake Summit 2025 registration desk — (Image credit: Future)

After a quick intro from Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy and EVP of Product Christian Kleinerman in the press room, we’ve now taken our seat for the welcome keynote in the main hall. We’re told the big announcements are to come tomorrow.

Snowflake Summit 2025 — (Image credit: Future)

Joining Ramaswamy on stage and probed about how enterprises can effectively adopt AI, NYSE President Lynn Martin advises businesses to stick to their core principles and the use cases for AI will follow, challenging the opposing view of throwing AI at a wall and seeing what sticks, “like spaghetti.”

NYSE President Lynn Martin speaking at Snowflake Summit 2025 — (Image credit: Future)

Well that was a challenge – maybe all 5,000 attendees were connected to the Wi-Fi, because our internet connection suddenly dropped. We’ve a few more posts to come this evening from the welcome keynote before we sign off for the night…

Joining us on stage for a brief 15 minutes, OpenAI Founder and CEO Sam Altman shared some valuable insights into what comes next.

Sam Altman at Snowflake Summit 2025 — (Image credit: Future)

Altman compared today’s AI to a company intern, a junior employee at best. In the future, he envisions AI becoming more akin to an experienced or senior worker, with agents that can discover new knowledge just one or two years away compared with today’s agents that are merely capable of handling repetitive cognitive tasks.

Asked to define artificial general intelligence (AGI), the OpenAI leader explained that our expectations adjust continually. Show today’s ChatGPT to someone from five years ago, and they might believe we already have AGI. Altman explained that what really matters is the year-over-year rate of progress – he expects the past five years of progress to continue for another five years.

Offering a tiny glimpse of what’s to come from OpenAI, Sam Altman said that the emerging behaviors will be “breathtaking.” There’s a lot more progress to come, he added.

Ending this evening’s keynote, Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy revealed that the company has become an official partner and sponsor of the LA28 Olympics. Snowflake CMO Denise Persson presented a one-off snowboard to commemorate the announcement as the stage filled with snow.

LA28 Snowflake snowboard presentation at Snowflake Summit 2025 — (Image credit: Future)

And that’s it for tonight. Remember to come back tomorrow for all the details on what’s new. Fingers crossed the Wi-Fi sorts itself out by then…

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