Ashwin Kamath

Data governance complexity compounds when you run multi-catalog, multi-engine Iceberg environments. What if you could apply governance and access policies in one catalog across your entire multi-catalog and multi-engine Iceberg environment? Join Snowflake's product teams as they share how Horizon Catalog connects your entire Iceberg ecosystem, regardless of catalog and engine, to deliver an open and interoperable data foundation that is enterprise ready. Manage secure access for external engines to any Iceberg table, apply persistent RBAC and FGAC policies across engines, audit every operation in one single experience. Do it all, with Horizon Catalog.

Apache Iceberg is the foundation for open lakehouses, but consistent governance and true interoperability remain a challenge. This dedicated session cuts through the noise to detail Horizon Catalog’s competitive differentiation. Learn how bringing Polaris inside Horizon creates a truly open ecosystem and why our Iceberg REST Catalog supports secure read/write access across engines. We showcase our leadership in extending fine-grained governance, including enforcing row and column policies on external engines like Apache Spark. Snowflake Horizon is the only catalog that is fully interoperable, future-proof beyond Iceberg and offers zero lock-in for your evolving AI workloads.

Have multiple copies of the same data? Learn how Snowflake is delivering interoperability without compromise, making it easier to architect for multi-engine access on a single data copy, across more use cases, with governance policies that persists across engines at the table, row, and column level. In this What's New session we'll cover the latest features expanding what you can do with Iceberg v3, how Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg(tm) makes it easy to unlock interoperability without bucket managemnet, new Horizon Catalog capabilities that deliver universal governance for mulit-catalog envrinoments and persisst fine grained access policies across engines, and how to share and access open data within and outside of Snowflake's bounderies.

Security and governance is a top priority in order to unlock the full value of data in open table formats. Join this session to dive into the latest features and best practices using Snowflake Open Catalog, a managed service for Apache Polaris™ (incubating).

Rethink how you build open, connected, and governed data lakehouses: integrate any Iceberg REST compatible catalog to Snowflake to securely read from and write to any Iceberg table with Catalog Linked Databases. Unlock insights and AI from semi-structured data with support for VARIANT data types. And enjoy enterprise-grade security with Snowflake's managed service for Apache Polaris™, Snowflake Open Catalog.