Forrester's analyst recap of Snowflake Summit 2026 reports that Snowflake renamed Snowflake Intelligence to CoWork and Cortex Code to CoCo, and positioned them as the core of a control layer for AI agents that act across company systems. Snowflake paired this with its Natoma acquisition, agentic search, Cortex Sense and Horizon Context. Forrester cautions buyers to test how much of the vision is actually delivered.
What changed
Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code carried their original names, and Snowflake positioned itself mainly as a cloud data warehouse and analytics platform.
What it unlocks
Buyers can evaluate Snowflake as a coordination layer for AI agents that act across company systems, rather than only as a place to store and query data.
- forrester.com2026-08-07