Fresh pow: Snowflake Summit 2025 was as satisfying as first tracks

What an amazing week in San Francisco. We met with customers and partners to listen, learn, and share in the excitement of the strengthening dbt Labs and Snowflake partnership. Our booth was busy with talks, demos, and s’mores. What was clear was that last week’s dbt Launch Showcase—where we announced the dbt Fusion engine, the GA of dbt Canvas, and upcoming cost management features - resonated with the Snowflake community.

dbt Projects powered by the dbt Fusion engine

The Fusion engine allows everyone to build faster, more efficiently in dbt. It’s a game-changer for dbt Labs and our customers that delivers lightning-fast performance, with parse times up to 30x faster than dbt Core and native SQL comprehension that can provide real-time validation of code—without the need to query your warehouse. This week Snowflake announced dbt Projects available natively inside of Snowflake will be powered by dbt Fusion.

We’re excited to get the Fusion engine into the hands of as many dbt developers as possible, and Snowflake is a great distribution channel. That said, dbt Fusion delivers superior features when paired with dbt’s data control plane:

• dbt Fusion is the most efficient way to run dbt, and paired with Cost Optimization and state-aware orchestration (only available from dbt) you’ll ensure that your spend is the most efficient and effective on Snowflake.
• dbt is platform agnostic. For organizations that run Snowflake and another data platform, dbt is the best way to manage cross-platform data pipelines and projects.
• dbt Fusion improves dbt-specific features like dbt Canvas experience for analysts and the AI-powered dbt Copilot.

Whether you build in Snowflake or with us, we’re thrilled you’re on dbt and can’t wait to see what you build.

Customers shared their successes

Shoutout to Whoop for its featured spot during the Builder Keynote and highlighting how dbt and Snowflake Cortex are bringing AI and data together to produce better health outcomes for Whoop-device wearers. It was super cool to see.

Shanna Anderson and Katherine Long of Fifth Third Bank presented on how they’re building an amazing assortment of data products for their business to use.

Pooja Crahen, from Okta, shared how the company moved from siloed, fragmented data processes to one that was centralized, optimized, and governed with dbt and Snowflake.

Rahavan (Ra) Raman from Zscaler talked about how the data team speeds data model development in a governed framework, highlighting features like column-level lineage, dashboard health tiles, and CI/CD process with dbt.

The booth was slammed

Attendees couldn’t get enough of dbt Fusion, Canvas, Catalog, and the socks. Did I mention we had USA-made socks in the booth?

The parties were epic

It wasn’t just all work this week. We hosted our customers and partners at many after-hours get-togethers. Thanks to our customers, partners, and employees for making this week an amazing experience.

What’s next?

The summer is just getting started. Please join us for a webinar on June 25th or 26th, depending on which day and time works best for you, to learn more about the new, Fusion-powered dbt and Snowflake. We’ll also highlight exciting new analyst features, including dbt Canvas, dbt Insights, and the dbt Catalog, which now extends to Snowflake assets. Register here.