Apache Iceberg™: Build a Secure and Open Enterprise Lakehouse

Join this 60-minute session on March 26th for hands-on-demos covering the latest Apache Iceberg^TM features recently announced at BUILD 2026.

Understand how to unlock interoperability across more use cases with Snowflake fully managed infrastructure. Establish a new level of enterprise security with built-in protections for disasters, managing multi-engine access without lock-in and isolating data access across your data estate.

In this session you’ll see an interoperable Lakehouse built on Snowflake in action:
 

• Snowflake Horizon Iceberg REST APIs
  
  Enables broader tool and ecosystem integration for managing Iceberg tables outside of Snowflake, increasing flexibility and enables use of the best compute for any given workload
   

• EMR Spark reading and writing to Snowflake managed Iceberg tables
  
  Facilitates seamless interoperability between Spark workloads on EMR and data governed within Snowflake, accelerating data pipeline development and reducing the friction of moving data between systems while securing enterprise-grade data privacy and security controls
  
  

• Variant data type support in Snowflake Managed Iceberg Tables
  
  Allows organizations to store and analyze semi-structured data (like JSON or Avro) directly within the governed Iceberg format, unlocking new analytical use cases without complex ETL
  
  

• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery / replication for Snowflake Managed iceberg Tables
  
  Ensures data availability and disaster recovery readiness for critical Iceberg data assets, minimizing downtime and meeting stringent business continuity requirements.
   

• Snowflake interoperability with other data lakehouse platforms
  
  Maximizing data accessibility and collaboration across a multi-platform data strategy, ensuring a single source of truth for governed Iceberg data regardless of the consumption engine or data management strategy.