Posit wins two Snowflake Partner Awards and launches Posit Assistant at Snowflake Summit 2026
Posit won two Snowflake Partner of the Year Awards at Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, 2026: Global Product Innovation Partner of the Year and AI/ML Data Science Tooling Partner of the Year. Posit also launched Posit Assistant, an AI agent for data scientists that works entirely within the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Posit is Snowflake's only Premier Partner delivering a fully native R and Python data science platform, enabling enterprise teams to ship reproducible, governed AI workflows without data ever leaving Snowflake's security boundary.
At Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco, we heard one theme again and again from the data scientists, engineers, and IT leaders we spoke with: they're under pressure to move faster with AI, without sacrificing the trust, reproducibility, and governance their organizations require.
That's exactly what the Posit and Snowflake partnership is built to solve. Posit exists to help joint customers do AI-powered data science they can actually stand behind. Read on for a recap of our inspired experiences with customers at Summit.
Snowflake Summit 2026 Opening Keynote and Vision
Snowflake Summit opened with CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy outlining Snowflake's vision for helping organizations turn AI's promise into measurable business impact. Joined by leaders from companies including Accenture and Anthropic, the keynote explored how organizations are moving beyond AI experimentation and toward enterprise-wide adoption built on trusted data, governance, and interoperability.
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy and Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei
During the keynote discussion, Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei reflected on the unprecedented pace of change facing organizations today. While AI capabilities continue to advance rapidly, she emphasized the importance of maintaining a strong culture of trust and responsibility. Her comments also underscored the need for empathy, recognizing that customers, teams, and leaders are all navigating significant change. The message reinforced a theme that carried throughout the Summit: successful AI adoption isn't just about technology.
For Posit customers, it means having a platform that augments your judgment rather than replacing it, and workflows that you can explain, reproduce, and audit. Alongside Snowflake, we provide data science tools with the peace of mind that your organization’s work is securely in Snowflake, a benefit which Christian Kleinerman, Executive Vice President of Product at Snowflake, also emphatically communicated in his keynote.
Christian Kleinerman, Executive Vice President of Product at Snowflake
What two Partner of the Year Awards mean for joint customers
Snowflake Summit 2026 brought a milestone worth celebrating: Posit won two 2026 Snowflake Partner Awards: the Global Product Innovation Partner of the Year and the Product Partner of the Year for AI/ML Data Science Tooling. Posit is the first and only partner to deliver a fully native R and Python data science platform inside the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, spanning development, deployment, and governance, without data ever leaving the security boundary.
But what matters more than the recognition is what it reflects: joint customers are shipping real, quality work with Posit products.
"These awards are a testament to what our teams have built together," said Adam Smith, VP of Alliances at Posit. "Open-source data science produces more trustworthy, reproducible results, and by embedding that capability directly into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, we're helping joint customers go from raw data to production AI-powered data products faster than ever before."
The recognition reflects the real-world impact joint customers are seeing. The National Marrow Donor Program uses Posit Connect and Snowflake to score a registry of 42 million donors at scale, offloading computationally intensive workloads to Snowflake while keeping data accurate and up to date in real time. Pinterest uses Posit Workbench and Snowflake to analyze over 30,000 employee comments securely.
Read the full announcement for more details.
The Posit team proudly accepts two Snowflake Partner awards
What trusted AI-powered data science looks like in practice, for you
Trust was a recurring theme throughout Snowflake Summit, and Posit's Chetan Thapar brought that theme to life in his session, AI-Powered R and Python Data Science You Can Actually Trust.
"The agent isn't providing answers. It's suggesting. You are deciding," shared Chetan during his demo of the Posit Team Native App, showing how Posit Assistant, powered by Snowflake Cortex LLMs, can accelerate data science workflows while keeping humans in control. Combined with reproducible, code-backed analysis and Snowflake governance, the Posit Team Native App delivers a secure, governed approach to end-to-end AI-driven data science that enterprise organizations can trust.
Chetan presents "AI-Powered R & Python Data Science You Can Actually Trust."
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Thank you for joining us
We enjoyed meeting so many of our professional and open-source customers at the booth and in our session. Congrats to all our raffle prize winners, and thank you for stopping by to see us!
Our JBL speaker prize winner!
Ready to talk data science with you!
Snuggling our polar partner, the Snowflake Cortex bear
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Now available to you: Posit Assistant offers AI Assistance with Snowflake Cortex
The biggest product news we brought to Summit: data scientists on Snowflake can now try Posit Assistant, a new AI agent in the Positron IDE that works within your Snowflake data perimeter, and even within the Posit Team Native App. Learn more about our latest release.
Posit Connect is also now generally available in the Posit Team Native App on the Snowflake Marketplace. Data science teams can now publish Shiny applications, Jupyter notebooks, Quarto documents, Plumber APIs, Streamlit apps, and more, all inside the Snowflake Data Cloud, with no separate infrastructure required.
Alongside Connect's GA, Posit Package Manager has entered Public Preview in the same native app. It gives IT and data science teams a governed, Snowflake-native repository for open-source R and Python packages, with vulnerability reporting from the OSV database, pre-built Linux binaries, date-based snapshots for reproducible environments, and an MCP server for AI-assisted workflows. In short: your open-source stack, secured and governed inside Snowflake.
All Posit connected apps and native apps are available today from the Snowflake Marketplace, where teams can start a free 30-day trial.
What's next
Whether or not you made it to Summit, everything is available to explore now:
- Get the Posit Team Native App and start a free 30-day trial
- Learn about the Posit and Snowflake partnership
- How Posit and Snowflake Built an Enterprise Data Science Engine: From Native Integration to 173% Pipeline Growth
- Watch our Summit Demo Videos:
- Watch May Workflow Demo Video on the Posit Team Native App
Recap: the Posit & Snowflake Partnership
About Posit
Posit, PBC (formerly RStudio) creates software that helps individuals, teams, and organizations make better decisions with data. We believe the best analyses are correct, transparent, and reproducible, and that humans and AI work best together. Posit’s products, including Workbench, Connect, and Package Manager, power data science teams at thousands of organizations worldwide, from startups to the Fortune 500. Learn more at posit.co.
About Snowflake
Snowflake is the platform for the AI era, making it easy for enterprises to innovate faster and get more value from data. More than 13,300 customers around the globe, including hundreds of the world’s largest companies, use Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to build, use and share data, applications and AI. With Snowflake, data and AI are transformative for everyone. Learn more at snowflake.com (NYSE: SNOW).
What awards did Posit win at Snowflake Summit 2026? Posit won two 2026 Snowflake Partner Awards: the Global Product Innovation Partner of the Year and the Product Partner of the Year for AI/ML Data Science Tooling. Both were presented at Snowflake Summit 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, 2026.
Is Posit Connect available on the Snowflake Marketplace? Yes. Posit Connect is now generally available in the Posit Team Native App on the Snowflake Marketplace. Data science teams can publish Shiny applications, Jupyter notebooks, Quarto documents, Plumber APIs, and Streamlit apps inside the Snowflake Data Cloud with no separate infrastructure required.
What is the Posit Team Native App for Snowflake? The Posit Team Native App is a governed, code-first data science platform that runs natively inside the Snowflake AI Data Cloud via Snowpark Container Services. It includes Posit Workbench for development, Posit Connect for deployment, and Posit Package Manager for open-source package governance, all without data leaving Snowflake's security boundary.
What is Posit's partnership status with Snowflake? Posit is a Premier Partner in the Snowflake Partner Network, the highest tier of the Snowflake partner ecosystem. Posit is also the only partner to offer a fully native end-to-end R and Python data science platform inside the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
What did Chetan Thapar present at Snowflake Summit 2026? Chetan Thapar, Senior Product Manager at Posit, led a theater session on June 3 titled "AI-Powered R & Python Data Science You Can Actually Trust." The session demonstrated how the Posit Team Native App brings AI-assisted, reproducible data science workflows directly into Snowflake, including the only managed R runtime on the platform.
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