Snowflake to announce Saudi MCIT initiative at LEAP 2026
Snowflake plans to announce a strategic initiative with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) during LEAP 2026, further expanding its involvement in the Kingdom’s AI and digital transformation ecosystem.
Snowflake said in an announcement that the initiative will be unveiled as part of its participation at LEAP 2026, which runs from August 31 to September 3 in Riyadh. The company has not yet disclosed details of the initiative, but said it would reinforce its long-term support for Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation and AI ambitions.
The initiative would build on Snowflake’s existing technology presence in Saudi Arabia. Its Data Cloud is already deployed on Google Cloud’s Dammam region, giving customers a KSA-based deployment option alongside Snowflake’s wider Middle East infrastructure. Snowflake enabled data sharing and collaboration for accounts in its KSA region in 2025, while additional Cortex AI capabilities for document processing became available in Dammam in July 2026.
At LEAP, Snowflake will also showcase its approach to the “Agentic Enterprise,” including CoCo, a coding agent designed to automate data and AI workflows, and CoWork, an agent for business users that can work across structured and unstructured enterprise data.
Saudi customers Red Sea Global, O3sigma and Zahid Group will present examples of their use of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, while the company also plans additional signing ceremonies with customers and partners during the event.
US-based Snowflake provides a cloud platform for enterprise data, analytics and AI applications. Its platform allows organizations to store, process, govern and analyze data and build AI applications across cloud infrastructure.
