Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026

Databricks confirmed the full keynote lineup on June 2, 2026. Databricks co-founders Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji and Reynold Xin will headline the main stage with product announcements, live demos and customer stories. Guest keynote speakers include Greg Brockman (President and Co-Founder, OpenAI), Satya Nadella (Chairman and CEO, Microsoft) in a pre-recorded fireside chat, and Magesh Bagavathi (Global Chief Data and AI Officer, PepsiCo). Federico Cohen Freue (Executive Vice President, AI and Data Operations, Mastercard) is also confirmed.

The 2026 programme includes 800+ breakout sessions spanning data engineering, warehousing, governance, analytics, applications, agents and AI. Featured AI sessions come from Anthropic, Cognition, CrewAI, Glean, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Lovable, OpenAI and Replit, covering agentic architectures, foundation models and real-world AI applications.

Databricks experts are running 25+ training and certification courses across Lakebase, Genie, vibe coding and more. Multi-day hackathons are also part of the programme.

The FIFA World Cup is being hosted in San Francisco during the same period. Databricks recommends booking hotels early through the Data + AI Summit registration page to access the event rate.

Sessions cover agentic architectures, foundation models and how enterprises are deploying AI in production. Featured speakers from Anthropic, OpenAI, LangChain and LlamaIndex bring hands-on perspectives from teams building at scale.

Technical tracks cover the latest advances in Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, Databricks Apps, Databricks SQL and Lakebase, alongside open source frameworks including DSPy, PyTorch, dbt and Trino.

Industry sessions address how data and AI are being applied across financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and the public sector. Speakers from Mastercard, Novo Nordisk, PepsiCo and NVIDIA are confirmed.

The summit is the primary gathering point for open source contributors behind Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. Databricks co-founders, the original creators of all three, lead technical sessions on the direction of the open source ecosystem.

The main stage runs the full keynote and featured session programme across all four days. Databricks co-founders open with product announcements and live demos, followed by guest keynotes from OpenAI and Microsoft.

Sessions span the full data and AI landscape across data engineering, warehousing, governance, analytics, applications, agents and AI. Curated guides help attendees navigate announcements by platform and topic.

25+ hands-on training and certification courses are led by Databricks experts. Courses cover Lakebase, Genie, vibe coding and core Databricks platform skills.

The Expo brings together Databricks customers, partners and sponsors for product demos, networking and hands-on access to the broader ecosystem.

Multi-day hackathons run throughout the event for builders and developers. These are included as part of the full conference programme.

The summit is the primary venue for tracking where the Databricks platform is heading, with product announcements, live demos and 800+ technical sessions covering the full data engineering stack.

Featured sessions from Anthropic, OpenAI, LangChain and Replit give engineering teams a direct view into how agentic AI is being built and deployed in production today.

Keynotes from Ali Ghodsi, Greg Brockman and Satya Nadella cover where data infrastructure, foundation models and enterprise AI are heading, making this a high-signal event for anyone building AI-native products.

Industry tracks and executive speakers from Mastercard, PepsiCo and Novo Nordisk connect data strategy to real business outcomes across finance, operations and healthcare.