Databricks claims the largest data and AI conference in the world with 32k attendees as CEO touts AI co-workers fed full enterprise context.
“We're going to have more software generated in the next year than in the history of humanity.”
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Microsoft predicts over a billion AI agents will join the workforce as full-fledged employees within two years, powered by Fabric.
“we are now predicting over a billion agents joining the workforce over the next two years”
Pinterest built an agentic LLM tool using MCP and ReAct to auto-diagnose Apache Spark job failures
“Our vision for a diagnostics agent was to ask it simply, 'Why did a job fail?' and get back a deep research document which provides evidence on the root cause of the failure.”
Databricks unveiled capabilities to turn video into searchable, actionable intelligence for enterprise use cases.
PepsiCo consolidated 60+ data lakes into one Databricks lakehouse, with 90% of its data now on the platform powering AI.
“for us, what we truly believe is an AI transformation is a data transformation”
PepsiCo partnered with Microsoft to build an agentic AI solution on a unified lakehouse data platform.
“so many companies believe if they don't have the right data infrastructure, the right data, the right secure data, quality data, AI projects are kind of doomed to fail”
Databricks is presenting Lakebase, streaming, and lakehouse innovations at VLDB 2026.
Virgin Atlantic uses Databricks and Unity Catalog to deliver real-time passenger personalization to inflight crew.
“we're using the Databricks platform to get that information to our crew where they can apply that extra context, that Virgin magic to make sure that you don't get the gin and tonic, you get the champagne that you really want.”
Hugging Face Hub paid tier adds private workspaces, AI data chat, and GPU compute jobs for enterprises.
Rivian uses Databricks Genie and fleet ML to make vehicles continuously improve over time
“We're collecting a tremendous amount of data, tens of thousands of data points from the vehicle. This turns into petabytes of data that we stream up into the lake house, and then using machine learning, using Genie, we're able to learn from that data.”
Agentic AI has created new demand for cross-source reasoning over data wherever it lives.
“Agentic AI has created demand for cross-source reasoning that didn't exist 12 months ago”
Databricks positions unified data platform as solution for cross-system manufacturing defect analysis
Databricks launches Governance Hub for intelligent account-level cost and governance visibility.
Databricks named highest in execution and furthest in vision in Gartner Magic Quadrant for a second year.
Databricks is expanding its Free Edition to give more people access to data and AI learning.
“Today, more people than ever want to learn data and AI”
Databricks aims to become the most comprehensive data and AI ecosystem on earth.
“All in all, we're just another brick in the wall”
Databricks pitches a data platform approach to close gaps in healthcare revenue cycle workflows beyond X12 parsing.
HSS built MD360 on Databricks Lakehouse to eliminate provider administrative burden while keeping AI cautious for healthcare safety.
“Today, the only thing holding us back is our imagination and willingness to change what we often believe has always been the way things have been done”
Amtrak is building a unified data platform to support its largest modernization in 50+ years
“Every new trainset is a data-generating asset. The intelligence platform that connects...”
Databricks positions data platforms as essential tools for health system financial margin management
“Quality care is the mission. Finance protects the margin.”
Databricks targets energy sector CFOs with data platform for volatile margin management
“Ask an energy CFO where this year's margin is landing and you will always get a hard-won answer”
Databricks Lakehouse turns NBA player-tracking data into competitive advantage for sports teams.
Kythera Labs is building an AI-native healthcare data platform on Databricks to surface answers already in data.
Databricks argues data migrations should be reframed around real business outcomes rather than risk and effort.
Databricks promotes its platform for modernizing BSA/AML compliance in financial services.
Databricks pitches a learning health system to help 700+ hospitals succeed under CMS's mandatory TEAM bundled-payment model starting January 2026.
Databricks Lakebase enables FHIR-native health data platform unifying fragmented healthcare data sources
Databricks argues QSR reports miss decision-critical insights on limited-time offers
Databricks positions itself as a strategic migration target from BigQuery for enterprises
Databricks announced the winners of its 2026 Customer Awards recognizing organizations using its platform.
AWS architects discuss preparing data platforms for the agentic AI world.
“we're helping organizations to get their data platforms ready for the agentic AI world”