Where the Databricks world meets.
The Data + AI Summit, regional World Tour stops, webinars, and workshops worth your time. Plus recent talks from sessions already recorded — surfaced from the curated YouTube feed. Always verify dates on the official source.
Upcoming
3 eventsData + AI Summit 2026
Databricks' annual flagship conference. Five days of keynotes, technical breakouts, customer talks, and hands-on training spanning the whole Data + AI stack. The biggest week of the year for the ecosystem.
Data + AI Summit 2026 — Virtual Pass
Stream the keynotes and select breakout sessions of DAIS 2026 from anywhere. Free option typically covers keynotes; paid pass unlocks all sessions.
Databricks World Tour — London
Regional Databricks summit covering the latest product announcements and customer stories with a UK/EMEA focus. One-day event, free for qualified attendees.
Recent talks
From recorded sessions
Strategic App Expansion and the Power of Proprietary Data | Ali Ghodsi at HumanX
Databricks plans to strategically expand its SaaS application offerings, focusing on areas where proprietary data, security, and governance create a strong competitive moat. The company will prioritize applications that leverage its expertise in massive data processing.
How Databricks Manages Enterprise Data and AI | Ali Ghodsi at HumanX
Databricks centralizes an organization's data from various systems into a Lakehouse, securing it and setting access rules. This consolidated and secured data then feeds into AI agents, models, and analytics for business forecasting and insights.
Solving the AI Reliability Gap | Ali Ghodsi at HumanX
AI agents currently struggle with end-to-end tasks due to a lack of context, not intelligence. Addressing this reliability gap requires capturing context and changing organizational processes, a multi-year effort that Databricks is focused on.
Three Things Required for Deeper Insights from AI | Ali Ghodsi at HumanX
Databricks enables deeper AI insights by combining agents and AI with a robust database and an analytics platform. This approach allows enterprises to leverage their proprietary data for predictive analytics beyond what traditional SaaS applications offer.
AI Productivity and the PC Revolution Analogy | Ali Ghodsi at HumanX
AI offers 20-30% immediate productivity gains, especially in coding, but its full potential is hindered by a lack of context. Achieving greater automation requires re-engineering entire enterprise processes, similar to how early PC users initially treated them as typewriters before fully integrating them.
How Databricks Genie is Transforming Data Analysis in Minutes | Ali Ghodsi at HumanX
Databricks Genie allows scientists to quickly query complex data, like adverse effects in obesity studies, receiving accurate, referenced answers in minutes instead of months. Businesses like EasyJet use Genie to build agents that combine real-time data on seat availability, competitive pricing, and demand to dynamically set prices, a process that previously took months.
How Novo Nordisk Uses Databricks Genie for Research | Ali Ghodsi at HumanX
Novo Nordisk utilizes Databricks Genie to enable its scientists to query data warehouses and databases. This allows researchers to ask complex questions about studies, such as adverse effects, and receive accurate, statistically referenced answers.
AI Cut Exploit Time to 1.3 Days | Ali Ghodsi at RSAC 2026
AI has drastically reduced the mean time to exploit a vulnerability from over two years in 2018 to an average of 1.3 days in 2026. This acceleration, particularly since ChatGPT's release, indicates AI's role in rapidly weaponizing CVEs.
Managing 32,000 Weekly Security Alerts | Ali Ghodsi at RSAC
Weekly security alerts for a reasonably sized organization are projected to increase from 7,500 in 2020 to 32,000 in 2026, requiring over 400 full-time staff to manually process. This demonstrates the unsustainability of current manual security alert management and the urgent need for automated solutions.