That's a wrap on #DataAISummit 2026. Whether you attended in person or followed along virtually, thank you for making this year's Summit the best one yet. Safe travels home, we'll see you all back here next year! 👋

The data community showed huge support for @2twitme, Brooke Wenig, @tathadas, and @dennylee's "Learning Spark: Lightning-fast Data Analytics" book signing at #DataAISummit! Thanks to everyone who came out to say hello 📚

As #DataAISummit comes to a close, we asked attendees one final question. What was your favorite moment from the Expo floor? Watch their answers, then tell us yours.

Stanford University is the 2026 Databricks Grounded Reasoning Cup champion! 🏆 The inaugural Grounded Reasoning Cup at #DataAISummit 2026 is in the books, with Stanford taking 1st, UMass Amherst earning 2nd, and Yale University securing 3rd after six high-intensity rounds of live AI agent competition over 200+ years of U.S. Treasury data. Teams mentored by @AnthropicAI, @OpenAI, and @GoogleDeepMind built agents that tackled messy historical PDFs, multimodal chart interpretation, and web-augmented reasoning on real government data. Thank you to @USAFacts, the U.S. Treasury, our student teams from 11 universities, and everyone who joined live.

Congratulations to the winners of the #DataAISummit Apps & Agents for Good Hackathon! Over two days, participants used Lakebase, Agent Bricks, and Databricks Apps to build solutions powered by data from Virtue Foundation, tackling challenges related to healthcare access and infrastructure across India. 🥇 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸 - A Databricks App that helps non-technical data stewards, NGO analysts, and healthcare planners profile, prioritize, and review facility datasets so they can be trusted for downstream decisions. 🥈 𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗔𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘂𝘀 - Turned 10,000 messy Indian healthcare records into trusted decisions for patients, planners, and hospitals, with every answer cited and each uncertainty shown. 🥉 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹 - AI-powered facility search, location insights, and trust signals to help families find trusted care faster and make confident decisions. Thank you to our partners at Virtue Foundation and @OpenAI for making this event possible.

Final day of #DataAISummit. There are still sessions to catch, certifications to earn, demos to explore, and conversations to have before the week wraps up. Let's make the most of it!

Still feeling the energy from Data After Hours! A night of great conversations with friends old and new, plus good food, drinks, and live music 🕺 Now on to the final day of #DataAISummit.

The Women in Data + AI panel brought together leaders from across the industry for an honest conversation about career growth, leadership, and navigating change in a rapidly evolving field. Thank you to our incredible speakers for sharing their experiences and perspectives with the #DataAISummit community: • Caroline Peika, Acting Chief Data Officer, Rady's Children's Health • Jaya Upadhyay, Sr. Director, Enterprise Data Platform, Zillow • Kristy Mayer-Mejia, Global Head of Data Transformation, Kraken Tech • Robin Sutara, Americas Data + AI Enablement Leader, Databricks And thank you to everyone who joined us for a thoughtful discussion on building the future of data and AI.

Annnd we're rolling at Summit Live! Join the Summit Live team for keynote highlights, expert perspectives, special guest appearances, and conversations happening across the event as the week continues. Tune in and follow along: databricks.com/dataaisummit/…

Last chance to experience some of the most talked-about activations at #DataAISummit 2026! Before Summit wraps up, make sure to stop by experiences from: - Trek: Discover how data is driving smarter decisions across the rider experience - Rivian: See how they’re using Databricks to power smarter decisions across their electric adventure vehicles - FOX Sports: Explore how FOX Sports is elevating the fan experience in the Expo - And more! Don't leave without checking them out.

“Lakewatch represents a massive acceleration of your SOC team. We’ve taken something like a threat assessment that might have taken a week, and Lakewatch can do it in a few minutes.” Michael Andersen, Technical Lead at Databricks, demos Lakewatch, the agentic security lakehouse.

“Now, anyone with access to an LLM can put on an attack with a scale and speed that was previously unimaginable. The only way we can defend against this is if security teams and data teams work together." @krioukov, GM of Lakewatch at Databricks, on why we need a different security foundation built for the agentic era. Databricks Lakewatch changes the architecture of defense. Unify your telemetry, unleash your agents, and meet machine-speed attacks with machine-speed defense.

“The agentic CDP needs to be embedded in the lakehouse, it has to be built with LLMs at the core of its architecture, and it has to power infinity campaigns.” Tasso Argyros, VP of Engineering, announces the world's first agentic CDP, CustomerLake.

“What if we could personalize every interaction, for every customer, in real time, continuously?” AI is changing how people buy – agents and humans buy together. “When agents decide and recommend what to buy in seconds, you can’t spend weeks designing campaigns.” Tasso Argyros, VP of Engineering, on how marketing teams need to adapt to the agentic age of marketing with infinity campaigns, a new type of engagement that can personalize to audiences of one and execute continuous agentic loops. This calls for an agentic CDP. Meet CustomerLake.

"With 100x the models comes 100x the complexity." Amber Roberts, Staff Tech Marketing Engineer at Databricks, demos Genie ZeroOps. An autonomous background agent that monitors your data and AI assets (such as pipelines, jobs, tables and ML models) and takes action before or when things go wrong.

“The need for ML has never been greater. We need to automate ML to keep up with the scale of questions we have to answer now, and the questions we’ll have to answer in the future. And the only way to automate ML is with agents.” Mike Del Balso, Director of PM, unveils the latest ML capabilities in the Databricks AI Platform. “We made the stack agent ready. We made everything serverless out of the box. The whole ML lifecycle is instrumented with a single model - they all land in the same governed tables. Everything is governed by default.”

“We are longer constrained by writing code. The real bottleneck is enterprise data, and governed access to that data.” Justin DeBrabant, Director of PM at Databricks, walks through Databricks Apps, and what this means for agentic app dev.

"Let’s move from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing." @ankit_math, Software Engineer at Databricks, demos Unity AI Gateway to secure, observe, and govern your AI assets, from MCPs to models to external agents.

Unity AI Gateway is the solution to agent sprawl. We’ve added new features to Unity AI Gateway: a control plane for cost controls, budgets, auditing and policy enforcement. These include: - Cost controls and smart routing - Extended governance beyond models - Unified agent monitoring - New integrations across AI security, identity governance, data protection, and threat detection - Managed Omnigent @kuhlenhuth walks through what’s new.