{"slug": "azure-databricks-at-data-ai-summit-2026-featuring-industry-leaders-and-partners", "title": "Azure Databricks at Data + AI Summit 2026 featuring Industry Leaders and Partners", "summary": "Microsoft and Databricks will co-host the Data + AI Summit 2026 from June 15-18 in San Francisco and virtually, showcasing how organizations can unify data, analytics, and AI on a secure, scalable foundation for enterprise AI. The event, featuring keynotes from both companies' leaders and breakout sessions, will highlight new joint product announcements and deep ecosystem integrations for Azure Databricks. Attendees can engage with technical experts at the Microsoft Booth for live demos and hands-on discussions on solving complex data and AI challenges.", "body_md": "Join Microsoft at Data + AI Summit 2026 to see how organizations are unifying data, analytics, and AI on a secure, scalable foundation built for enterprise AI\n\nThis is a collaborative post from Databricks and Microsoft. We thank [Jason Pereira](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereiraj/), Senior Product Marketing Lead for Data & AI at Microsoft, for his contributions.\n\nData + AI Summit 2026: [Register now](https://dataaisummit.databricks.com/flow/db/dais2026/landing/page/home) to join this in-person and virtual event June 15–18 and learn from the global data community.\n\nMicrosoft is a Legend Sponsor at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026, the world's largest data, analytics, and AI conference. Join 30,000+ of your peers in San Francisco and virtually discover how the Databricks platform on Azure helps organizations unify data, analytics, and AI on a trusted, scalable foundation – built to power the next generation of secure, responsible enterprise AI.\n\nAt Data + AI Summit, attendees will hear from Databricks and Microsoft leaders across the mainstage keynotes and a series of breakout sessions, highlighting how joint customers are using Azure Databricks to modernize their data estates, scale AI, and build data and AI applications, analytics and agents on Azure.\n\nDatabricks and Microsoft continue their strong partnership by delivering [Azure Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/product/azure), a first-party Microsoft offering as the [best data + AI platform on Azure](https://www.databricks.com/blog/5-reasons-why-azure-databricks-best-data-ai-platform-azure). Providing seamless connections to critical cloud services, Azure Databricks gives enterprises a secure, unified platform to simplify data architectures and build responsible AI with confidence. As organizations move into the agentic era, Azure Databricks helps provide the context, control, and openness needed to build and govern AI applications and agents at scale. At Summit this year, we will introduce exciting new joint product announcements and deep ecosystem integrations designed to enhance capabilities across your Azure data estate.\n\nVisit the Microsoft Booth #103 on the Expo floor to engage with technical experts, see live product demos, and participate in hands-on conversations about how Databricks and Microsoft can help solve your most complex data and AI challenges.\n\nTo request a 1:1 meeting with Microsoft or Databricks experts during the event, reach out to your account team or visit the Microsoft and Databricks booths during the event.\n\nAttend the sessions listed below designed to guide anyone exploring Azure Databricks, covering topics ranging from federated analytics and operational modernization to automated workflows and real-world customer deployment.\n\nWednesday, June 17 | 1:50 PM – 2:30 PM PDT\n\nIn today’s data-driven landscape, organizations need more than analytics—they need a unified platform that turns raw data into actionable intelligence across the Microsoft ecosystem. This session explores how Azure Databricks serves as the backbone of modern data architecture, integrating with core Microsoft cloud services and platforms to accelerate innovation. Learn how to use Azure Databricks for scalable data engineering, advanced analytics, and AI-driven solutions while enabling real-time collaboration and governance. Through practical examples and architectural patterns, we’ll show how to eliminate data silos, optimize performance, and empower teams to deliver insights faster.\n\nWednesday**, **June 17 | 12:40 PM - 1:20 PM PDT\n\nOil and gas companies have standardized on Azure Data Manager for Energy (ADME) as their subsurface system of record, but running analytics and AI on that data has meant copying massive datasets into downstream platforms, breaking governance and slowing every workflow that follows. In this jointly developed Microsoft and Databricks session, we introduce a new zero‑copy, federated path that brings Databricks compute directly to data, with native governance and serverless scale. We walk through the architecture, show the solution in action against live ADME, and share how operators across the industry are accelerating subsurface analytics while keeping ADME as the single source of truth.\n\nWednesday, Jun 17 | 5:20 PM - 5:40 PM PDT\n\nUnity Catalog External Locations are how Databricks connects to storage. Users define a path to the storage, attach a credential, and UC governs everything built on top: managed tables, views and other assets. Currently, it supports S3, ADLS, GCS and Cloudflare R2. We are expanding this functionality to include support for Microsoft OneLake.\n\nIn this session, we'll show how External Locations provide a consistent, extensible pattern for connecting Databricks to any storage platform — and walk through what it takes to create External Location for Microsoft OneLake. You'll see the architecture, the setup end-to-end, and a demo reading and writing UC-governed assets directly into OneLake storage without needing to setup any ETL pipelines.\n\nWe will close the session with what’s next: extending the same model to on-premise storage, so Unity Catalog becomes a single governance layer across your data estate.\n\nThursday, June 18 | 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM PDT\n\nLearn how logistics provider GEODIS modernized its data and AI platform by adopting Azure Databricks. To reduce platform engineering workloads and maintain an open ecosystem, GEODIS integrated Azure Databricks with its legacy Cloudera infrastructure using open standards like Apache Iceberg™ and Apache Spark™. This session details how they avoided a \"big bang\" migration while addressing real-world challenges in multi-engine integration, cross-catalog performance, and data quality validation on Azure.\n\nTuesday, June 16 | 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM PDT\n\nHarnessing a decade of data capture to enhance customer service and improve operational efficiency, TK Elevator consolidated a deep but previously fragmented data lake. The Azure Databricks platform enabled a trusted data foundation that successfully connects management reporting with operational execution in the field.\n\nWednesday, June 17 | 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM PDT\n\nIn this session, Lovelytics demonstrates how they deployed production-grade AI automation workflows for global manufacturing leader, Lippert, highlighting the critical role of Azure Document Intelligence in handling complex, high-stakes finance tasks.\n\nJoin us for a series of exclusive forums, happy hours, and executive engagements designed to connect data leaders and explore the future of data and AI, including:\n\nThese forums provide a space for leaders, founders, and industry visionaries to exchange insights, connect with peers, and explore how next-generation AI is reshaping their businesses.\n\nSecure your spot at Data + AI Summit 2026 to join 30,000 data professionals and explore the latest in data, AI, analytics, and agents. Learn how companies are building their open, AI-ready data platforms with Azure Databricks, the best data and AI platform on Microsoft Azure.\n\nSubscribe to our blog and get the latest posts delivered to your inbox.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/azure-databricks-at-data-ai-summit-2026-featuring-industry-leaders-and-partners", "canonical_source": "https://www.databricks.com/blog/azure-databricks-data-ai-summit-2026-featuring-industry-leaders-and-partners", "published_at": "2026-06-11 17:00:16+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 22:07:20.776411+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-agents", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "Databricks", "Azure Databricks", "Jason Pereira", "Data + AI Summit 2026", "Azure", "San Francisco"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/azure-databricks-at-data-ai-summit-2026-featuring-industry-leaders-and-partners", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/azure-databricks-at-data-ai-summit-2026-featuring-industry-leaders-and-partners.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/azure-databricks-at-data-ai-summit-2026-featuring-industry-leaders-and-partners.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/azure-databricks-at-data-ai-summit-2026-featuring-industry-leaders-and-partners.jsonld"}}